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Cartoon strip by Stephen Collins. It’s a ’New Year, New You’ thing, by a brown bashed up Christmas tree poking out of a recycling bin - she, the tree, is talking 'to camera': 1 [Title panel]: NEW YEAR, NEW YOU with LOUISE TREE 2 Hello there! 3 Well, Christmas is over at last. 4 And we’re all feeling a bit unhealthy, right? 5 Maybe you’ve neglected exercise to stay in by the fire. Or eaten too many chocolates! 6 Or maybe you’ve being amputated from your food source, covered in baubles and ritually tortured for 21 days as part of an alien organism’s depraved festival. 7 Groo! 8 Well I’m going to tell you how to adopt a ‘growth mindset’. 9 Step one is - don’t dwell on the past! 10 Don’t think about the month you spent digesting your own body while you slowly died in the living room of gluttonous monsters. 11 Step two: make a ‘photosynthesis plan’! [A bin man comes to take Louise Tree away] 12 Even in a bin, you can still pho- [Louse Tree is tipped into the bin lorry with a sickening CRUNCH]

New Year New You, with Louise Tree

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.

➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

Excruciating barber experience please

I sold out of this print a while back, wish I'd made more. I think barbers must have been buying it lol

I think firms worrying about AI hallucination should consider some questions:
1) How vital is 100% accuracy on a task?
2) How accurate is AI?
3) How accurate is the human who would do it?
4) How do you know 2 & 3?
5) How do you deal with the fact that humans are not 100%?
Not all tasks are the same.

Peter Funch has photographed the same people on the same street for nine years.

via itsnicethat.com

The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy Why I've gotten more and more pessimistic about my relationship with Twitter.

Going back to the archives with a particularly relevant post from a year ago.

So far, Bluesky has mostly avoided the traps of the attention economy, but can it to sustain that? Or is it doomed to suffer the same fate as Twitter once it reaches critical mass (now)?

www.coryzue.com/writing/auth...

> I am not a good enough musician or a skilled enough critical listener to know[…]

I guess this is the whole point. Most people are not.

While it won't win any Grammys (for the time being…..🫣), it can fill many related roles in the music industry.

The infrastructure we build reflects our social dynamics, and our social dynamics are made possible by our infrastructure.

This thread has been long, and I have said everything I have to say. Thanks for listening. I hope we can build a good future for each other. 💜

a digital caliper measuring the thickness of a coin cell (2.5mm) but the caliper is made of metal, obviously shorting out the coin cell.

fun fact! the numbers in coin cell part numbers are dimensions. a CR2025 is 20mm diameter and 2.5mm thick!

Funny how looking at the current crop of decentralized social networks it feels like how twitter was supposed to be 17 years ago in the first place. A big fat protocol with a service built on top.

Seriously, feels like we totally jumped off the train the first time around.

Honest question: what happens now to the Mastodon/BlueSky dynamics? How long before we can natively bridge between the two protocols?

For context: according to FediDB, the entire Fediverse has close to 11M users (70% of which are attributed to Mastodon)

To all my fellow runners:
I wanted to try these new AI-powered code editors like Cursor and Cline for VSCode. So, as a quick project, I created a React app for calculating pace, distance, or time, given any two variables.
You can find it on https://run... https://crlzff.xyz/2024/11/08/to-all-my.html

And last year, a single vertical line of pixels suddenly burned out... That said, it's still working almost flawlessly. The most amazing thing is that the original battery still gives me close to a couple of hours of work.

Oh, let me tell you more... It was a floor model from a big box store when I bought it in late December 2013. I've never done any repairs, but the speakers did give out 2-3 years ago (they started crackling horribly, though it wasn't a big problem since I use earbuds most of the time).

Added Dark Mode support: https://crlzff.xyz/2024/10/24/added-dark-mode.html

Just upgraded from my MacBook Pro, Late 2012 to the new MacBook Air M3. That Pro served me faithfully for almost 11 years without a single issue - what a beast! Made me think about Apple’s legacy of amazing products… Jobs pulling that first Ai... https://crlzff.xyz/2024/10/24/just-upgraded-from.html

Currently reading: Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari

Currently reading: Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

"I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it—our life—hides from us, made in... https://crlzff.xyz/2024/10/18/how-proust-can.html

The 2038 Problem - Code Reliant

"“The 2038 problem" relates to an issue with how Unix-based systems store dates and timestamps."

"The core of the issue is that a 32-bit variable can only store integers up to 2147483647. Once the system clock t... https://crlzff.xyz/2024/03/06/the-problem-code.html

Question: Do you prefer to scroll the timeline here on Micro.blog, or just subscribe to everyone else’s feeds?

Prevalence-induced concept change

"Essentially “problem creep.” It explains that as we experience fewer problems, we don’t become more satisfied. We just lower our threshold for what we consider a problem. We end up with the sam... https://crlzff.xyz/2023/12/24/prevalenceinduced-concept-change.html

Admitting What Is Obvious - Every.to

"Billions of dollars in value are wasted every year by people doing the high-status thing they wish they felt compelled to do instead of the weird, low-status thing they actually want to do."

Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile? - Subconscious

"Blue-green algae did not win by competing symmetrically with anaerobes. It won by not competing. Photosynthesis was an asymmetric survival strategy. Nothing else did it. The market fo... https://crlzff.xyz/2023/11/14/why-did-the.html

Everything Easy is Hard Again - Frank Chimero

"In one way, it is easier to be inexperienced: you don’t have to learn what is no longer relevant. Experience, on the other hand, creates two distinct struggles: the first is to identify and unlea... https://crlzff.xyz/2023/11/13/everything-easy-is.html

From Living systems grow from simple seeds - Subconscious

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make ... https://crlzff.xyz/2023/11/06/from-living-systems.html

Innovation is overrated - Hey.com

"Innovation should almost never happen. It’s incredibly rare. It mostly happens by accident, not by intention. It’s wonderful when it does, but you merely fluctuate in and out of it, it’s not steady stat... https://crlzff.xyz/2023/10/18/innovation-is-overrated.html

Disney’s Downfall: The Rise and Fall of an Entertainment Giant - Plain English

"We often think of Disney as having a flywheel of all different components: merchandise, theme parks, TV, motion pictures. That’s true, but close to two-thirds o... https://crlzff.xyz/2023/10/12/disneys-downfall-the.html

Thinking together - Subconscious

"When a society hits the information scaling threshold, it stalls out. It can’t function until it invents new ways of making sense that can cope with the complexity of the information environment. ... https://crlzff.xyz/2023/10/11/thinking-together-subconscious.html

We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business - eyeondesign.aiga.org

"Over time, the total number of floppy users has gone down. However, the number of people who provided the product went down even faster. If you look at thos... https://crlzff.xyz/2023/10/08/we-spoke-with.html