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There is a lot going on in this photo which I will have to address over time. But let's start with the shoes. They were pink suede Diadoras and they were awesome.

I said, Where'd you get your information from huh?
You think that you can front when revelation comes?
Yeah, you can't front on that

"Perceive at last that thou hast in thee something better and more divine than the things which cause the various affects, and as it were pull thee by the strings. What is there now in my mind?"

-- Marcus Aurelius

"Where is my mind? Way out in the water, see it swimmin."

-- Black Francis

This is how FB loads a business page on my phone. That's it. (Firefox mobile on Android.)

Big companies make great things with the leading web development framework they themselves created.

Somehow I always find myself in the middle of this shitty venn diagram

"I’m sad. I don’t want to leave the 80s. It’s just been, like, no notifications and pizza. Uh, yes, please?"

daniel.industries/2024/01/18/the-best-thing-ive-seen-on-youtube-in-quite-a-while/

Dallas ISD just cancelled school for tomorrow. The sun is out and has melted almost all the snow on the roads. 🤦

I am the most judgmental when I see a productivity hustle YouTuber type with only 1-3 fingers per hand. Especially when they're typing on a customized mechanical keyboard.

Then I feel guilty.

Then I decide to let myself feel judgmental. I need the win.

Someday they'll be one actually missing fingers, but I won't notice at first, then I will notice, and the added guilt will take a multi-day bender to alleviate.

10 tabs open

Open Mastodon

+10 tabs

Close Mastodon. Do nothing with 10 new tabs.

Do ~other stuff~

Open Mastodon

+10 tabs

Repeat until browser crashes or computer becomes unusable

In a world defined by user-generated content sorted by algorithms, we all become desperate attention-seekers. We all become impossibly uncool.

daniel.industries/2024/01/15/desperation-algorithms/