July 1st, 2025
It's July 1st, that means half the year has passed. That means we're nearing the end of the first quarter of the 21st century.
In the year 2000, we didn't have the Euro yet! And I also was a clueless teenager, a measly 14
Pen and paper are superior to your AI bullshit.
There are currently 5 notebooks on my desk. Actually, I'm lying! There are 7 notebooks on my desk if you count the 2 Rhodia scratch pads I use for throw-away notes.
If there's one thing that "AI" and the general enshittifcation of modern tech
LLM circle jerking
Let me use a viral image for once, yeah?
I made the mistake of browsing LinkedIn after my 2-week holiday, and boy, was I absolutely ASSAULTED with "oh my god, AI is so useful", "oh my gawd, AI made me a 10x engineer", "omg, AI
Humanity hates people.
We could have made our environment welcoming to cyclists and pedestrians, but we didn't. A car centric environment is the norm in many parts of the world, making it dangerous to be outside if you cannot or do not want to drive a car. Cars are getting bigger
Don’t let them colonize your mind
In the disturbing film, A Clockwork Orange, the protagonist's eyes are being forcefully kept open, and he has no choice but to watch the most horrible scenes in order to “rehabilitate” from the awful crimes he has committed. I won’t attach a picture from the film, as
My thoughts about InCoWriMo
This is not a well-known phenomenon at all, but I stumbled upon the hashtag #incowrimo on Mastodon somewhere in January.
Intrigued, I looked into what it was, and it stands for International Correspondence Writing Month. It happens in February, and the idea is that you mail a handwritten letter or
Best Reads March 2025
I'm writing down which articles make a lasting impression on me in my Hobonichi Cousin every day. Let's put them in this blog post, for you, and for my future self. The month isn't over yet, so hopefully I'll add some more