Jeremy C.’s article What the Old Internet Was and Why it was Better will be on my mind today. Partially because it has some fantastic turns of phrase, partially because it explains a few of the legal and regulatory misfires that have led the internet to be what it is today, and partially because AI economics and wildly inflated valuations are the background radiation of life in 2026. Someone once said to me, “Remember, everything on the internet was put there by someone who wants it to be there. The…
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August #LoveMakeShare Creative Prompts
I’m going on holiday for two weeks in August. I am due. July was a massive sprint for work, and now, free of some pesky deadlines, I am relaxing into the idea that I do not have to worry for the two weeks that I will be away. Incidentally, that work thing is why I fell off a little at the end of June and didn’t do #LoveMakeShare creative prompts at all in July. There just wasn’t enough time or brain to go around. I’m also eager to change my…
June #LoveMakeShare Creative prompts!
We had a wonderful response on Mastodon to May’s #LoveMakeShare prompts and I am delighted we’re doing it again! Apologies to the participants who may have been waiting for the full list – life delayed me getting it posted. But here we are! Please join me and some truly wonderful creative people on Mastodon and (if I remember) over on Bluesky by using the hashtag #LoveMakeShare when you respond to the prompts.
We named robots after forced labour. Then told them to be polite.
Bryan Carter’s stimulating essay about the ways LLM chatbots are designed to respond to us mirror certain trauma response left me troubled. We’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the social impact of AI. This explores below the surface.
Introducing #LoveMakeShare on Mastodon and Bluesky!
I’ve been charmed by learning about other makers, writers, and creatives through hashtag games like #ScribesAndMakers and #WritersCoffeeClub. Now, I want to bring a bit of the Love Make Share ethos to a new hashtag game for Mastodon and Bluesky!
Remember The Learning Company?
The end of edutainment software wasn’t a natural evolution of the industry. It was brought about by greed, and orchestrated by one of my least favourite fellow Canadians.
Hank’s Very Valid Crashout
Something Hank Green and I have in common is a distaste for grifters and liars. Debunkings are a guilty pleasure for me. This one is a tour de force from Hank, dismantling a video from a Bloomberg reporter whose “explainer” serves a very specific agenda.
“Software Brain”
I’ve talked about the way that technology is becoming increasingly hostile to its users, and how so much of it feels kind of fake. While that’s not entirely what Nilay is talking about here, it does dig into the mindset that produces that outcome.
Nvidia and DLSS5: Or, We Used to Make Things
A week ago at time of writing, NVIDIA released the following demo. If you haven’t seen it, it’s like a minute long and it broke the internet for a few days. Watch it. For the uninitiated, I will wildly oversimplify where we’ve come from and what we’re seeing. DLSS, or Deep Learning Super Sampling, is a feature of some of NVIDIA’s gaming graphics hardware. It uses machine learning to improve a game’s resolution, frame rate, and latency, per NVIDIA. Other vendors offer similar technologies, but with NVIDIA recently hitting 95%…
Episode 1: Have I Taken Halloween Too Far?
Based on Have I Taken Halloween Too Far? from November 30, 2018. Apple Podcasts Spotify Pocket Casts RSS Feed It’s somehow mid-October already. The weather is getting cooler, the leaves are changing, and I am 110% in the autumn headspace. I’m embracing my most basic self. I’m ready for decorative gourds and warm spices and sweaters. I’m not proud of it, but I am definitely not ashamed of it, either. The thing I am simultaneously the most and least ready for is Halloween. I love Halloween. I always go big…
Welcome to Love Make Share: The Podcast.
It’s the start of something new. Love Make Share enters the radio age with a new podcast about the things we create and how they create connections between us.
Your smug takes on writing content hurt new writers. Stop it.
There is a growing pattern I’ve noticed of both creators and commentators. More established writers are creating a wildly hostile environment around entry-level writing content and message boards. And it should stop.