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New Beginnings - On to Ghost
The migration is complete, ongoing tweaks will be needed, but for now, this is the new home of Sweaty's Corner
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Odds and Ends - Epstein and the Enshittification of Substack
Epstein, anti-anti's, and more on the coming enshittification of Substack
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The end is nigh: The Enshittification will continue until morale improves...
Fellow Substack Free rider Dave Karpf has some great observations. Things are lookin' bleak
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There's Fuckery Afoot
Substack has begun its enshittification
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What I'm Reading, June 20
More of a traipse through my disordered mess of a mind and how I fill it with what nourishes my curiosity.
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On AI: People need to stop oversharing
Meta's AI Chatbots seem compelled to share your interactions, and that is bad mmmmm'kay. Just say no.
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The Dangers of GenAI and AI illiteracy
People are ascribing them to levels of utility that is compared to the Almighty. They aren't, and aren't going to be like this anytime soon. But the need for $$$ leads leaders to not clear it up
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The black hole that is NextDoor
A local ICE raid once again brings out the worst of humanity. In my neighborhood in Silicon Valley. Same as it ever was.
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More Quake goodness
Throwback time, the game that changed my life in the mid 1990's has been updated to work on modern gear, and it still is a ton of fun.
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Old computers - the remembrance vs. the reality (the Atari era)
Fond memories, but not really the rosiest of times. Computing in the early 80's was a lot more primitive than you probably recall
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Perfection: The HP-15C
HP's foray into consumer electronics began with pocket calculators. The golden era is debatable, but my favorite was and is the venerable HP15C