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The #deathcult is selling the void, turning meaning into a market, in this post we cover the normal themes of #stupidindividualism, commodification, atomisation, trust and community. One of the deeper tricks of the #deathcult is that it...
I was catching up on my RSS feed and saw this post from The Pen Addict. In it, Brad Dowdy mentions some updates to his Analog Defaults page. That’s a cool idea, so I set one up, too. I also thought this would be a good excuse for me to...
Deciding that an experiment has failed, and throwing away the work, can feel bad. I suspect that it often feels worse to throw away a day of work than a year of work. Why might this be true? There are some psychological reasons: A...
Last year I wrote a blog post Apple in China, Ripoff in Amazon about a copycat book in Amazon search results. Sadly, it appears that Apple Books is no better than Amazon. I’m currently rereading Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and...
(images that aren’t actually XXX-rated, but get as close to the line as possible while serving WordPress modesty — so some readers may choose to avert their eyes) Briefly noted. For charging up the senses — big jolts for someone of my...
📚🗨️ “…to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity’s engine.” Stephen King, It
Doctor Faustus (play) - WikipediaFAUSTUS. How am I glutted with conceit of this! Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I’ll have them fly to India for gold,...
All Pebble Time 2 invites have been sent and we're now in-stock! It’s been a long Time coming, but if you have been waiting, now is your…
There’s hot chocolate and then there’s Hot Chocolate. And the difference between what ordinary mortals call and drink believing to be, hot chocolate, is not the same as the Drink of the God’s Hot Chocolate. Eh, I hear you say, what the...
Hello, loves! Ow! I noticed yesterday that Buzz has partially lost his mind. We’d best fix that right up. Brief LLM-AI insight near the end. Back on the 17th, we gave Buzz the ability to distinguish between the flower he wants, a yellow...
⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: FULL SPOILERS In "Slingshot" (2024), two determined men face a cosmic divide, caught between duty and destiny in a high-stakes space thriller. My Rating: ½ (0.5/5 stars) Don't waste your time. It looked interesting...
⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: FULL SPOILERS In "Slingshot" (2024), two determined men face a cosmic divide, caught between duty and destiny in a high-stakes space thriller. My Rating: ½ (0.5/5 stars) Don't waste your time. It looked interesting...
This fiction, as most of this website, is available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 It is the follow-up chapter of the original story, which you can find here. I am not used to writing stories in English, and my English literature lessons are long...
Here are some of the AI articles and videos I’ve been looking at this week: HTMX: No AI Fridays. “If the productivity gains from AI are so big, spending one day a week to minimize its downsides shouldn’t be a difficult trade-off.”...
The main flaw of my AI Lent concept was that it was an infrequent, high committment challenge. This is much more low stakes and fun. I will be doing it and sharing a post about my findings by the end of the year.