Mostly memes and other curiosities, links and the occasional original thoughts and photos. I live in San Diego and I’m from New York. Professionally, I’m a networking analyst and trade journalist, but I’m also an aspiring Zamboni operator. He/him #DEI“Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays…
Earle Bergey: Journey for Seven - Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1950 https://reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/1vp25r3/earle_bergey_journey_for_seven_thrilling_wonder/ Reddit
Roadmarks by Roger Zelazny. Del Rey 1979. Cover art by Darrell K Sweet. A favorite cover on a favorite novel by a favorite writer. https://reddit.com/r/CoolSciFiCovers/comments/1vp8tpg/roadmarks_by_roger_zelazny_del_rey_1979_cover_art/
Corporate Power Approaches Escape Velocity . Hamilton Nolan: A failed Tesla strike in Sweden is a flashing warning light.
visenyaism : visenyaism : i do in hindsight really love the concept of complaining about adaptational changes in a 3000 year old oral tradition of which there isn’t really a definitive version so much as a surviving one that is also the most adapted story of all time. my chud forebears in Roman Britain throwing rocks at a bard going nah nah nah the last one said some different other shit at that…
mitchipedia : Zoomers don’t know what Usenet is. Allegra Rosenberg has a good explanation, and she continues with a meditation on misconceptions that Generation Z have about life in the 90s and 2000s. This misunderstanding is not unique to GenZ; I think it’s a phenomenon of being in one’s 20s. I remember reading Dickens (possibly “David Copperfield”) and coming across a casual mention of the main…
Zoomers don’t know what Usenet is. Allegra Rosenberg has a good explanation, and she continues with a meditation on misconceptions that Generation Z have about life in the 90s and 2000s. This misunderstanding is not unique to GenZ; I think it’s a phenomenon of being in one’s 20s. I remember reading Dickens (possibly “David Copperfield”) and coming across a casual mention of the main character…
An 18-year-old San Diego man pledd guilty to kicking a sea lion on a viral video. Sea lions are generally unthreatening but they are wild animals and will attack if stressed or threatened. They can get up to 200-800 pounds and have sharp teeth. I watched the video of that kid; he was cruelly picking on an animal that did him no harm. He’s lucky that a criminal sentence is the only penalty he…
therustyskull : mitchipedia : Sailors in the USS Lincoln and their families are suffering low morale and mental illness due to long deployment. Multiple sailors have tried to go overboard. It’s just bonkers to me that the Lincoln has been deployed for over 200 days at this point. And they’ve probably not had a real port call the entire time. Even on a small coast guard cutter, a simple 2-3 day…
“The Social Ritual That Made Me a Better Man: Long live guys’ night.“ “… the couple of evenings a month that I shared with Steve and the others became for me a safe and premeditated truancy from domestic commitments. The ceremony amounted to a pressure valve. Once released, it sent us home tired and inebriated but also kinder, happier, and more giving.” By Thomas Chatterton Williams at…
Sailors in the USS Lincoln and their families are suffering low morale and mental illness due to long deployment. Multiple sailors have tried to go overboard.
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live . “An AI future of sleek, streamlined, and totally empty relationships.” Elizabeth Lopatto shreds Zuck’s AI manifesto. “Look, I am coming to believe we need a better quality of AI booster…. Is the point of life merely to stockpile accomplishments? If that is what Silicon Valley believes, no wonder all the billionaires seem so unhappy all the time!”
Why you can’t find a primary care doctor? . Prevention isn’t a priority in US healthcare. The profit is in damage control. Why should healthcare providers invest in primary care physicians to help you lose weight, eat healthy and get fit when there is so much money to be made in prescription meds and heart surgery?
On AI Coding and Its Discontents . Cal Newport says the honeymoon phase of AI coding is over. Early advocates of using AI to write code are scaling back their ambitions. Turns out AI-generated code is often buggy, hard to fix and hard to maintain. Coders are still using AI in their work, but in controlled and limited ways. “AI is not a magic ‘infinity machine’ that can solve all our problems, and…
‘For many Americans it is a spiritual battle’ – RFK Jr. visits San Diego to announce faith-based approach to homelessness . Bobby Brainworms comes to San Diego to make homelessness remediation as successful as the war in Iran and rehabilitating the reflecting pool.
Anthropic will watermark text and other file types to identify AI-generated content. I’m intrigued by how that would work in text — seems impossible.
I loved the movie “Up In the Air,” starring George Clooney and Anna Kendrick as contractors who break the bad news to employees during corporate layoffs. I saw it the night I was laid off from a job. It was, I think, my second time being laid off, not my first. The first time you’re laid off it’s traumatic. After that — the second, and subsequent occasions — you’re like yeah sure whatever just…