John Wilson

@crazybutable
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An unlikely quantum superposition of the best dad in the universe and the worst dad in the universe, according to my children anyway.

Terminally online since 1996. Interests include DIY #synthesizers, #photography, #cooking and #woodcarving. He/him.

Websitehttps://www.crazybutable.com
Youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/@crazybutable

I loved how easy it was to set an icon for a device on Mac OS (I used a Mac at work and Windows at home)

I named the flash drive that I used to move data back and forth between home and work "Scotty" because it transported files.

New #AI slop: “another angle” of an already viral video.

People will do anything for two second of attention except something interesting.

Day four of this headache is really getting old

So Chinese hospital ships are now in the Carribean, helping Jamaica.♥️🕊️

It's fascinating that we're all getting front row seats to see if threats and violence (US approach), or compliments and assistance (Chinese approach) will be more effective by 2030 at securing resources from developing nations.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A7I7j-q-Rhs

Prior to the 21st century, the most effective way for an empire to build wealth, was unquestionably "Kill the Black and brown people, and steal their stuff."

The empires growing weath the fastest, were the most belligerent. Dutch. British. American.

But in the 21st century, that's less effective.🤷🏿‍♂️

In the 21st century the superpower growing wealth the fastest, is by far the least belligerent, least imperial, least colonizing.

(I didn't say zero violent or zero colonizing. I said least. If you've never taken even one African history course or lived on the continent, don't try to speak on this)

Shout out to everyone that will misread this as being pro-China. This has nothing to do with China. Americans, this has 100% to do with us.

You can't change another nation's approach. You can only change your own.

We can't stop their hospital ship from docking. But we can send ours.

Compete.

Chinese medical ship a lifeline, says Fray

YouTube

"Too Perfect" — thoughts on a certain landscape photography contest's results, and some head scratching about landscape photography in general in my latest blog post:

https://www.alex-kunz.com/too-perfect/

#PhotoBlog #BlogPost #LandscapePhotography #PhotoContest

Too Perfect

It’s the time of the year when “certain photo contest” results are being published and, in what some might consider a slightly unhealthy obsession I guess, I am of course somewhat irritated again that…

Alexander S. Kunz Photography

Just got home. I’m so sick and all I want to do is start organizing and cleaning the #darkroom

However my actual capacity is “barely able to hold the phone up and type”

I was feeling better earlier when we got home but unpacking the van in 14 degree weather with stupid winds just took everything out of me

Google Antigravity vibe-codes user's entire drive out of existence

: Caveat coder

The Register

Nearly everyone in the family is sick and it’s time to drive home from the funeral. We have a day between major snowstorms to work with here, so we can’t stay an extra day.

I feel fine when I am sitting down but when I sit up I feel awful. Fun times!

This whole trip I have been missing analog photography. I am looking at my iPhone camera with disdain and cannot even imagine caring about using it. That said, everyone is posting such lovely pictures I feel like I have to do something

Mark Littlejohn, a fabulous photographer who now lives on the North West coast of Scotland (not on here, I believe) has a great post in On Landscape (https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2025/12/a-wander-down-near-garve/). "Why should my pictures be sombre replications of the world around me?" "I like to look at the end result and sigh happily. To look at a finished image with a smile. Knowing that I’ve managed to replicate what it was that I saw in my mind's eye when I took the original image."
A Wander down near Garve | On Landscape

To look at a finished image with a smile. Knowing that I’ve managed to replicate what it was that I saw in my mind's eye when I took the original image.