I love Kottke.org. I love Installer. I read almost every edition of each. I just want more. More stuff about the things I like (backpacking, photography, rockets, space, etc.) more often. So I’m training an AI web search tool to go find me stories that I like and package them in a format I enjoy. It’s learning over time - I send feedback to it after every edition and it refines the models with an updated understanding of my taste. I can also send it stories that I find on my own to 1) refine the taste model and 2) have some shared editorial autonomy. Some will dismiss this as AI slop. I am also quite skeptical of AI and whether any of it is worth it. But I’m also using this opportunity to learn more about it - what it can and can’t do. And a personalized newsletter seems like a fairly harmless way to do that.

So yeah. This is for me. But I figure there are others that may enjoy it too - so I’m posting the daily runs here. It’s doing a pretty decent job right now and will hopefully get better at representing my taste and interests over time. I already see it working, so I’m hopeful.