You're driving to work and you see them. A bunch of people holding up signs in favor of the human being (if they can be truly described as such!) that you loathe the most on the entire earth.
Your blood boils.
You air out …
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Read MoreIn Part I, I listed several things/places/events that felt magical to me in my life. In this article, I will discuss the most recent one, which I refer to as my "Socratic Sign."
At 40 years old, I found myself without a job and without the …
Category: Life Tagged: ADHD Beauty Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy Prose WritingMonth
Read MoreThis article is written based on a prompt I shared with a friend a couple weeks ago. You can my article from that "round-robin" prompt exercise here.
Since neither of my fedifriends have written their prompts yet, I'm actually borrowing the idea I gave Amin to write:
I'm going to …
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Read MoreI sent a link to my blog to my best friend from high school, and he sent me back a screenshot of a poll I ran a month ago (dear God, where does the time go?) asking what I should post next on my blog.
The winning entry was for …
Category: Life Tagged: Computing Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy
Read MoreThere's been some kerfuffle today on the fediverse over the issue of toxicity in the Linux and Open Source community. "Toxic" is one of those trigger words that immediately gets fingers a-pointing. The great irony is that just to mention the word "toxic" can in itself be a toxic statement …
Category: Ethics Tagged: Ethics Federated Services FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Life Linux Non-religious post Philosophy
Read MoreI was chilling out at the parking lot of In-N-Out after having lunch there (because the weather is pretty nice today), but decided to go to a local library to have a nice desk in front of me and do some reading/writing.
I asked the Oracle at Googlii (via …
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Read MoreI thought I had a pretty fair grasp on the idea and archetypes of toxic masculinity. I am …
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Read MoreA couple days ago, I was discussing with my counselor the importance of in-person relationships. I commented on how incredibly easy it is to open a computer and drop into a meaningful and enjoyable conversation within a few minutes (especially on the Fediverse!), but that it felt nearly impossible to …
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Read MoreLLMs (Large Language Models, colloquially referred to as "A.I.") are perfect...
Much like so many loud voices in society today, the LLM is incapable of discerning reliable from unreliable sources, identifying the origin and validity of a …
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