On Jesus the Revolutionary Nowadays, when Christianity has been so clearly co-opted by the right wing in order to promote what are profoundly anti-Jesus ideas and programs — you know, taking free health care from individuals, promoting unchecked capitalism and the free market, denying the dignity of LGBTQ people, closing borders to refugees fleeing...

Weeknotes #24-23 Dirt Man and Bald Eagle Here’s the dirt on what happened during the week of June 2–9, 2024. That little white-headed speck is a bald eagle. Trust me. 🏃‍♂️ I went out for a run/walk on Tuesday in an attempt log 3.1 miles and collect a limited edition award for Global Running Day. Which I realized too late was actually on Wednesday....

I’m Not Anti-AI This image was generated using Adobe Firefly. I am accused all the time of being “anti AI” and it simply isn’t true. Some Background Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are not new concepts. Many of the foundational mathematical and statistical principles (e.g. the method of Least Squares) that underlie today’s...

Just Let Zoom Be Zoom This story in The Verge about Zoom CEO Eric Yuan’s dystopian vision for AI digital copies doing our jobs has been making the rounds. Yuan “wants to take on Microsoft and Google in the enterprise software market by making docs and email and other productivity tools like chat.” He wants “digital versions” to take over the menial...

Weeknotes #24-22 My Birthday Week So it turns out these motors do not come pre-wired. 📺 In Creative vs Technical, Ewen Bell advises that we should ask ourselves what story we’re trying to capture with our photographs. I struggle with this. I tend to wrap my head around the technical aspects of photography and I need to just get out there are...

Foto Friday Adobe Create Now Columbus Shilling for Adobe: “Ai” is for Adobe Illustrator, not artificial intelligence. I’m not a particularly creative person and I’m certainly no artist. But I like photography and I’ve maintained some kind of web presence going back to the mid-1990s. I worked in the web design business for a few years around the...