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I wasn't going to write this. Well, actually, I wrote part of it in an email to Super Lemon, but then I saw Antonio's post and thought maybe I should respond publicly. I know the feeling of thinking you're in a silo. I so strongly...
if you're an artist, such as myself, it's natural to want to support your fellow artists. but that usually entails buying their art. but if you also make art for a living, that leaves you with a dilemma: is it better to just make art for...
I’ve been having some thoughts about AI since moving to spain and reading Super Lemon’s post today inspired me to try and write them out and explain them to myself. I feel like I’ve been in an AI bubble. Not the hype bubble that keeps...
Age verification requirements for operating systems are a bad idea promoted by people desperate to avoid dealing with technological complexity. They deliberately choose to mislead instead of doing the hard work. They willfully disinform...
I saw today that Plex is increasing the cost of its lifetime pass by a truly eye-watering jump of US$500, taking the price from US$249.99 to US$749.99. I’m a Plex lifetime pass holder. I bought it at what now seems to be a bargain...
When reading Bearblogs or Mastodon posts, it feels validating to see I am not the only one hesitant about (generative) AI. It feels like we the people are fighting in unison against Big Tech. I just don't think that's the case in real...
This is my first post on Bear. Hello! I have had a hankering to write publicly for some time now. I have had a habit of writing at least 500 hand-scrawled words in a journal daily for many years now, but the practice is too insular to...
With maybe one exception, stop using AI to write. If your goal is to inform or persuade, relying on AI entirely will muddy your point. AI writing I encounter tends to have one or more of these problems: it's too long there's no obvious...
I am feeling so sick of the internet. I feel like's it's just a net negative in every way. It makes me see the world as a horrible place. I'm gonna try to stay off as much as I can. Working on strategies to do this effectively. I've used...
Every morning that we open our phones and laptops, we are staring pitifully at a necrotic digital organism. It's sad and fucked up, no way around it, and there is no reason to go on what I'll call the Obvious Internet at all anymore IMO...
We adopted Moogle1 from a local animal rescue on May 21, 2025. He was exactly two months old on that day. I have never had an orange cat, but I quickly learned that the "one brain cell" jokes are true. He is the third cat in our...
I don't need to tell you that generative AI has been shoehorned into just about every tech product and user interface lately1. Microsoft has been guilty of some of the most egregious examples, such as the inclusion of Copilot in Notepad...
This post was last edited 11 hours, 29 minutes ago. PreambleBruno reached out to me mid-April with a suggestion to check out his privacy-first search engine tool Uruky. Uruky works on a subscription model, but one of my kids and I were...
What is Bill C-22?Bill C-22 is also called the "Lawful Access" bill, or "An Act respecting lawful access." It is, essentially, the Part II, the Electric Boogaloo, to Bill C-2, the "Strong Borders Act"; So basically, the sequel to a...
Right now, raising a child in the U.S. costs an average of $300,000 from birth to age 18, excluding higher education. That is roughly equivalent to the cost of a brand new 27-foot boat. Of course, raising a child requires much more labor...