Jay Chan

Today I met a man lying in front of a car with a bleeding dent in the back of his skull and a desperate fear of death in his eyes.

And we were both powerless to do anything to help.

The ambulance arrived within 2 minutes. He was still breathing when it left for the hospital.

I hope he makes it.

The reason they want to harvest your data so badly is for targeted ads.

Therefore

Blocking ads is an act of rebellion that actively hurts the most socially corrosive industry we have.

As a nice bonus, it drastically improves your quality of life on the internet, and cuts your data usage in half.

Oh yeah, I'm married now.

Woke up early to drive to the airport, and the whole time, my neurons are dancing.
But not in the way people dance, more like how dolphins dance.

Tonight, my good friend gave me some wisdom while I was stressed over my impending wedding.
"The alchemy of time's passage is that when an event goes from being in the future to being in the past, all the negative stuff surrounding it just kinda melts away, and you remember the good moments fondly."

Ethiopian food

Very good

The trouble is we have a bad habit of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

Even in the vibes based space, it feels wrong to disallow hybrid mana when cards that do things like Field of the Dead making black zombie tokens are allowed in any deck.

I don't understand taking such a hard line stance in the context of such a double standard.

What good even are methods without any madness in them?

Your eyeballs do SO much averaging even before your brain gets involved with post-processing.

Use your imagination.

GitHub sent me an email this morning. Google put it in my primary inbox. It didn't go to spam. It didn't go to the Promotions tab. It was even marked as Important.

It was an ad for Microsoft Copilot, telling me about all the places they're shoehorning it into everyone's workflows.

YouTube's algorithm seems to think there's some perfect video for me that's a blend of every video I've ever clicked on, and every day it keeps trying to get closer to that by narrowing the range of slop it shows me, incapable of comprehending that that's exactly wrong.

America is on track to becoming Russia: a sad husk of a former empire with a population overcome by poverty and guided by obvious lies hand fed to them by a fragile dictator with delusions of being both a mob boss and king of the old empire.

If we continue with letting Republicans get away with the old KGB strategy of flooding public discourse with clear lies while AI slop tools make it hard enough to discern truth that we instead prioritize emotionally inflammatory narratives when voting and writing public policy, where does that lead?

Today, for the first time in my life, it occurred to me that I could've used caffeine to stay awake on long road trips.

Birds is dinosaurs
Bones is rocks
Bugs is shrimps
Hiccups is when your body forgets it's not fish
It is fish tho, like all tetrapods
Blood is seawater we brought onto land
Cephalopods is aliens (not from space)
Orcas is smarter than you
Words mean whatever we want; dictionaries just keep track

None of our problems are new, they're just moving faster.

Not enjoying the stage of debt where interest starts charging interest on itself.

And the Sysiphean lawn care routine continues. I swear, if I never again in my life hear the roar of a riding lawn mower outside my bedroom window, it will be too fucking soon.

The colder weather is finally here

No matter how you divide people, you have to have empathy for the ones on the other side of the line. Lawful/criminal, native/immigrant, rich/poor, you will find yourself on the other side of that line one day. Would you be okay with being treated in the manner you voted for?

Being okay is different from being okay with what's going on. Achieving the former in defiance of the latter is necessary to survive. Because it's been over 9 years, and Normal isn't coming back.

The present has arrived.

I don't trust anyone who's incapable of self-deprecating humor.

Never mistake
politeness for kindness,
tolerance for lenience,
arrogance for confidence,
cruelty for strength,
empathy for weakness,
excuses for reasons,
punishment for justice,
wealth for success,
trauma for learning,
experience for expertise,
talking for communication,
or knowing for understanding

We do not need more content

Medium fork

Home is where you find yourself.

Sophistry (n)

A subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.

ex:
"Like all sophists, Charlie Kirk never actually debated in good faith; Rather, he used the appearance of debate to give his dangerous rhetoric a veneer of legitimacy."