Sven Dahlstrand

When you take a screenshot of a webpage in iOS 17, you get to choose between Screen and Full Page. Neat!

Oh, wow, what a badass move! Bill Willingham gets fed up with DC Comics and sends Fables into the public domain. 👏👏👏

I misremembered and thought today’s prompt was sculpture, not statue. What a fail. So no guessing this time. This is John Bauermonumentet. Sculpted by Karl Hultström in 1931 and photographed by this fellow human today, during a stroll through the city park. 👸

I’m taking Apple’s Self Service Repair for a spin. (I’ve sourced parts and service manuals in… less official ways in the past.) The experience is okay so far, except that they reserved 16,543.32 kr (roughly $1,482) on my debit card should I take the rented tools and run. 🫠 So, it’s not for everyone.

Keep in mind that for some, it’s still hump day! 😊 Here’s my entry for day 13 and the prompt glow. Is it produced by wetware 🧔‍♀️ or software 🤖?

Karin af Klintberg’s latest film, Kungen, features an extraordinary synthy and organic soundtrack by Katharina Nuttall. Kinda reminds me of the score from The White Lotus. Well worth a listen on YouTube. 🎵

For day 12, the prompt is panic. Would you bolt if you saw this shadow? And was it captured by me 🧔‍♀️ or dreamed up by a text-to-image model 🤖?

We made apple pie for today’s commercial special event! 😋

Tonight, I enjoyed a cold beer in the evening sun on our balcony. So in retrospect, getting those cans of Okinawa-style lager from teenage engineering was a good call. But, is this a photo I took 🧔‍♀️ or the creation of a text-to-image model 🤖?

Let’s break the cycle for day ten. Here’s a throwback of me riding a bike in the summer of ‘93. Captured by good ol’ dad. Definitely human.

I know my way around a few languages – programming ones, that is. Like assembly language for the classic Sharp LR35902 (the CPU of the original Game Boy). But here’s a question for you: did I 🧔‍♀️ take this pic of the handheld, or was it cooked up by a text-to-image model 🤖?

The prompt for day eight is yonder. Are those tourists actually real, captured by a human photographer 🧔‍♀️, or are they just the creation of a neural network 🤖?

I love this initiative from Kagi (the ad-free, paid search engine)! They now bump up relevant results from the small web, like blogs and personal websites. And there’s a fun way to stumble upon new sites. A great companion to Marginalia Search. Yay for all efforts to humanize the web!

Kagi Small Web offers a fresh approach by promoting recently published content from the “small web.” We gather new content, published within the last week, from a handpicked list of blogs and surface it in multiple ways[.]

One week of the photoblogging challenge already! Is this panorama captured by a human 🧔‍♀️ or dreamed up by a text-to-image model 🤖?

Here’s the website with a teaser for Hayao Miyazaki’s next film, The Boy and the Heron.

All is well in this realm, but dream 🤖 or reality 🧔‍♀️, can you tell?

Fellow microbloggers, I’m sorry I lied. Two out of my five challenge entries so far were generated by a diffusion model.  A couple identified the dreamed-up sunset. No one (!) suspected the fake clouds.

The rest was shot by me. Thanks, everyone, for participating so far. Keep the guesses coming! 😊

Well, it’s no secret that I love me a lush forest. But is this one documented by your fellow human 🧔‍♀️ or just a latent diffusion model’s 🤖 dream?

It’s day four already, the prompt is orange, and you know the drill by now: was this pic snapped by me 🧔‍♀️ or dreamed up by a text-to-image model 🤖?

This potholder might look ordinary, but it is very precious to me. Or maybe it doesn’t even exist. What do you think – is this pic snapped by me 🧔‍♀️ or dreamed up by a text-to-image model 🤖?

The prompt for day two of the September Photoblogging Challenge is buildup. What do you think – is this pic snapped by me 🧔‍♀️ or dreamed up by a text-to-image model 🤖?

The prompt for day one of the September Photoblogging Challenge is abstract. What do you think – is this pic snapped by me 🧔‍♀️ or dreamed up by a text-to-image model 🤖?

Here’s more than 500 CSS loading animations from Temani Afif. 🤯

Our Flag Means Death is incredible and as close as we will get to a Monkey Island TV show, according to Ron Gilbert. That’s all I need; I’m in! 🏴‍☠️

Oh, man, now I want to find an old knitting machine and start hacking on it. This is just marvelous! 🧶

Retreat is an independent electronic machine knitting practice based in Berlin. All items are crafted by a real human with the help of a hacked domestic knitting machine from the 90s.