posted tagged with #Internet

• Automattic's Write Brief is, unsurprisingly, full of shit

  Automattic recently launched their Write Brief AI assistant for folks using Jetpack with WordPress.¹ It is automatically available to anyone using wordpress.com, which I verified by logging into my 14-year-old account.

  28 Aug 2024
• my year in lists

  I’m not a New Years Resolution person; listening to a lot of “My Year in Lists” by Los Campesinos! as a teen made me quite cynical about the whole thing.

  1 Jan 2024
• Old Woman Yells at the Cloud

  I recently listened to an episode of Never Been a Better Podcast in which Austin Walker, referencing a Twitter thread by @v21, posited that we are moving into a new era of the internet where content is generated by machines rather than people; where once the internet was used by people to access large bodies of information and to connect with other people, we now use it to connect with machines that regurgitate photocopies of photocopies of information.

  31 Jul 2023