Benjamin Borowski 🍁

electrical box and yellow wire in an open wall

ryan the electrician did some herculean efforts to run 8 new junctions throughout the span of the house. ready for wiring up the new kitchen island and all the new lighting setups. electrical is deceptively physical work from the looks/sounds of it. real workout!

Soundcloud distribution interface showing a blue arrow pointing to an LP called Apophenia

Bandcamp interface showing an album for sale called Apophenia. 16 tracks.

Packing up my first album for release. I didn't realize this was a lifetime goal of mine until I starting playing around with Ableton last March, and, well—here we are. On to my first concept album next haha.

AI's primary innovation is how easy it is to sell complex cultural transformation without the realities of implementation.

I remember learning in like intro to buddhism that being reborn as a god is considered a lesser state than human, because you become unable to recognize the reality of existence. Not satisfying or hollow; your awareness of the possibility to evaluate meaning would be nil.

kitcheb renovation with a frying pan with two eggs in it in the foreground

portable induction cooktop is handy when you have no kitchen. tired of washing dishes in the bathtub so took everything to the firehall today. electrician is here all weekend rewiring everything.

thanks, I am dreading this, but it's a must for me

any recommendation on a playlist and favs transfer service?

I suspect system prompts and critical literacy could create statistically generated text useful for thought. But it would need to be framed as constantly suspect and shift to expectations that LLMs are for knowledge to be tested rather than “transmitted.” That’s the opposite of what we’re seeing. …

people who are well aware of the tech industry's existing relations with labour politics, surveillance, warfare, discrimination, exploitation, extraction, censorship, disinformation, etc, are all of a sudden acting like critics of AI are only critical due to being uninformed. it is *mind baffling*

Added a duty officer schedule notification while I was at it. 👨‍🚒

Added a new Slack automation to go along with our text message system for tracking event responses. I should probably get around to my plan for building some modern software for Canadian fire at fireservice.io one of these years. 🤔

Command /cost in Claude Code is a good reality check for what those profit-making prices are gonna look like. Can't imagine anything less than $99/mo/user. Probably another 9.

First day of Paid on Call in our district! Our department had the honour of getting the first emergency page under PoC. I still remain a volunteer, but now we get paid hourly when we respond to emergencies. ~75% of firefighters are mostly unpaid, but there seems to be a cultural shift happening. 🚒

Six Feet Under

think I'm going to try to release my first album for bandcamp friday tomorrow. signed up for bandcamp. I have no idea how long this will take so I'm not sure whether this is a realistic last-minute goal, but 🤷‍♂️ let's ship!

That would make my day! I would probably *fart noise* in a chatbot support too 😂

i use these sandals to measure the perfect banana ripeness. must be slightly crisp like an apple. when it's ever so slightly difficult to peel; perfection. 👌

fried egg + gummi bears, I'm in. delicious compliance.

have gone through a few herschel oscars. like the pocket format. bonus: 🇨🇦

herschel.ca/shop/collect...

Kitchen Renovation Progress | Notion The Kitchen Design

many contractors! @mariepoulin.com designed the kitchen.

I mean, yes, because it's using the same filters available to you on views.

more plumbing and temp lighting roughed in, more planning and pulling drywall. getting pretty darn raw in here. we're basically camping at this point. ⛺️

Very nice

You can now add conditional color to database views in @notion.com. Find them under your view settings. They work just like filters but you can add auto-matching colors for statuses.

do you like writing in markdown in an insanely fast editor and getting some of the best parts of Notion with offline first, data portability, and e2e? and paying next to nothing for it?

being a little bit deaf on one side... would use

this is one half of my bagel, sir

love when you get a bagel and they give you one of those lil cream cheese pots. buddy, imma need eight of those, thanks.

No more flooring, no more wallz Plumbing and electrical mocked in.

Nonsense In the face of AI hype-waves, slowing down, pausing, even shutting down becomes valuable. AI changes little about sense-making—in fact it's highlighted how much value there is in sitting in the discom

Wrote a tune about robots. Bit weird. #musicprodsky #playbleton