Billie Jean off the top off my head.

EDIT: Ghetto Life by Rick James as well.

Switched to Deezer after their CEO started cashing in on AI warfare, haven’t looked back since.

Only heard of them through an endless stream of YouTube sponsorships, but apparently their food sometimes comes with a side of listeria.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2025/10/07/hellofresh-meals-may-contain-listeria-contaminated-spinach-usda-says/

Um. Do you have something against declarative programming?

I recently installed Linux on an old laptop and decided to try out Cosmic alpha 7. I’ve been running I3 on my desktop and wanted a Wayland DE that keeps the tiling features, and I’ve been happy to find out that Cosmic alpha is 90% there despite still having some fairly significant bugs. I don’t find it especially exciting, but it’s functional without having to invest the time into setting up all the features of a DE inside a tiling WM.

I’ve recently come to the conclusion that those who feel that they easily fit in to all societal expectations have lost touch with their authenticity. The Jungian persona might be the best source for an in-depth analysis of this.

How to crash your software and hardware at once.

Some interesting tidbits from Wikipedia:

Activity that could be called colonialism has a long history, starting at least as early as the ancient Egyptians. Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans founded colonies in antiquity. Phoenicia had an enterprising maritime trading-culture that spread across the Mediterranean from 1550 BC to 300 BC; later the Persian Empire and various Greek city-states continued on this line of setting up colonies. The Romans would soon follow, setting up coloniae throughout the Mediterranean, in North Africa, and in Western Asia.

The Japanese colonial empire began in the mid-19th century with the settler colonization of Hokkaido and the destruction of the island’s indigenous Ainu people before moving onto the Ryukyu Islands (the indigenous Ryukyuan people survived colonization more intact). After the Meiji Restoration, Japan more formally developed its colonial policies with the help of European advisors. The stated purpose from the beginning was to compensate for the lack of resources on the main islands of Japan by securing control over natural resources in Asia for its own economic development and industrialization, not unlike its European counterparts. Japan defeated China in the First Sino-Japanese War to control Korea and the island of Formosa, now Taiwan, and later fought off the Russian Empire to control Port Arthur and South Sakhalin.

While colonies of contiguous empires have been historically excluded, they can be seen as colonies. Contemporary expansion of colonies is seen by some in case of Russian imperialism and Chinese imperialism. There is also ongoing debate in academia about Zionism as settler colonialism.

Of course, historical facts rarely matter when it comes to rhetoric like this.

Haven’t tried it out, but there are some free Nextcloud hosts listed on the official website.

Love nushell. It’s just about the most practical functional programming language I’ve ever had the pleasure of using.

I’m using fish as my default shell since it’s more standards-compliant and plays nicer with tools that modify your environment. But any time I need to do more complicated shell scripting, I’m breaking out nushell.

life entails inevitable suffering, death is inevitable, and humans are born without their consent

Doesn’t that apply to all living beings? Wouldn’t that mean that the morally correct thing to do is to prevent all organisms from procreating, as it inevitably leads to more suffering?

Um. I mean, I get what you mean. But two of those are essential nutrients.

darkness falls
on old days of life
of a fool

I’m not much for small talk. Instead of following a formula, I try to find a way to be genuinely interested in the other person, then ask questions without making them uncomfortable. For me this has been the best way to get to know people I get along with.

You doing okay there buddy?

I’ve realized that in my society, more or less, being human in general is worthless. Or more accurately, a person is as valuable as their latest income statement. I don’t evaluate any person this way. Therefore I refuse to evaluate myself this way.

People’s judgments are endless and contradictory. Because of this, many of us make their best effort to blend into the crowd, trying to conceal every part of themselves that doesn’t fit into the norms. I’ve always taken this to mean that I should be true to myself. This makes a lot of people angry, but that just makes it easier to tell who should I avoid.

A few years ago I started a community that has now outgrown me. I made a few close (mostly female) friends, and as an introvert that’s enough for me. I’m now more focused on strengthening those ties, keeping a door open for others who’d like to be part of my life.

In general, I try to live for my values, avoiding all ideologies, belief systems, political systems and other -isms. The more I go into this process, I’m finding my newer relationships more stable and fulfilling, even if not always easy to come by.

We live in an infinite universe. As such, it seems hubristic to me to believe that we have, more or less, nature figured out.

I don’t feel compelled to believe in the soul as some strange sort of object that is continuously reincarnated towards a great purpose. But if we consider consciousness as an energy of its own kind, then it should hold true that it cannot be created or destroyed, only change form. This could mean that the consciousness that resides in the body could move between different life forms like a fluid, freely mixing and melding with others, filling a new vessel as necessary.

Ah, you’re referring to the tendency of certain narcissistic people to treat others as an extension of themselves. That’s certainly not what I mean.

The golden rule works for the most part, but it also needs to create the Other to work. What I’m thinking about is closer to the philosophy of Ubuntu, sometimes stated as “I am because we are”.

Seems to me that someone who hates themselves is living with a tremendous shadow that completely cuts them off from unconditional love. Thus one lives in a constant state of war against themselves. I always enjoyed this clip of Alan Watts reading Carl Jung’s thoughts on the subject.

What is it if you don’t love yourself?