Just installed my first Lutron Caseta switch. Going to slowly convert all these switches over in the next few weeks. I do like how the switch is silent, no sound of a relay snapping.
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~3 weeks ago I posted some thoughts¹ about the US #election. Upon more reflection, more thoughts and some updates.
~50 days until many #changes that will harm many, disrupt many more. Some changes and impacts will be immediate, some in days to weeks, mostly predictable, and some in months or longer, less predictable the further out.
It will be a lot like 8 years ago, except accelerated in time and severity, more well planned and executed, and quickly becoming hard to predict.
How to prepare for a mix of seemingly unpreventable disruptions and unpredictability?
resilience, redundancies, redirects, and resistance.
The next 50 days are the calm before a four year storm, if not longer. Perhaps there will be a respite in two years (midterms), perhaps even worth pursuing, yet not something to depend on.
For now, the following come to mind as immediately useful, actionable, and necessary, as a ways to act that are sustainable, and build upon each other:
1. make changes slowly, gradually, incrementally
2. take extra care of yourself, physical health, mental health
3. strengthen connections that matter, close friends, family, neighbors, not social media
One goal of these is to build stronger personal foundations from which to take larger actions.
Lastly, it is easy to get discouraged after disappointing outcomes. Easy to feel powerless. There are things we can all do, individually or collectively, perhaps locally, and there are many things that are difficult or impossible. It’s a spectrum of difficulty, not a dichotomy.
Better to focus on approachable actions and goals rather than seeking perfection, the enemy of the good.²
Surround yourself with those that encourage and celebrate your actions and successes, and spend less time with those who speak fatalism (all outcomes are inevitable), defeatism (all actions are ineffective), or nihilism (nothing matters).
Small successes build momentum and upon each other into larger successes.
More to follow.
¹ https://tantek.com/2024/313/t1/reflecting-listening-thoughts
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
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"text": "~3 weeks ago I posted some thoughts\u00b9 about the US #election. Upon more reflection, more thoughts and some updates.\n\n~50 days until many #changes that will harm many, disrupt many more. Some changes and impacts will be immediate, some in days to weeks, mostly predictable, and some in months or longer, less predictable the further out.\n\nIt will be a lot like 8 years ago, except accelerated in time and severity, more well planned and executed, and quickly becoming hard to predict.\n\nHow to prepare for a mix of seemingly unpreventable disruptions and unpredictability?\n\nresilience, redundancies, redirects, and resistance.\n\nThe next 50 days are the calm before a four year storm, if not longer. Perhaps there will be a respite in two years (midterms), perhaps even worth pursuing, yet not something to depend on.\n\nFor now, the following come to mind as immediately useful, actionable, and necessary, as a ways to act that are sustainable, and build upon each other:\n\n1. make changes slowly, gradually, incrementally\n2. take extra care of yourself, physical health, mental health\n3. strengthen connections that matter, close friends, family, neighbors, not social media\n\nOne goal of these is to build stronger personal foundations from which to take larger actions.\n\nLastly, it is easy to get discouraged after disappointing outcomes. Easy to feel powerless. There are things we can all do, individually or collectively, perhaps locally, and there are many things that are difficult or impossible. It\u2019s a spectrum of difficulty, not a dichotomy.\n\nBetter to focus on approachable actions and goals rather than seeking perfection, the enemy of the good.\u00b2\n\nSurround yourself with those that encourage and celebrate your actions and successes, and spend less time with those who speak fatalism (all outcomes are inevitable), defeatism (all actions are ineffective), or nihilism (nothing matters).\n\nSmall successes build momentum and upon each other into larger successes.\n\nMore to follow.\n\n\u00b9 https://tantek.com/2024/313/t1/reflecting-listening-thoughts\n\u00b2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good",
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During yesterday’s IndieWeb Create Day, I got inspired by Reilly’s progress adding tags to his posts. I finally set up my Tags page and linked up the tags at the bottom of each post.
I couldn’t resist adding a bit of random HTML tag fun at the top of that page, too. Let me know your favorite HTML tag and I might add it to the rotation.
