Half the time I just want to tell Siri to go lie down for a minute.

I’ve got this bug problem.
— Upson Pratt, via E.G. Marshall, Creepshow, 1982

..and by this I do not mean to refer to UI elation. I’ve been osx’ing for years because it rings my ui/ux bells.

No, I’m talking about up another level. Elation because, not only is use and experience great, but because my data is mine, first, in principle and practice. Because I can talk to anybody with internet dialtone, like I used to do with the old ‘i’-less phone to any/every1 on the ‘phonenet’, and they me. Can we do this with at addresses @any1ne reliably? Great, but then @any1ne must be @any1ne EVERYWHERE. Or am I missing out on something?

Didn’t anybody notice that isp “built-in” email spam protection, simple basic easily implemented, near costless, did not show up until spam was a problem for the vendors? Business efficiency demands the software is tuned for cash flow first and user elation later, if ever.

I think the reason so many of us in the language business are rightly worried about fAI (fake AI, aka Language Thingies) is because they can replace us. Not you, you’re special, but all those other talentless jokers—where’s that fork, cuz they’re done.

I do take some solace in the fact that this infatuation with fAI productivity will generate an information landscape with ever increasing amounts of bullshit. This will promote EVERYONE to the role of Quality Assurance Analyst in some sense, whether they want to be one or not. And with that promotion comes all the demands of resilience to tedium and arcane expertise that the role requires. Which will be discovered to be more difficult to fake than many had assumed. And so a new value proposition comes into view: “Can you tell me if that is worth the time?” rather than “Can you write something that is worth the time?”. Essentially, an editor, rather than a writer; oh, and a relevance ninja, and a fact ax, and…

PB & J
Proud Boys and Justice. Delicious!

I’ve got Fury Road on the box and King Crimson’s Discipline on the hifi, and, well, it’s everything I thought it could be! ❤︎ ❦ ✖︎

Fictional Album

xenomorph spirograph freakout — seethe

[ edit: congrats to all who grabbed the rare version! ]

If we really needed Ante-Up dealt out, we would deal him out. What we really need are his sats to have something to leave, and not just something to join. Get it sorted!

Ha! Ha hahahaha. Ready Putin One!