In my posting, "Entitlement" , I described a guy who treated me with nothing but dehumanized contempt while expecting me to lavish kindness on him (ironically missing the kindness I actually lavished…

M6 supports up to 32GB of unified memory to multitask across demanding apps and run LLMs on device for secure and private agentic tasks. It also provides up to 170GB/s of unified memory bandwidth — a…

To succeed in this racket one has to have at least one favorable genetic trait or predisposition. I have none of those. I am prone to an adult ADHD-like conditions, have very narrow attention window…

Photo by Kym MacKinnon on Unsplash The site has had one look since I built it. Warm off-white, near-black text, a single blue. I liked it when I launched it. I still like it today. But I am often…

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Welcome to Trans Tuesday! We fight and we struggle to do the work to accept... The post THE IMPERFECT TRANS ALLEGORY OF KPOP DEMON HUNTERS, part 3 first appeared on Tilly's Trans Tuesdays.

I've searched with little success for ideas about how we can handle AI so that it benefits rather than harms society. Here is a suggestion from Jaron Lanier. It was published by the New Yorker in…

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I'm gonna tell a story. It's not a story where I'm the hero and it's not a story where someone else is the villain. It is, however, a story about how bad it can feel to carry something for a long…

<Aside label="Note" It's only an agent if it comes from the region of San Francisco in California, otherwise it's sparkling AI ... 🤮 </Aside Like many people, AI is now a significant part of my job…

One of my long-term goals is to remove self-doubt from my life. I know. A big goal that I'm sure that a lot of people can sympathize with, but little know exactly how to do it. Do I know how to go…

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It took several months, but a copy of Dangerous, Dirty, Violent and Young , the autobiography of Zayd Ayers Dohrn, the son of late 1960s Weathermen Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, found its way to me…

It's been a while oops \ castle idler Half incremental/idler, half tower defense game It was an alright game. There's a bit of strategic thinking with the unit placement, but I felt like the two…

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As I mentioned in my recent post, I&rsquo;ve turned a corner with AI. Maybe not the corner, but my perspective has certainly changed. I used to see AI mostly as a tool to do basic Q&amp;A and help me…

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Ferrets, Cultural Festivals, Garlic, Pizza, Dragon Boats, and more. Welcome back, festival fans. It&#8217;s a weekend of Cultural Festivals (Greek, Lebanese, German, Egyptian, Hungarian, Dragon…

1. Have a setting, as to write the rules around it. Do not be as lame as to make a generic ruleset and then put a setting over it. 2. Evoke the setting. Make it as tangible as possible through…

Small one today. No big announcement, no build I've been sitting on for weeks, just a thing that happened in the homelab that I want written down somewhere because it made me stupidly happy for about…

You&apos;ve worked your heart out building your startup. You&#x2019;ve convinced the smartest investors to pour millions into your vision. You&#x2019;ve recruited a dedicated, world-class team. Your…

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Fun story today about that time I tried to make my company's program comply with the Vista requirements. Spoiler alert: it's literally not possible to comply with Vista requirements. At the time I…

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Last Friday I ran a session of Frydheld sector that was just kind of frustrating and didn't really match the expectations I have for myself. It's been some time since the session so I wanted to write…

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Coalplating

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The means used by people who can't code to accrue their cognitive debt and their impostor feeling. The latest means used by companies to accrue technical debt and to create online popup stores.

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Developing a framework for a Patients' AI Bill of Rights for hospitals and medical centers that patients can understand as a standard of care.

Running document containing notes on deploying a development PostgreSQL 16 container using Docker &amp; Docker Compose.

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The Aestheticization of the Left

Good luck with the kids while I’m in space, dear!

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Sunday I woke up at 2am CST, had a lyft scheduled for 3am CST and started making my way home from banana ball in OKC. (That post to come, but it was easier for me to knock...

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