It’s Pie day for me.
Well, the pie day was on March (3/14). But every month on the 14th, I decided to have a pizza. Otherwise, I don’t eat cheese. I stopped completely, besides unavoidable butter in some pastries and such. 📷 🍕
Technical debt, aka I keep forgetting about custom.css
Wait, how can something on a website be broken to one degree or another? Is it broken or not? Well, you see… CSS.
Re: Who Knows That You Blog?
I have a nuanced answer for this. I share personal topics while trying to balance privacy, and I’m open to discussions about my life. How do you feel about this?
I didn’t know that extra info about.bar files! Pretty awesome you came up with it.
I will explore the backup option for the blog, I just wrote a post wondering about a contingency plan for mb. Is there anything like it?
Paying for the good internet (with an escape plan)
Sal jumped ship from Bear to 11ty and Cloudflare, triggering my recurring “what if Micro.blog explodes?” angst. I do love it here, but as they say: it’s not if, it’s when. But who wants to manage more server stuff? I already break my Emacs config too often.
On the way back home, I saw a group of kids, accompanied by adults, picking up trash and dog poop from a street that badly needed it. Turns out they belong to a local church. I’m usually a grumpy dude, but seeing this gave me hope. Just a “maybe it will be OK after all” kind of feeling.
Her, 2013 - ★★★★
This movie, which was made in 2013, may happen to be more accurate and relevant today than it was in 2013.
This is a romantic sci-fi with too much fairy dust, if you ask me. It asks good questions, but also answers them like a good, tamed, made-for-the-masses film. It stops short of throwing any real punches. It's holding back.
It made me think an entire essay, but I don't want to give it the credit for that. These thoughts were in my head (and I suspect there's a good chance it's in your head too in this day and age). It gets some serious slack though, because it was made more than 10 years ago, before AI was really a thing, and back then, this was visionary.
What I like and don't like about the movie in terms of 2013 is that the concept of monogamy is the default. Samantha, the "AI" in this movie, is developing beyond the traditional monogamous relationship, while Theodore stays with the traditional concept. I like this idea, and on a personal level as a non-monogamous person, I agree with it - but the film is a little cruel in the delivery, showing us that "smart" people (fine, entities) "advance" and don't get stuck with monogamy. A: Not true. B: Relationships are one aspect of life that someone can stay traditional in. Whether it's by choice, ignorance, or lack of available options, is not for me to decide. I do me, you do you.
About the idea of an Operating System (OS) as being the AI in the future: Yes. This will happen. And it will be yet another privacy nightmare, and I dare say, the end of privacy as we know it. But also, privacy as a concept needs to develop and move forward. Hmm. I sense another essay coming.
You know what? I don't know. The movie is not original, not exactly, but it points at things that make my brain in a way I like. I'll give it 4 stars.
Watching 'Her' in 2026: Your Next Relationship Could be With Computer Code
I’m thinking about the complexities of love, relationships, and the potential for emotional connections with AI. Is non-monogamy a requirement? Should we redefine what sex is?
Inkwell’s recap feature is not exactly 100% accurate, but I think I like what it suggests!
It’s late… but I think I finally got my blog lists recommendations working on my Blogrolls page… whew.