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• ↓ Statement on AI
• ↓ How to really figure something out, poetry in translation
• ↓ Oral testimony for the Vermont data privacy and online surveillance bill
• ↓ Social media is real life, make it accessible
• ↓ Finally got an Apple Watch, it’s okay
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"I don’t use AI on this blog (or any of my writing) to the best of my knowledge. I know other people use AI for various reasons and this is not me picking a fight with them; this is me talking about my process. I acknowledge that I probably don’t know every single AI-using aspect of the tools that I use. However, when I detect them, I avoid them. I like to write, I like to type, and I can’t imagine wanting that process to be different. This is up to and including:"

"I’ve used AI/LLM tools before. I used to try DeepSeek occasionally for some of my work at the Flickr Foundation (think “what is this image” sort of things), found it wanting, and did not use it again. We had an AI clerkbot which we were encouraged to use to keep track of our daily/weekly tasks and I used it for a bit, found it wanting, and did not use it again."

"The one bit of AI I have in my life now is that the code which makes up my reading list has been partially built by someone who was using Claude. My host upgraded their version of PHP, my booklist broke. I reached out to the man who had helped me fix it before. He asked my permission to have Claude help him update and document the code and I said okay."

"If any of this changes, I’ll probably say something about it. I do have a lot of ethical and practical concerns with AI/LLMs companies as well as the tools they build. For now, I don’t use them because they solve no problems for me. If you’d like to use less AI in your life, you can see my page on how to turn a lot of it off. Here’s the short URL but it just redirects to a page here: NoToAI.org"

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Statement on AI

How to really figure something out, poetry in translation

Oral testimony for the Vermont data privacy and online surveillance bill

Social media is real life, make it accessible

Finally got an Apple Watch, it’s okay

Posts pagination