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I always have a hard time explaining things. I don't tune the explanation correctly for the audience. I go into too much detail about stuff that doesn't matter. So I'm going to try and practice a better approach, and to do that, I'm going to try and explain Mastodon.

Explanation 1: The Good Parts

If you want a chronological timeline that is free from ads, doesn't use algorithms to hide your friends' posts from you, and isn't beholden to the whims of the billionaire techbro class, you want Mastodon.

Hmm, no, I can do better. That's a bit too wordy.

Explanation 2: Sales Pitch

Mastodon: Follow your friends. Fight the algorithms. Fuck the billionaires.

Erm, maybe that's too edgy and uninformative. Let me try again.

The problem with today's AI/ML craze is that companies are too hot for the dollar bills associated with the buzz. They try too hard to make AI the star feature of their product.

That's the wrong way to use it.

Every photograph tells you something about the photographer. How they think, what they like, how they work - it's as much a glimpse into their inner life as it is a glimpse into the frozen moment of time they've captured.

Yep, you guessed it: this post is a rant about generative art.

I've been trying out a note-taking tool called Obsidian for the past few months. I'm enjoying it quite a bit.

It's available on plenty of platforms and primarily uses Markdown syntax for formatting. This is good, because it means that I can quickly copy and paste my drafts into my Markdown-based static site generator (Sculpin) often without needing any formatting updates.