I recently spent far too much time creating a wholly unnecessary (but nice to have) app with Gemini. Everything worked perfectly in the private sandbox environment, but we couldn’t get the final Wordpress embed to function (Wordpress security?), despite numerous of Gemini’s over-confident assertions that “this time it will definitely work”. I now have NetiflyNetlify, Github Gist and Pages accounts I didn’t know I needed. Talk about yak shaving!

Tbf to AI, I know (of) a few very successful plausible bullshitters, and most of them are all over the internet it’s trained on.

This is brilliant – a piece told in screenshots (which is probably an accessibility nightmare…) showing how ChatGPT’s confident tone can make complete bullshit seem plausible at first.

Read the whole thing.

Not sure this really works for contrast, but I like the photo. 📷

Auto-generated description: Two birds are perched on a concrete structure above a reflective body of water.

There’s a cherry pie in the fridge and it’s really quite distracting.

Reflection 📷 nostalgia, Newport, Rhode Island, 1989-90.

Boats are docked at a calm harbor with reflections visible on the water and buildings in the background.A foggy, serene harbor scene with still water reflecting wooden docks and pilings.

A bit of nostalgia and one for the Pacific Wave Appreciation folks.

A person wearing a hat is running along a sandy beach as waves crash near the shoreline, with houses and hills in the background.

We did get a little sunshine in the end.

The AI generated alt-text mistakes my shadow for the reflection of a chilled-out lamp post in the rain.

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A wet pavement features a drain with some leaves nearby and a reflection of a street lamp in a puddle.

You can’t really make it out properly in the photo, but trust me, there’s a whole* avocado under there.

*Whole as in peeled, de-seeded and chopped.

A plate features two fried eggs with herbs on toast, accompanied by buttered bread slices.

Spuds are flowering!

Lush green potato plants with a few flowers are growing in fabric planters.Lush green potato plants with small white flowers are growing in fabric bags against a wooden fence.

🌧️ No chance of a sun shadow 📷 today, so here’s a mummy duck 🦆 shadow instead.

A group of ducks is resting on the grass by a body of water near a rope-covered object.

Three curve-y cootlings swimming in their own curve-y wakes.

I noticed a lot of straight lines, and fewer curves on my my morning walk, but these three were my favourites. Although it was so bright I couldn’t actually see them when I took the photo.

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Three ducks swim in the rippling, reflective water.