Vaguely political thoughts
Category: current events
Raise the damn minimum wage
On July 25th, 2009, the minimum wage was raised to $7.25 an hour. I was at a tour guide job. I’d started at state minimum wage in 2007 of $6.50. One thing I’d do sometimes for meals at that job was walk down to the local Subway and get a Five Dollar Footlong. This would […]
Do you want us to use the lying chatbot, or not?
https://www.businessinsider.com/are-you-an-ai-creeper-take-our-survey-2025-12 Given how many bosses are salivating at the prospect of replacing paid human workers with AI, even if the AI doesn’t work (and never will, if Sam Altman introducing a silicon shortage is any indication of how it’s going), I can’t blame these theoretical workers for not sharing. Any time in my job I’ve […]
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
I’ve had ADHD for a long time. And getting me to do anything was…hard. About 2013 I started using HabitRPG, now Habitica, as a task tracker. The difference was so great that some people actually asked me what I was doing differently! That said, I plateaued there a while ago. And the site hasn’t meaningfully […]
Religious thoughts
Have a larger post on my faith journey coming later. But saw this today and wanted to save my thoughts. Not familiar with this source but just…the whole idea here that he’s working extra now to make sure…hate that part of Christianity. Like the whole vibe is just perverse. Humans are not perfect. We will […]
Monthly round up
So last month I ended up going to a bunch of music concerts, more than I planned. In total I saw Weird Al Yankovic, Glyph, Gloryhammer, Alestorm, DragonForce, and PowerWolf. Great time, though I think I picked up a bit of something at the last concert…been sick about a week, but mostly better now. Also […]
My thoughts on so-called “AI”
The current generation of AI is profoundly immoral, requiring huge amounts of power and doesn’t work, and is attempting to be memed into existence by techbros and venture capitalists who have violated the copyright of pretty much everyone who’s posted any creative work on the internet ever in the pursuit of the ultimate lock-in technology. […]
Police gaslighting
Cops lie. This isn’t actually news to anyone who’s been paying attention, but enough people don’t understand what it means that it’s worth rehashing. Cops lie. They lie all the time, and its baked into the culture. I hear about “a few bad apples” all the time, and its become long apparent that its more […]