Fall Break
This one has tunes, mopes and some good reading. Let's go!
It is funny how even though Summer is festival season, autumn is when all the good albums drop. Brògeal have a new one, as do Good Luck, Rauchen as well.
I can't quite say what it is a bout Brògeal that works for me. It is not exactly new music, it has a very specific touch to it that I enjoy.
Ah Good Luck is just a really good band. And this album is excellent.
Rauchen make heavy tunes. And they have grown a bunch in between records. This is fun. And they are good people as well.
Give them a spin.
Personally I've been caught in somewhat of a loop of not being able to really connect with things. I have read some books, they were great. But sometimes it seems like my time with video games has gone. They don't grab me anymore and most often I feel like they are something I do because I am used to it and not because I want to or they bring me anything. It is weird, because I am not yet used to doing anything else and I don't know how to get there. Anyhow, this video got washed into my youtube algorithm and resonated quite nicely with me.
What to do? I am thinking about downsizing the pc. Basically only turning it on for games and moving my work parts off to another smaller machine, that will not play games and just do office things. I am imagining a smaller footprint. But who knows if that is not just a way to get another machine to fiddle with into my life?
All of that wont stop me from doomscrolling. But hey, I am also quite mopey today, because I am running in not enough sleep.
To reject “AI” isn't to demand the restoration of some former glory of the utopian campus. There is no such place, as the original Greek reminds us; there never has been. Rather to reject “AI” involves a political and intellectual commitment to better institutions. And better institutions, better practices now not just off in some hand-wavy tomorrow.
jeffrey moro / Against Cop Shit
In conclusion: expel cop shit from your classrooms; expel cop shit from your hearts. We are educators. We are not cops. If you want to be a cop, I recommend you go be a cop. At least then you’ll wear a nice uniform that lets us know that you are not on our side.
attitudes around quitting your job | ava's blog
But the thing is: “You'll never know” goes both ways. If people stay, they'll never know how good it would have been to leave, either. I am not for throwing the towel at every slight hardship, but I think after a while, you can tell whether it is a tough but temporary phase or whether you have truly outgrown the job. One thing I learned this year is to spot that, because I mistook the latter for the former, and if I had seen the difference sooner, maybe there would be less bore-out exhaustion and resentment associated with the work for me internally.
“AI” will only harm, because “AI” is built by and built for men who actively seek to harm, men who seek power and hierarchy and (in particular) revenge. They will talk about “fairness.” They will point to the “biases” and the “weakness” in human decision-making process. But what they mean is that, over the course of the last few decades, other people – women, immigrants, people with disabilities, trans folks, queer folk, non-Christians, non-whites – have been allowed (in some cases) to be decision-makers too.
Saw an amazing sunset yesterday. It was so pretty. Have a good one!