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TIL the term “smishing” (SMS phishing) while looking up info on those spam text messages claiming to be from the USPS about a missed package. Never click the links in those, of course. You can also report them to the postal inspector.
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"text": "TIL the term \u201csmishing\u201d (SMS phishing) while looking up info on those spam text messages claiming to be from the USPS about a missed package. Never click the links in those, of course. You can also report them to the postal inspector.",
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“Public Health is Dead is a forward-thinking autopsy on how we’ve f*cked up in public health. How do we prepare for future pandemics while we’re already in the thick of one? And how do we reinvent systems that place some of us closer to death?”
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This is a summary curation of prior posts of mine on why post, what to post, and how to post, as well as some bits I wrote on the #IndieWeb wiki. This post assumes you already have a blog — if you don’t have one and wonder why you should, that’s a different blog post.
If you have a blog and ever feel stuck about why you should post, what to post next, or how to write your post, hopefully this post will help you get unstuck, and publish your post.
* Wean yourself off social media. Post to your own site instead of social media. If you already post on social media, into someone else’s garage¹, then you already have reason enough to post. So post on your own site first, and optionally syndicate² to that silo, only if you have friends who still use it to read posts. * Search everything you write. Do you post long comments or issues on GitHub? Do you post on public mailing lists? Post such things to your own site, so you can more easily search everything you’ve written on a topic. Then post a copy to those external destinations. * All the reasons to own your data: https://indieweb.org/own_your_data
* Use a local text editor * Capture first, edit & publish later: https://tantek.com/2023/365/t1/ * Do something positive (in-person), then post about it: https://tantek.com/2018/002/t1 * Single topic post * Short and to the point. Edit and remove anything distracting from the main point. * Quotable post title * Summary opening paragraph * Put tangents aside * Quotable sentences and multi-sentence paragraphs * Subheadings help cluster related paragraphs * Use a footer for updates, terminology, previous posts, additional reading, and citations. * Move definitions, citations, etc. to the footer unless including them inline either provides little risk of distraction or significantly helps reading flow * Use footer sections: Previously, Post Glossary, References, Additional Reading * Check your references
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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.
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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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"text": "I watch a lot of Living Big in a Tiny House, and I have very mixed feelings about it. But there\u2019s definitely a bunch of trends I\u2019ve noticed with it (and also with other tiny house channels on YouTube).\n\u201cWe aren\u2019t actually living in it yet\u201d\nOutdoor bathroom\n\u201cWe found a great parking space\u201d\n\u201cOur family had this land available\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s a lot bigger than you\u2019d think!\u201d\nFamily with kids have to sleep in the closet or in ultra-dense bunking or something\nSlide-out bed\nHave to completely reconfigure your room every time you want to do something different\nNo kitchen space\nSuper narrow, steep, tall stairs\nLack of accessibility in general\n\u201cI don\u2019t even miss all my stuff\u201d\nComposting toilet\nHave to climb a ladder to get into bed\nChanging bed sheets is also\u2026 interesting\n\u201cClose yourself off, retreat from the world\u201d\nOwner makes their living as an influencer\n\u201cEverything I could possibly need I have right here\u201d\nAdded storage by putting things on some sort of complicated hoisting system that totally would never fail\nOwner lifestyle that\u2019s one step removed from tradwifery\nPeak Instagram decor (fake ivy vines everywhere, \u201cLive Laugh Love\u201d-type signs, no actual artwork anywhere)\nIs this actually being filmed in an Ikea model home showroom?\n\u201cThis is really private\u201d (usually in respect to the, again, outdoor bathroom)\nSuper water- and energy-efficient tiny house next to a gigantic swimming pool\nTiny house in the back yard of a gigantic house that the owners actually live in\nTiny house situated on a 5-acre lot otherwise used only for a fucking lawn",
"html": "<p>I watch a lot of <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@livingbig\">Living Big in a Tiny House</a>, and I have very mixed feelings about it. But there\u2019s definitely a bunch of trends I\u2019ve noticed with it (and also with other tiny house channels on YouTube).</p>\n<ul><li>\u201cWe aren\u2019t actually living in it yet\u201d</li>\n<li>Outdoor bathroom</li>\n<li>\u201cWe found a great parking space\u201d</li>\n<li>\u201cOur family had this land available\u201d</li>\n<li>\u201cIt\u2019s a lot bigger than you\u2019d think!\u201d</li>\n<li>Family with kids have to sleep in the closet or in ultra-dense bunking or something</li>\n<li>Slide-out bed</li>\n<li>Have to completely reconfigure your room every time you want to do something different</li>\n<li>No kitchen space</li>\n<li>Super narrow, steep, tall stairs</li>\n<li>Lack of accessibility in general</li>\n<li>\u201cI don\u2019t even miss all my stuff\u201d</li>\n<li>Composting toilet</li>\n<li>Have to climb a ladder to get into bed</li>\n<li>Changing bed sheets is also\u2026 interesting</li>\n<li>\u201cClose yourself off, retreat from the world\u201d</li>\n<li>Owner makes their living as an influencer</li>\n<li>\u201cEverything I could possibly need I have right here\u201d</li>\n<li>Added storage by putting things on some sort of complicated hoisting system that totally would never fail</li>\n<li>Owner lifestyle that\u2019s one step removed from tradwifery</li>\n<li>Peak Instagram decor (fake ivy vines everywhere, \u201cLive Laugh Love\u201d-type signs, no actual artwork anywhere)</li>\n<li>Is this actually being filmed in an Ikea model home showroom?</li>\n<li>\u201cThis is really private\u201d (usually in respect to the, again, <em>outdoor</em> bathroom)</li>\n<li>Super water- and energy-efficient tiny house next to a gigantic swimming pool</li>\n<li>Tiny house in the back yard of a gigantic house that the owners actually live in</li>\n<li>Tiny house situated on a 5-acre lot otherwise used only for a <em>fucking lawn</em>\n</li>\n</ul>"
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"published": "2024-11-29T09:42:20-08:00",
"url": "https://aaronparecki.com/2024/11/29/6/pilot-institute",
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"text": "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",
"html": "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! <a href=\"https://pilotinstitute.com/course/part-107-remote-pilot/?affcode=245841_o4stdmp5\"><span>https://</span>pilotinstitute.com/course/part-107-remote-pilot/?affcode=245841_o4stdmp5</a>"
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