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People posting AI slop to the internet is annoying, but not as much as people complaining non-stop about AI.
I get it, AI companies are shitty, and their reach is menacing. Anyone that knows how technology influence legislation and society can easily understand that. I'm worried about it too.
I'm in need of around $1,999.00
This past weekend I took a hiking trip to the mountains in the neighboring state of Chihuahua. Beautiful forest scenery, streams, rivers with actual flowing water, and no internet signal. Not a single bar.
New bitter-old-man rule: I don’t open any YouTube video recommendation that has a cryptic baity title and/or thumbnail, period.
We’re turning into gullible children. I won’t have that, fuck you very much.
A trip to Chihuahua to visit Basaseachic Falls National Park
This is a good week. I came back from my trip to Chihuahua to find two new records at my door: Papota by CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso and Thank You, by Mike D.
The first one already shows wear marks on my Apple Music account. The second one fills me with joy: it's the first new thing related to Beastie Boys to arrive in many, many years (excluding the half-assed documentary, that is).
It's also Apple Event week, and my kids arrived home today. Not much else I can ask for right now.
That was a hell of a routine break. Now I just need a leg massage and an Ibuprofen.
regioncuatro.blog/la-constante-de-wadsworth/
The Wadsworth Constant, From Región Cuatro, my blog in Spanish.
Ping?
Last week my psychiatrist switched me from methylphenidate to Vyvanse (lisdexamfetamine). I was on high dosage of methylphenidate without much effect. I basically planned my work day around the couple of hours right after the pills.
Vyvanse though... oh shit. I'm focusing so hard on things. I'm undistracted, I monotask like never before, and I'm always in a good mood (partially because of the stimulant effects, partially because I. am. getting. so. much. done.)
Anyway, I wanted to share. If you have ADHD, take your meds. If they don't work, tell your doctor.
Marking the moment: this is the first federated post from
axel.mx as a fediverse server. Turns out it wasn't, but
this site is now a part of the fediverse (!).
Follow at site@axel.mx in Mastodon :)
This website is not being federated as their own fediverse entity anymore. Lesson learned.
¯\(ツ)/¯
I stopped writing for a while, since my road trip to Arizona last month, and my mind has been wandering too much. I feel like I can't anchor my thinking in a single thing at any given time.
I trust Apple a bit more than Google. Not because Apple is a charity, but because their business model is selling me hardware, not selling my behaviour. Google's incentive is to watch me, Apple's incentive is to upsell me. I prefer the latter.
I saw Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie two nights ago, and it blew my mind.
As a general rule, computers are much faster and much dumber than people think they are. They mostly just fake being smart by being dumb really fast.
I don't know where I got that quote from, but I found it in my ephemeral notes today and made me chuckle :).
On ADHD and productivity:
Most productivity advice is built for neurotypical brains. Linear. One thing at a time. Sit down, focus, finish.
That’s not how my brain works. My brain is parallel, associative, pattern-matching, constantly firing. It’s not broken. It’s just running different software.
Siddhi Mittal, How I Made ADHD My Superpower
This reminds me of that time where everyone used windows and, as a mac user, following a tutorial for anything required translation, adaptation, and searching for equivalences. And most of the time it didn't work anyway.
A road trip to see CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso
The worst possible thing I can do when I'm having a bad AuDHD day is start organizing my office, and that's the main thing I'm inclined to do, probably to somehow reclaim a bit of control.
The process is the same every time. I wake up, maybe tired after having only a few hours of sleep, and the tiredness throws off my morning routine. Maybe I didn't feel like brewing coffee, or I wasn't hungry and postponed breakfast. Or I overslept a little bit and I'm rushed to start working. Whatever it is, I feel like I'm not in control.
When Andrés, my oldest son, was 9, we were watching a video about Logo, the programming language. He got especially excited with Turtle Graphics, where you have a "pen" on screen that you can draw with using commands to move it.
That night I started a project using p5.js and my limited programming skills to do just that, drawing with commands, replacing my missing knowledge with unnecessary overcomplication and spaghetti code. But hey! It worked!
Smartphones have made traveling immeasurably easier. And I don’t think that was entirely free.
I participate in several IndieWeb and SmallWeb webrings.
If you don't know what a webring is, you're probably too young and/or too cool. Here's an explanation.
A webring to find (and be found by) other folks with IndieWeb building blocks on their sites.
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People who started making websites in the late 90s/early 00s and are still here.
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A webring for people who take joy in messing around with CSS.
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"Some of us miss the messy old days of the Internet where we tried to get along and we'd link to each other's sites and it was all so much fun."
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