For most (nearly all) people, tattoos are a form of self-harm and not self-expression, induced by a sick culture rather than any true desire to convey anything meaningful to the world or even to one’s self. It’s clear when you ask about them and they can barely say anything about the tattoos.

TIFU by making my wife stop trusting me.

I’m not afraid of dogs, but I distrust them greatly, especially big ones. Dogs kill more people annually than any other large animal, and it’s not even close. I wish dogs were banned in any city and for anyone who does not have at least five acres of land.

Cute pop song. I wish I understood Hebrew but I don’t have time to attempt to cram more of yet another language into my brain.

It’ll never not be hilarious to me that the Ukrainians broke the Russian naval blockade in the Black Sea with nearly no navy to speak of. To Ian Welsh, that’s Russian winning.

To everyone else, that’s pretty awesome and impressive.

Thinking about Microsoft Recall now. I realized its true purpose today. There was some incompetence there, of course, but I believe Microsoft expected some pushback and that this seemingly-botched release was a “foaming the runway” event.

Recall’s true raison d’être is to be used for worker surveillance. It was never intended for home use. Not really. The predictable pushback was just to make it visible to MBA pro-surveillance types. Now it is; goal achieved. Recall will be an absolute boon for the type of sociopaths who desire such things. And it will of course harm workers greatly.

Now I understand why what occurred happened. Otherwise, it just made no sense. Expect Recall to be baked into Enterprise versions of Windows, and your boss spying on your in an incredibly intrusive way soon enough.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

My goal is to have humanity do everything that does not break the laws of physics — then destroy the laws of physics themselves and create new ones that serve us better.

It might take 40 billion years to get that far. So we better fucking get started.

It’s funny seeing people addicted to social media and smartphones coping with the reality of their addictions by claiming against all evidence that it’s not social media or phones that the problem, man, it’s, like, society that’s really what’s holdin’ me down….

Sure, sure, that’s gotta be it. Addicts always sounds the same. Been around them my whole early life so I am very familiar with the signs, rationalizations and justifications they toss out. It’s the same old script that’s probably been happening since someone first discovered you could chew on some weird leaves in 100,000 B.C. and forget about your troubles.

Meanwhile, smartphones and social media are a level one cognitohazard for most people — and are especially bad for girls and women. That’s the reality.

I thought smartphones were the worst thing that could happen to computing, but I was wrong. Turns out it’s AI. How can worse and worse calamities keep occurring?

Oh yeah, predatory hypercapitalism.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

Nikita is the best small artist I’ve found in the last few days.

I still feel like such a hipster because I watched Billie Eilish’s first original song YouTube video years ago now right after it was first posted. It had all of 15 views. You could just tell she had it. And she did.

I like Lea’s songs a lot, but I also like her personality. Intense and contemplative women have always been my jam so that makes sense. Good mic setup there too.

The weak force is about 10³² times stronger than gravity, and that’s why we will never see a graviton or Hawking Radiation.