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How the models actually work, what they can and can't do, and learning to build with them.

Seedtended Jun 23, 2026

AI Slop and the Quiet Cost of Foraging

Maggie Appleton calls it jetspraying the web with AI slop. Here is why that cheap flood is so exhausting, told through Information Foraging Theory, and why your tiredness is a rational response, not a personal failing.

AI · Meta / Garden · Systems Thinking

Seedtended Jun 23, 2026

The Dead Internet and Your Pattern-Hungry Brain

That creeping sense that the internet is mostly bots talking to bots has a name. Here is why the feeling is partly real, partly a trick your own mind plays, and what apophenia and the illusory truth effect are doing to you while you scroll.

AI · Psychology · Systems Thinking

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