Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. I have been hearing news about the coming of Spring and this weekend I intend to fully investigate. Don't be my boss emailing me at 5:05 on a Friday with something with a deadline. I'll be elsewhere. have a good weekend.

Image credit: Miami University Libraries, on Flickr Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/muohio_digital_collections/3193617949/

Made a short post on my blog about Tracy Kidder and the nostalgia hole I've been in over the past few days.

https://www.jessamyn.com/journal/2026/03/tracy-kidder-rip

RIP to a real one.

The Soul of a New Machine may be the best technology book written, but House was a beautifully-crafted and deeply humanist book. Funny too!

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/books/tracy-kidder-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V1A.Q-jg.JJqQwhmKtnD2&smid=nytcore-ios-share

New definition of ‘human in the loop’ just dropped:

Mr Rae said assessors could not override the algorithm but said humans were involved in every step of the assessment process.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-24/aged-care-algorithm-for-home-care-under-fire/106475138

If George Floyd was the catalyzing event that finally radicalized me against police, AI is the event that has truly radicalized me against capitalism.

Before: "yeah it's bad and sucks and hurts us, but like...idk"
Me now: "jesus christ burn it to the ground, it is simply a parasite on even the ECONOMY let alone the people."

AI truly feels like a pinnacle of extraction of workers and environment. To turn the world into a theme park for the wealthy. It makes me think of a...post somewhere online that's like "If you want to live in a walkable city but all the people working at restaurants and coffee shops can't afford to live there, you're living in a theme park." It's what they want. Because service industry jobs WILL still exist, but everything that makes us human will be extracted and sold. I might feel differently if that money were, i don't know, given back to us. But it never would be, never could be.

And it is ever more painful because I nearly feel like I *must* use it or be fired in short time if it comes to light I haven't been. If I don't, I will be unable to pay rent and they will hire someone else (IF ANYBODY?) to extract more from. And it'll be me and many people (so many more qualified than me, at that) competing for the scraps of not-all-in-on AI companies of which there will be increasingly few. Where are my morals except given away to the dollar for survival. Or competing for trade schools or whatever husks remain.