Consider this the second part to my last blogpost; in that one I talked about my experience of depression, especially as a depressive episode approaches and unloads. In this post I’ll be detailing some of the tactics and strategies I’ve used over the past three decades. Some are old hat, some are newer. Some are…
An Anecdote: What It Feels Like When A Depressive Episode Rolls In
Foreword: I wrote this for myself, a bit, but in the writing of it decided it may be useful to others, whether they’re seeking to understand or just want to know someone has felt similar. If you’re part of the latter, please seek professional help: things can get better, and while everything won’t be magically…
The Danger of Artificial Intelligence is Still Us
Earlier this year I had the privilege of being included on a discussion panel about the dangers of artificial intelligence. This is an area I’ve long watched and the panel went off well; I’ve been meaning, since then, to piece together my notes into a coherent blogpost. Nearly six months after the fact oughta be…
Quick Hit: Voice Assistant Moral Panic
It’s an incredibly weird day when I find myself defending Google, or voice assistants, but here we are. I’ve seen it mentioned in several places that a Google Voice Assistant contractor is “blowing the whistle” on inadvertent recordings made by google devices. I want to note first that I have a very good friend, whom…
Quick Hit: Flight Hour Cost
A reminder: Trump misappropriated military funds meant to more safely house our troops to spend on his border wall instead. Meanwhile Trump’s July 4 parade for himself featured 2 Abrams battle tanks, a B-2 stealth bomber, 2 F-35Cs, 2 Super Hornet F-18s, 4 Apache helicopters, 2 F-22 Raptors, H-60 and H-65 helos, the BlueAngels &…
Items of Note: Senate doxxer sentenced, information & dopamine, missile site oops, and more
It’s a weird world where we market kevlar shoelaces for their ability to cut through flexcuffs/zipties, pay people pennies to game search engines to promote your business AND de-prioritize your domestic violence and malpractice history, and tech CEOs blame software problems on alternate universes. I should be back to regular blogging shortly. For the moment,…
Visualization: Viking Burial of the Past
Came up with this visualization earlier this year and it’s been quite helpful, especially when used at the end or beginning of each day. It’s relatively simple and once you’ve got the basics down you can walk through it as slowly or as quickly as you’d like. Relax however you like. Sit in a chair,…
Items of Note: Browser and cryptocurrency research, books and study materials, future leaking through tumblr, more
Quotes in quotation marks, comments from me in italics. Some items not brand new, but worth a smirk as I start out blogging again. Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork – “EcoLogic told the Super Express newspaper that somebody found the tracker in Sudan, removed the sim card and put it in…
A Revenge Fantasy
I have a very specific revenge fantasy in mind for the person that stole my Amazon package with a spool of solder in it. I hope you open that package, pal, and I hope it confuses you. I hope you don’t know what the hell it is. I hope, in your darkened den, in your…
The Wellsian Mirror
I’ve struggled recently with the individual and collective response to the Trump administration. The level of inaction and unconcern feels nothing short of pathological given the material harm that’s being caused. And I’ve been unable to construct the right internal model in order to understand it until the past few days. On the whole, people…