Cypress Creek Preserve, FL
Île d’Orléans, July 2025
You know that feeling you get when a pop song hits that one part where three-part harmony comes in, and you feel like you’re suddenly flying 30,000 feet above the ground? Tiny Habits is like, what if we built the whole plane out of the black box?
Finished reading: The Odyssey by Homer 📚
AI Can’t Adulterate its Own Writing | Bitsplitting.org
Like Gruber, I care about the integrity of the written word, but to my mind written words come from, or are at least edited by, humans. AI output isn’t writing, and the internal, work-in-progress draft by one most certainly is not.
This is exactly why I haven’t been persuaded to care much at all about this whole watermarking thing.
Even as a kid, I’ve always loved The Who by Numbers. Nothing more authentic than dealing with aging. Now I have to contend with the thought that Pete Townshend was only 30 years old when he wrote it!
Please Use AI - by Shawn Smucker
I’ve seen several links to this poem, and deservedly so. I noticed several years ago that I was using Facebook to anonymously find out what was going on in my friends’ lives instead of asking them. It turns out the slow, awkward, inefficient interruptions that accompany doing things the creaturely, human way are exactly the things that make up a life.
Two Sandhills Cranes.