2023: 113 posts.
- 12-Jan-2023Quote of the Day: From Oliver Willis
Been a while since I quoted Mr. Willis, but Nothing The Right Freaks Out About Is Real None Of It. No, Not Even That. You can show a dyed-in-the-wool conservative news reports and government fact sheets that prove, for instance, that the story surrounding “Obama phones” was made up by the right to cast aspersions…
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Sign of the Times
An email from ArtStation We have updated our Terms of Service. Starting today, content distributed through the ArtStation Marketplace that is created using Generative AI Programs must have the “CreatedWithAI” product tag applied. Product tagging helps provide accurate product information and maintain the integrity of our marketplace. Please visit the updated Terms of Service and…
- 02-Mar-2023From Tuesday: The End of The California State of Emergency
Email Tuesday from the Respiratory Care Board of California: On October 17, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom announced the State of Emergency, and associated Executive Orders N-39-20 and N-75-20, will end today, February 28, 2023. Upon the State of Emergency ending, active waivers that were issued under the authority of the State of Emergency and Executive…
- 07-Mar-2023Quote of the Day: anti-testimonial
“Better to talk to people than communicate via tweet” —Twitter’s owner, today
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What did I do for my birthday yesterday.
…a list: Looked at Surfline and was disappointed to see rain and wind which prevented me from bodysurfing Got out my sewing machine Repaired a cloth grocery bag Repaired one of my singlet swimsuits Watched American Splendor Ate muffins Folded clothes Put up some art on the walls Bought shoes Went to Apple Store Picked…
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Email of the day: “Twitter two-factor authentication is now off”
I’ve had a twitter account since October 2006. In that time they’ve been pretty diligent about security. Not anymore. Today’s email, subject line is: “Twitter two-factor authentication is now off” You’ve turned off two-factor authentication for @artlung This means you’ll no longer have this added protection when you log in to Twitter. Your account will…
- 23-Mar-2023I liked that I recognized this actor was the same dude in each:
Andrei Glukhov / Chernobyl Sergeant Linus Mosk / Andor That’s Alex Ferns. Quite good performances in each. I noticed this back in October, sent an email to myself. I guess to blog about this? And labeled it with “TODO.” And 5 months later? Here it is.
- 23-Mar-2023Steve Yegge is writing about coding with an AI
And I’m reading it: Cheating is All You Need, Steve Yegge, March 23, 2023
- 24-Mar-2023Top 10 Artists from 2022’s last.fm summations
The Beach Boys They Might Be Giants Charli XCX Kitty Uffie Hospitality Stew & The Negro Problem Sarah Shook & the Disarmers Talking Heads Randy Newman More: last.fm/user/artlung/
- 24-Mar-2023These were our jams
These were my jams by adactio showed up in my usually neglected RSS reader. I have very fond memories of This is My Jam! What a great site. I considered their exit from service super classy, and said so at the time. When I was first getting online at a place not at an “Internet…
- 29-Mar-2023Quote of the Day / Twitter Edition
We should also consider how the ‘rules based order’ we’ve devised seems unable to stand up to a bully intent on replacing free access to information with paid disinformation — and how our democratic systems seem so incapable and frozen in the face of confident vandals running around spray-painting ‘freedom’ all over the walls as…
- 01-Apr-2023Quake yesterday
I didn’t post about the earthquake yesterday. But I felt it. And sign of the times: I didn’t immediately check Twitter. And when I did look at Twitter no accounts I follow mentioned it, but several Fediverse accounts have. Note: I’ve unfollowed many Twitter accounts since the last major quake.
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BarCampLA5 – 15 years later.
I learned so much at BarCamps. Dan Kaminsky, rest in peace You can see me in the back in that photo. Red checker shirt and a goatee chin. I enjoyed reading my write-up, seeing what I called out, remembering such a good time. I also liked reading my slides from the talk on YUI I…
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Blog Refer
Oh, the more innocent times when I started storing each and every url coming in via HTTP referer (sic)that was coming to pages on my website. Decades ago! It wasn’t long before referring urls started including pure crap, spam, so it was not something I kept on the site for very long. Time passeth.
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A Live Well Wasted… returns.
I bought the Downcast app on April 28, 2013 and ALWW has been in my subscription list since then. Like the rest in my list I refresh dutifully regularly. I always have hope. When a fresh episode showed up 9 years after the last one, frankly, I didn’t believe it. But it did. You ought…
- 04-Apr-2023Afrofuturism with Greg Tate
I went to a speech by Greg Tate in 2016. It was super cool. I apparently did not take notes. October 18, 2016 6:30 – 9:30 PM Visual Arts Facility, Performance Space The UC San Diego Visual Arts Department, Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, and Black Studies Project at UCSD are pleased to…
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Affirmations Bot, Still going
@affirmations@thisbot.day Previously mentioned.
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Merger Email of the Day
Going to the beach as often as I do, I have subscriptions for both Magic Seaweed and Surfline. Looks like they’re going to combine. How to get started with Surfline. Magicseaweed has been a part of the Surfline family for over five years and now we’re coming together under the Surfline brand umbrella. Learn more…
- 14-Apr-2023Personal Websites are good.
I make this bold statement following a read of Exploring Personal Websites. I of course have had a personal website since 1996 which is an astounding 27 years, so I’m biased. I continue to feel queasy about how folks use Instagram handles to sign their art. I have a sense that these will age like…
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Oh look, I’m in a large language model (LLM) corpus
Vacillating between “It’s a major award” (1) and “I’m somebody now!”(2) RANK: 77,171 DOMAIN: artlung.com TOKENS: 250k PERCENT OF ALL TOKENS: 0.0002% From: Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart.
- 21-Apr-2023A fine remembrance of the web as it was; and is
ReadWriteWeb Turns 20 by Richard MacManus. Take blogging itself. People don’t have blogs anymore, now they have email newsletters. People used to read blogs in their RSS Readers, and you would visit the website to leave a comment — or write your own blog post in reply, which would show up as a trackback link…
- 21-Apr-2023Quote of the Day
I say often that computers are terrible. Nontechnical people seldom take me seriously. But people in tech, like Galloway do: A growing vein of the tech community (Venture Catastrophists) deploy weapons of mass distraction and fear to wallpaper over an inconvenient truth: The menace unleashed on America the past two decades isn’t psychotic homeless people…
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Programming graphics on the TI-99/4a
Back in 2019 I wrote about programming in TI-BASIC a little bit. I remembered going from graph paper to hex but the mechanics of drawing to the screen was not something I remembered. I did remember it was pretty tedious. But rewarding! Well, the other day I was inspired to create a chunk of code…
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VueJS app to create TI Extended Basic CALL CHAR strings
I continue to revisit the kinds of things I did as a kid on the TI-99/4a computer through the lens of modern tooling. When I was a kid I used graph paper to create 8×8 grids, then worked backwards from that to create 16 character strings to represent those graphics. Last night and this morning…
- 05-May-2023From Popehat: “Deserve’s Got Nothing To Do With It”
Deserve’s Got Nothing To Do With It from Ken White (popehat) is right on. The criminal justice system ought to be fair and impartial. I mean, what are those scales of justice about, what is the blindfold on Lady Justice supposed to be about? Whenever we ask if someone deserves to have had some awful…
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