I don't understand how this doesn't have more views. "Look at that cloak!" #timcurry #theworstwitch youtu.be/SSZYVFc6BqI

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

FYI, for those of you who follow me here, I am also on Mastodon: mastodon.social/@st3phvee

Why am I not surprised? People who use this tech almost *always* use it to deceive.

SERIOUSLY. PLEASE STOP. #shamaltman

"Botsplaining" thankfully doesn't appear to be a thing on Bluesky (yet), but it's a growing problem on almost every other social media platform I visit. #blogging #indieweb #anti-ai stephvee.ca/blog/artific...

One of our cats sustained a minor injury recently and can’t really wear a cone comfortably due to the location of the injury. Cute sweaters work, though! #catsky #blackcats

I've given my site an accessibility-focused refresh! One of the things I love about having an independent website again is that I have the freedom to design a space for *everyone*, and am not beholden to restrictive "customization" options of big platforms. #indieweb stephvee.ca/blog/updates...

In case you're not aware, Carole Cadwalladr is the journalist who exposed Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal in The Observer. Very excited to see what she and her peers will do over at The Nerve! www.thenerve.news Independent journalism is so important.

I can hardly believe another month has come and gone... I wrote five blog posts in September, finished reading Adam Becker's "More Everything Forever," and was recommended some fantastic #indieweb oriented forums. More on that and more in my monthly rewind: stephvee.ca/blog/rewinds...

Some thoughts on the final three episodes of Alien: Earth. What a letdown. A master class in how to quickly ruin a good premise while making a mockery of the original IP. And to think, I was still optimistic about the show a little over two weeks ago... stephvee.ca/blog/enterta...

Watched the final episode of Alien: Earth last night and ... ugh. I don't think I'll be watching the second season if the show gets renewed. A shame, as I enjoyed the first five episodes.

“Awesome! Let’s put this tech into everything!”

Static site generators are incredibly cool, and you should absolutely consider using one if you're a fellow blogger who's interested in joining the IndieWeb! I've written a tutorial to help you get started. stephvee.ca/blog/tutoria...

The IndieWeb is a fun space, and I want more people to join me there! Here's a repost of a newbie-friendly webpage tutorial I put together about a month ago. No pre-existing HTML or CSS knowledge required! #indieweb #blogging #newbie #coding stephvee.ca/blog/tutoria...

In my latest blog post, I share my thoughts on Alien: Earth (up to and including Episode #5). Warning, spoilers! #indieweb #blog #alien #optopus #pixelart stephvee.ca/blog/enterta...

No shit, Google! I wish there was an open source social media platform devoted *solely* to those of us who run independent websites, so we can share and talk about what we're doing with other humans... Search platforms have failed us in their haste to integrate generative AI features. #indieweb

OK, so this is major news; two months after purchasing an expensive wicker basket for the cats, ONE OF THE CATS *FINALLY* DECIDED TO CURL UP IN THE BASKET.

I've been working on a blog post about Alien: Earth (which I'm really enjoying!) and made the mistake of looking into how Reddit feels about the show. Ooof... So much hate.

I personally think one LinkedIn is too much.

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

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Twenty years, and still going! Some reflections on higher education, the problem with viewing university degrees as “transactional,” and some words of encouragement for new students who might feel that a university degree is “useless” during the decade of AI hype. stephvee.ca/blog/higher%...

The most relevant word of the decade.

Yesterday felt like the last day of summer, so my mother and I made the most of it with a lovely hike on a local trail. #canada #summer

Here's the first of what I hope will be many monthly recaps! It's a quick look back at some of the blog posts I made this month, the most interesting links I found, and a brief overview of the only (😥) book I read, Karen Hao's excellent Empire of AI. #indieweb stephvee.ca/blog/rewinds...

