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Posted 2026-07-06
Musings on GenAI
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Evidently, the AI models trained on my internet activity, and I have thoughts.
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Evidently, the AI models trained on my internet activity, and I have thoughts.
mstdn.games
Like a lot of folks, I struggle with executive dysfunction, and it gets exacerbated when I'm hungry or tired. When I was younger, back in the bad-old-days of dial-up and slow internet, my goto activity at those times was to read; I'd read easily a book a week (except when I was reading Dumas; those took forever). Now with a phone in my pocket and the internet always there, I find myself going through social media or browsing news, and I find I'm the poorer for it.
However, when executive dysfunction kicks in, it's hard to choose to do something else. Recently, I took a page from my son, and started looking into ways I could game myself into better choices.
#{some tag} or tag:{some tag} to filter by tag; using this more than once will find results that match all tags.year:{year} to filter by year. If you use this multiple times, the last one wins.begin:{year-month-day} to restrict to results beginning on that day. Last one wins.end:{year-month-day} to restrict to results ending on that day. Last one wins.
This is a stellar (and comic!) explanation of ADHD hyperfocus, its ebb and flow, and the impact on our lives.