solitarywalker

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I don't think a person can fit into this little box. (Or if I can, I would rather think that I can't.)
#writing #bookbinding #woodworking #nobots

The sculpture "Love" by Ukrainian artist Alexandr Milov, shown at the Burning Man festival in 2015. 

#Art #Artwork #Artist #sculpture

The #Mac #Neo has some fancy exploit-proof technology to make a light show on the screen whenever the camera is on. So if the camera is turned on by an unintentional or malicious process and you're looking at the screen and the light doesn't blend in with the background, you'll know the camera's on and can wave to whoever's watching!

Somehow that still doesn't seem as good as a piece of tape that lets you control whether the camera is on?

It seems like I've been on hold for hours but really it's just the muzak stuck in my head
97% of people trust unsourced statistics.
When exactly did we start to think that the point of humans was to be productive, instead of thinking that the point of productivity was to take care of humans?

The Guardian: ‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice

#tourism #fascism #ice #USpol

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’

The Guardian
... so basically "can god create a ditch so wide he can't jump over it?", except with data centers!
Why can't AI be used to deshittify instead of enshittify? It'd be great if it could defeat captchas, get me past the chatbot so I can talk to a person, filter slop out of search results...
Always buy frames with real glass in case you want to smash them later. (Plexiglass is so unsatisfying.)
I'm getting tired of dreams keeping me awake.