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Edit: This post, along with those written by Nate and Sage , are now on the second page of the Discovery feed, when their age and toast count should place them higher. As Kristoff wrote in my guestbook, the "B" buoyancy modifier (detailed as a note at the bottom of the Discovery feed page) was probably changed so that the posts fall off quicker. Although it's not a shadow-ban, I'm once more left…
Edit: I wrote a subsequent post on healthy discourse . Last Sunday, I wrote a post calling out Robert Birming's repetitive writing . The post gained traction, receiving around 85 toasts before it got shadow-banned—removed from trending. I'll admit it: I got salty over this. Was it because the post was controversial? That it continued to receive toasts even after being hidden—and that I received a…
Edit 2: from this I reconsidered Bearblog and reflected on healthy discourse . Edit: this post has been shadowbanned; at the time of this edit it had 85 toasts and should be #1 on Trending. The presumed reason is for calling out spam on this site. Astonishingly ironic. I also see Robert made a response . Fair play. I leave it up to the audience. Robert Birming, as per usual : Don't feel like…
I like writing in plaintext as much as I do with pen and paper. I also like to be precise with my punctuation and character use. If you're like me in these regards, then I hope you find my notes useful. Unicode input is a technical way to access uncommon keyboard characters. On my systems, when I press Ctrl + Shift + u , an underlined u appears to access this function. By typing in a string of…
Presently, my Documents folder (ex-Downloads, -Music, -Templates) contains 3,837 files across 171 sub-folders; its size is 4,596,169,837 bytes. It's my life in ones and zeroes: current projects, life administration, resources, and—if I squint my eyes and tilt my head a bit—a vaguely defined archive holding photos, journal entries, and documents which record the sentimental moments of my life.…
So wrote Herbert Simon (winner of Nobel prize in economics in 1978) in 1971: ... in an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to…
Hello. Last month, I decided to take a break from blogging. Today marks my return, and I see the discourse around here is still focused on the merits and hazards of AI, on people's relationship to their tech, and on meta-blogging. So it doesn't seem like I missed much while I was away. A short recap of my life over the last 40 days: I'm happy to report that I've stayed off Reddit ; that's almost…
I'm taking a break from blogging. To recap: I started this blog last December to process my life I found solace in spirituality, Stoicism, shoegaze, and simplicity I began to notice my shortcomings and desired to work on them I, on a whim, challenged myself to write a daily post in April, going through the first week all right but then lost steam What happened? Somewhere between points 3 and 4, I…
Words: 580. Second post today to get back on track for my homebrew writing challenge this month. There are two ways to increase value. The first is to increase output, the second is to reduce input. The ratio between output to input is a measure of effectiveness or efficiency. That's speaking abstractly. For a real-world example, since I've gone over a week without Reddit (!!!) my mind has turned…
Warning: uh, I wrote this while high. This is post #8 of my homebrew writing challenge, in which I aim to write a daily post (of at least 500 words) throughout April. It's April 9 when I write this; I missed a day. I could say that I wrote a couple posts since entry #7, or that I had been busy with friends, but I'm just going to own it and continue. In past writing challenges (e.g., Nanowrimo when…