Lately I've found myself spending more time hesitating about what or how to write about that aforementioned thing more so than just abandoning caution and rushing off on a quest to figure out what I actually think about a thing and to likely piss someone off. I have zero problems pissing people off on the not-actually-all-that-open internets or at least I used to rather enjoy it. As I said, that…
I am sorta back after spending some time working through a couple of real life issues that made the idea of reading a bunch of hamfisted vitriol from the webs more tedious than I anticipated. For the umpteenth time, I'm basically rebuilding a band from scratch which is every bit as painful as I remember it being. Job hunting is bleak but, at least in this case, this misery indeed loves company and…
I'm back-ish after working my way through what felt like a small scale nervous breakdown. Although I realize that the US economy is in utter disarray and IT, my unfortunate area, is in worse shape than I think it's ever been, this past month was especially soul eroding. I'm not completely sure that I'll ever work in the IT sector again which is unfortunate because a) I appreciate interesting…
It's Sunday so you're probably all bummed out by the fact that very little corporate 'content' is shilled on the final day of the weekend. Maybe you should take a gander at the video below because it is exceptionally well made. The idea that was resonant for me was the idea that cults don't necessarily need charismatic and coercive leaders and that even a national culture can transmit terrible…
ot much to really contribute to the guilt-towards-an-imaginary-audience link dump for today. I spent the majority of the day completely away from my any computer to give my eyes and memory a little break from the mostly dead internet. I'm sure that you, hallucinatory reader that isn't a bot searching for non-existent Wordpress folders or an AI scraper hitting my robots.txt file a few thousand…
Hey! Whatd'ya know. Good things happened yesterday. I'm a fan of Zohran Mamdani despite living on the opposite side of the country and holding memories of living in NYC in resentful memory as a place where everyone seemed to be a trust fund baby playground and the rest of us destined to eat dirt forever. I think that regardless of his lack of political experience as was recounted by every centrist…
I started writing my nth arterial leak of a rant about how I was both tired of the rampant AI boosterism that composes most of the alleged technology journalism these days, my own impatience with it, and the oft ignore consequences of unqualified trust in our vaporware hallucinatory future . So, being sick of it and myself, I decided to just do a link dump instead and take out my rage in other…
Something that I definitely did not need to know about: Blue dogs roaming the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone .No one knows why they're blue. No, not disturbing the slightest. I completely agree with Robert Reich's pronouncement that Zohran Mamdani represents the future of the Democratic party . Watching the Democratic party propose things like endorsing anti-abortion candidates in red states is like…
My M1 Max Macbook Pro is relegated to the floor beneath my desk since the Tahoe 'upgrade'. Seriously, I played around for a couple of hours afterwards and shut that shit down. Wait, I think I fired it up for a job interview via Teams once since then but otherwise the powerful machine with 32G of RAM and a 1TB hard drive I bought a few years back for way too many dollars sits idle. I pulled the…
Hoo boy. Maybe things have utterly changed but I'm hard pressed to see the point in Microsoft horse before the cart-ing yet another animated character . In my somewhat limited experiment, I've found Copilot something to disable as soon as humanly possible and allows end users to go on crazy goose chases to avoid knowing where any of their files and applications actually live. Super useful for me…
The course mentioned in the introduction to this interview, The History of Fake News From the Flood to the Apocalypse, piqued my interest in the rest of the article about Bibliotheca Fictive Collection of Literary and Historical Forgery and the fine art of literary forgery . I love and am deeply jealous of LitBox's book vending machines in D.C . This is a great example of ways to route around the…
There's that antique yet true belief that the CEO is typically the dumbest and most out of touch member of any payroll. In my imagination, most CEOs are effectively saved from interacting with the vox populi by a human shield of assistants and yes men who suck up enough to the assistant layer to have unscheduled access to the 63 year old white men that lead most corporations. Well, if you ever…
I'm sorta taking a day off from job seeking which means that I'm puttering around the web and playing TurtleWow Mysteries of Azeroth . Here are some things that were interesting at least to me. This is something that I wish I knew about a couple years ago: Docker Management Command Cheat Sheet as I don't have any real use for Docker containers and lord knows that developers seem to think that…
This is largely true. I don't write much about technology because, for the most part, technology as a subject is pretty fucking boring and has been for the last 4 years or so. The reason for my own personal tedium trap when talking about tech is that term becoming synonymous with AI and AI is a speculative shit show and likely always will be at least until the bubble ultimately pops and most of…
This is for my own memory as much as it is for anyone else. These are things I've seen recently (like the past 18 hours) that I thought were worthy of note. Cloudflare released a new RPC system called Cap'n Web . I understand some of the underlying principles that governed its creation but some folks are pretty fucking excited about it. That said, fuck Javascript. Apple released a new version of…
What I intended to do was migrate the old version of this site over to a new host but that didn't end up working out so well. After being testy about all of the Wordpress import/export options completely and utterly failing me without a single useful error, I decided to just scrap everything and start anew. This will be the 3rd completely fresh start for Team Murder which I think has existed in…