#mbjune Day 5: Reflection 📷

A serene pond is surrounded by trees, with a small dock and a person in a red jacket visible in the distance.

Original 1980s #warhammer40k Space Marines, a relic of my long-ago teenage years.

#mbjune Day 4: Nostalgia 📷

Three miniature Games Workshop Space Marine figures in detailed, colorful armor pose on a surface with a blurred window in the background.

This is brilliant – a piece told in screenshots (which is probably an accessibility nightmare…) showing how ChatGPT’s confident tone can make complete bullshit seem plausible at first.

Read the whole thing.

Shadows fall, but light remains.

#mbjune day 3: Shadow 📷

A serene, dark beach scene is illuminated by the faint glow of a sunset or sunrise on the horizon.

Peter Bihr:

There’s a good chance we’re headed into a negative loop in which genAI creates slop that is custom-tailored for recommender AI systems to go viral, creating stronger incentives to create more slop — and all the while drowning out human-created as well as higher-quality content. Which we need, because participation and democracy needs us to have good info.

Compelling piece from 404 Media about the accelerating crisis in education driven by AI: Teachers Are Not OK.

We’re staring down a future where students exit education having learnt little but how to write good AI prompts, and then disguise the fact that’s what they did.

#mbjune day 2: Curve 📷

A close-up view of a car's air vent with a textured dashboard.

Well, I loved that season of Doctor Who, and hope we get a renewal soon.

I refuse to let the wave on online negativity around this show rob me of the genuine enjoyment I get from it.

Now we’re cookin’

Two marshmallows are being toasted over a campfire.

Preparing to do birthday sleep-over s’mores for my daughter and friends.

Charred logs and ashes are smoldering in a metal fire pit.