Tale old as time, looking for affectionProblem making humanity connectionCulture and society say I’m an infraction Connection always mattered to meWithout it life is a subtraction All walk this odd multiverse abstractionAll call from within their own afflictionAll seek to be more than fleet renditionStrive to connect and find out our life mission Simple witness, so let us speak with simplicityFind your inner truth or seek in others endlessly Circles within circles, cycle, and kalpas, tooEffects of all the causes, they come, return home to rueThere still is a path through all of this, for me and youMeet me in […]
Track title: Lighthouse
ASCAP registration #: 925340671 Each morning dawns, he’s by my sideWorking hard, though struggles resideAnxiety whispers in his earDepression tries to make him fearAutism’s quirks and ADHD’s paceHe starts each day like it’s a race At home, gets me through darkest nightsWith care, he tries to make it rightI rely on him, come what mayGrateful for his love every day In his eyes, all I see is lightA beacon, guiding through the fightA rock, my shelter from the stormA fire, that keeps my heart so warm Missing piece that now fits so rightAn autist nuances, shine so brightADHD’s energy, though […]
Track title: Sun/Sung Through Wound
Memory of sunflowers and lidded mason jarsMemory of innocently walking from the carMemory of finding out my family was goneMemory of wondering just what I did so wrong Left on the doorstep like a holiday adoptionRight then, this life it’s just such a shit-stained concoctionSlept in a toybox to try and calm down all the frightAwoke in a toybox in the morning’s soft, pale light I was a kid and all I knew was my familySo hard to find out they never really wanted me Tried to bond to other kids, and to house parents, tooBullied and ostracized for differences, […]
Tales For The Leet: Romeo & Juliet (media thoughts)
During silliness tonight over at RenMakesMusic‘s discord channel, in trying to point out the GOAT of early internet memery, I linked up “Tales For The Leet: Romeo & Juliet”. But then, I realized, that’s not the original, it can’t be, because Tales For The Leet was not made in 2011, but originated in the range of 1999-2004 by maker Chris Coutts’s own works of the time, fortunately preserved in the Wayback Machine at the following locations respectively (Thanks, Ruffle): 1.The original, as captured on date indicated in upper right corner of page after the jump – https://web.archive.org/web/20061230062545/http://uninteresting.myby.co.uk/noeffort/romjul.htm 2. The follow-up, […]
Track title: Takers
The weight of the world ain’t always divine,Keep my head held up, won’t let it decline.My chin may droop, but my spirit stays fine,Heart rising above, leaves worries behind. Life can be a weight, pressing on the chest,Must say it out straight, sometimes get depressedWish I could go home, right back to the nestBut I never had that option to rest It may look selfish but it’s just the truthIt ain’t help if it drains away your youth When you’re all alone in this universeYou learn to be strong though it makes you curseLean on the wrong one and it […]
Linux Mint & Me
Yesterday, I finally decided it was time to be done with Microsoft. Between pricing and privacy, I just cannot justify giving them any more of my money and I’m sick and tired of playing ‘whack a mole’ with their oft covert actions that either compromise my privacy choices without telling me, or retroactively remove them and hope I never notice. (I do. Shame on you. Done with you, too.) So, after consideration, I landed on Mint with Cinnamon on top and to be quite frank, nearly every issue I had with them in the past (i.e., poor GUI/UI design, convoluted […]
Public Comment to IACC (2024 report response)
The reporting cycle for the IACC is complete and now, delivered. I’m livid at the result.
CDK & Gotye (‘Somebody that I used to know’)
Love this. Like… a lot. Memories of a long lost friend and a pang of the bittersweet once again, but worth it to see these kids move. Wowsah.
A solid look at artificial general intelligence (AGI)
Likely one of the best overviews I’ve seen to date, though there will be new competitors once the major hurdles are overcome.
Track title: Leeches
This life is amazing, this dulcet domainBut give it control of ya, it cooks ya brainGive it access to ya, it drives you insaneBalance is needed yet still cultures disdain All history, sophistry, yet still we nosediveAutocracy, corpocracy, hypocrisy? Full thrive The truth of all humans rests nested in liesNo ethics, dichotomies set balance asideSub-optimal value expression dividesThe world is on fire, leadership backslides Remember atrocities from ethnohistoryPut to the fire all desires of consistory Restoration through protestation, first dissentSend all nations through fire, foundations segmentKill substructure for our fructure misspentDeny the power every hour to this noose circumvent From […]