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Living in the jackpot

Posts about living in a time when everything is changing far faster than we can keep up.

An interesting observation about AI

From this post by Ganzer. Only reason I have some hope for developments in A.I. is that I'm really hoping for day when a bunch of invisible robots will do all the many things that get between me and writing/drawing/painting. But as far as I

Thursday | Arbitrage

5/2/24 I spent the early morning hours reading a few articles on The Atlantic. The most interesting one was The Diminishing Returns of Having Good Taste, by W. David Marx. In the past, tastemakers in the worlds of fashion, art, and music established careers through this sort of

Texas & VPNs

From the if Houston based artist Ganzeer’s blog. Apparently, there are websites you can't access from Texas anymore. I remember how the use of VPNs became quite wise in Egypt towards the tail end of the half-revolution, certainly becoming a thing amongst more tech-saavy folk. Never would

The dopamine-stupidity slope

In issue [227/21] of his [Nightingalingale], Craig Mod writes about the process of making his next book and how he started and completed five hours of productive work. Knocked out a good five hours of focused work today. How? No phone in the morning. The key to a good

[Listening] The Collective by Kim Gordon

I’ve been listening to the new Kim Gordon album The Collective (Apple Music, Spotify, Bandcamp) a lot over the past few days. The year is still young, but I think this is the most interesting album I’ve heard in 2024. From the Pitchfork review by Shaad D’Souza

Bots fighting bots

From Warren Ellis’s blog post: I read something the other day – didn’t save the link – wherein winter is predicted for the web. This was the nut of it: AI search engines like Perplexity run around the web at your prompt, scrape info out of a bunch of web

Leave the phone at home? Game changer!

I red the following on a workspace.xzy profile of David Tyler’s home office/workspace. How do you manage work-life balance? ‍Not well, but getting better, I think. The most impactful habit I’ve committed to is leaving my phone behind when out with my kids. I can'

Living in the jackpot

From this post on disquiet: ▰ CLONE WARS: “Your group should set up a password for situations where you need to confirm identities over the phone. Let’s say it’s ‘raspberry beret.’ If you get a call from a loved one in trouble, you can say, ‘Look, there are scams,

Debt Ceiling

Ezra Klein writes (behind NYTimes paywall): Defenders of the debt ceiling will tell you that the limit has been around a long time and has largely operated to the good. America has never defaulted on its debts, but the debt ceiling has often motivated compromise between the two parties. That

Hysteria plus cruelty

David French in his most recent NYTimes column (article is behind the paywall): Hysteria plus cruelty is a recipe for violence. Well said. Reading this made me think of the concept of ordinary psychosis. I rephrased the sentence to read, ”Delusion plus certainty and cruelty is a recipe for violence.