When I die, I want to be buried with the big box of random computer cables that I’ve been squirreling away for the last 3 decades cuz who knows maybe I’ll finally need them in the great beyond.

I will be hunter. When my Temu version arrives in 4-6 weeks.

This is my favorite zen koan

They did, sort of. Shortly after the Mueller report, Bob Garfield said sorry we got it all wrong, but it was Trump's fault for being so untrustworthy and chaotic.

This should have been done with plastic straws. Tell people to fold them in half before throwing out to protect the turtles, make no other change. Also for some reason this reminds me of the "ich lüge bullets" scene from Heathers.

Still thinking about this.

This is the trend and I don't think it's reversible. I still limit agentic AI to a dedicated computer, but within that context I use it for basic OS things. Why dig through a maze of settings to find what I want when I can just ask Claude to change it? Or ask it to launch a website and log me in. Or do an every expanding set of OS things.

Apparently I've reached the stage of live that involves doing a lot of smoke tests.

I find it increasingly difficult to have normal conversations with childless adults around my age. It's like they live in an alternative universe of boutique concerns and navel gazing tendencies.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the amazing Claude Opus 4.7:

To understand a culture, figure out where it falls along three axes: • Striving for excellence • Grudge bearing • Tolerance for un-official violence Japan is high on the the first (perhaps even pathologically high, hence seppuku) Low on the second (otherwise they'd still hate us, obviously) And very low on the third

Holy hell why didn't anyone tell me about VisiData?

I've set up an internal Polymarket for the family and bet against the things I need them to do.

This is an interesting conflation of what is, and how you might want to frame things, which I gets both wrong. For most home owners, it's their single biggest asset and investment. Calling it "shelter" doesn't change that. Unless you plan to die in your house, changes to it's value are very high impact. In many cities, property values can swing up or down by 40% within a few years. It's risky to depend entirely on house equity when calculating your retirement needs, but that's true for everything in your portfolio. Nothing you can do as a home owner opts you out of that possibility, so thinking of a home without considering it's volatility as an investment is both incorrect and dangerous.

The only two justifiable organization schemes are most recently read/reading and by color. Everything else is arbitrary.

Capturing the market for AI use is about way more than soaking up ad dollars. Control AI and you can control framing, narrative, and eventually behavior. To control perceived reality is to control reality.