I put 6,279 words of my writing into this, and this is what it spit out:

Like all personality assessments, take with a huge grain of salt. However, I will note that psychologists see them as worthless because they don’t recognize them as tools to spur thought and self-examination, because science in general sees as valueless what cannot be measured.

“Have a hard time sticking with difficult tasks for a long period of time” is extremely accurate, though. Just too many other things I’d rather be learning or doing.

I wonder why no one has examined how the over-leveraged and even-more-poorly regulated global financial system is going to amplify the societal effects of climate change. At a time when financial tools are needed to sponsor big projects, they are most likely to break.

So much important work in economics just not being done.

This bone beneath stretched skin
This flesh that keeps the life in

Each step leads to an abyss
Blaze of fate in the night
Then comes the darkness —
No first draft, and no rewrite

Auden is no consolation
The clocks do not relent
Life is its own consecration
And death its last lament

This blood flowing free
This body broken irreparably

My friend died and I wake again

Michael Marshall Smith on being a male in our culture:

On the other hand, anyone who gets to their twenties or thirties before they get thumped has had it pretty easy, violence-wise. It’s still wrong, but basically what I’m saying is: try being a man. Being a man involves getting hit quite a lot, from a very early age. If you’re a teenage girl the physical contact you get tends to be positive: hugs from friends and parents. No one hugs teenage boys. They hit them, fairly often, and quite hard.

So true. So fucking true.

And this also reminded me of my childhood and adolescence in rural North Florida, from Joe R. Lansdale:

Where I had grown up, in Mud Creek, violence simmered underneath everyday life like lava cooking beneath a thin crust of earth, ready at any time to explode and spew. I had been in fights, been cut by knives.

By the time I was 20, I’d been in hundreds of fights, had my nose broken, been beat up more times than I can count, been bashed over the head with a large tree branch, had a gun pulled on me, been threatened with a hatchet, and had experienced one attempted stabbing (by my own mother, no less).

When you’re a man in such places, you’re either violent or toast. As we’d say where I grew up, ain’t no two ways about it.

The market is so much fun right now.

I’m ’bout to make a shitload of money, ya’ll.

But the time’s not quite right. Soon, but not quite.

Note: Don’t take market advice from me. If you lose all your money, all I’ll do is laugh.

I saw a hummingbird hawk moth a few minutes ago, species unknown.

Those things are cool. I thought they were all crepuscular but this one was out in broad daylight.

Amazing little creatures. I wonder if the analogous morphology is due to Batesian mimicry, since hummingbirds themselves are quite pugnacious for their size, and probably tougher than moths?

Probably just an example of convergent evolution, but hard to tell.

Somehow I had no George Lakoff books.

Now I have some George Lakoff books.

See how easy that was.

Feminism is really making a mistake allowing the FA movement to hitch their cart to the movement and now to dominate it in many areas.

Can you even be oppressed if you are a 70%+ majority (as overweight and obese people now are in many Western countries)?

Sure, theoretically it is possible I guess, as the minority Sunnis oppressed the Shia Muslims in Iraq for three decades, but it is very rare and usually requires some group to wield real and dominating power.

I don’t see any evidence of this. If anything, I far more frequently see and hear (in person, too) thin and skinny women shamed for being “sticks” or “twigs,” etc.

Jealousy and envy talking, of course, like almost all of the FA movement.

The reason I say the MRAs and FA people are two sides of the same coin is that both believe it is oppression if someone is not attracted to them, and that it is oppression if your doctor/psychologist/therapist/medical professional tells you that you are engaging in extremely unhealthy and self-harming behaviors.

Folks, that ain’t oppression. That’s just damn reality.

Get ready for a rampage in markets on Monday.

Aww yes. I like market rampages.

Panic, little traders. Panic, weak algorithms.

I shall feast on your losses like a true capitalist.

Windows 10 and HIPAA Compliance.

I am not a lawyer, but given how strict HIPAA is and how much data Windows 10 exfiltrates even with all the data-stealing settings toggled “off,” I highly doubt that the OS can be used in any HIPAA-compliant environment legally.

In any case, if I were an IT director in any HIPAA-compliant workplace, I’d never roll out Windows 10 as the risk is just too great no matter if it is deemed probably ok.

I guess when Firefox finishes destroying itself, I’ll use Chromium with heavy, heavy firewalling — we’re talking deny/deny by default with explicit allow rules only. Perhaps only browsing in a VM.

Firefox probably won’t be around in 5-7 years since they seem intent on becoming a clone of Chrome, and that’s a war they can not and will not win. Google is going to crush them, but not because it had to be that way. Nope, all voluntary choices by Mozilla management.

Mozilla’s management might be the worst in the tech industry as far as decision-making goes.

The wave/particle duality isn’t really a duality.

Much that has been written about physics is complete crap, not surprisingly.

There is no there there. The electron is neither a particle nor a wave. Sometimes it is just convenient to think of it in one way or the other.

The electron is its own thing, both both* and neither.

The double-slit experiment is still very cool, but when you really understand electrons and fields, it is obvious rather than mysterious.

*I love it when I can validly duplicate words like that.

Oh, cool, just about when I thought it would happen, panic is setting in.

Time to buy soon. Now we just need some major financial or political shock (preferably fake so it doesn’t actually harm people save dumb-ass banksters) and the market porridge’ll be just right.

To those who say you can’t market time I say this: enjoy being poor!

The World’s Hot Spot.

I know, it’s Thomas Friedman, but he’s right — large parts of the globe, including the American Southwest, will soon become uninhabitable.

When daytime temperatures routinely exceed about 120F, human life becomes unsustainable or at least highly impractical. This means that large parts of California, Texas, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and a few other states are going to experience mass outflows of desperate migrants.

This isn’t speculation. This will happen.

By 2100, the world will be so different as to be utterly unrecognizable. People as I’ve said before just have no idea.

Looks like by 2017, Firefox will be completely dead and fully unusable.

One of the features that made Firefox and won it so much geek cred in its early days was its rich extension model, allowing a wealth of customizations and extra functionality.

Now that’s all being taken away, and Firefox will just become another piece of Chrome-like spyware. Very sad, but inevitable.

After this transition to failure mode, not sure what I will do. Well, there are a lot of books I want to read that I’ll then be able to devote more time to.

It’s weird that no one can seem to make a decent browser. But the normals now rule the internet, and they just do not care who is stealing their data or how crappy their experience is.

If they can click on YouTube and drool, they are ok.

By the way, this means that Classic Theme Restorer, NoScript, the current method of ad-blocking pre-load, and other extensions that require low-level access will no longer work. Sans CTR, that means it’s Australis or nothing.

And you know what, FUCK THAT. I will never use a browser that looks and works like that utter piece of crap that is Australis. Or Chrome, for that matter. I like my data to stay my data, thanks.