Michael's World (Blog)

Category: Technology

  • I Broke It!

    I have a few things to mention today. First, I broke my server on Tuesday. I came home from work, and got a notice that my blog was down. It happens rather often lately (more in a minute). In an effort to reduce the frequency of the outages, I decided to change how my server…

  • Asteroid Eros

    When I wrote the first part of Heavenly Potato, I had been reading about asteroids, and came across the mention of Eros.  The shape of it reminded me of a potato, and the images NASA has of it could be an inspection of a potato in black and white.  It is rather interesting to look…

  • Argumentative Writing – Is TikTok Safe for Kids

    Everyone loves TikTok, right? But is it truly safe for kids? I don’t think so. First of all, TikTok has inappropriate content. Some of the shots have swearing and violence that is not kid friendly. These clips can encourage young users to imitate inappropriate behavior. Nobody wants kids to be acting more… shall we say,…

  • Why Be Polite to AI?

    I am one of those weird people who wants to tell Alexa ‘Thank you’ after I have asked a question or given an instruction. If you think about it, it really is kind of silly, right? ‘She’ is merely a complex set of digital instructions running on various computer hardware. She doesn’t have feelings, and…

  • ChatGPT – AI Writing – More thoughts

    I read somewhere that Clarkesworld Magazine closed submissions due to an influx of AI generated stories. I don’t know if that is true or not, but if you look on their site, they do say “We are not considering stories written, co-written, or assisted by AI at this time.”I don’t think that we should be…

  • ChatGPT – AI Writing

    Ruining the market? I read an article about how ChatGPT is now the author or co-author of over 200 books on Amazon. It is expected that there are many more that haven’t disclosed the use of ChatGPT in the writing. I briefly toyed with the idea, thinking that it might help me be more confindent…