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I recently visited SF, where I saw this ad on a bus shelter: Image credit: Lynn Friedman These guys have been running an ad campaign across the city with billboards and posters like this, and people have been talking about them quite a...
A comprehensive 25-country survey published by Pew Research Center earlier this year found that Americans do not merely distrust one another. Increasingly, they see their fellow citizens as morally bankrupt. American citizens are far...
J moved out this week. Per his request I was not around when the movers came, so I came home to a comically bare apartment. Gone are the bookshelf, bar cart, coffee table, couch, trash can. The only pieces of furniture left are my desk,...
Played a gig with my band tonight. A gentleman came up and said he knew my father when they were young - teenage and early adulthood. Said he thinks my dad would have loved this and been very proud of me. Had to hide my tears. I miss him...
What I have noticed when engaging with social media such as Instagram, X (Twitter), and YouTube is that these sites, especially with their feature of reels - the unstoppable upward-scrolling video clips- induce a kind of brain fog. These...
Someone posted this confident assertion online: In a year or three from now, no one will be writing code by hand or reading it manually. I won't deny that it's possible that it's true, but it seems extremely unlikely. One reason is that...
I recently became part of an art community on discord in an attempt to get myself back into creating art regularly. It's been going well, and seeing the other folks in the community create and start new and ambitious projects very much...
Fleeting moments of bliss. The half-hour after my morning coffee, sweet silence punctuated by hungry meows or a distant lawnmower. The satisfaction of lust; tangled in blankets staring at the moonbeams sneaking in through half-closed...
A stream of consciousness post. Need to release, may delete later but probably will forget to. Also, trigger warning: I'm talking about death here. The first thing you do after seeing your father take his last breath is question it....
For those of you who don’t know what Cara app is, it is a platform for artists to share their work. The creator, Jingna Zhang developed this site to make sure people’s art wasn’t being fed to AI somewhere secretly. I can’t believe this...
You are not listening to me; you are listening to yourself. - U.G. Krishnamurti It appears social media is over, at least where its original purpose is concerned. The functions and UI are still there. The actual websites, users, and...
MixTape is a program developed by bucketofwetsocks. According to the GitHub page, it's a Windows-only Electron app that is designed to "[build] and [play] curated mixes of Super Mario World ROM hacks." There are two modes of operation....
i hate LLMs, you hate LLMs, they don't do good work, the techbro CEOs shoving this tech down our throats without our consent are all idiots, and its proponents are unappreciative of the blood, sweat, tears, and effort that goes into an...
Last summer I made a new friend at a weekly bar meetup. He was also an ex-pat, so we had that in common. After the meetups, we'd usually continue chatting for an hour or two about this and that. We got along really well quite quickly....
Worrying about stuff is my hobby. I'm worried about lots of things: getting a job, moving out of rural hell, my physical health, my cat's physical health, my time on this earth slipping through my fingers like sand (I'm 28 today)... But...