gru:Bz
Average millennial living life on the edge (of the Midwest). Probably too immature for Micro.blog but I like it here.
I'm STILL obsessed with Warp Terminal
I posted about this a few weeks ago but man Warp Terminal is a godsend. I know there’s plenty of debate around using AI for writing or generating silly little images, but Warp integrates it into the terminal SO WELL!
I’ve been dealing with a lot of issues with the Surface Linux kernel over the last few updates because it broke so many things on Debian 12. One update couldn’t load the filesystem right, the next one broke wired connections and only WiFi worked, then the next update broke WiFi and only wired connections worked.
I’m still skeptical about the drone sightings around the country but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t intrigued 👀
I like Neil deGrasse Tyson’s tongue in cheek comment on whether or not they’re aliens:
“I can’t claim to know the motives of aliens…but of all the places to show up on earth, they pick New Jersey‽”
I’m just not sure aliens would comply with FAA lighting requirements like these drones do though 😆
Thoughts on Meta and the TikTok ban
I get in at least a few hours of TikTok brainrot every week. It reminds me of Vine for the obvious reasons, only with a bunch of ads, sponsored posts and about the same amount of viral misinformation as Facebook: a metric fuckton. And as a bonus, both collect a nauseating amount of data from whatever devices you’ve installed them on.
But they’re entertaining.
I’m a broken record about this but ever since Twitter went to shit I’ve become pretty comfortable joining new social networks on a whim and deleting my account out of the blue if I get bored or fed up. There are just too many options out there. I’ve built my home base on Micro.blog because of its die-hard indie web roots; just about everything else is for doomscrolling and shitposting as far as I’m concerned.
That said, I fully support the TikTok ban - as long as Meta gets the same treatment.
Both are two sides of the same coin, but an American oligarch owns one half of that coin while China owns the other. If Meta was based in Beijing you can bet your ass it would be on the chopping block for the exact reasons as TikTok.
But it’s not, so it’s going to be fine.
That’s the post.
‘Malcolm in the Middle’ cast to reunite for new episodes
Frankie Muniz, Bryan Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek are reuniting for a new four-episode run of “Malcolm in the Middle” for Disney+ — 25 years after the beloved sitcom first launched.
I love this show. Who doesn’t? Hoping the new episodes will be a little longer since there are only four of them but either way I’ll take it!
Going back to Skyrim
I’ve never been a big gamer aside from cute Nintendo stuff. When Skyrim came out (what, like 12 or 13 years ago?) the most powerful hardware in my house was a 2011 MacBook Pro.
Everyone was obsessed so I found a… not so legit copy with a janky Wine wrapper so I could play it on OS X, albeit with all the graphics settings turned way down. It was super buggy but I still made it pretty far before I eventually gave up and forgot about it.
Finally picked up a legit copy for the Switch all these years later and it’s still such a good game!
I know the Switch is pretty underpowered compared to other modern consoles but this is a million times better than the first time I played it. Makes me want to revisit Oblivion now too. I don’t even know if they have anything new in the series lol if so maybe I’ll play that in ten years.
One day I’ll own a flannel that isn’t made out of polyester.
What makes a blog personal?
Will Luigi Mangione’s tipster get the $60K reward? It’s complicated
…it’s not guaranteed that any one individual will get the full $60,000, especially considering taxes and the possibility of the reward being split between multiple people.
NYPD officials said more than 400 tips came in during the five-day period, with about 30 of them proving useful about the gunman’s whereabouts
Never trust a cop lmao this thing is going to pay out like a class action lawsuit.
Drones over Jersey
This Is How Political Violence Goes Mainstream
Experts have different theories as to what’s driving this, but many agree that we’re due for more acts of political violence before the trend dissipates.
The original title I saw in my RSS feed was “Luigi Mangione and the Era of Normie Extremism” before they immediately changed it lol. Wild how every big news outlet thinks they need to over analyze this into oblivion. “Normies” are sick of living in a world tailored to the wealthy. Simple as that.
NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’
In the game, called “Among Us,”
Only context you need 😂
The Onion’s Infowars Bid Gets Blocked
In a statement, an attorney for the families told The New York Times that they “remain resilient and determined as ever to hold Alex Jones and his corrupt businesses accountable for the harm he has caused.”
