Doomy Doomy Doomy Doom Doom Doom The End

have you considered that it's you who is old, and not the email draft?

While I was typing up some documents this afternoon, I needed a throwaway email address to receive some information.

So I logged into an older account I have, then clicked the drafts folder. I found a draft of an email from 2017.

The body read, "This email will have to wait." I guess I must have been hyperliteral at the time, since it's now been waiting for eight years.

It's always annoying when a work of fiction presents a "revelation" that you didn't even realize was supposed to not be known. In Jennifer Government, there's a bit where this guy is infiltrating the villainous organization having copied the identity of a member of that organization. He meets a guy whose name is the same as his cover name, and a bit later he suddenly discovers that this is the person he's disguised as! In one Ghost in the Shell episode, they're looking through the pictures taken by a murder victim -- in a world where cybernetic implants are common, and which are clearly taken from his eyes rather than a camera -- and then much much later one of these crack professional detectives realizes that there's no camera and this is the key clue he needs to blow open the case. Even if I might buy someone from our time missing that, this guy lives in a world where such things are commonplace! How does he not realize this?

Just read about the port strike attempt. Yeah, why not simply automate the ports? Bring in the robots.

Fun game: Try to catch yourself thinking irrationally before any erroneous thought has a chance to lead you astray.

You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.

Carl Jung (via qvotable)

people should learn more history so that when it comes time to make comparisons it’s not Everything Is Transatlantic Slavery Or The Holocaust

TIL: early movable-type printers would store the normal letters in a case on a bottom shelf, and the capital letters in another case on a top shelf, and that’s where the terms “upper case” and “lower case” come from.

I refuse to have a LinkedIn, it itches my body everytime I've tried setting up an account

Internet likes from distant friends or total strangers hold more weight than those from close friends and family, who are biased and feel obligated to like you.

Today I learned raw image files are sometimes incorrectly described as "digital negatives". Like transparency film and unlike negative film, raw image pixels contain positive exposure measurements. The raw datasets are more like undeveloped film: a raw image can be developed by software in a non-destructive manner to reach a complete image that resolves every pixel in an RGB color space.