My very first blog
This is my response per the August 4th Group project prompt from Krikket => https://nerdgirlthoughts.game.blog/2026/07/23/blaugust-2026-calendar-weekly-prompts-group-projects/
(more…)Black holes, LHC, Star Wars, quantum uncertainty… if it is of general geek interest, but doesn’t fit into one of the other categories, it lands here.
AI and blogging
Blaugust 2026 has added some rules regarding use of artificial intelligence for content included in the festival. Magi over at Indiecator had an excellent overview of his thinking on the topic, which inspired me to do a bit of my own soul searching.
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Blaugust 2026 Cometh!
The 2026 edition of Blaugust is arriving in less than two weeks. I’m not at all prepared, but I do plan on participating in a rough and ready fashion as is my usual approach. If you blog at all you should sign up and participate as much or as little as you can.
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An unwanted silence
I learned yesterday that Belghast (Mark Temple) had died just a few days ago. The shock hit me hard despite the fact that I barely knew him. Cancer took him from the world as it does so many, a year to the day after it took his wife.
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Masters of the Universe- not too bad looking
I saw the trailer for the Masters of the Universe reboot movie. I was expecting crappy schlock, but it looks like prime grade stuff.
Welcome to the State of Ninneso!
I read several articles today talking about the much improved ChatGPT 5 model. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has claimed that it is now like having a whole team of PhDs in your pocket.
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AI may soon be worthless…
I read an article today over on The Register about how AI may be entering its ‘model collapse’ phase. The basic idea is that more and more of the content that AI ingests to produce its models is, in fact, AI generated. This means that, at its best, AI’s responses will decrease in quality. This sounds very bad, and very predictable.
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Always in focus VR/AR? Maybe coming soon
I am interested in virtual and augmented reality technologies. But I have fairly bad eyes with a complicated prescription, and these technologies all cause me some (quite literal) headaches as well as nausea. That limits my interest to the theoretical: I own exactly zero such devices.
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Always escape special characters…
I came across this report of a bug with iOS Messages voice transcription feature and found it to be rather interesting. Cutting to the chase: Messages will silently fail if voice transcription tries to use an ampersand (“&”) as part of a proper name.
The example that started the investigation was a message containing “Dave and Busters”. This is the name of a U.S. restaurant chain with the proper name “Dave & Busters”. The Apple transcription feature smartly applies the correct trademark name using the ampersand, but Messages silently rejects the message containing the “&” as invalid XHTML.
Oh dear, Apple: that is embarrassing. But also all-so-human.
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Fuse go ‘boom’
I have a healthy fear of high current electrical equipment. Anything over an amp and I’m looking for a way to disconnect the mains and insulate myself. I don’t mess with microwaves or the internals of old CRTs without serious trepidation.
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