Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Whilst diligently counting the sparse blessings offered by LLMs in 2024… I’m thrilled and proud to offer you - thanks to Google Gemini - a Zalgoing TextExpander Snippet! …which you can access by joining my Text Fuck Snippet Group or by inputting the source yourself (embedded below.)Friday, December 13, 2024
features like Screen Time will never help you achieve whatever vague conception of reduced usage you may have. If you haven't yet quantified the figures you'll find within it in mental estimates, you aren't really concerned at all and if you have, Screen Time will only confirm them. Using reminder notifications to optimize your appflow makes no attempt at all to actually escape the mentality of the behavior you seek to lessen from yourself.Saturday, December 7, 2024 β
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Dude this video gave me so much in so little time, it’s stupid.
- I grew up on a farm until I was 14 where fiddling with small engines (which I never got tired of and realized I’ve missed quite a lot thanks to this experience) and interacting with centrifugal clutches (one of those things that sounds really neat in theory but just leaves you wanting for - and suffering without - basically any of the other options lol)
- Adjacent to go karts but somehow still haven’t got the opportunity to actually figure out to Do The Thing - always wondered. Kinda same thing with pouring concrete. Watching you poke your way through both for the first time felt like a real luxury haha.
- Been watching Sarah’s build videos for a year or so now, always absolutely flabbergasted at the diligence… the persistence… the intelligence… all the while doing like 5 full time people’s jobs in video production, with much reverence but zero resonance with my own bumpkin ass behavior in similar pursuits. Curious because getting to capital R Relate with her and y’all’s troubleshooting here does have value, turns out.
Thursday, August 22, 2024
And how do you do all of that on top of migrating the entire Onion website to WordPress? Nilay Patel https://www.theverge.com/24225592/the-onion-new-owners-print-newspaper-digital-media-gawker-ben-collins-decoder-interview If you, too, immediately thought “well what the hell was it, then, if not The ‘Press???,” the answer is… fucking Kinja. The Editorial Process Ben Collins: …I just want to walk through their daily process for writing headlines. They come in every day. Thereβs either one or two meetings depending on the day, and then they write β usually, itβs around 190 headlines.Tuesday, August 13, 2024
“Design a logo for a fictional Google denture product called Google Teeth.”Sunday, July 14, 2024
I was reminded yesterday - as I am very, very occasionally - about a thing I blasted out on The Psalms in early August 2019 about my early childhood mobility from the traditional to the trendy, contemporary side of protestant Christianity. It’s still one of my favorites, but I’ve long since conceded that it’s only of any interest/entertainment to a relatively narrow range of my peers, so please don’t force yourself…
I did, however, find the ability of whatever LLM is powering Craft’s “AI Assistant” to comprehend (pretty much uniquely lol) and … proceed to falsify (when asked with its “Continue Writing” feature) an intriguing, if entirely reiterative, continuation:
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
The Tangerine Knight ...some men just want a tangerine. Michael Caine https://youtu.be/ZS6bD3SpIvk Slick’s 2009 Airventure CompFriday, June 21, 2024
Some time in late Summer 2021, I stumbled into another of the handful of nigh-inconceivable conversation opportunities which Twitter Spaces would offer me. Marquis Trill - someone I’m still not 100% convinced I actually remembered from the ~2012 Twitter Epoch - decided to just fuckin go on Spaces one day for the first time. And - as per the nature of Spaces - I guess I just hopped in the mf too.Thursday, February 22, 2024
Below is an excerpt from my just-republished 2019 Volkswagen Atlas Review detailing my singular encounter with capital-r Road Rage in the entirety of my ~year driving for Uber/Lyft.
Sunday, May 16, 2021
in This Present Time I can have regular interactions with my adolescent celebrity crush that I *actually* would not be able to convince my 14-year-old self are real. not because of their significance but the opposite. calling her mom is like... the only even remotely reasonable outcome, btw. she *is* a mom several times over, now. and 46. and by "crush," i mean... at least 30% of my total cumulative mental energy was spent repeating "Saturday, September 19, 2015
E β Skrillex (@Skrillex) May 15, 2010 It came to my attention today that my good friend Sonny Moore (commonly known as Skrillex) Tweeted “E” from his BlackBerry at 0732 CST on May 15th, 2010. If I’m ever given the opportunity to interview him, I’ll begin by questioning his choice in smartphones. (Can you imagine how awful the Twitter for BlackBerry client must’ve looked in 2010?) From what I’ve sampled of his art, I’m confident he’s an emotionally intelligent man, and probably not house producer Joel Zimmerman (commonly known as Deadmau5.