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in celebration of finally getting some rain around here, check out this series on clouds and weather i got recommended the other day! i’m only partway but so far it’s very good. plus there’s a cat
one thing that took me by surprise i started trying to be more present in my body is how many weird sensory problems i would keep discovering. i was expecting to learn emotional awareness (and i am getting a bit of that) but the bulk of it is just like oooh did you know that cars are loud? that water is wet and cold? that being too warm makes me want to cry? that if i’m too sticky in the morning then i won’t be able to concentrate watching tv later?
i have been slowly figuring out how to read again and although it’s been wonderful and something i recommend, there’s an uncomfortable knot of feelings inside of me about all the things that books can’t (and maybe shouldn’t?) be
recently i came across the poem Please Use AI by Shawn Smucker. it starts:
okay so here’s a rant about an opinion on ai i saw the other day and got mad at
the take was basically: the correct, centrist[1], unbiased view on AI requires actually using AI, because a first hand experience is more worthwhile than seeing a bunch of second-hand accounts warped through the lens of social media
my partner can’t have caffeine when he’s had his adhd medication that day (side effects), so the days we remember to and we want coffee, we’ll have a decaf.
sometimes i’ll still want some caffeine, and it’s too much work in the morning to make two separate cups of coffee instead of one double batch. what a conundrum!
then i remembered hong kong 鴛鴦 (yeun-yeung). it’s a combination of coffee and milk tea, and it’s called tha[…]
i saw this article by jeny on the interlock bind-off and i wanted to really understand how it worked so here’s my own notes
“average person has too many opinions” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person has 0 opinions per year. Opinions Georg, who lives in cave & tweets over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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