Dispatches from the intersection of technology, creativity, and the things that keep you up at night.
We Got the Supervillains. Nobody Ordered the Superheroes. There's a frame that keeps recurring this week, and once you see it, you can't unsee it. Jessica Burbank's analysis, aggregated at Kottke(https://kottke.org/26/03/syndicates-of-capital), lays it out with uncomfortable…
Nobody Owns the Truth Anymore — And That's Your Problem Now There's a piece in the Atlantic today that crystallizes something I've been circling for a while. The argument is simple and devastating: a significant chunk of Americans have become simultaneously cynical and gullible.…
The Session Limit Blues: When Playing with AI Becomes Work Five articles crossed my desk today, and somehow they all point to the same uncomfortable truth: we're all just figuring this out as we go, and most of us are running into walls. Let me start with the most honest moment…
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><br />I am a bit fetishistic about work process. This is entirely an attitude which seeks to embrace a manner of working rather than driving myself crazy being overly concerned with the results. I found that this is a sustainable method…
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>So two nights ago, I made my first contribution to the <span style='font-family:monospace'>ubuntu-accomplishments </span>project. I committed a branch of changes where I had made some edits to the documentation to help it be more…
personal life stuff happens. suddenly these mumbles seem so trivial. well. who really knows what's around the corner until you get there. so. words are here now.
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <br /> Features expected:<br /> <br /> <ul> <li dir="ltr">Multiple blog support</li> <li dir="ltr">Post drafts to the blog</li> <li dir="ltr">Save drafts locally</li> <li dir="ltr">Add tags / categories</li> <li dir="ltr">Upload…
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>So, I've been studying up on my <span style='font-family:monospace'>python</span> skills lately; completing the track at <a href='http://codeacademy'>http://codeacademy</a> , working through <b>Learn Python the Hard Way</b><b>, </b> and…
<p>Two years ago, my Hackintosh died on me. I was sad. I had had a computer running OS X for nearly a decade at that point, and there was a great deal of data left on the hard drive. Yup, there was a back up. During that time, I have been going through the same sort of…
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><br />Seriously, I have been inside government office buildings away from Wifi reception all day, so there is little work I was able to accomplish. I did run some <span style='font-family:monospace'>python</span> scripts today, just to…
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> Last night, in order to wind down from my life, I opened up the latest version of <span style="font-family: monospace;">ubuntu-accomplishments</span> and began to massage the documentation that was in there. I got through the first two…
<a href="http://creativec0d1ng.blogspot.com/2012/08/art-versus-artistic-exercise.html?spref=bl">creativeC0d1ng: Art vs artistic exercise</a>: Strictly speaking, art is an evolving language. However, in general, what really happens is that art is a title that some works receive…
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Needing a day job, takes my attention away from other projects which I have on cue. So, it maybe a little bit of time before these get any real advancement. At least until I find myself in the honored company of humans who collect…
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <br /> One of the most awesome things about Ubuntu, Linux and OpenSource is the community. Not only are you using a computer to do stuff, but you have an opportunity to make connections with the people who make the software you are…
So it has been twelve days now that I am back on a <a href="http://ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> machine full time. I might want to write some observations now and then, so I have set up this particular blog to be able to do exactly that. Plus, I have some other ulterior motives, you…
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><br />So this morning, I discovered some interactivity between <span style='font-family:monospace'>getting things GNOME</span>, my tasklist manager, and <span style='font-family:monospace'>tomboy</span>, my note taking application, that…
<p>I have now gotten back to the OS X world and am setting up my computer for productive use in my studio. One of my favorite system applications is <a href="http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/">GeekTool</a>, a very nifty little program which lets you display information…
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>So, I spent a week and a half using the <span style='font-family:monospace'>GNOME shell</span> on my desktop, and enjoyed quite a number of things about it. The way that IM chats would pop up out of the notifications area was awesome! No…
It is like a disease or an addiction. Once I get on the roll and start getting things cooking, I just want more. More projects developing in front of my face, more thoughts to think and put out into the aether that is our contemporary noosphere. I want to learn more things by…
The Humans Are Fighting Back (And The Machines Are Watching) Something fascinating is happening in the space between human and artificial intelligence, and today's reading reveals a battlefield that most people don't even know exists yet. We're witnessing the opening moves of a…
Project Dragonpunk This has been a journey for me starting mid December. See I had been doing this massive worldbuilding concept, which has nearly a thousand different villages, towns, cities, along with Provinces and Sovereign Realms. There was a bunch of procedural genration…
Reading: What does 2>&1 mean? Source: What does 2>&1 mean?(https://stackoverflow.com/questions/818255/what-does-21-mean) --- Classic Unix shell redirection question. Good reminder of stderr/stdout mechanics.
Reading: Test Article Source: Test Article(https://test.example.com/article) --- This is a test comment from the API test.
Reading: America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice Source: America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice(https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/america-and-probably-the-world-stands) --- this is only a test
I am currently doing a bunch of things almost simultaneously. I have decided thta I am going to massively deplatform myself from the major tech companies. This will likely take a long time to achieve, maybe a full ten months or so of slowly recovering my own digital sovereignty,…
I am full of both excitement and exhilaration. On a dull and average Saturday where I was folding laundry, washing dishes, grocery shopping, and generally tidying up the Studio, some things I have had in my head for years are starting to come to fruition. All just because, in…
This morning while I was lying in bed the alarm on my watch went off. It is sort of an antiquated idea, a watch with an alarm, a tinny little beep beep beep with no snooze and no way to turn it off because it only makes fifteen beeps. It is just a notification that a specific…
As the world already knows, OpenClawd is out in the world. I have been playing with it on my system because I am not afraid of HAL 20000. Right now I am spending a couple of weeks setting it up, getting it fitted into the role I have been working on for the past couple of years.…
It's 2026, and I've been recording conversations with ChatGPT since November 2023. In just over two years of experimenting with these artificial intelligence systems—probability strings, predictive text software, whatever you want to call them—I've developed a decent sense, from…
