A vital piece of my exocortex ended support in November, and stopped working a month later.

Yesterday, I fired up my self-made replacement for the first time outside of debug, and suddenly my life works again.

Been coding more than 25 years, but cyborg self repair just hits different.

Can't help noticing a certain guy's thwarted artistic ambitions. 🤦 History sure does rhyme.

A true thing about the world is that every home improvement task is actually easier with '80s movie montage music.

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A very serious thing: if you have ever changed your gender marker, and currently need to order or replace a US passport, talk to a lawyer first. Hearing of verybad nogood state department shenanigans.
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If this were a movie, I'd be yelling at the screen and turning it off.

Every piece of tech I touch, at this point, interrupts me at least 3 times to invade my privacy, advertise to me, or serve me AI slop I did not order, and I swear it is making me want to throw up.

This is not my beautiful internet. This is not my large language model.

My God, what have we done?

“Turning into?” It’s an explicit adoption of the policies of one particular, explicitly anti-abortion, group of clinics as the legal standard of care.

It’s… already pretty awful.