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Category Archives: AI
You’re definitely Dr Detroit …
This post falls under weird discussion I had with ChatGPT. This stream of consciousness from ChatGPT comes after it solved my issue upgrading Ghost in Reclaim Cloud. It started to get all buddy-buddy when reflecting on how it helped me … Continue reading
A Sterling Take
It’s always nice when someone reaches out via email who you haven’t heard from in a while. It’s even better when they leave you with a treat link that you follow for some knowledge. Bryan Alexander is classic for this, … Continue reading
5 Hours To Live: Security in the Age of AI and the New Arms Race
I’m trying to get as much of Cloudfest 2026 Gen Xfest 2026 out of my head and on to the blog before it all disappears. I was new to this conference and knew absolutely no one. Add to that I … Continue reading
Who Pays for AI?
I remember being at SXSW in 2009 and it seemed like all anyone could talk about was Twitter. It’s as if it hadn’t been around for a couple of years already. Tom Woodward and I were joking about it, but … Continue reading
Gen Xfest and the Better Suit Industrial Complex
I’m still within the gravitational pull of CloudFest 2026 Gen Xfest 2026, which is always a dangerous thing—but not bad for the bavablog post count! At the same time I’ve been reading Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon, and somewhere between … Continue reading
Gen Xfest: the Quiet Desperation of a Soon to be Forgotten Generation
The title is probably overstating things, but I couldn’t resist. At a certain age, you start to notice that the events shaping the tech industry don’t feel new so much as rhymed. Not because tech or capitalism or anything else … Continue reading
G07 Monitor Boy and His Trusty Arcade Assistant, Part 1
[NB: I started this post over 10 days ago, but sometimes my hopes and dreams of what AI can do aren’t as clean and tidy as I’d like. So, this is now just the first part of an ongoing monitor … Continue reading
Invasion of the AI Oblivion
I was playing with ChatGPT to explore a couple of versions of an essay I wrote back in 1999 during grad school. I was pretty impressed with both the feedback as well as a re-write ChatGPT did. After the machine … Continue reading
Invasion of the Mind Snatchers
I was originally going to call this post “Invasion of the Content Snatchers,” but what’s happening in this process is more than simply “stealing content” (if we can even call it that), but a shift in how we might potentially … Continue reading
It’s Already Here!
I’ve been digging Mike Caulfield’s deep dives into ChatGPT these days. What’s even cooler is he has gone full-in on the movie theme, which makes it that much more fun. His basic premise is pretty much in line with all … Continue reading