pseudosingleton
pseudosingleton
pseudosingleton
Bits and pieces of thoughts. Sometimes big sometimes small.
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When I was a teenager, I was fortunate enough to receive a trip from Make-A-Wish. It was possibly the only good thing to come out of a torturous childhood illness. I’ve wanted to give back for some time and recently reached out to...
I've always been a bit of a hater. Chaitanya's Moving on from being a Hater post makes some good points about this frame of mind. Being a hater can create a negative perception of the world, that much is certainly true. But I think this...
The other day I posted about how you can no longer use Reddit on a phone without downloading their app. Several people wrote in to tell me about libreddit, a great frontend for Reddit that bypasses the paywall (and happens to have no...
I've been a customer of One Medical for many years. I was devastated when Amazon bought them in 2023. Despite my chagrin at this acquisition, quality of care did not change when Amazon took over, so I have stayed using the service.1...
One of my personal rules for social media is that I only use the web version of sites. The web version is better for privacy, far less addictive, and makes my phone less bloated. In the last few days, Reddit added a great new feature to...
have not posted on this blog in quite a while. Might get back into the swing of things. Here are some things I have been grateful for lately: community gardens tuxedo cats1 when you are looking for treats at the grocery store and other...
I listen to a lot of genres. My whole life I’ve gravitated towards indie and counter cultural folk (is there a type of folk that isn’t counter cultural? I don’t know). At times I’ve been afraid to share that I also love pop. This weirdly...
Lucky and not so lucky things to be grateful for this week: cheeky bumper stickers saying things out loud instead of bottling those things up music (and wireless earbuds — I feel like we take that magic for granted?) unionized workplaces...
When I first got into skincare a few years ago, I read a lot about sunscreen. And despite any potential conspiracy by Big Skin™, sunscreen is pretty magical stuff.1 As part of that research, I also learned how much sunscreen people...
A few years ago I had a conversation with my roommate at the time about how I sometimes find myself endearing. This was an alien concept to her. How self-absorbed do you have to be to find yourself endearing? Years later I come back to...
Among many other things, this week I was grateful for: The invention of general anesthesia.1 FaceTiming old friends Dreams Strangers writing in my blog’s guestbook and emailing me.2 The Pitt The thought that almost every problem can be...
I’ve been searching for a solution to replace Ulysses as my writing app. Ulysses is wonderful but has some major bugs that have existed for too long to ignore. In my search for something new, Ellipsus kept getting recommended as an...
I’ve seen a lot written on the unexpected dangers of letting LLMs run amok in society. Some of the consequences of opening Pandora's box include: AI-induced psychosis, the break-down of truth, proliferation of slop, disregard of human...
In May of 2023, Google introduced “AI overviews” into their search engine.1 This followed years of decisions leading to worse search quality and the consummation of their mission to answer every query on Google instead of sending you to...
This document serves as a page I can send friends when I think they should start a blog (hi, friend). But It also applies generally to anyone who is capable of writing. I enjoy our conversations and think you have many good thoughts. I...