Brief, Assorted Thoughts

Government

  1. The current day: a stress test on the protective capability of federalism. What would the founding fathers think?
  2. Corruption here, corruption there… The difference this time is the visibility.
  3. The last thing they would want: educated citizens. Most state governments need federal funding. The Achilles heel.
  4. Wealth begets more wealth, by design…

Tech

  1. Three years later, and layoffs continue. How much "fat" can you trim in three years?
  2. Is it disturbing the scale which companies must operate to be profitable?
  3. Synthesis, synthesis, synthesis… Revolutionary things are usually simple. See Rust borrow checker.
  4. Corporate technology has hardly produced revolutionary things lately. AI their current herald, results uncertain…
  5. A man laid off, posted his experience online: comments include "welcome back to reality"; "get a job at a no name company."
  6. No difference between a well paid laborer and a scarcely paid laborer. Most important: both humans. Both in unjust systems.
  7. Workers are inclined to do everything except interrogate the premise of capitalism…
  8. A friend told me: "You're paid too much." I told him: "You are not paid enough" (and then discussed cost of housing).
  9. AI use is revolutionary for outliers in cognitive capability. They do not constitute a worthwhile market.

Pets

  1. Incredible

Work

  1. Mundane, mundane, mundane…
  2. Please lock me in a room alone and let me toil. Problem: this does not exist. Oh well.

Being

  1. Sometimes I suddenly remember that I have free will and can write whatever I want, despite the fact I am mentally ill… Weil's Need for Roots (lovingly).
  2. I either am excited that one day all this shall end, or I need to just vanish from the world for a few months. I only recently returned to society…
  3. Oh well. Doomed to be nothing, exiled on both axes.
  4. So be it.
  5. Heraclitus, the idea that there is no stable me. Maybe self-hatred is more of a regular hatred, just directed towards those prior distinct beings.
  6. Wish I could freeze time, unbecome and return to non-being for a few months, and return…
  7. Why?

Music

  1. Sometimes the most appropriate response is to cry…

I want to return this firmware to its creator.