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"html": "<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/mariposta/image/upload/w_1200,c_limit,q_65/watercolour-4942955_qedsif.jpg\" /><h2>I\u2019m on the lookout for tools which help usher in new art forms\u2014not badly approximate the ones which came before.</h2>\n\n<p>In a <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/podcast/115/\">recent episode of Fresh Fusion</a>, I talked about the difference between \u201cgenerative art\u201d and \u201cgenerative AI\u201d.</p>\n\n<p>One lets you dial in an array of parameters of a specialized, deterministic computer program and watch/hear the math unfold in surprising and delightful ways. The other is a fuzzy digital fever dream remix based on the lifeblood of real creators who likely had never consented to the experiment.</p>\n\n<p>Building on that thought, let\u2019s approach the difference between applying \u201cart styles\u201d to digital mediums and believing you\u2019re actually approximating those aspirational mediums.</p>\n\n<h3>Filters > Painting\u2026</h3>\n\n<p>When I was but a wee lad in the very early days of digital photography, I\u2014like so many at the time\u2014stumbled across \u201cpainterly\u201d effects in the Photoshop-adjacent world of the time. There were so many options available to \u201cturn a photograph into a painting\u201d. Some options were even available in the printing phase\u2014i.e., you could get a canvas made of a digital print which had a handful of realistic brush strokes added.</p>\n\n<p>For the most part, all of my experiments in this arena looked like trash, and in hindsight I very much doubt that any \u201cI Can\u2019t Believe It\u2019s Not a Painting!\u201d artifacts from that era made it into any legitimate art galleries for fame and posterity.</p>\n\n<p>However, it\u2019s safe to say that further evolutions of these sorts of techniques eventually ended up in the hands of talented 3D animators and visual FX artists, and eventually we ended up in a world where facets of painting and illustration get applied in adjacent visual mediums to the wonderment of all. And I suppose a person with great technique and careful skill could today blend a source photograph with painterly effects in order to create a true mixed-media work of art. (I say \u201csuppose\u201d because I rarely see any such examples posted on social media. Send me links if you have any!)</p>\n\n<p>But here\u2019s the bottom line: a photograph which has been altered with hand-inspired effects is never going to be <strong>a painting</strong>. And that\u2019s fine! I not implying it can\u2019t be good. It simply is\u2026something else.</p>\n\n<p><em>This</em> is why I continually scratch my head when I see people make claims that generative AI will let people create \u201cthe thing\u201d they\u2019re trying to create. AI will help you shoot \u201cthe film\u201d. AI will help you write \u201cthe poem\u201d. AI will help you develop \u201cthe app\u201d.</p>\n\n<p><em>No it won\u2019t.</em></p>\n\n<p>Eventually, when we have more precise, more controllable, and more <strong>ethical</strong> tools in this space which aren\u2019t an alarming source of epistemological degradation and don\u2019t simply churn out uncanny valley slop, it\u2019s <em>possible</em> we\u2019ll find ways to utilize them to establish <strong>new</strong> art forms. Not simply (badly) approximate the ones which have come before.</p>\n\n<p>Maybe a future (not bad) AI tool can help craft a movie showing a style & subject we\u2019ve <em>never</em> even seen or dreamt of before. Maybe a future tool can help output sounds that usher in a new musical genre, just like the synthesizers and tape recorders and theremins of recent memory. Maybe a future tool can help assemble an entirely new format of human-computer interaction, offering a UI radically different from the computer desktops and smartphones of today.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Maybe.</strong></p>\n\n<p>But that day is not today. Today, corporations salivate at crappy chatbots replacing trained support humans, students ask broken search engines to give them wrong answers to reports instead of doing real research, and asshats in Hollywood think they can somehow route around the pesky whims and demands of \u201cthe talent\u201d\u2026in some cases even <em>resurrecting the dead</em>. <strong>Gross!