A while back I switched to “thank you for your patience,” which actually helps me mentally a bit! The reality is that in most cases, I shouldn’t have to feel sorry because I was prioritizing other things.

Wrote about this a bit here if folks are interested twobitrye.com/2024/08/27/t...

That Frame TV of yours could have loaded up Alvin in 85 minutes. Really makes you think.

Even so, I think the operative difference is that there’s widespread distaste for AI generated images. You’re technically correct that it’s theft in both cases — stealing from google images and “creating” with AI — but people react differently to those categories in any context, not just PPTs.

Dad of a five-year-old and seven-year-old checking in. These books *rule.* My boys cannot get enough, and watching them tear through these brings me so much joy, even though I could probably recite Extreme Animal Rumble in my sleep.

Knowing the story of the author makes this all the sweeter!

There seems to be *some* level of course correction happening right now. I think many of us have found discrete uses for AI while simultaneously confronting its obvious step-level limitations.

So maybe some can’t conceive of rejecting wholesale adoption, but many can understand tailored use.

The Anthropocene Exhausted

I keep thinking about @kylierobison.com’s question on concerns with AI.

I use AI for some discrete tasks, but never to supplant the creative process, even if that means struggling with a blinking cursor.

The struggle leads to growth and a far richer end product.

Say it louder for the people in the back!

@neuranne.bsky.social nails it here.

This is why I’m so protective of my writing process and won’t offload it to AI. I write to clarify, explore, and make connections. It does me no good to just wormhole to the (subpar) end result.

Let ‘em cook. They’ll boil in their own AI slop stew before long.

In another post, you said it perfectly: AI is really good at finding the middle of everything, which means it can be fine but never good.

I cited that in a blog yesterday, arguing that our uniqueness and weirdness is the *good* stuff.

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Ya know, O’Hare has been slated for massive rehab for years. It may never actually happen, but so long as we have Frontera, I’m totally fine with it.

That’s not to say there aren’t uses for AI!

Like I know what “middling” means but wanted to double check before that first top, so I just dropped the word into ChatGPT. I find its clean and easy response to prompts like that helpful.

But hands off my creativity, Chat.

verified constant presence in my feed that I regularly consider unfollowing but then I think nah this guy has been an inexplicable mainstay of my Bluesky experience I couldn’t do that to ‘ole Jerry

Yep, I enlisted (as opposed to commissioning as an officer) and then discharged 5 years later. 83% of the military is enlisted, but commissioned officers are the ones you hear about. Part of my work is amplifying the enlisted community.

Don’t know of vet groups here, but I’d love to join one!