Posts - page 37

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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Gofundme: The Vets Who Slammed Me With Years of Debt

You probably read that title and thought,"Dang, what did veterans do?" But actually, I'm talking about vets, animal vets. Veterinarians. You know, those places you go with your pet when you've got no choice, and you don't want your cat or dog to stay sick, or worse, pass away. At...
published May 20, 2024
#donations
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Prompt: Maintaining a Healthy Work and Life Balance

How do you balance work and home life? Today's writing prompt is all about that work/life balance, and I feel like this is definitely something I can talk about, because it's something I've struggled with for years (and, you know, I have a job!). I'm not entirely talking about the...
published May 19, 2024
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Microsoft Desperately Scrambles to Figure Out a Way to Power Tech Nobody Asked For

Microsoft, founded in 1975, rushing to the death of its operating system with more bloat than me after a gallon of water and salty French fries, and also making sure we never have a winter with snow, ever again. It’s a tale as old as time: Plucky young lad builds...
published May 18, 2024
#tech
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Reddit, Following in Twitter’s Footsteps Like a Lost Puppy

Earlier last year, when Musk restricted access to Twitter's API (see: X) and started charging for access to it, Reddit's team, and likely also the CEO, Steve Huffman, decided that this was a way cool and awesome idea. And, just like the nonstop shoehorning of AI into literally everything, most...
published May 17, 2024
#social-media
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Community Moderation, The Bad Place, and Doing the Work Yourself

I'm kind of a weirdo. I have an account on numerous ActivityPub instances ranging from Mastodon, to Misskey, to a rather new one that replaces Tumblr, called Wafrn. And I'm writing this post today, because of something that I was made aware of via that new Tumblr replacement, AP connected...
published May 16, 2024
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Engagement Farming: A Disease of the Modern Internet

Sitting here on a day off from work, not really gaming, not really doing much anything besides sipping a soda, and thinking about cooking up some noodles. There's got to be something worthwhile to write about, at least, right? Not according to a large amount of people who use Twitter,...
published May 15, 2024
#thoughts
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Prompt: An Ode to Ed

Share a story about someone who had a positive impact on your life. I'm grateful that this prompt graced my dashboard, because it's giving me the chance to write about someone who ... I think vastly changed my life without even knowing it. And even though he passed away in...
published May 13, 2024
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Prompt: Adapting, Post Covid-19

How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic? Sometimes I save Jetpack writing prompts as drafts so that I have something to write about later, should I feel so inclined. Obviously, if I want to be writing, I should be writing more for my book...
published May 12, 2024
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mkultra.monster, a Mastodon Instance

If you're seeing this from the Fediverse, it's because I have my self-hosted Wordpress blog using plugins that connect it directly via something of a pseudo instance. Each post on my blog is also a post on the Fediverse, and although I can follow users from Wordpress, it's not exactly...
published May 10, 2024
#social-media
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Prompt: Public Figures & the AI Lie

What public figure do you disagree with the most? I haven’t answered one of these prompts in a while. Mostly because they’re usually unanswerable questions, i.e., things not worth talking about, or things I don’t feel like answering. Today’s prompt is all about public figures, and who I might most...
published May 10, 2024
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