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Jack Baty | Tinkering as identity?
> Whenever I see others refer to me or my blog, it’s usually along the lines of “he changes his blog a lot…”. This is fine, because I do, but I’m wondering if this is what I’d like to be remembered for. Wouldn’t it be better to be remembered for my photographs, my writing, or art, or being otherwise useful to the world?
I feel identified…
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> I love my notebook, but it’s hard to capture everything. Writing by hand is work, so I don’t always bother. I then promptly start forgetting things.
This is why writing things down on paper never sticks for me.
Are articles like this one that put the fear of god in me. Makes me just want to never come out of the house and have Annie never go back to her work, which is a hospital where she recently got infected, for the second time.
> Apple TV+ today announced that it will expand its slate of acclaimed, expansive sci-fi series with “Murderbot,” a new 10-episode series hailing from Academy Award-nominated creators and directors Chris and Paul Weitz (“About a Boy,” “Mozart in the Jungle”) that will star Emmy Award winner Alexander Skarsgård (“Succession,” “Big Little Lies,” “The Northman”) in the lead role.
this is exciting! Especially since I never finished the series, because I am lazy like that.
> the world is freaking crumbling though. to be grateful for the smallest things seem futile in the face of overwhelming grieve and suffering.
I can very much relate to this, that said, today, I am grateful for pop-tarts
🔗 Balancing the analogue and digital.
Balancing the analogue and digital
I do have to say that this came across at a great time, as I have been trying to find a balance between my digital and analog note-keeping. And the reason why paper, well I guess I couldn’t have said better, actually I didn’t quite have a clear reason in my head until I read this,
>Paper forces me to slow down, as I simply can’t write as quickly as I can type (or speak, if I’m dictating). This gives me space to think and a pause to consider my words and what I’m actually writing down. And with zero distractions or notifications, it allows me to focus on one thing at a time.
Thank you for sharing, @TheMacPsych, at richardmackinnon.blog
Confession. I rarely ever read anything on this website but I love scrolling and looking the crap out of it. Also makes me dislike my office space every time.
Thanks to @heyscottyj’s most recent post, I have learned a new word.
balderdash
/‘bɔldər,dæʃ/
noun
trivial nonsense
Synonyms: fiddle-faddle, piffle
😅 fiddle-faddle
Love stumbling upon little things like this. 😊
Development of a Live-Action Film of The Legend of Zelda to Start
> Nintendo Co., Ltd. (HQ: Kyoto Minami-ku; Representative Director and President: Shuntaro Furukawa, “Nintendo” hereafter) today announced that it will develop a live-action film of The Legend of Zelda.
Imagine that! Because I can’t, for some reason.
🔗 The Beatles Just Released Their Final Song That Resurrects John Lennon’s Voice With AI
> “People will say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, there’s a track where John’s singing one of my songs,’ and it’s just AI, you know?” he told the British public broadcaster over the summer. “It’s kind of scary but exciting, because it’s the future. We’ll just have to see where that leads.
– McCartney
It is kind of scary and it would seem that this is the feature that we’re heading to, I guess.
These are pretty awesome! And to think they are sketched on Apple Notes.
🔗 Avatar: The Last Airbender Live Action Reveals First Look at Fire Nation Including Iroh and Azula
> Netflix has shared a first look at the Fire Nation in its live action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, including fan-favourite characters Uncle Iroh and Princess Azula.
Aren’t you excited?
I am Excited!
🔗 GOD, MAGIC MUSHROOMS & ME
> There’s a growing movement among religious leaders to use psychedelics like psilocybin to deepen their faith. The author attended a secret ceremony to find out whether it works.
Excuse me, what?
Also, being able to listen rather than reading, game changer.
Monarch: Legacy of the Monsters.
IGN: Apple TV+ Godzilla spin-off Monarch: Legacy of the Monsters Gets First Look Images
Following the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that leveled San Francisco and the shocking revelation that monsters are real, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters tracks two siblings following in their father’s footsteps to uncover their family’s connection to the secretive organization known as Monarch. Clues lead them into the world of monsters and ultimately down the rabbit hole to Army officer Lee Shaw (played by Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell), taking place in the 1950s and half a century later where Monarch is threatened by what Shaw knows. The dramatic saga – spanning three generations – reveals buried secrets and the ways that epic, earth-shattering events can reverberate through our lives.
I am so ready for this!!
Get Blogging
Skoobs - On Having a Blog
I feel a sense of peace of mind here. Where social media feels like a busy commercial area, full of flashing lights and noise, this is more like a quiet home in a quiet neighborhood. All of these things are why I’m an advocate of owning your own webspace. Largely, because it’s your own webspace. Not Meta’s, not Twitter’s (or whatever the fuck they’ll call themself in 24 hours), nobody else. It’s yours. Own it.
(in my best papa swolio's voice)
Why are you doing, posting on social media?
GET YOUR OWN BLOG, NOW!
GET. YOUR. OWN. FUCKING. BLOG.
A thing I liked.
Darknet Diaries EP 135: THE D.R. INCIDENT
> Omar Avilez worked in the CSIRT of the Dominican Republic when a major cybersecurity incident erupted. Omar walks us through what happened and the incident response procedures that he went through
Of course, like almost every episode of this show, this was a good one, at least to me. And I agree, it is still scary that in this day and age, we are still so vulnerable to cyberattacks and especially at this scale.
It also reminded me that not long ago, in 2022, Puerto Rico also got hacked by this type of attack. And in case you’ve forgotten your geography, PR and DR are neighboring islands. I don’t remember if any other agencies or systems were hacked at all. I just remember that the system known as AutoExpreso, which controls the electronic toll collection, was hacked.
PuertoRicans being PuertoRicans, they were not mad about it, I mean, the government sure was, but not the public. The only thing the public was mad about was why the hackers did not delete all the fines and debts. 🤣
Force-closing like it is 2010
this post was going to be a Toot
I force-closed my apps for 3 days. It made me kinda hate my phone. by Matt Birchler
I'll say up front that I don’t judge anyone who force-closes their apps.
Me: I DO AND ALWAYS WILL! 😜
This seemed like a good experiment or POC, and a good write-up. I personally never force-closed my apps, In my head the devices are "smart" enough to handle this. Well, I may use to do it back in the iPhone4 days, but not anymore. I can't remember when I stopped doing it. My lady, on the other hand, still does, I see her force-closing her apps, and her brothers too, and yes, I judge them every time. Seems like a waste of time to me.