Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🖼️ xkcd: Rotational Gravity #3220

  • march updates

    my march tarot decks are the thoth and the ritual tarot and i took them out a week early because i just couldn't wait. that took me on a tour of thoth bloggers and i ended up watching a lot of paul hughes-barlow (in conversation with bart deleplanque). for a while i practiced his version of the first operation of the opening of the key spread. (explained at the end of the post).

    anyway, the two march decks are very much magical tools. the effect was two-fold: it didn't feel right to fuck around with them, so i turned to playing cards for that (synchronistically someone republished the contents of the defunct hedgewytch cartomancy website), and i got back to a more focused spiritual practice (meditating, chanting, beads, reading the bhagavad gita, reading miguel de molinos etc). i think perhaps of this spiritual focus i haven't really been doing any projects. a lot of the time i'm just vibing?

  • First post

    Just staking my place, trying out the terrain.

• Technology and Free Software

  • i have been accused of being AI and i am offended, beep boop

    March 17 is never a fun day at Chez Tov, being the anniversary of the day my brother finally succeeded in killing himself with alcohol. So imagine my mood when I opened my email and a freelance client accused me of being AI.

    Specifically: "this draft came back as 99% AI. Can you rewrite it so it's no more than 60% AI?"

    First, as my 2.3 readers may have guessed: I don't use AI when I write. Ever. I'm offended by the existence of LLMs.

    Second: I guess I'm not surprised. I've been cranking out freelance "content" for 18 years now. I've written things on the Net that are old enough to vote. I've written things old enough to get blown up by a Shahed drone. LLMs were trained on my work. No wonder algorithms now think I'm one of them.