So take it from me, having weilded a British Newspaper Archive subscription in the name of research...

...that at least 15% of “strange object spotted in the sky” references are jokes about how it was sunny yesterday.

RE: https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/116621803767066415

I'm on a local UFO (FB) group and it's amazing how little traction the first batch got. Obvious distraction is obvious.

Create software. Create art. Create writing. Create understanding. Create beauty. Create joy.

Don't become just another stage in the slop pipeline.

Everywhere I look...

There's a meshtastic app that someone's now using AI to develop. There's someone I know personally working on another app and now using AI. On a retro games group someone uses AI to make a musical tribute to the chiptune makers back in the day.

A *tribute*???

I grew up with friends who learnt coding the hard way. At the time the *only* way: swap tricks, read magazines and books, figure how others did it, figure it out ourselves.

We *learnt*.

Oh yes, big thing about Google enshittifying the web even further. The main link cited is techcrunch which says "something has gone wrong" because I have an ad blocker.

Well, yes. Quite.

Just not in the way you mean.