</strong></p>\n\n<h3>Envisioning a Better Age</h3>\n\n<p>The so-called AI is not your friend, and the tools real artists need to create real art by and large are not being provided by the AI-driven hype cycle (leaving aside certain automation-related features like text-to-speech, transcription, translation, tagging, etc. which are genuinely useful). In fact the opposite is often true: artists all over the Internet are being shat upon by the men with dollar signs in their eyes running Big Tech firms along with the gauche startups which aspire to become them (or be bought by them).</p>\n\n<p>Increasingly, I find that the songs which <em>move me</em>, the films which <em>wow me</em>, the writings which <em>inspire me</em>, and the apps which <em>delight me</em> are intentionally and proudly being marketed by indie creators with disclaimers such as \u201cno generative AI was used in the making of this [fill in the blank]\u201d. <strong>These are the creative endeavors I want to support and encourage.</strong></p>\n\n<p>Be a humanist. Stand up for the humans.</p>\n\n<p>And if you don\u2019t believe me, <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8xL3ol3xw8\">maybe you\u2019ll listen to Jessie Gender</a>\u2014one of the most creative online creators I\u2019ve ever come across:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Art isn\u2019t a product. It\u2019s a conversation to be shared.</p>\n\n <p>Technology helps us dream it. It did not do it for us.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>What more is there to say?</p>\n\n<p><br /></p>\n\n<p><em>Photo credit: <a href=\"https://pixabay.com/illustrations/watercolour-painting-art-effect-4942955/\">Layers on Pixabay</a></em></p>\n\n\n\n <br /><p>\n \n <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/creativity\">#creativity</a>\n \n <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/generativeai\">#generativeAI</a>\n \n </p>",
"text": "I\u2019m on the lookout for tools which help usher in new art forms\u2014not badly approximate the ones which came before.\n\nIn a recent episode of Fresh Fusion, I talked about the difference between \u201cgenerative art\u201d and \u201cgenerative AI\u201d.\n\nOne lets you dial in an array of parameters of a specialized, deterministic computer program and watch/hear the math unfold in surprising and delightful ways. The other is a fuzzy digital fever dream remix based on the lifeblood of real creators who likely had never consented to the experiment.\n\nBuilding on that thought, let\u2019s approach the difference between applying \u201cart styles\u201d to digital mediums and believing you\u2019re actually approximating those aspirational mediums.\n\nFilters > Painting\u2026\n\nWhen I was but a wee lad in the very early days of digital photography, I\u2014like so many at the time\u2014stumbled across \u201cpainterly\u201d effects in the Photoshop-adjacent world of the time. There were so many options available to \u201cturn a photograph into a painting\u201d. Some options were even available in the printing phase\u2014i.e., you could get a canvas made of a digital print which had a handful of realistic brush strokes added.\n\nFor the most part, all of my experiments in this arena looked like trash, and in hindsight I very much doubt that any \u201cI Can\u2019t Believe It\u2019s Not a Painting!\u201d artifacts from that era made it into any legitimate art galleries for fame and posterity.\n\nHowever, it\u2019s safe to say that further evolutions of these sorts of techniques eventually ended up in the hands of talented 3D animators and visual FX artists, and eventually we ended up in a world where facets of painting and illustration get applied in adjacent visual mediums to the wonderment of all. And I suppose a person with great technique and careful skill could today blend a source photograph with painterly effects in order to create a true mixed-media work of art. (I say \u201csuppose\u201d because I rarely see any such examples posted on social media. Send me links if you have any!)\n\nBut here\u2019s the bottom line: a photograph which has been altered with hand-inspired effects is never going to be a painting. And that\u2019s fine! I not implying it can\u2019t be good. It simply is\u2026something else.\n\nThis is why I continually scratch my head when I see people make claims that generative AI will let people create \u201cthe thing\u201d they\u2019re trying to create. AI will help you shoot \u201cthe film\u201d. AI will help you write \u201cthe poem\u201d. AI will help you develop \u201cthe app\u201d.\n\nNo it won\u2019t.\n\nEventually, when we have more precise, more controllable, and more ethical tools in this space which aren\u2019t an alarming source of epistemological degradation and don\u2019t simply churn out uncanny valley slop, it\u2019s possible we\u2019ll find ways to utilize them to establish new art forms. Not simply (badly) approximate the ones which have come before.