And, since the advent of Chat GPT I've noticed Google "upping" it's game, to little avail. YouTube for the most part recommends garbage, and my "Personalized" news feed on Google is mostly dubious sources reporting on shit like MMA and Hockey and Basketball, none of which I've ever searched in my entire life.

I notice, however, how well other sites do with their cookies. For example, my "Line drawing in the style of ...." request to Dall-E has resulted in 1stDibs showing me a ton of line drawing prints. I wouldn't think a cookie was set for that, but I'd be wrong. And other queries generate similar things, write a post on my blog and - coincidence by coincidence - there will be something advertised very close to what I searched for, sooner often than later.

If you were superstitious you would think it's magic. It is, it's the magic of AI governing the internet.

Anyways, a long day today bent double in the field picking up mostly nothing and a few good pieces, good to get away from Nelson, but my back is hurting from all that stooped searching and time now to read my book and go to bed...

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As the headline states, readers of his blog have been using Chat GPT to send Nick songs in his own style. 

He's not too impressed.

I get it - we'll all be redundant soon, but here's his take on it:

Link: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chat-gpt-what-do-you-think/

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Not in the mood for Nelson today, weather grey but warm, i headed out to Balfour to spend the day searching for flakes. 

Lots of flakes, not a lot of worthwhile other finds:

a flake in the sand, got me excited, it was big, but - on pulling it out - just a flake. 

The days take. Bottom left - a knife - flaked on one side only, above it a couple of worked flakes, a few of which may have been small arrowheads. In the center next column a worked bit of chert on both sides, but no sharp edges, presumably abandoned. The big pieces are "blanks", larger pieces of chert from which arrowheads & points would be knocked off as needed. And to the right, lots of flakes, many still razor sharp. Some show a bit of serrating along a particular edge, so were probably used for scraping, the rest, the natural detritus of tool creation. 

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Today, rainy, cool. No snow on the ground, not at lake level, and it being a Sunday I'm out walking, looking for arrowheads on the beaches on the lake front.

This area, most of it deformed, built up with big basalt boulders, chances of finding anything - zip.

But there are a few little spits that look like they've never been adjusted, and those are where I'll spend the day.

Not entirely unproductive...

The piece on the left, a scraper of some such, made out of Kootenay Argillite, quarried somewhere by Kaslo. Easy to recognize, I've found a lot similar in Balfour.

The left-most edge looks to have been worked, maybe as a scraper, note the many small divots.

The piece on the right, not sure, black jasper? and - again - a big paleo-maybe, unsure if it was a tool or a fluke of erosion. Not the same material I'm used to finding, and too weathered all-round to be sure.

Note that in Nelson there SHOULD be other tools showing up, different materials, but I'm not sure this is it. 

Anyways, a lot of searching and staring at the ground for a lot of hours for precious little return. Need to get back to Balfour...!!!!

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