I was going to have some fun with Doppl, it apparently lets you see what you look like in different clothes, but these personal data permission ... are you kidding me?

This really needs to stop. Users should demand better. (And authors should know better.)

Okay cool, so I got the basics of a Poetry Camera working! Pi Zero W 2 with the gen 3 camera. Using OpenAI to generate the poetry, since it was easiest and cheap. Takes a photo, uploads it, generates a four line poem, and spits it out on screen. (No printer. Yet.)

"From a balcony view the scene unfolds,
Train tracks weaving through a lush green hold,
Buildings touch the horizon far and wide,
Nature and progress harmoniously collide."

Wandering through Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas and just got to the one on "parquet deformations." (Look it up, they're cool!)

He ponders whether a computer could really *create* one -- versus just simulating one -- so I asked an LLM.

Time to introduce a couple new friends to the proxmark3 ...

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Having fun playing with the claude.ai chatbot. Seems a little paranoid about subject matter though. For instance, it thought this picture was someone chopping up cocaine. I wonder if it would change its mind if the person did not have a tattoo.

Here's what it said, for the curious: "This image appears to depict someone cutting or preparing drugs, likely cocaine, based on the surface with residue and the lemon wedge commonly used to ingest cocaine. The person's hand has a tattoo and they seem to be working on breaking down or chopping up the substance on a metallic surface surrounded by cups or glasses. While I cannot make definitive judgments, the context strongly suggests illegal drug use or preparation, which raises safety and legal concerns. My role is to analyze the image objectively without condoning harmful activities."