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.
This reminded me of the don’t write it down advice in REWORK. (via @grumpygamer)
But people will say, "Do you keep a notebook?" and the answer is, I think a writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.
These 40 hats by Anders are stunning! I think I know LeChuck’s hat, Ash’s cap, Samus’ helmet, and about two dozen more. How many can you place? 🤠
The history of video game hats - One "hat" per year from the past 40 years.. see if you can guess them all #pixelart
Simon Willison shares how to make large language models work for you. It gets a bit technical and programmy a couple of times, but most of the talk is pretty accessible to anyone curious about LLMs. If video is not your thing, read the excellently annotated transcript instead.
If Ben were to voice Mario in the future, I wouldn’t be too sad. (via Tobias)
My official audition to play #Mario.
I’m on my way to see Oppenheimer. 20 meters away, my niece exit from the cinema. She’s just seen Barbie with two of her friends. I’m not aware of her at first. But then I hear her. Loud and clear. Shouting.
Svampen!
That’s what she calls me. She runs towards me and jumps into my arms. I do my best to catch her and keep her there for a long hug. It feels fucking great. And I savor the moment because I know it won’t be long before she’s way too cool to greet her old uncle like that.
And maybe it’s for the best; I won’t be able to catch her without falling backwards for much longer.
Wordpress.com promises to secure your online legacy for a century (if you pay up $38,000). I love the idea! It’s just too bad one won’t be around to see if they fulfill their end of the deal. A lot can happen in a hundred years. (via ma.tt)
I’m with Rebecca; who doesn’t love a good desk? Here’s the desk of Kojima-san back in the 90s. (via shmuplations)
I’m working on a little something that will make building Micro.blog compatible themes a little easier. Instead of having to manually copy required <head> elements into their themes, third-party developers will be able to just include a partial. Curious people can follow this pull request.
Does it make me nervous? Do I feel my territory encroached upon? Not yet, probably because I’ve reached a fairly advanced age. But I will tell you that this subject always makes me think of that most prescient novel, Colossus, by D. F. Jones. In it, the world-spanning computer does become sentient and tells its creator, Forbin, that in time, humanity will come to love and respect it. … Forbin cries, "Never!" But the narrator has the last word, and a single word is all it takes:
"Never?"
So, remember my idea of posting photos snapped by a human and conceptions dreamed up by text-to-image models and letting you all guess whether they’re real or not?
Well, getting it right is probably not going to be that hard, judging by my results so far. 😅
Looking forward to State of the Browser and @ohhelloana’s talk on Exploring the Potential of the Web Speech API in Karaoke. Sounds like a lot of fun!
We wrote this week’s newsletter from the Norrmans Castle (Häckeberga slott). An out of the ordinary but/and cozy hotel. Worth a visit!
The newsletter issue features the cover of Butts – A Backstory and a couple of reading tips. Check it out if you love books and understand Swedish.
404 Media was an instant add to my feed reader. First read: Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale.
404 Media is a journalist-founded digital media company exploring the ways technology is shaping–and is shaped by–our world.
We’re focused on investigative reports, longform features, blogs, and scoops about topics including: hacking, cybersecurity, cybercrime, sex, artificial intelligence, consumer rights, surveillance, privacy, and the democratization of the internet.
Thinking about doing the Micro.blog photo challenge with a twist this time. I post a pic every day, you guess whether it’s snapped by me 🧔♀️ or dreamed up by a text-to-image model 🤖.
It might be fun! And, hopefully, at the end of the challenge, we will all be able to spot fakes more easily.
I’m time-traveling tonight. A bootleg uploaded to YouTube transports me to Huskvarna Folkets Park where we caught Nina Persson + Martin Hederos during the temporary easing of restrictions in 2021.
Sitting there on our plastic chair islands at a comfortable distance from other humans. Weird times. 🎵
Today I learned that pickles are to Gen Z what bacon was to my generation. Huh. 🥒 🥓
Breakfast at Talldungen. 🤤
To block OpenAI and ChatGPT from training on your Micro.blog’s data, paste the following into the robots.txt file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /
The easiest way to do that is by installing my plug-in Custom Robots, tap the Settings button and paste the snippet above in the text area named robots.txt Content.
the coolness of the url is inversely proportional to the coolness of the web project. the best website you'll ever find is gonna be something like libra.v2.progrecali.edu/oct2023/dept/manifesto.html, but going to etherzone.ooo or, say, x.com will be the worst experience of your life
It’s amazing how creative two-year-olds Balder and Haakon are when it comes to coming up with insults! I wish I had their imagination. 🥰
I’ll fire you up! I’ll poop on you and sit on you!
From the documentary Store små mennesker.
Kräftfiske och poddinspelning, är det en bra kombo? Japp! I senaste avsnittet av Hej (resten av) internet! följer upp @sannalund och jag upp Tiny Awards, pratar mysig UFO-blogg, Barbie-kaninhål och fiskar kräftor, förstås. 🦞 🎙️
Here’s the outcome from the foggy morning: crayfish with dill. We’re all set for kräftskiva.
We woke up early to go catch some crayfish and were met with this foggy morning. I was in charge of propelling the boat forward while @sannalund captured the magic vibe on video.
It’s not every day that your to-do list is filled with items like “put the secret message in a bottle” and “row out to the island and bury the treasure”. 🏴☠️
Tänk om det fanns en podd där två vänner delade surftips med varandra till tonerna av ett stilla (?!) sommarregn… Det gör det! Podden heter Hej (resten av) internet! och i det rykande färska avsnittet Sommarvykort #1 bjussar @sannalund och jag på länkar från vår balkong. 🌧️
