Oh nice, it doesn’t pull the knot too tight?

Ah, according to Anthropic. Yep, straight into the toilet with the rest of the slop.

I was just thinking that the one thing the race to the bottom has not yet replaced with a cheaper, enshittified version is death. Love, friendship, food, urbanization, yes.

From Forbes:

Quoting directly from Schrödinger’s diaries, Moore revealed that the physicist justified his attraction to girls by considering that, being a genius (which he believed no woman ever could be), he was naturally entitled. “It seems to be the usual thing that men of strong, genuine intellectuality are immensely attracted only by women who, forming the very beginning of the intellectual series, are as nearly connected to the preferred springs of nature as they themselves. Nothing intermediate will do, since no woman will ever approach nearer to genius by intellectual education than some unintellectuals do by birth so to speak.”

TIL. Ugh.

Generally seems like the right message, but there are plenty of third factors that might be a more direct cause — amount of drugs, microplastics, pesticides, etc in the environment / food.

This may be referencing a chart from CNN’s report on Small Arms Survey data, which includes many other statistics making the same point. Here’s another:

A while back I needed to widen a doorway that had been built undersized and prevented moving our broken-at-the-time washing machine. It took months until a carpenter was on site and could do it as a side project, since I couldn’t find the precise sizes of wood to match the remaining trim.

Since then I purchased a table saw, and now being able to rip boards to arbitrary widths I look back on that project and see why the carpenter said it was easy.

All to say, eventually there’s a critical mass of tools/materials that begins to make jobs faster.

In the “hire someone” vein, setting an artificial deadline can sometimes help. “If I don’t build the X by Y myself, then we just go buy it.”

As with anything, momentum builds too. If it’s not something that has a lot of constraints, just looking for one little step is easier to accept than Starting The Project. Like, I’m not necessarily going to frame the new opening today, just cut a hole in the wall in the back of the closet. May depend on housemates’ tolerance. But often just getting into the workshop is enough to overcome activation energy for me.

Data is beautiful, humanity has a real horrifying underbelly.

Or, ‘sun in the morning helps you wake up.’ Assuming I’m not missing anything by skimming.

At least it doesn’t seem to be AI generated!

I’ve been enjoying FairEmail. Nice to have options like ‘would you like to remove sensitive data before attaching this image’ instead of ‘do you wish you could turn off this AI bloat’.

Like I said, working on it. But you know, this evening do I try to dismantle ICE, cook dinner, play a game, or research email providers? Lots of competing priorities in life, let’s celebrate the wins.

Thanks. Yes, Google had been evil for a long time, probably before they removed “don’t be evil.” No, let’s not be gatekeepers.

Looked interesting but wow it’s ad encrusted.

Got a subscription, haven’t looked back.

Here’s what my search results look like. No ads, no AI summary (I turned that off for me), no Pinterest (again, control I have).

Got a screw loose.

Getting ready to unleash a barrage of tiny weapons.

Do post again if you figure it out!

I’d never heard of tie-on pockets. Cool!