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GenAI and what it does to the brain.

Truly excellent "long read" article about genAI and what it does to those who come to rely on it. Well researched, with insightful quotes from thoughtful people.

Good science/tech journalism used to be like that, but on AI topics this has become rare. So much easier for the salaried writer of a mainstream paper just to follow the hype.

The author, Sophie McBain, is listed as a "freelance writer" for Guardian, Times and New Statesman. I am glad she's kept her free mind.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/are-we-living-in-a-golden-age-of-stupidity-technology

#brain #learning #noAI #StopTheAICorruption #SophieMcBain

the Guardian

Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?

From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …

the roamer

@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk replied · last week

Author Sophie McBain wasn't on my radar screen, though it turns out I had read some of her pieces before.

Good journalists / longform writers are scarce. We want to recognise them.

Here's her website:
https://sophiemcbain.com/319-2/

#GoodJournalists #ScienceJournalism #longform #LongReads #SophieMcBain

https://sophiemcbain.com

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Eva Winterschön

@winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe · 2 months ago

🫤 Tired of WebDev 🫤

Microblog, had to say googbye, so I moved my Prose blog to Ghost.io, fine. It's mostly good. Chopped up a theme to get rid of the "sign up" stuff that I don't care about. This isn't for making money and I don't care if anyone signs up. Fine, but I want comment functions.

Ghost doesn't do one thing very well: enable mastodon comment replies directly. Some JS blah later, and now I have embedded mastodon comments which can be viewed on the post and via mastodon. Great.

Oh, but Ghost has a beta ActivityPub integration. So to complicate things, here are my two Masto accounts, one with a bridge that is supposed to be useful?

- Standard: @winterschon
- Ghost Bridge: @eva

Oh you want a HTTP URL:
- Regular - Yes: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@winterschon
- Ghost - Broken: https://prose.winterschon.com/@eva

Doesn't work as expected. You can only get to the @eva AP profile by searching from a mastodon client for profile @eva ... annoying. Otherwise it just pulls up the usual Ghost blog site and that's it. Their implementation needs some work.

Any advice is certainly welcome.

#mastodon #ghostblog #longform #webdev

Eva Winterschön

@winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe · 2 months ago

🫤 Tired of WebDev 🫤

Ghost doesn't do one thing very well: enable mastodon comment replies directly. Some JS blah later, and now I have embedded mastodon comments which can be viewed on the post and via mastodon. Great.

Oh, but Ghost has a beta ActivityPub integration. So to complicate things, here are my two Masto accounts, one with a bridge that is supposed to be useful?

- Standard: @winterschon
- Ghost Bridge: @eva

Oh you want a HTTP URL:
- Regular - Yes: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@winterschon
- Ghost - Broken: https://prose.winterschon.com/@eva

Any advice is certainly welcome.

#mastodon #ghostblog #longform #webdev

Box464 and 2 others boosted

Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂

@elena@aseachange.com · 4 months ago

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 204 (experimenting with Wordpress edition) ⚗️

A "micro" blog post about how I'm turning my federated Wordpress site into a social hub - thanks to the amazing plugins by @alex :

🔗: https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-204-experimenting-with-wordpress-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife #Wordpress #ActivityPub #longform

Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂

@elena@aseachange.com · 4 months ago

Richard MacManus boosted

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 4 months ago

"When we first got ActivityPub working in Ghost, sent out the first newsletter that went out directly to the fediverse, likes started coming into Ghost ... The place where you push 'publish', started getting notifications, seeing people are replying, people are liking, people are reposting. And it sounds very contrived, but it was like a lightbulb moment ..."

@johnonolan, 2025

https://flipboard.video/w/g8BgnihyFkMsZ4fwGe3MZn

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#blogging #LongForm #Ghost