thoughts
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Adam Tinworth writes on onemanandhisblog.com:
LLMs are NOT answer machines. They’re guessing machines. And any guess has the potential to be wrong.
That’s true. Developers of AI tools are trying to push it everywhere they can push it. For profit, of course. But Internet users don’t need artificial intelligence literally everywhere. There are tools that function well enough without it. A perfect example of how AI has messed up search is some search engine results in last months (screenshots are circulating on the web).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sunday, August 25, 2024
Even if you want, you don’t have a wide choose.
Coca-Cola, according to its own report, sells 134 billion plastic bottles a year, and that number has increased by 15 percent in the last four years.
This is not all.
Plastic production has sharply increased over the last 70 years. In 1950, the world produced just two million tonnes. It now produces over 450 million tonnes. (ourworldindata.org)
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Thursday, August 22, 2024
During all night from Sunday to Monday was heavy rain on my town and region. Consequence: small local flood. The next day I saw small deer who running by the flooded field in a village.
It was so beautiful view.
And I realised about it that we did similar in the past. We’ve run by the woods and meadows. We’ve lived in harmony with nature and it was great for both.
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