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The Verge: “People immediately grasp the potential for AI to simplify and streamline their daily lives but still prefer humans for more personal tasks like dating.”

Joaquin Phoenix: False.

My brother and I did a song swap and wrote reaction posts.

• https://blakewatson.com/journal/song-swap-kayama/
  – https://www.mattwatson.org/blog/20240425-song-swap-lilac-wine/

“The old pencil has a point of view on being a pencil. The new one is like a simulacrum of a pencil.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLwo1kOcwxs

A thing happens to me on Mastodon that never did on Facebook or Twitter. When I’m not around for a few days I feel kinda bad that I’m not liking/boosting all the cool things yall are writing and making.

I’ve been listening to this ODESZA album as an afternoon pick-me-up.

https://album.link/s/0xVucRYJf5luWLekMGYh3i

I may have purchased a new domain name.

OH: “I should have run for president this year, since I turned 35 last year, but it just seemed like too much of a commitment.”

I need ideas for my About page on my personal site. What are some interesting ones yall have seen? (Feel free to say your own lol)

This Last Week Tonight segment about Medicaid is spot on. I’m not too dissimilar from one of the disabled women featured in this segment.

I rely on caregivers to get out of bed every day. I’m able to work only because I have access to this care.

But I’m always worried that one day I’ll find out I’m losing everything. It nearly happened one time on a technicality. Fortunately I was able to course correct. But many aren’t so lucky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVIsnOfNfCo

@adam @cory dang yeah didn’t think of that. Welp, one small silver lining for me is the validation me and @mhilltopple get for spending 2 weeks at Christmas making our own Discord. https://blakewatson.com/journal/building-our-own-private-discord-knockoff/

@adam @cory I just clicked the request removal link lol

@adam @cory How are they getting Discord data? Bots?

No one: …

Logitech: Here’s a mouse with AI

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/signature-ai-edition-m750-wireless-mouse.910-007396.html

I mean suddenly every open graph image I see is dynamic. But yall all do it differently. Wild.

How are yall doing these dynamic open graph images? I’m porting/re-aligning my website to @eleventy and I’d like to upgrade my default boring open graph image.

One day I’ll be able to implement a CSS counter without looking everything up, but today is not that day.

Oh snap EchoFeed is out! https://echofeed.app

What do people use for supplying user styles to webpages?

I know about the browser extensions, Stylus (ie, Stylish without spyware) and Stylebot.

And I know Arc has Boosts.