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"text": "Wow, YouTube has gone ahead and replaced home page recommendations with a shame pop-up if you disable watch history.\nI\u2019ve personally tried to quit looking at YouTube\u2019s recommended videos in the past. I guess this is their passive aggressive way of giving me what I want??",
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"published": "2023-08-16T10:18:24-07:00",
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"text": "Cholesterol: Within normal range (thanks, Repatha)\nTriglycerides: Still a little high, but not nearly as bad as they used to be (I\u2019m guessing that them being a bit high means the doctor is still going to lecture me)\nBlood glucose: 102mg/dL, which is technically a little high because of the law of round numbers, but c'mon\nA1C: 6.0, which is right in the middle of the \u201cpre-diabetic\u201d range, which means I\u2019m going to get a lecture about that too\n\nMCH: 25.6pg, indicating I might be slightly anemic\nAnyway it\u2019s pretty clear that my home glucosimeter needs to be recalibrated or replaced.",
"html": "<ul><li>Cholesterol: Within normal range (thanks, Repatha)</li>\n<li>Triglycerides: Still a little high, but not nearly as bad as they used to be (I\u2019m guessing that them being a bit high means the doctor is still going to lecture me)</li>\n<li>Blood glucose: 102mg/dL, which is technically a little high because of the law of round numbers, but c'mon</li>\n<li>A1C: 6.0, which is right in the middle of the \u201cpre-diabetic\u201d range, which means I\u2019m going to get a lecture about that <em>too</em>\n</li>\n<li>MCH: 25.6pg, indicating I might be slightly anemic</li>\n</ul><p>Anyway it\u2019s pretty clear that my home glucosimeter needs to be recalibrated or replaced.</p>"
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"published": "2023-08-14 16:54-0700",
"url": "https://gregorlove.com/2023/08/to-read-it-was-vulgar-and-it-was-beautiful/",
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"text": "Want to read: It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery (ISBN 9781645036586)",
"html": "<p>Want to read: <span class=\"p-read-of h-cite\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://gregorlove.com/isbn/9781645036586\">It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic</a> by <span class=\"p-author\">Jack Lowery</span> (ISBN <span class=\"p-uid\">9781645036586</span>)</span></p>"
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I’m trying out Obsidian and getting back into Mark Forster’s task management explorations, specifically “Final Version Perfected.” I’ve used that method off-and-on and I think it works well as long as I can stick to it. I’m also hoping that regular note-taking will help me put together more blog posts. I’ve had plenty of ideas float by, but if I don’t capture them somewhere, they’re not likely to crystalize into a blog post.
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"text": "I\u2019m trying out Obsidian and getting back into Mark Forster\u2019s task management explorations, specifically \u201cFinal Version Perfected.\u201d I\u2019ve used that method off-and-on and I think it works well as long as I can stick to it. I\u2019m also hoping that regular note-taking will help me put together more blog posts. I\u2019ve had plenty of ideas float by, but if I don\u2019t capture them somewhere, they\u2019re not likely to crystalize into a blog post.",
"html": "<p>I\u2019m trying out <a href=\"https://obsidian.md\">Obsidian</a> and getting back into Mark Forster\u2019s task management explorations, specifically \u201c<a href=\"http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2021/11/16/the-final-version-perfected-fvp-instructions-reposted.html\">Final Version Perfected</a>.\u201d I\u2019ve used that method off-and-on and I think it works well as long as I can stick to it. I\u2019m also hoping that regular note-taking will help me put together more blog posts. I\u2019ve had plenty of ideas float by, but if I don\u2019t capture them somewhere, they\u2019re not likely to crystalize into a blog post.</p>"
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"published": "2023-08-13T12:29:53-0400",
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"text": "IndieWeb discussion has left the Matrix and ChatGPT wants you to block it. It\u2019s your < 10min update on the #IndieWeb community!\nThis Week in the IndieWeb audio edition for August 5th - 11th, 2023.\nhttps://martymcgui.re/2023/08/13/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--august-5th---11th-2023/",
"html": "<p>IndieWeb discussion has left the Matrix and ChatGPT wants you to block it. It\u2019s your < 10min update on the #IndieWeb community!</p>\n<p>This Week in the IndieWeb audio edition for August 5th - 11th, 2023.\n<a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2023/08/13/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--august-5th---11th-2023/\">https://martymcgui.re/2023/08/13/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--august-5th---11th-2023/</a></p>"
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"html": "Show/Hide Transcript\n \n <p>IndieWeb discussion has left the Matrix and ChatGPT wants you to block it. It\u2019s the audio edition for <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-08-11.html\">This Week in the IndieWeb for August 5th - 11th, 2023</a>.</p>\n<p>You can find all of my audio editions and subscribe with your favorite podcast app here: <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/podcasts/indieweb/\">martymcgui.re/podcasts/indieweb/</a>.</p>\n<p>Music from <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/\">Aaron Parecki</a>\u2019s <a href=\"https://100.aaronparecki.com/\">100DaysOfMusic project</a>: <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/2017/03/15/14/day85\">Day 85 - Suit</a>, <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/2017/02/06/7/day48\">Day 48 - Glitch</a>, <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/2017/02/07/4/day49\">Day 49 - Floating</a>, <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/2016/12/29/21/day-9\">Day 9</a>, and <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/2016/12/31/15/\">Day 11</a></p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone in the <a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/\">IndieWeb chat</a> for their feedback and suggestions. Please drop me a note if there are any changes you\u2019d like to see for this audio edition!</p>"
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3 NY" shirt is positioned in a way that it looks like a red circle" class="wide-bleed-image u-photo">3 NY" shirt is positioned in a way that it looks like a red circle" class="wide-bleed-image u-photo">
Throwback to 2007-04-28 at Radio Radio for the Wolfy, Cabin, and Little Voice show with Isha and Allison. I think this is one of my first pictures with Isha. This was only a couple weeks before my heart incident too. Whoa.