Alex Jones won’t be held accountable. He’s learned nothing from this legal battle considering he still talks shit about the Sandy Hook families every chance he gets. Half of our government is being replaced with the same kind of batshit crazy radical right conspiracy theorists as we speak.
Some days are just bad, and that's ok
I have this delusion where I feel like everyone should be happy all the time. That’s what I was chasing the better part of a decade ago when I was battling with addiction and it’s the illusion I put on every day as a salesguy.
It’s not polite to tell people what you really think or how you really feel. At least not in rural America. It’s easier to pretend like you’re always happy and nothing ever goes wrong. Social media is excellent at amplifying this.
It’s pretty good at rage baiting and pitting us against each other too, but it’s mostly a place where you only show the best parts of yourself. Your best camera angle, the highlights of your vacation, the new promotion you just got.
It’s easy to forget that life has phases and cycles. Everything comes and goes in waves.
It’s okay to be pissed off sometimes, or depressed, or anxious. Everyone does it.
It’s about yin and yang right? You can’t have peaks without valleys.
‘Polarization’ is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year: ‘Something everyone agrees on’
Oxford University chose brain rot and the Macquarie Dictionary picked enshittification. I’m noticing a trend here 🤔
More on echo chambers
US Food and Drug Administration moves to ban red food dye
Red 3 is used in nearly 3,000 different food products, according to a database by one environmental health group, including Pez, Peeps, Betty Crocker’s products and Dubble Bubble chewing gum. Like other food dyes, it adds nothing of nutritional value and is used instead to add color to foods for marketing purposes.
I’ve always thought adding dye to everything we eat is dumb. Like how they add red dye to raw meat to make it look like it’s bleeding. o.O
…also Crystal Pepsi tastes the same as regular Pepsi. I’ll die on this hill.
Mariah Carey Denies That Her Holiday Video Is AI Slop, But We’re Not Convinced, for Obvious Reasons
The video…immediately felt off: the diva’s lips didn’t match up with her words, she was swaying strangely, and her perfectly-coiffed blonde hair was moving in peculiar ways.
Plot twist: Mariah Carey has been a robot all along 🤪
New obsession: I got this box of natural gum the other day. It’s made with organic xylitol, chicle gum, spruce gum and a bunch of other organic ingredients that come from tree saps. I like the natural piney flavor and it’s supposedly really good for your teeth. Trees have so much to offer 😌
‘Hawk Tuah’ Creator Haliey Welch Criticized For Memecoin Launch After Price Crashes
I wondered why “hawk tuah” was trending across social media again. I didn’t even read this article; the title says it all. Literally every cryptocurrency ‘project’ follows the same process.
Build hype around a new coin which is literally just a copy of the 20,000 different ones that came before it.
Promise a bunch of people on twitter that you’ve locked your entire holdings for X amount of years because you have a long term vision for it. Tell everyone you haven’t sold a single coin and you don’t plan on it. At least not for the foreseeable future. You might have a staking plan to make your investors passive income until the end of time, maybe a NFT project or an airdrop in a year (or three) for all the diamond hand holders.
We’re all gonna make it!
You aren’t doing this to make a quick buck, you tell your investors. This is a real project with real world utility. It looks exactly the same as last week’s big meme coin but you promise everyone it’s truly unique and different. This is going to be the biggest transfer of wealth in history!!11!
Publish the official contract address so no one buys the wrong thing and gets scammed - remember - this is definitely not a scam but there are so many scammers out there who want to steal the generational wealth you’re about to make!
The coin goes live, the people who got in early dump on all the dipshits who are YOLOing their life savings into it, it crashes and you assure everyone that it’s all going to be fine. Crypto is a volatile market after all. We’re definitely all still going to make it, you just have to hold until the next phase of this cycle.
Sure, it’s possible to make a lot of money if you learn how to play the market and exploit the greater fool, but then you can do the same thing selling crack too.
You know, Micro.blog’s comment system has its quirks, but it’s by far my favorite. It’s so true to the social web with how you can comment on Micro.blog, Mastodon or Bluesky. Those are the only social networks I really care about and they’re all able to comment on my blog natively.