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Doc Searls Weblog (Feed)
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Performing a pooplic service
When a whole business category is fubar, and its members together exemplify enshittification better than each does alone, I suggest we speak of their collectivity as a fecosystem. I’ve been using that word since 2016, and bring it up now because these two posts about the subs…
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Attaday
And this all started in the Pleistocene This post about Blackhawk Slide is getting some action lately, my stats page says. It features a photo I shot, but this one tells the story better and has more geology. In revisiting that piece, I learned that two of my own sources, geolog…
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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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How a Fashion Photographer Gets Joy from Street Photography
Here at the Phoblographer, we cover street photography a lot. But we also cover various other genres too. And in the work that I've done as a journalist, I've always been fascinated by photographers like Joshua Lawrence. When we interviewed him, he was a fashion photography by d…
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There's no point at which turning your brain off will work
In early 2025, I started seeing people turn off their brain as they use LLMs1. They would have an LLM take an action (summarize text, write some code, etc.), and just assume that it worked2. This generally didn't work in early 2025 and the result was often quite silly. As LLMs…
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How well do agents use test and verification techniques?
We previously noted that, while it's easier than ever to hit a particular quality bar by having coding agents use effective test techniques, software quality seems to be getting worse, indicating that whatever defaults developers are using may not work very well. Here, we test i…
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Interconnected (Feed)
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A new prayer for the fruit fly connectome
I have moral queasiness about the fruit fly work going on in the AI world – I’m not 100% sure why. We need to invent new prayers, that’s where my thoughts take me. Bear with me while I think it through… In case you missed it: Google Research and partners mapped the co…
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Adactio: Journal (Feed)
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Think local
If you’re anything like me, you’re sick of hearing about so-called “AI”. We are not a fringe. The majority consensus amongst actual regular people is that this is being forced down our throats and stuffed into our eyes and ears. That’s why it pains me that I’m about…
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Why the Olympus E-M5 Is Still Worth Holding Onto
Recently, I've been going through my archives after shooting for 20 years. And in those archives, I'm finding lots of gems of images that I've made. Here at the Phoblographer, we often talk about the Olympus Pen F -- but what I haven't spoken about enough is the real goat: the O…
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How Andrea Girones Uses Nikon For Astrophotography
Humans have always been fascinated by space. From stargazing to enjoying an eclipse, people have found varied ways to understand and photograph the celestial events around them. With astrophotography, many are able to document nebulae, the Andromeda Galaxy, or even the Milky Way…
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