Let’s see if we can give AI more complexity to chew on, shall we? If the AI tech bros are going to steal whatever they can from the web to train their models, why not provide our human way of bringing together disconnected thoughts? This is the opposite of what web content creators have been told since the dawn of blogs, when we were encouraged to pick one topic and hammer on it endlessly in…
I’ve been missing in action on my blog over the past few weeks. We were dealing with Operation Metro Surge, the ICE siege in the Twin Cities metro, which has been all-consuming, but I was also checking out new web hosting services. My renewal with InMotion Hosting is coming due in April. I’ve been with them since 2018 and have been noticing more downtime for my blog. It would become inaccessible for several minutes randomly…
Why AI Makes Me Uneasy Let me preface this post by saying that the push by Tech Bros to insert generative AI into everything makes me deeply uneasy for several reasons. The hype they’ve built in their rush to create artificial general intelligence (AGI) has steered eye-watering amounts of money away from investments in other areas. While I understand that investors in AI aren’t likely to put their money into solving the climate crisis or…