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I’m seeing some weird slowness on the forum tonight but nothing looks out of the ordinary on the dashboards. I will be able to take a deeper look tomorrow if it continues, my apologies.
Update: This should now be fixed. A brief post mortem can be found here.
‘AI and the Rise of Judgement Over Technical Skill’
As AI continues to evolve, we’ll see more roles shift from technical execution to strategic judgement. The most valuable professionals will be those who can:
Ask the right questions
Frame problems effectively
Make sound decisions
Provide meaningful direction to AI tools
Not a bad prediction.
‘I’d Rather Read the Prompt’
I now circle back to my main point: I have never seen any form of create generative model output (be that image, text, audio, or video) which I would rather see than the original prompt. The resulting output has less substance than the prompt and lacks any human vision in its creation
Everyone knows Enema of the State came out on June 1st, 1999. We've celebrated that anniversary for years. But what I forgot about until this year is that Pennywise released Straight Ahead on the exact same day.
Hold onto your promise, you can use it for a crutch
Pennywise - "Alien"
Stand by while all your dreams get trampled in the dust
Leave now before your slick machines begin to rust
Last chance farewell, among us
Listen: https://chorus.fm/share/alb...
28 Slightly Rude Notes on Writing
#16:
I worked in the Writing Center in college, and whenever a student came in with an essay, we were supposed to make sure it had two things: an argument (“thesis”) and a reason to make that argument (“motive”). Everybody understood what a “thesis” is, whether or not they actually had one. But nobody understood “motive”. If I asked a student why they wrote the essay in front of them, they’d look at me funny. “Because I had to,” they’d say.
Most writing is bad because it’s missing a motive. It feels dead because it hasn’t found its reason to live. You can’t accomplish a goal without having one in the first place—writing without a motive is like declaring war on no one in particular.
I recommend this entire thing.
This week’s wall picks. Added that Slick Shoes and Lagwagon album to the collection last week. Lagwagon binge hasn’t subsided.
May’s grid addition is a whole lot of running. Hannah convinced me to sign up for a 5K as part of this whole be healthier/improve cardio kick I have been on. Only goal was to finish and to not embarrass myself. I feel pretty good about the results; the sun got to me a little on the last mile.
May 2025
Most played this week. Funny how much longer (track number wise) some of those early punk albums are.
This was given to be my Justin of The Matches. I’m pretty sure no one else has anything like it.
26:23 is a new 5K PR. Fun run at the track this morning. Good grey skies for it. Strung Out in the headphones.
Yeah, it was a whole lotta Lagwagon this week. Started late last week and then just didn’t let up. Something about the sunny weather and my mood this week just had me continually going back to that well.