\n\nMaybe a future (not bad) AI tool can help craft a movie showing a style & subject we\u2019ve never even seen or dreamt of before. Maybe a future tool can help output sounds that usher in a new musical genre, just like the synthesizers and tape recorders and theremins of recent memory. Maybe a future tool can help assemble an entirely new format of human-computer interaction, offering a UI radically different from the computer desktops and smartphones of today.\n\nMaybe.\n\nBut that day is not today. Today, corporations salivate at crappy chatbots replacing trained support humans, students ask broken search engines to give them wrong answers to reports instead of doing real research, and asshats in Hollywood think they can somehow route around the pesky whims and demands of \u201cthe talent\u201d\u2026in some cases even resurrecting the dead. Gross!\n\nEnvisioning a Better Age\n\nThe so-called AI is not your friend, and the tools real artists need to create real art by and large are not being provided by the AI-driven hype cycle (leaving aside certain automation-related features like text-to-speech, transcription, translation, tagging, etc. which are genuinely useful). In fact the opposite is often true: artists all over the Internet are being shat upon by the men with dollar signs in their eyes running Big Tech firms along with the gauche startups which aspire to become them (or be bought by them).\n\nIncreasingly, I find that the songs which move me, the films which wow me, the writings which inspire me, and the apps which delight me are intentionally and proudly being marketed by indie creators with disclaimers such as \u201cno generative AI was used in the making of this [fill in the blank]\u201d. These are the creative endeavors I want to support and encourage.\n\nBe a humanist. Stand up for the humans.\n\nAnd if you don\u2019t believe me, maybe you\u2019ll listen to Jessie Gender\u2014one of the most creative online creators I\u2019ve ever come across:\n\n\n Art isn\u2019t a product. It\u2019s a conversation to be shared.\n\n Technology helps us dream it. It did not do it for us.\n\n\nWhat more is there to say?\n\n\n\n\nPhoto credit: Layers on Pixabay\n\n\n\n \n\n \n #creativity\n \n #generativeAI"
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I still highly recommend the Pilot Institute Part 107 course if you've been thinking about getting a drone pilot license! There's a good black friday deal on right now too! https://pilotinstitute.com/course/part-107-remote-pilot/?affcode=245841_o4stdmp5
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ran the Spartan Turkey Trot #5k #race in 44:34 @SpartanTurkey5k!
2min/mi+ faster average pace than 2023’s #turkeyTrot walk / slow jog of 47:37 on a shortened course (2.86mi).
Arrived early for a warm-up and it was the coldest it’s been in years (30-something F).
Alternated run/walk sessions for ~20min then jogged back to the track start area where they had moved the start since last year. Used the bathroom, and kept warming up with back/forth strides then high knees while waiting with the fam in wave 3.
Ran out at a moderate pace dodging walkers and strollers. Once we were on the street the cold air really hit my lungs. Listened to music nearly the whole time. Mile 2 was my slowest but still kept it under 15min/mi (my goal pace). Ran much more than walked in the last mile, and had enough left in the tank to push a little harder the last quarter mile to the finish where I hit my highest heartrate of the race.
Pretty happy with a sub-45 in sub-40F temperatures, and a solid improvement after last year’s walk/jog which itself was only ~3 months after recovering from a cardio-destroying illness.
Considering what to race next, thinking a trail race in December.
See also: https://www.spartanturkeytrot.com/
#turkeyTrot2024
Previously:
* https://tantek.com/2022/329/t1/spartan-turkey-trot-5k
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I've been digitizing old family VHS and 8mm tapes, and it's kind of incredible to think about how I can have a giant pile of tapes reduced to a single SD card. But also it's fun to find things like me playing piano at Nordstrom during the holidays.
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Tonight was batch cooking night. Just made ~50 high-protein vegan waffles and then vacuum packed them. Five minutes in the air fryer is a nice quick breakfast later!
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