Posts - page 35

A listing of all long-form posts published to-date. Herein, you'll find my thoughts on concepts, ideas, politics, and more.

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PLEXX, A New Direction

The other day, I wrote about how I'd thought of changing my name in music altogether, and starting over, fresh. How I wasn't sure if I really wanted to do that. Well, instead of wiping the slate clean, I've decided to simply make a secondary project, under the name PLEXX....
published June 7, 2024
#music
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Spotify Threatens Price Hike While Continuing to Pay Nothing for Music They Use

I'm sure most people are aware that Spotify is a streaming giant, and maybe even to some people, you're confused about this, right? iTunes came way before Spotify's rise, and it even offered a way to buy your music, and back it up. And then there was the whole iPod...
published June 6, 2024
#media
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Eyeshadow 2600 FM, the Legacy, and Now

I'm writing this post about the music I've made and have been making since 2017, because it's been a journey. A journey of learning, mastering my style and skill, and even continuing to learn (you never stop doing that). It's also been a journey of loss, and hate, and sometimes...
published June 5, 2024
#thoughts
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ActivityPub, Peertube, & the Meta

Today was the first day of a three-day off period I took from work as a late birthday ... thing, for myself. But, the first thing I did when I woke up, was I jumped onto my PC and started writing a guide to ActivityPub. Why did I do this?...
published June 4, 2024
#tech
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The Unknown One

What fears have you overcome and how? A few years ago I submitted a real story to one of those true crime/horror podcasts. To this date, I still don't know if it ended up being used (because there are so many submissions), but I figured this could be a good...
published June 3, 2024
#thoughts
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Hustle Culture: 21st Century Self Harm

You've seen it, you've read it, and maybe you've even heard it. The dude on Twitter/Threads/Mastodon who posts forty-seven automated tweets/threads/toots per day about how you just need to push yourself a little harder, dude. Take your free time and turn it into passive income, bro! Follow these seventy-seven easy...
published May 31, 2024
#thoughts
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The Jobs I've Done

What jobs have you had? Kind of a loaded topic to ask which jobs I've worked. I have my current job, and it's a company I've worked for on and off for a lot of my adult years. But that doesn't mean I'm not looking at potentially finding something in...
published May 30, 2024
#writing-prompt
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You’re Too Old to Game, and Other Things Killjoys Want You to Believe

For as long as I can remember, probably at least since I turned 23, there's always been this march of people younger and older who have framed themselves as the deciders of what is or isn't cool for you to do or participate in depending on your age. Some things...
published May 28, 2024
#thoughts
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Life Before the Internet

Do you remember life before the internet? Warning: Slight mention of an attempt at CSA I usually use writing prompts whenever I can't fully think of something concrete that I want to write about. I would like to write a short story, or a series of short stories, but story-crafting...
published May 27, 2024
#thoughts
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Corporations Chase Scams, While Users Chase Scraps of the Old Internet

Corporations chasing scams, what could I mean by that ... maybe, language learning model, or, non-fungible token? Nowadays, or, for at least the past five years, the big tech world, i.e., Silicon Valley, Microsoft, Google, and even Apple in some cases, all have a different vision for the internet and...
published May 25, 2024
#tech