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Why do people call me a nerd rather than learn to use their technology properly.
The single most disrespectful thing I encounter is when I am competent at something and then someone says “you’re probably autistic”. I’m not. It’s disrespectful to me and anyone autistic who overhears it. Just a stupid thing to say....
And so the weekly Wednesday post has become a Thursday post. I saw too many shows over too few days, and the last thing I wanted to do yesterday was write about seeing more shows. Hell, I didn’t even want to listen to any music. I mean,...
There’s been a lot of talk about where a 4gb AI file on people’s computers came from and how Chrome Chrome secretly installed U2’s Songs of Innocence without your consent and how to uninstall (4gb AI in Chrome) by Paul E King first...
Nostalgia for the pre-AI era grips us. Dr Mohamed Mannaa confesses “I remember what it meant to write before this era. Writing a single paragraph often required reading dozens of papers, abandoning weak ideas, and slowly learning how to...
Giving lightbulbs a MAC address was a mistake that I’m living with. “I’m literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease @dbushell.com - Bluesky”Instead of enjoying the bank holiday Monday I updated my homelab software. I was...
Daily Drawing 858
Perhaps I should “stake a position” on a prediction market that this year’s word of the year will be “Polycrisis”.
The PL-520 is a compact portable multi-band radio and is an apparent upgrade to Tecsun’s popular PL-320 and PL-330. It has a few updates over the ‘330, most notably an added bandwidth of 5 KHz on AM/LW and 6 KHz on SW, an update from a...
April 2026 was a very exciting travel month indeed. I embarked on a 17-day solo trip to Central Asia, visiting Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan! It was my first time visiting this part of the world, and I had an outstanding time....
A growing collection of images
The hardest combo I ever had to learn in any fighting game
image by AI, of course; my own prompt Climate change may be a mechanism through which the planet eases its human burden…[or] new patterns of disease could trim the human population…War could have a major impact…weapons of mass...
One of the lights in our rear closet stopped working properly; very dim, and only half working: Plus blinking: I unmounted it from the ceiling: Then replaced it with a new one, bought from Tiffin: Remounted on the ceiling: Done: An easy...