As some of you know, I shut down my Substack publication earlier this month after all the Nazi push notification BS. Yesterday, I finally got around to adding my old posts to my personal website. These posts (up to & including the July 20th post) can be viewed through my blog archive. ⤵️ #indieweb

realistic Star Trek

After so many years of being disappointed by new additions to the #Alien franchise, I've been pleasantly surprised by Alien: Earth! I'll have more to say about it on my blog soon. In the meantime, I was inspired to add an Easter egg to my site. It links to a fun little CSS/HTML experiment. 🙂 (1/2)

Marry the sort of person who reads your blog posts and turns your dorky t-shirt ideas into reality as a surprise. ❤️ #blog #blogging #aisucks #noai #humancreativity

I gave my site a little refresh! Among other things, dark mode now respects your browser/OS preferences ... but most importantly, you can boop the cat. 😻 #indieweb #pixelart #cats stephvee.ca/blog/updates...

Bahahaha, this is amazing. "Restaurant kitchens will only be a small closet with a microwave. I predict this will happen by 1955 at the latest." Imagine Sutskever in the background: "Feel the EMI! Feel the EMI!" www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...

Some more thoughts about vibe coding and why I reeeeaaaally feel people who've never built websites before should take the time to learn the basics, instead of offloading the entire process to the likes of ChatGPT or Claude. stephvee.ca/blog/artific...

FRAUD ALERT: I have nothing to do with these phony books using my name on the cover. I have not written a memoir or partnered/inspired any cookbooks! Attempts to get Amazon to take these down have gone nowhere.

Website tinkering update! I've made it easier to find my RSS link from my home page and my notes. If you've visited the site before and it's looking a little wonky, you may need to clear your browser's cache and refresh to load up the new CSS file. #indieweb stephvee.ca

I finished Karen Hao's excellent "Empire of AI" yesterday, and have moved directly on to "More Everything Forever" by Adam Becker ... because I apparently cannot look away from the trainwreck that is the billionaire tech bro class. #booksky

In the UK, the water shortage is so bad that the government is urging citizens to help save water by deleting old emails. It really helps lighten the load on water hungry datacenters, you see. 🔗 www.404media.co/uk-asks-peop...

Not sure whether I want to start calling him “Scam Altman” or “Sham Altman.” These unhealthy emotional attachment risks have been well known to everyone in the AI industry since ELIZA’s development in the 1960s. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Ol' Sam reckons in his press releases that GPT-5 is a "PhD-level expert." As a number of people have demonstrated, GPT-5 "thinks" there are three Bs in the word "blueberry." "Feel the AGI! Feel the AGI!"

In honour of International Cat Day, here is one of my writing assistants! She sweeps up rogue pieces of code with her feather duster-like tail. (She also hoovers up ghosts, but that's a long, complicated story that only my husband and I understand.)

This all feels so hopeless. Are we going to have to revert to writing zines? Or will the folks at Perplexity go out of their way to get their grubby, thieving hands on our independent physical media as well? appleinsider.com/articles/25/...

starting to think some of these AI companies are kind of shitty tbh

These new icons are SO bad. Perspective is completely off (the logo is flat, but the SSD is designed to look as though it's being viewed at an angle, the reflections make no sense, etc...) As I said in my comment on the OP, did Apple "Intelligence" design these icons?

"[Wired] cited what it said were suspicious traffic patterns from IP addresses, likely linked to Perplexity, that were ignoring robots.txt exclusions. Perplexity was also found to have manipulated its crawling bots' ID string to bypass website blocks." SIGH.

I would like to join this gang. Photo from my collection, 1914.

It's reassuring that the bulk of the comments on this post are absolutely *reaming* the app developer for making it even easier for "grindset" types to smear lazy AI slop all over Substack. www.reddit.com/r/Substack/c...

I made an anti-AI post on LinkedIn and the people angry or defensive all have Visionary or Founder as their listed role, and everyone agreeing with me has a real job. Amazing how that is.

The Substack app apparently push alert promoted a Nazi newsletter to several users. Users have complained about it on Substack Notes but the company hasn’t responded. Generally push alert promos are for content a user is likely to interact with

As the kids say, "we're cooked."

Between Substack "accidentally" promoting a Nazi blog via push notification and the growing amount of AI slop on that platform ... I've decided I need a new social media home. Bluesky it is!