I worry about where things are and how I’ll be affected by it. I feel like the dominoes are starting to fall. The entire world of “tech” has been broken for ages, and now it’s falling apart. The narrative about Amazon laying off so many people because their jobs can be replaced by AI is just a smokescreen; in...

Wellp, today I got yet another denial from social security, which tells me this ain’t gonna change any time soon.The previous denial came with a whole bunch of transphobia and also a claim that I am able to work, doing jobs which simply aren’t available and not reflective of the reality of my situation.I haven’t...

Wellp, I didn’t get a whole lot done on the TODO list but at least I Tried™. (I did call about the sleep study but they never returned my call and it slipped my mind to try calling again. Oh well, next week.) I did finally take the Corolla to the mechanic and got it inspected and some overdue maintenance. They said...

Back in the day, independent social media enthusiasts were building their own social spaces on RSS/Atom and self-hosted publishing. There was a huge ecosystem of feed readers and publishing software, where anyone could use their own choice of tools to interact with the space, and it was super cool.Then Google got...

Here are the things I need to take care of within the next week: Schedule a sleep study File my quarterly business taxes Edit background video for Saturday talk Set up projection mapping for Sunday show Start working on specification for game dynamic soundtrack engine Take care of the major clutter piles in the...

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Lately there’s been a brewing culture war in the software community regarding the usage of LLM-based coding tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.), and I’m seeing a lot of hardline discourse on both sides, but especially from the anti-AI side of things.First of all, to be clear, I am not in favor of LLM-based...

Login on this site has been a bit flaky for a while since in my never-ending fight against AI bots I had switched to a multiprocess configuration to give the site a bit more robustness, but which had the side effect of most logins only having a 50% chance of working due to fiddly details inside Publ (or, more...

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And now it’s time for my traditional annual wrap-up post, and my hopes for next year. 2025 checkupHow did I do with my stated aspirations for this year? Music I indeed did a bunch of music for Strawberry Jam 9, and got a job as a result of it, so the “paid soundtrack work” point happened! Yay! I made no progress at...

Time for another proverbial cheese sandwich post1. Thinking about the end of the year and what’s coming up for me.This isn’t my annual aspiration wrap-up post; that’ll come later. Mental stateI am currently very fatigued. I have a lot of music I’d like to be working on but I’m having trouble gathering the energy to...

Thou shalt not believe in that which cannot be demonstrated empirically Thou shalt not worship anyone, regardless of their social influence Thou shalt strive to improve the situation for everyone, including yourself Thou shalt allow yourself rest and hydration Thou shalt leave yourself open to possibilities Thou...