Suzanne Bearne on BBC in article “The people refusing to use AI”:
While it’s difficult to quantify the electricity used by AI, a report by Goldman Sachs estimated that a ChatGPT query uses nearly 10 times as much electricity as a Google search query.
I notice a drastic decrease in the number of published posts on my timeline on Bluesky. I don’t know yet if it’s a coincidence or something like a constant.
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Substack becomes another close digital garden. I think. Before you could write there a newsletter. Today you can publish podcast, videoconversations and posts like on X, Bluesky or Mastodon. Everything in one place. Comfortable? Definitely yes. But… dangerous as well. Why? Because it all doesn’t belong to you. Your entire business becomes dependent on Substack. Your independence is created by the idea that you can export a list of your subscribers' email addresses and switch to other provider.
Paul Graham on ‘The Age of Essay':
Just as inviting people over forces you to clean up your apartment, writing something that other people will read forces you to think well.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
The world’s most famous naturalist turns 99. I love and respect him for the way he talks about nature and how he makes people fall in love with it. Just look: It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Man is the slave of what he says and the master of what he keeps silent. ~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte, “The Siege”
Saturday, May 3, 2025
I don’t want digital products to accompany me every step of the way. I don’t want smart watches. I don’t want digital rings. I don’t want intelligent brushes. I don’t want digital glasses with cameras. I don’t want vacuum cleaner with AI. I don’t want lawnmower connected to the internet. I don’t want toilet saturated with sensors. I just want to live a normal life without becoming a slave in the digital feudalism era.
Friday, May 2, 2025
I read two excellent phrases today that sum up our world in a few words: “It’s more profitable to apologize than to ask for permission” - this in the context of large corporations that make no secret of the fact that they have copyrights for nothing and break the rules for their own gain. “Capitalism is based on incentives, not benevolence” - this perfectly captures the modern world of business and economics.
Monday, February 17, 2025
Hannah Karpel on BBC is writing: Claire Benton, vice-president of the British Academy of Audiology, suggests that by blocking everyday sounds such as cars beeping, there is a possibility the brain can “forget” to filter out the noise. and Those more complex, high-level listening skills in your brain only really finish developing towards your late teens. So, if you have only been wearing noise-cancelling headphones and been in this false world for your late teens then you are slightly delaying your ability to process speech and noise.
Saturday, February 15, 2025
I remember what a shock and absurdity at the same time were Donald Trump’s words about his intention to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. I leave aside the political issues of his words. I don’t want to comment on it or be a part of the dispute, because I live in the other hemisphere and think I shouldn’t get involved. My attention was drawn to a project based on MapQuest, and actually available at the subdomain https://gulfof.
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Tim Cook on X: Get ready to meet the newest member of the family. Of course, I’m assuming it’ll be the 4th gen iPhone SE or a low-cost iPhone that won’t be called ‘SE’ from now on. Based on reports that are circulating on the web, I will regret the news that Touch ID is going away on these models. For me, it’s definitely a more useful feature than Face ID.
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Human consistency and persistence in action sometimes amaze and embarrass me. They are impressive. Like the habit of one American woman who has kept a diary since… 1936. She turned 100 years old. Have been writing for 90 years and have no intention of stopping it. Ok, these are not long entries. But still. Amazing. I recently wrote a few words about how I adore bloggers who boast a tenure of 10, 15, 20 years.
Monday, February 10, 2025
Emanuel Maiberg on 404media.co: Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use. This is very important conclusion. And no - this doesn’t mean that the use of artificial intelligence should be discontinued. This makes us we should put even more effort into other activities that sharpen critical thinking. It won’t be easy or widespread, because people like convenient and quick solutions that have an immediate effect (like the results presented by AI).
Sunday, February 9, 2025
You can leave Twitter/X and move to Bluesky or Mastodon. You can leave Facebook and don’t miss it or possibly move to LinkedIn. You can leave Messenger/WhatsApp and move to Signal. You can leave Instagram and move to Pixelfed. But you can’t leave YouTube. Although there are alternatives in the IndieWeb and open source world. But in reality, in this case, there is no good alternative.
Sunday, January 26, 2025
In article on nature.com I read: “Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions,” wrote one respondent. “My feed is almost entirely scientists and I actually get updates on research that is relevant and timely,” wrote another. and In Nature’s survey, 55% of respondents to the question ‘What do you use Bluesky for?’ said it was a mix of three research-related activities: to connect with other scientists, keep up to date with other research or researchers, and promote their own research.
Sunday, January 12, 2025
I am in the process of restructuring my RSS library. It’s a revolution. During last years I’m used my feed very irregularly. There is no a one reason ‘why’. It just so happenen. Last months are a big revolution for me in approach to using the Internet included many services. On this list is RSS as well. It’s a return to the past. The good past. The idea is really simple.
Friday, January 10, 2025
From few days I’m an avid reader of interviews on manuelmoreale.com. Manu is a blogger who interviewing with other bloggers and ask them about theirs, in general, journey in blogging world. Many of them gave very interesting answers - thought-provoking, clever observations and many others worth-reading thoughts. I noticed that part of them are writing from many years. Sometimes from end of 20th century. It’s amazing. I admire theirs consequences, ambitions and passion.
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
I’m new here. In blogosphere. What can be understood as a personal blogging. Earlier I had a blogs by short time during the years, but every had a specific subject. Now is different. I’m sharing my thoughts. This is absolutely different feeling and approach to writing. So I can say that this is slightly different situation for me: for my brain and habits of writing. And I continue my journey by the path of personal blogs.
Thursday, December 19, 2024
I take the train every day. Twice in a day, because place where I work is about 50 km from my home. So traveling is my everyday routine. And I love it. I love to take the train and what becoming after that. For me the train station is a some metaphysical gate that takes me to another world. To the world where everything makes simplier. Where everything has its place.
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
I remember when about 15 years ago we had in Poland two interesting and quite popular social media platforms: Blip and Flaker. Blip was ‘polish Twitter’ in that time. Used only by Poles. Really interesting grassroots project which became important place for people with various interests. Flaker was something different. You published posts, took part in discussions, following other people. Combination of Facebook and Twitter (or Blip). It had great community and some of options which wasn’t enabled for a long time in American social platforms like Twitter or Facebook.