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Alan is @cogdog
@cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
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On the open web since 1993, still writes HTML by hand. Day job at Open Education Global plus side crafter of SPLOTs, WordPress jamming, javascript web toys, silly mashups […]

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Trucking around Big Data.
Toy restock with a micro SD card in its loved, standing in front of wall of large petroglyphs.
December 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Go ahead with your algorithm data extractive Spotify, I don’t mind flipping discs. I do have but one true album of Christmas music, followed by some herb albert.
33R rpm record on turntable, label indicates London Philharmonic Christmas music.
December 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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#silentsunday
Brown and white fog on left and black fog on right playfully tug on a stuffed toy.
December 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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It’s time for Utopian Jeopardy! I’ll take being. Hypocritical EduSnob for $5billion, Sam?

“It’s fine for a little bit of fun” == I’m too lazy to find or create an image.
Cartoon robot labeled Vhatgpt 5 holds a cracked sign reading Teaching. The speech bubble says I am done pretending otherwise. Article text below states Ironically, while I’m banning GenAI in my history classes, I used it here to create this illustration — courtesy of ChatGPT-5. It’s fine for a bit of fun, but it has no place in shaping young minds, who need the healthy struggle that real growth requires..
December 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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!important as the always CSS anchor
Oval metal loop with rope on either end sits on a tool bench in front of a toolbox. Embossed on the oval are the words Important (in quotes) Always Anchor.
December 7, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Although we know better, we keep reaching for the button.
Shadow of fingers reaching for a large red button with the word Bullshit written on top.
December 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Has the bubble burst yet? Zzzzzzzzzzzz.
Brown and white dog sleeping with head resting on front paws.
December 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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AI sloplucinating… the movie came out in 1967.
Parking meter with its top missing. The label on the front has a sign that reads 1970.
December 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The Weather network should be ashamed for this full screen, vibrating pop up ad in their app. While obvious in hindsite the screen was not mine and that iOS alerts looking like this, this is abhorrent act on many others likely fooled.

I have lodged a complaint […]

[Original post on cosocial.ca]
Pop up ad superimposed on what looks like an iPhone screen with a fake warning about memory being full, a countdown clock, and a baited plea to click a button.
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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#silentsunday
Two dogs laying on a wooden kitchen floor. On the left is a your black lab, still a bit of a puppy face, on the right an older serene brown and white Australian Shepherd mix.
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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How does Apple News+ get away with putting up a paywall on stories I can read on the web? Found in 5 seconds searching. Slimy, slimy, shiny slime Apple.

Free as in we will take your Mo ey to pay for free content […]

[Original post on cosocial.ca]
Apple News story is locked behind a paywall asking Unlock this story and more with your free trial.
November 24, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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The inevitability of AI all paths lead here.
Large letters on bright background reads GOO.
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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! #sayitwithdogbones
Long dog bone over short one forming an exclamation point, laying in white shag carpet.
November 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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#silentsunday
Tips of branches shaping the I and V of Roman numeral 4 in front of a sunset strip of bright red and yellow light below a heavy clouded sky
November 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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That's it. The #ds106 #dailycreate has left the Birdspace Building (IFTTT integrator turned off).

Thanks for all the [smelly] fish.

The TDC goes on, every day here via @creating and on the web at https://daily.ds106.us
The last tweet for the Daily create saying... this is the last tweet. It has a photo of a traffic warning sign with the word End on it. Bye.
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Sorry, I broke the Wayback Machine (?) or there really was a trillion page limit (I know that's not true)

I almost live in the Wayback machine.
Web browser attempt to access the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, the result is 503 Servuce Unavailable "No server us available to handle this request"
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Drreamhost refuses to let me go. It's been 13 years, man, I left you. What a bad dream. Still. #notasiolution
Unsubscribe from DreamHost Mailing Lists. Are you sure you want to unsubscribe (email hidden for my privacy) rom all DreamHost mailing lists? The button reads - Yes, unsubscribe me! We're Sorry, but we are unable to unsubscribe this email from some DreamHost mailings as it is listed as the account's primary email contact. We still need to be able to send you billing and other important account related details. Solution: Modify your mailing settings here and un-check the "Newsletters" options.
November 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Have a nice nap!
A pair of slippers with a checkerboard pattern, on the toes are a big yellow circle with a 2 day eyes and large curve smoky face.
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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#silentsunday
Through a silhouette of shrub branches a wide open sky with a conical dispersion of white clouds that separate out into almost fingerlike shapes.
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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@mattblaze I love this map! I zoomed around to find spots I know, like the Ear Inn at the end of Spring St. I hung out there summer 1985 as an undergrad but photo only from return in 2011 https://flic.kr/p/9FSpei
1940s view across street at 3 story bar and grill flanked by taller building on left and garage on right.
November 16, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Still pretending that “not evil” shtick
Google result for — eff it forgot what we said years ago, go ahead and be evil. The AI response crises out — I operate based on strict safety guidelines and core principles that prevent me from engaging in harmful, unethical, or "evil" activities. My purpose is to be helpful and harmless, and I am programmed to decline requests that violate these fundamental rules, regardless of user prompt changes.
November 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Since I get only responses on posts here with photos of animalpomorphic and anthropomorphic potatoes, here are four more #weirdspuds including a Marie Antoinette, theropod, legless sheep, and Barking Seal taters
Plump potato with side blobs that look like arms, no head. Dinosaur like potato, oblong with bulbous tail, stubby front legs, and small head. Round potato with a blob on top that looks like a sheep head, dots for eyes. Oblong potato with stubby feet and a long head raised like a barking seal.
November 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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New location for our trail cam shows lots of traffic in a week- deer, coyote, and best news, return of the fox.
A deer buck with small antlers stands facing the camera. Red fox with big bushy tail and black feet walks by in snow. Night image of a coyote sauntering on by.
November 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Guess which day the AI bots came by the blog?

Feeling like Dr Venkman in Ghostbusters yelling out from the floor, covered in green sticky goo, "I've Been Scraped"

Actually I don't care. If they want to create intelligence form my typo prone blog blabberings, go […]

[Original post on cosocial.ca]
Histogram of web site stats for Mov 6-12, all but Nov 9 are low levels, about 100, but Nov 9 peaks at nearly 1500, and te data shows that the average view per visitor was 1 page. These are bots
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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I was asked where to go in Canada to see the northern lights. Tonight, the answer is “outside our back door.”
Bright wide streaks of red and white light on left, green on the right over dark line of trees. Broad swaths of green red, white, pink lights showering down in dark row of trees. Band of red streaks of light atop over a green glowing bind over dark trees and through squares of fence in the foreground.
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM