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I’ve updated the Micro.blog photo challenge page with the final list of words. Thanks everyone for the suggestions! I think I’ve got at least one or two from everyone who sent ideas in.
In hindsight, June was an incredibly busy month for me to do this, but I’m so happy to see people’s photos. 📷
For the June 2025 IndieWeb Carnival by Nick: “Take Two” Joe: READY CAMERA ONE. Joe: TAKE ONE. Joe: CAMERA TWO DOLLY BACK TO A TWO SHOT. Joe: READY CAMERA TWO. Joe: TAKE TWO. In 1988 I took a class at San Diego City College on Radio & TV Production. I learned to read a tv...
I’ll be updating the photoblog challenge post today with the final set of prompts for the month. If anyone has word suggestions, let me know! The special collection of everyone’s posts is also way behind, so I hope to get that caught up this weekend.
Speak plainly. Don't say sui generis, say unique. And as Brent says, lessons not learnings. Keep it simple. This is one of the foundations of blogging, btw. "Try to write correctly."
Just a guess, but the people doing the "ice" raids are not real police any more than the "doge" people are/were actually part of the US government. In this New Yorker podcast, they dug into what "doge" actually was/is. Some weren't actually Trump supporters, they just thought it would be interesting to be empowered to fix the government. They learned the government doesn't work the way they thought it did. Spending is way up over the years, but number of government employees has stayed flat. It has already been largely privatized. Tangentially they appear to have found some things actually worth fixing. Tech culture isn't just the billionaires, far from it. There's a lot of hippie ethics in there too, you just have to look past the money, which seems too much work for some/most journalists. But The New Yorker tends to do this well, btw, sometimes. 😄
Delivery robots gathering. It’s day 20 of the photo challenge.
New single-page site from Brent Simmons: No Learnings.
It’s the 20th anniversary of the launch of microformats.org! So many blogs and social platforms still use Microformats today, including Micro.blog and Mastodon. A simple, useful data format for the IndieWeb.
Cool early preview of Micro Social for iOS 26, with Liquid Glass and “catch me up” summaries of the timeline.
📗 Want to read Empire of AI by Karen Hao ISBN: 9780593657508
Most obviously, aliveness is what generally feels absent from the written and visual outputs of ChatGPT and its ilk, even when they’re otherwise of high quality. I’m not claiming I couldn’t be fooled into thinking AI writing or art was made by a human (I’m sure I already have been); but that when I realise something’s AI, either because it’s blindingly obvious or when I find out, it no longer feels so alive to me. And that this change in my feelings about it isn’t irrelevant: that it means something.
More subtly, it feels like our own aliveness is what’s at stake when we’re urged to get better at prompting LLMs to provide the most useful responses. Maybe that’s a necessary modern skill; but still, the fact is that we’re being asked to think less like ourselves and more like our tools.
Updated the Mac app again today, adding a search field for your replies and improving the highlighting when searching posts. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while. Looks a lot better.
Thanks everyone for the kind words about the maybe just once or very rarely special bonus episode of Core Intuition. It was fun to do the show again after so long.
As you get older and see your friends of 30, 40, even 50 years -- you realize how silly this all is. I see them and I see an old person, but I know who they are inside. The old "don't judge a book by its cover" adage probably wasn't coined by a younger person. 😄
I had an experience like the one Paul Simon described on Colbert last night. I was at the Apple Store on 14th St in NYC to pick up a new phone I had pre-ordered, lined up with some much younger folks who asked if I knew what was new on the phone. I said I wasn’t sure, so I asked if they knew. They all agreed the coolest thing was called “pod casting.” They said it slowly to be sure I could understand. They said it was great, it was like radio, but you could get it from the web, and there was always lots of new stuff. "What will they think of next," said the old man, impressed, nodding with respect.