We were so young. I miss going to shows with Indianapolis friends.
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I got a spammy message via my contact page from “PostBy AI” trying to sell me on adding a chatbot to my site to answer customer questions, generate leads, yada yada. Annoying, but not a big deal in itself.
The part that really bugged me, though, was “I went ahead and created a custom chatbot tailored for your site, and want to let you try it out for free.” I find that to be a really creepy practice if they actually had their software train against the text on my site, so I replied with the email below. I’ll update here based on how they reply.
Was this message generated by a chat bot? It doesn’t seem like a human looked at my website at all. I have no need for any of the things listed because it’s not a business site and there are no sales. It’s just my personal site that I share things on.
I think it’s a creepy practice to create a chatbot tailored to my site without my request or permission. If you have scraped information from my site or trained an LLM against its content, please remove all such data from your systems immediately.
Also please let me know what user agent your software uses so I can add it to my robots.txt disallow list, or let me know what other methods your software respects to let a site opt out.
You're making a lot of demands for someone who did something nice for you. It's your responsibility to add your own robot files, not mine.
However, I've destroyed the bot and removed you from any scraping on my end.
I just wrote back:
What an absolutely unprofessional response. “Please remove my data” is a polite request and should be understandable for your business, regardless of whether you think you’ve done something “nice” for me.
Yes, robots.txt is for me to update. That’s why I requested what user agent your software uses so I can update accordingly. Please let me know.
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"text": "I got a spammy message via my contact page from \u201cPostBy AI\u201d trying to sell me on adding a chatbot to my site to answer customer questions, generate leads, yada yada. Annoying, but not a big deal in itself.\n\nThe part that really bugged me, though, was \u201cI went ahead and created a custom chatbot tailored for your site, and want to let you try it out for free.\u201d I find that to be a really creepy practice if they actually had their software train against the text on my site, so I replied with the email below. I\u2019ll update here based on how they reply.\n\n\n\nWas this message generated by a chat bot? It doesn\u2019t seem like a human looked at my website at all. I have no need for any of the things listed because it\u2019s not a business site and there are no sales. It\u2019s just my personal site that I share things on.\n\nI think it\u2019s a creepy practice to create a chatbot tailored to my site without my request or permission. If you have scraped information from my site or trained an LLM against its content, please remove all such data from your systems immediately.\n\nAlso please let me know what user agent your software uses so I can add it to my robots.txt disallow list, or let me know what other methods your software respects to let a site opt out.\n\n\u2014 gRegor Morrill via email\n\nOof. They responded to me:\n\n\n\nYou're making a lot of demands for someone who did something nice for you. It's your responsibility to add your own robot files, not mine.\n\nHowever, I've destroyed the bot and removed you from any scraping on my end.\n\n\n\nI just wrote back:\n\n\n\nWhat an absolutely unprofessional response. \u201cPlease remove my data\u201d is a polite request and should be understandable for your business, regardless of whether you think you\u2019ve done something \u201cnice\u201d for me.\n\nYes, robots.txt is for me to update. That\u2019s why I requested what user agent your software uses so I can update accordingly. Please let me know.",
"html": "<p>I got a spammy message via my contact page from \u201cPostBy AI\u201d trying to sell me on adding a chatbot to my site to answer customer questions, generate leads, yada yada. Annoying, but not a big deal in itself.</p>\n\n<p>The part that really bugged me, though, was \u201cI went ahead and created a custom chatbot tailored for your site, and want to let you try it out for free.\u201d I find that to be a really creepy practice if they actually had their software train against the text on my site, so I replied with the email below. I\u2019ll update here based on how they reply.</p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"h-cite\">\n\n<p>Was this message generated by a chat bot? It doesn\u2019t seem like a human looked at my website at all. I have no need for any of the things listed because it\u2019s not a business site and there are no sales. It\u2019s just my personal site that I share things on.</p>\n\n<p>I think it\u2019s a creepy practice to create a chatbot tailored to my site without my request or permission. If you have scraped information from my site or trained an LLM against its content, please remove all such data from your systems immediately.</p>\n\n<p>Also please let me know what user agent your software uses so I can add it to my robots.txt disallow list, or let me know what other methods your software respects to let a site opt out.</p>\n\n\u2014 <a class=\"p-author h-card\" href=\"https://gregorlove.com/\">gRegor Morrill</a> via email</blockquote>\n\n<p>Oof. They responded to me:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n\n<p>You're making a lot of demands for someone who did something nice for you. It's your responsibility to add your own robot files, not mine.</p>\n\n<p>However, I've destroyed the bot and removed you from any scraping on my end.</p>\n\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>I just wrote back:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n\n<p>What an absolutely unprofessional response. \u201cPlease remove my data\u201d is a polite request and should be understandable for your business, regardless of whether you think you\u2019ve done something \u201cnice\u201d for me.</p>\n\n<p>Yes, robots.txt is for me to update. That\u2019s why I requested what user agent your software uses so I can update accordingly. Please let me know.</p>\n\n</blockquote>"
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