For some reason, there’s a new “suddenly trip and fall down” mechanic in Animal Crossing New Leaf tonight.
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Current mood: strangely optimistic!
I know if you turn on the news, you can point to a wide variety of individual scenarios which seem to indicate that we are all completely and totally fucked.
And yet…I feel like we’re right at that point in the movie when the tide seems to be turning; that elusive tipping point where the good folk seem to be winning.
From slop-infested Big Tech shenanigans to the gross project of converting America into a fascist oligarchy, the people are rising up. Our freedoms and our values aren’t going to be eradicated without a fight. And I’m feeling good about where we’re at in that fight.
I won’t go all Pollyanna on you and say it’s time to relax and stop worrying. Far from it! But I’m far more pumped today about the future than I was six months ago. 💪 We got this. ✊
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If I'm going to run the dehydrator all day, might as well fill it up!
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I’m probably more comfortable with turnips than I am with people!
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Spent most of the day cleaning up a hacked website. Computers might have been a mistake. WordPress definitely was.
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Look, the sleigh is great, but it doesn’t exactly run on unleaded. This is my daily driver!
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Does my hair look all right, maaan? I like to look good when I fly my freak flag, you know?
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There’s still plenty more to come, so please enjoy them until your body just can’t stand the fun!
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"html": "<p>Recently on LinkedIn (\ud83d\ude44), an AI-pilled tech bro accused me of being a hypocrite because the decades I\u2019ve worked as a web developer had been, supposedly, hurting the environment and taking jobs away from other industries.</p>\n\n<p>So I took a look at all the clients I\u2019ve had over the last ~15 years. <strong>And here\u2019s my estimation:</strong></p>\n\n<ul><li>Some projects were what you might call \u201cbrochureware\u201d. Websites with public information about the company or non-profit and ways to contact them. Perhaps I took jobs away from Kinkos or the Yellow Pages? I really have no idea. <strong>Nobody ever complained to me about it.</strong></li>\n <li>Some projects were what you\u2019d call e-commerce. In this case, it\u2019s all upside, because instead of craftspeople and small businesses having to take phone calls or read emails and process credit cards manually, it could be handled quickly and painlessly right on the website. <strong>Huge win for everyone.</strong></li>\n <li>Some projects took manual business processes and codified them into custom software. Same people involved before and after, it was just a helluva lot faster & easier to accomplish key tasks. <strong>Lots less paper or emails required.</strong> Again, big win.</li>\n <li>Some projects have been community-based: people engaging in conversation and sharing content, files, etc. This is work/play <em>that was literally impossible</em> before the Internet, before computers and networks and data.</li>\n <li>Still other projects have been educational: publications and archives which provide culturally or socially-relevant <strong>information to help people or enlighten them</strong> on a subject. Perhaps these cases served as a substitute for a paper-based book or a magazine? I\u2019m sorry if my work caused a drop in someone\u2019s printing-press business!</li>\n</ul><p><strong>That\u2019s it really.</strong> The vast majority of the work I\u2019ve done\u2026I never set out to build software to replace taxi drivers, eliminate office workers, devalue artists, and obscure expertise. Perhaps there was general societal fallout I didn\u2019t think much about <strong>in the switch from paper to digital.</strong> On the other hand, I can guarantee you quite a lot of <strong>human-produced knowledge, <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/creativity\">#creativity</a>, and collaboration ensued</strong> which literally wouldn\u2019t have been possible before the Internet age.</p>\n\n<p>If you still want to call me a hypocrite, <em>go for it.</em> All I know is my conscience is clear. I have <em>turned down</em> multiple projects and opportunities over the years because I didn\u2019t feel comfortable about the ethics of the work. Right now, I am literally losing out on opportunities because of my <em>clear no-genAI stance.</em> But that\u2019s fine. <strong>I feel more at peace about my career than I ever have before</strong>\u2014even if it\u2019s damn hard to make an honest day\u2019s living.</p>\n\n<p><em>So away with your smug whataboutism!</em> \ud83d\ude1b All it does is reveal the boggy mire beneath your own feet.</p>",
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Every time I take a Lyft from the San Francisco airport to downtown going up 101, I notice the billboards. The billboards on 101 are always such a good snapshot in time of the current peak of the Silicon Valley hype cycle. I've decided to capture photos of the billboards every time I am there, to see how this changes over time.
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The plumber came to work on the final plumbing for the water room!
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Checked off a bunch of things on the list today!
• Wired and mounted rooftop patio speakers and microphone
• Wired and mounted living room and kitchen speakers
• Set up the Sonos amps
• Hung some more rack gear in the network closet
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Setting up the streaming rig for the Bridge Pedal tomorrow
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