The title pretty much says it all! I've got a Novella (really, it's five short stories in a novella format that are directly related to one another) out now at The Arcanist: The Weight of a Torch.
Three of the stories are available on the Arcanist's website if you'd like to get a feel for the Dark Fantasy vibe.
If it's your jam I'd love honest reviews on Goodreads or the Amazon page. Read More
Over on Mastodon I mentioned, offhand, that I'd been daily driving (meaning, using daily but not as my primary machine) Asahi on a Macbook Air M2 (15") and some folks were curious what kind of experience I was getting with it. So, instead of making a giant thread, I figured I should blog about it instead given just how behind I am on blogging. Plus, most of my blog posts are lamenting the state of slop so this should be a nice change of pace.
I'll just walk you through what I'm using it for... Read More
So, I've been watching a bunch of folks whom otherwise have reasonable takes about LLMs who, under very specific circumstances, have extremely weird takes about how much an LLM is helping them do a thing, and their internal justifications for them. This isn't about anyone specific; for each of these points, I've seen variations of these from more than one person in every case. But they're happening enough that I want to talk about them. Don't just take it from me, this post from @xgranade makes... Read More
In an ongoing series of my disappointment with this AI bubble, Mozilla has gone all-in on the AI Hype Train. Their thesis is dodgy, it's basically the "if we don't build AI into our browser, the evil big corporations will be left unchecked". Right. Okay. It's worth noting that this extends on their idea of "Responsible AI" from a white paper they published in 2020.
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If you're looking for a browser that doesn't have any AI features in it, I use Vivaldi. They've committed... Read More
While this is a post about Big tech, it's also an indictment of privately run social commons in general. So, prep for that.
This is a cross-site blog post, the other half is on Cthonic Studios.
I'm sure you've noticed the trend, if you're even marginally online. Facebook is flooded with Generative AI bots, vying for views and clicks of the few human users who are still around. Instagram wants you to buy stuff, showing you an ad every five posts and an influencer every three. Twitter was... Read More
This is going to be a rant. It'll hopefully be very short, but no promises. Since LLMs became a thing it feels like all the firms that are shoving them into everything have completely given up on the veneer that “asking the customer if they want a thing” is something they should even consider. I'm not super surprised by this, but I am horribly disappointed.
Let's start by getting this out of the way. As of 18.3 Apple Intelligence is now on by default. You can't disable it during onboarding,... Read More
