Rewilding the Internet

"all complex ecosystems have parasites"

> clicks in to read what others thought

> _that_ comment somehow has floated to the top and cannot be closed or hidden with ESC

> ⌘+w

I do this constantly. I have always assumed I was the only one, because if I were even kinda like other people, it'd be one of the quickest ways to destroy your own website.

> goes to about page

> "We're a cultural intelligence platform for progressive brands who want to make better decisions, discover new opportunities and stay relevant."

> now this all feels fake .

a particularly egregious one, wow

PlantStudio from 1997-2001

https://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/PlantStudio/screens.htm

PlantStudio Botanical Illustration Software is a tool for creating 3D plant models and 2D illustrations. PlantStudio simulates herbaceous (non-woody) plants like wildflowers and cut flowers, vegetables, weeds, grasses, and herbs using a parameter-driven simulation of plant growth and structure.

Looks like Plant Studio:

https://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/summary_plantstudio.html

https://github.com/pdfernhout/PlantStudio

Some other links you might find interesting:

https://youtu.be/IU0cJaUqVM8 https://youtu.be/8YOpFsZsR9w

Others have already told you the name of the project, but if you happen to be on Arch, I have a PKGBUILD written for PlantStudio. I haven't published it to the AUR since I don't necessarily want to be the maintainer though. Shoot me an email (in my bio) if you're interested

That is really the cringe bit… If “web3” is “decentralised”, how could “web4” powered by AI which most of the LLM model currently are hosted in a centralised server? It seems contradictory by definition, and that “web4” are just basically Web 2.0 with AI features…

I basically just read that website the post referred to, sounds like AI slop to me: https://www.netguru.com/blog/web-4-0?ref=protein.xyz

just to be clear, that was a suggested edit added to the writing and not the original narrative. You can find the full version here: https://substack.com/@thealteration/p-175538961

I'm on Neocities. I use it as my low-effort gaming website. https://dungeonhack.neocities.org/

It wasn’t written by an LLM. It’s literally just a trimmed-down version of a much longer piece I wrote. I was asked to add references for further reading, so I borrowed some of the conceptual language from my full draft and pointed it toward the people and projects that shaped it - like jzhao.xyz. Soo yes, when you squeeze a meandering, reflective article into a neat little “commercial” package, the wording gets more abstract. That’s not AI, that’s what happens when you try to fit a whole thought process into a carry-on.