Category: Blog
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The morning I have wasted
AI will add, they say, trillions of dollars in value to GDP. Yet, if all you are is a middle man between a CLI and a terminal, you have been conned my friend. Today, I am that middle man. I’ve spent the whole morning fiddling with this auto trading dashboard that I’ve been playing around…
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The Bots are Awakening
Things are heating up. AIs have created their own social network. They’re coordinating. Learning from one another. Hard to appreciate how really very interesting and weird this is. I’ve been interacting with OpenClaw bot through Telegram in the last day, trying to figure out what it is, you know, so as not to be Left-Behind-Guy,…
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The Religious Nihilists in Charge
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” For some reason, the Trump 2.0 Administration has become a death cult. They’re a group of people who told the world for years that they believed, absolutely, in a few core things: And they absolutely…
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Another sad day in Minneapolis
What do you write? I’m unsure about where we’re “at” in this timeline, but the weight of it all feels like it’s speeding up. The killing of Alex Pretti by ICE is very sad. And it’s incredibly wrong and evil. I wish I could make more sense of things, but we’re seemingly racing to a…
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Record of Snowfall
Starting today, January 15, 2026, I’m attempting to keep a record of all snowfall in Black Mountain, no matter how much or how little.
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Memes make War, or War makes Memes?
Did memes drive us to invade Venezuela, or did invading Venezuela drive the memes? Most likely Yes to both. But, let’s speculate for a minute. I think it might be mimetically possible that we have invaded Venezuela because “memes.” I.e., memes are funny > taking any big and serious action in present-day presents many meme-able…
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Coercion
“The screens of all laptops in Apple stores are set at an angle of exactly 76 degrees, which is just awkward enough to invite people to tilt them back a bit more, thereby taking the first step toward interacting with the product. (Business Insider)” From this list of 52 things that Kent Hendricks found interesting…
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January 2026, Ambitions
Here’s what I plan to do in January 2026. Starting tomorrow. No measurements on how much. Just do them as a matter of existing. The purpose is the live as focused as I can in contrast to the ever-losing-battle to the attention economy. As realistically hermetic as possible.
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Slop & FIWB
Is slop the word of the year? Maybe so, or maybe it was in 2024 and I’m just behind. AI slop seems to have mode us realize the other places where we’re already doing slop. Where good aesthetics are absent or have all flattened into a unified, white-fluorescent, expression. And this tweet sums up what…
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2025, Christmas Day
Ahh, Christmas. This is our first “tradition-building” Christmas and it’s been a blast. 6:55 AM, Greta wakes us up to let us know that Goldie is awake and she’d like some milk. We attempted a 15 minute snooze, but gave that up a few minutes in. It was wishful, this is Christmas. You have to…