Blaugust 2025 post 7 and I Ramble

On Day 21 of August, I publish my 7th Blaugust post…

Today, I took a look around and found a few things that interested me. Rather than pick one and dive in, I felt that I would jot them down and maybe later dig deeper. So today, I went back to my Daily Ramble format and decided to ramble on.

The first thing I thought about today was something that had been in my head for a while without any real name. The concept is of a Digital Garden, and I am glad to see that several fellow Blaugustonians (hamatti and Rabbit) have also run into this idea. I often find that as I sit down to write up a post, I see connections to other posts I’ve made or posts about different things and try to link them together. Typical blogging is not always friendly to this, particularly if a post I’ve written in the past covers a variety of ideas. Suppose I’m writing about the latest Spider-Man movie. I want to connect that to a post on comics that I read. I wonder how I should connect to a part of a post dealing with Spider-Man when I’ve got a dozen other comics mentioned in that previous post. It becomes frustrating.

But then, when people here mention the idea of a Digital Garden, my interest is piqued, and my eyes light up—this is exactly the kind of thing I’ve been looking for!

Anyway, I will research and see if I can use the concept as BTG evolves.

The second interesting tidbit was that just as I am trying to play around with AI and want to start my next AI Battle for Gaming, I click over to Gemini, Google’s AI, and it is offline. So much for AI taking over the world when I can’t even get it to suggest what games to play. Of course, there is another AI to turn to, so I learned a bit about Llama from Meta.

So instead of playing with AI, I started reading Carrie. Oh boy! Steven King knows how to start a story to get a reader hooked. Tie something familiar, like high school and bullying, to something unknown, like the supernatural, and wrap it in a blanket of revenge and justice. No wonder he’s sold a billion books!

Then there’s the Three-Body Problem, a story that starts pretty far away from the science fiction it grows into. Instead, it begins as more of a history lesson than anything sci-fi. And while I don’t know much about the Chinese Cultural Revolution, I get a sense that there was some level of religious fanaticism, at least in what was described at the start of that story.

Returning to my Gaming AI Battle, yesterday I had already asked a few of my AI buddies to suggest games I could play, and they each provided 100 suggestions. I’m working up a series of posts detailing the battle, but Gemini is losing the fight to Llama right now.

Did I mention I am all over the place today? In the “News”, I heard a story about lab-grown salmon being approved by the FDA. I’m kinda torn by this revelation since I love salmon but am usually wary of any type of GMO foods. But…asking my AI buddies, they tell me that this new lab-grown salmon is not genetically modified but produced by growing real salmon cells in controlled conditions (I guess they are not real fish swimming around). So I’ll have to search for this Wildtype salmon to see what it’s like. I already know to avoid the AquAdvantage product because it messes with the DNA of the fish. I’ll likely stick to the actual swimming salmon rather than the frankenfish.

Finally, I’m debating whether I should mention it because I try to keep politics out of this space, but I don’t think this has anything to do with politics; it deals with human decency. 

I love the “Peace Letter” Melania Trump wrote to Vladimir Putin!

Take a chance, Putin – stop killing the children – be a decent human being and serve humanity rather than your ego.