Four years ago bodies were piled up in freezer trucks because the morgues were full. Anyone who was happier back then is probably a sociopath.

This is genuinely lame. We may never know how lucky we are that the moon completely overlaps the sun.

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day

Give a man a river, he eats forever

'Before the procedure in San Diego, he was still having one or two smaller seizures a day.

Now, in a diary he keeps as part of the study to count his seizures, most days Graves circles “none.”'
technologyreview.com/2024/03/29/109…

Men have the Pokemon theme song

A few years ago I spent a lot of time trying out big organizational tools to help me be productive until I realized it was just digital bureaucracy. I spent more time managing it than actually being productive.

Since then I've been trying to use simple, accessible tools.

Today is national siblings day. But as I'm the middle child it's going as well as you can expect.

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The concept of 'prompt engineering' seemed silly. Did we really need human intermediaries to AI systems?

Apparently so?

Yet another hobby I have to end way too soon ...

Last week: Earthquake
This week: Eclipse
Next week:

Not surprising rents are rising by 25% in a neoliberal, greedy country like the Netherlands. I'm glad to live in a generous utopian country like the US where rents are falling in many cities.
nltimes.nl/2024/04/09/ams…

Was inspired by this idea to make a short story where a resort has eclipses every week
fleker.substack.com/p/star-crossed…

Forgot my eclipse glasses today. I was bitten by a radioactive sun and now I'm shooting beams of light out of my hands.

One of these days I should collect some income from Yonkers just to see what happens.

It sucks if you're spending more money on the same food. But that article also cites a person who spends $35/week only on protein bars. That's a luxury good. People buying 'Liquid Death' (can of water) are buying a luxury good. That's fine, but acknowledge it.

I don't remember any solar eclipses as a kid. But now there's been two in seven years? 🤔🤔

A PS5 couldn't come from a centrally planned economy. It requires hundreds or thousands of small technical achievements that occur organically over decades. This includes publicly funded research. But a worker co-op would be unlikely to capitalize it given the broad risk.

I just did a book club today. Sure, in elementary school it's simplistic but it's usually more a forum for friends to get together than some attempt at radicalism and that's okay.

Hey MTA I was just at the W72nd station and tried to get on the 2 but it was full. Every car was packed with people. Please run more service on the 1/2/3 line on weekends.