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.


Honestly, the fact that they haven’t released Dugga Doo as a single to streaming is just leaving money on the table.


Mozilla is killing Pocket. Dammit.

Time to see how well micro.blog imports laaaaaarge Pocket libraries…