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- “I own everything I paint and feel happy about.”My dentist’s offering of stuff-you-watch-on-the-ceiling-TV includes the Bob Ross channel, and as I’m prone to establishing rituals I turn to it when I’m getting work done. Jaw issues that make dental work taxing aside, while I affect calm as an adult deep down I am still That Kid at the dentist who is a crying… Read more: “I own everything I paint and feel happy about.”
- Hyper-optimization hyper-normalizationI just wrote a bunch of shit down somewhat tangentially associated in my thought process (yes, that is my entire blog). I’m not editing this because it’s been sitting open in my browser for like a week. Well, I strongly feel it’s all related. Equipment Improvement Cycle and the Striving Meritocracy RPG mechanic rhetoric as… Read more: Hyper-optimization hyper-normalization
- AgencyLet’s talk about democracy. We love democracy–we think it’s a bang-up idea, egalitarian and all that. And you can help us preserve democracy in this township. (From Fortune: “A Michigan farm town voted down plans for a giant OpenAI-Oracle data center. Weeks later, construction began.”) See, we are holding a town hall, to ask if… Read more: Agency
- Bro.Sick for the second time in three weeks. Something must be going around those little brats. And the freshest cold medicine/antipyretic/analgesic whatever in my cabinet expired in 2022, which might go a long way toward explaining why it feels like I’m not getting my full relief dose-time out of my meds. Was going to go… Read more: Bro.
- I know that’s a wolf under that sheep’s clothing. But we’re having a lovely conversation.This one’s a real post. Apologies in case anybody has been getting spammed with shitposts. I’m automating crossposting and there’s more debugging (and testing, hence the posts) than anybody ever expects, even though I should damn well know better from script kiddie days back in high school. So that will continue for the near future.… Read more: I know that’s a wolf under that sheep’s clothing. But we’re having a lovely conversation.
Historia
- “I own everything I paint and feel happy about.”
- Hyper-optimization hyper-normalization
- Agency
- Bro.
- I know that’s a wolf under that sheep’s clothing. But we’re having a lovely conversation.
- Memory coup
- An utopia defined by free real estate
- Could be published today
- Habits of tyranny
- Scholarly pursuits
- Auditory Madeleines: part whatever
- Time isn’t after us.
- Possesses power
- When the “AI assistant” would probably use the exact same phrasing I do I agonize over it overmuch.
- Nothing actually happens
- Retro tech
- Through a lens familiarly
- The shedding of old ways of thinking
- Le Guin was right about everything part 58 of
- “The sky above the port was the color of a television, tuned to a dead channel.”
- Nobody wants to be in the after-school program.
- Queen Bitch
- I pet the electric sheep and felt a surge of well-being when it nuzzled me.
- The unbearable stillness of not-knowing
- bildungsroman
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