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really vibing with this definition of knowledge that involves the process of actually acquiring said knowledge

moreover the precipitating event that got me to quit was a death march of a project, doomed because the principal had committed to delivering something he didn't have the faintest clue how he was going to do it or what it was even going to look like. i made it my mission to solve that meta-problem.

i basically quit doing software dev on an FTE basis because i could only count one thing i did that actually had a palpable effect on the outside world, and in hindsight that thing was probably bad. everything else was like made up and/or was killed or abandoned or some other typical s/w casualty

omg they made Jeffrey Epstein Inbox Simulator '25 jmail.world

the thing about advertising is if you have a counterparty whose job it is to send you messages, there is always going to be an incentive to send you somebody else's messages, unless the context makes that somehow verboten

lol i am finally fiiiiiiiinally putting the cap on this, after spending the last three days not working on it and writing a thing instead not sure why this has been such a slog actually i have an idea: the new layout is veeeery similar to the old one but not in any way that was reusable

random thought just popped into my head about the fallacy around lottery numbers, like "oh i was so close, the winning number was off by 1" kind of thing problem is in the context of a lottery, numbers don't mean numbers, they're just convenient symbols it'd be like saying "🍌 is so close to 🍒" (🎰)

this crossed my desk from @biancawylie.com earlier, on a form of public-sector procurement that not only takes the idiosyncrasies of information infrastructure into account, but would acknowledge the relationships implicit in other procurements as well: www.digitalpublic.io/intro-to-rel...

holy shit this is brutal lol

Folks may or may not know that I am working on a tool for design rationale and project planning for when the job of determining what the job *is*, is a big part (if not most) of the job: senseatlas.net

median challenger owner spotted

my Terrible Take™ for the afternoon is if it wasn't for xml it probably would have taken way longer to get everybody on the unicode train (and utf8 in particular)

i love how i periodically get email from rogers that's like "pwease come back uwu 🥺 here's the shittiest conceivable deal to entice you"

Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”

today is definitely a two-bodum day

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definitely noticed—nay, anticipated—this

i can't remember, has china kicked up a fuss about deepfakes or

mommmm they're using areas to represent linear values again

thinking about how ai images and video get, for lack of a better term, "impressionistic" the farther away they are from the subject matter like it reminds me of being in drawing class and being like ehhh you get the gist when it was time to draw the background

now i'm contemplating doing a dynamic model of data centre water usage just to fucking spite this asshole

lol is somebody cataloguing these

lol

love that my computer locks up and runs its load up to like 200 at least once a day and i'm fairly confident the culprit is `snap`

u guise i saw a barred owl in the park the other night while i was trucking out to grab breakfast things fkn bigboy flew by the streetlamp and i was like is that a seagull??? not silently floofing around at night it sure as hell isn't plus it was significantly bigger than a seagull

lol when i first moved to toronto i think i put like 25 as the floor on the apps because why not and after a few conversations i was like oh right because they were insufferable the first time around lol, that's why not

nice

was just thinking (as i make myself late lunch/early dinner) that my peanut butter consumption occurs mainly in savoury dishes

Folks may or may not know that I am working on a tool for design rationale and project planning for when the job of determining what the job *is*, is a big part (if not most) of the job: senseatlas.net

the b-52s : my girlfriend :: papyrus : ryan gosling

who do you think's in the burgers

i really wish i could just click expired mute words to reup them

cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents

when the ai bubble bursts it's gonna be a whole Project™ to tease apart neural-nets-the-technology from chatbots-the-product-class in the public consciousness given that these companies have been trying their hardest to confuse everybody about this distinction for the last several years

so am i to understand this morning that the fail-safe system failed by failing to fail safe

lol i just spent a significant amount of time looking for a file that is: • not named anything meaningful • in a folder that makes no sense i just hard-linked it to a folder that made more sense; that was probably a mistake

this is working brilliantly

just had a random recollection of an ex girlfriend's older brother recounting a summer he did tree-planting in northern bc, and when he came out of the bush he found himself stopping and reading every piece of signage no matter how banal, because he'd been bereft of anything symbolic for two months

buccal fat removal makes people look like a crystal head vodka bottle and i hate that i can recognize it now

i just got an email notification from the building manager for guess what: the monthly fire alarm test so…the fire alarm test four days ago somehow *wasn't* the monthly fire alarm test??

also it never occurred to me to mention this about force-directed graphs, like i'd just assume this was obvious /me puts this in pocket

oh good i was contemplating doing something like this but was like "you know what, you can just wait"

i forgot about this galbraith docuseries; (one of?) the first adrian malones (who went on to produce ascent of man, cosmos etc)

You can’t build zero-latency coordination on top of an organization where people don’t know what levers they’re allowed to pull, what authority they actually have, or what they’re permitted to spend. Time, trust, political capital, money. All have a cost.

i had a thought last night that i promptly forgot and only just remembered about affordances: what a particular capability (say, a technology or product class) makes *possible* vs what it makes *easy* you're probably gonna get a lot more of what the thing makes easy than what it makes possible