Some notes on piracy
From a Kindle library to music, movies/TV shows and even video games, we don’t really own our media anymore. I have exactly four physical games for my Switch and I think two or three for the PS 4. The rest, adding up to a sickening amount of money, are all digital copies that I’m not guaranteed access to forever...permalink -->
Digital clutter
A messy home can really bring my mood down. I always feel a lot better when the floors are vacuumed and mopped and there isn’t a bunch of junk all over the table.
I feel the same way about my digital life. It almost gives me a stroke when I see someone with five or six home screens packed edge to edge with apps. Especially junk apps they installed to use one time and just left them there like some kind of barbarian.
Former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to shut down engines in-flight shares his story
On Friday night, the group took psychedelic mushrooms – a drug that can make you hallucinate and typically has effects that last a few hours.
“There was a feeling of being trapped, like, ‘Am I trapped in this airplane and now I’ll never go home?”
One time I ate weed brownies that were too strong and had to call off work the next day. This guy is just fucking crazy lol
COVID made me rethink my career
I’m just getting over a bad case of COVID, so that means back to work. It’s pretty sad to admit, but even with how shitty I’ve felt for the last 10 days, it was nice forgetting about the daily grind. I slept as much as I could every day, I caught up on a lot of good television and I finally got to spend some much needed quality time with my partner.
Man Spills Blue Cheese in Car, Interior Becomes Covered in Mold Overnight
…the closed car doors and lack of ventilation effectively created a greenhouse for the mold to grow, causing it to spread throughout the entirety of the vehicle, coating it in what looks like white film.
This definitely does not make blue cheese any less repulsive to me 🤢
No caption needed but the other side can have lynyrd skynyrd probably 😜
In ‘Fictional Nature,’ Fabian Knecht Encloses Live Trees and Craggy Stones in a White Cube Gallery
Walk into one of Fabian Knecht’s installations, and you’ll likely smell the dewy, herbal scent of moss and the sweet musk of wood, fragrant evidence of life growing amidst clinical, fluorescent lights and stark walls. Branches, grass, and water features appear as if they’ve been cut to fit the exact dimensions of the gallery and transported from their native habitats into the classic white cube.
Spent most of the morning digging through Robert Birming’s Blog Inspiration page. So many good posts and resources! birming.com/blog-insp…
What We Learned In Our First Year of 404 Media
A year ago today, we published a blog post called “Welcome to 404 Media.” In that post, we explained that the four of us quit our jobs to start something new, and set some goals for ourselves.
They grow up so fast 🥲🎂
I’m finally starting to get over this covid stuff. Still not back to 100% and I can’t really taste much but I’m feeling a lot better. In a couple days I’ll be back at work. Feels like post vacation depression honestly. I’m not ready to reintegrate with society yet!
No sick days
I’m on day four of COVID. Started feeling a little weird at work Friday and I woke up Saturday feeling like I got thrown down a flight of stairs. I told my boss I should be good just taking the weekend off and I’ll be back Monday.
Yeah, that didn’t take. I woke up feeling even worse Monday. I was so hoarse I could barely talk. Whatever I did manage to get out sounded like Darth Vader on his death bed.
Authors sue Anthropic for copyright infringement over AI training
The complaint, filed on Monday, opens new tab by writers and journalists Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson, said that Anthropic used pirated versions of their works and others to teach Claude to respond to human prompts.
It’s one thing to debate on whether or not it’s okay to train on publicly available data, or the ethics of ignoring Robots.txt but this is a company with billions of dollars in funding, literally pirating books to train AI
One of my favorite pics from that Blink 182 show. Idk why really, I’ve just never been that close to the cameraman lol
Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.
Representatives for LG and Samsung declined to comment to Ars Technica about how much of their respective company’s business is ad sales. But the deals they’ve made with data-collection firms signal big interest in turning their products into lucrative smart TVs. In this case, “smart” isn’t about Internet connectivity but rather how well the TV understands its viewer.
We’re literally turning into an Idiocracy
Mozilla’s New Logo Brings Back the Dinosaur Mascot (Kinda)
It could be viewed as a flag on a pole. Sort of like Mozilla planting its values in the ground to say “we’re here, come join”.
But it’s more likely a nod to the original Mozilla mascot (inherited from its Netscape beginnings), which was a red dinosaur (an interesting logo of itself as it was designed by Shepard Fairey who created other seminal design works, and the skate brand OBEY).
I’m a sucker for throwback design language and ASCII doodles. Wonder if this will stick?
