Courtney

Old man perpetually tilting at windmills and stepping on rakes.

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2025-05-30 20:39:15

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@nprofile…xlhv Aww, thanks Jake!

2025-05-28 00:19:15

Brought to you by the letter B for Browser Company:
https://circlejerk.blog/the-last-tab

2025-05-12 01:52:08

I just had a bowl of Lucky Charms cereal for dinner. Today has truly been an exceptional day.

2025-04-26 16:32:59

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@nprofile…4jfv I regret that I have but one updoot to give. Pitch perfect and incredibly addressed.

2025-04-16 16:36:33

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@nprofile…xlhv A month or so ago, I wrote about taking less pictures and being more present. I still think that's a healthy aspiration (for me, at least), but this feels a bit ambiguous. On the one hand, OCR functionality in phones these days is incredible; extracting a quote from a photo is seamless. On the other hand, it seems a bit counterintuitive, slamming together the digital with the physical like this—takes me out of the moment a bit, and I probably look funny on the train!

2025-04-16 16:30:06

Mundane Living #3
I started reading physical books again last year, and while I’ve enjoyed the analog aspect—admittedly calling it “analog” feels pretentious—I’ve developed a peculiar habit. Is it strange that I use my phone to take pictures of interesting passages? I suspect it’d be more normal to mark-up the page, affix a note, or jot down the quote itself. Instead, I introduce a digital intermediary, capturing pictures that I’m unlikely to ever revisit, yet somehow collecting peace of mind.

2025-04-14 13:21:13

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@nprofile…xlhv I assume the government sanctioned way is to invite the journalist to your Signal chats.

2025-04-03 01:54:31

Tomorrow is going to be a stock market fire sale, isn’t it?

2025-03-29 22:40:49

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@nprofile…xlhv Yeah, ‘soul’ might not be the best word choice. You touched on a couple of good alternatives, and @nprofile…45ny offered ‘emotional weight’ — better as well. I recognize how impressive the technology is, but at what point do we collectively recognize the core humanity that we’re debasing in the name of cheap, throwaway ‘creativity’?

2025-03-29 19:28:57

While I appreciate the fascination with generative AI, I can’t help but feel like the images people have been sharing lack something painfully apparent, yet difficult to grasp. There’s a weight to Studio Ghibli animations that feels missing—bereft of that soul, the images seem more hollow. The pieces are there, but somehow the sum is less than its parts. Capturing the essence of something isn’t always as simple as aping its style.

2025-03-20 15:52:11

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@nprofile…zvdk @nprofile…xlhv I'm forever partial to Windows 2000.

2025-03-15 20:31:21

An experiment of social media in reverse. Unfollowing non-mutuals and shifting to feeds wherever possible.

2025-03-12 13:13:44

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@nprofile…xlhv The machine is still hungry. Change the diet. It'll still eat.

2025-03-11 19:20:02

I used to host a close friend's public journal on a subdomain. Our friendship kind of teetered precariously while I was away for college, eventually fading away in the years since. Revisiting my own writing from that period is uncomfortable enough, but reading her entries feels like a profound violation, a bizarre and unsettling intrusion. Mostly, I just want to smack myself for what I put her through during those years.

2025-03-07 19:39:37

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@nprofile…xlhv LOL, it's embarrassing. I'll shoot you a DM.

2025-03-07 19:31:02

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@nprofile…xlhv @nprofile…0as9 @nprofile…2skd Somehow, against the odds, I didn't lose a 3.5" floppy with my GeoCities site over 25 years of carting it around. A year or so back I finally pulled all the files off so they can live on in better long-term storage.
So many terrible 88x31 graphics. Oh, and HTML image maps. Good times.

2025-03-07 18:09:48

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@nprofile…xlhv LOL, I'm probably inventing a term for something that's already named something else. I didn't know what else to call them 😀
For example, Lou and Jedda have one for all of the blogs listed in blogroll.club

2025-03-07 15:05:00

I admit defeat. I've finally started moving off of aggregated RSS mega-feeds. At this point, there's simply too much noise. Unfortunately this is a pretty manual, curation process.

2025-03-05 13:31:41

If I can’t tell how much of your writing is AI-generated, but you’ve made it clear that it’s non-zero, then that isn’t some great victory. It feels like deception, and you’ve lost me as a reader. Automating drudgery is one thing; subverting creativity is another entirely.

2025-02-27 16:00:14

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@nprofile…xlhv A friend of mine graduated from college two years ago and has applied to hundreds of jobs with zero success. Entry level positions. Remote. Non-remote. "I will relocate."
It's rough out there right now. Most recently, he's taken to high activity on LinkedIn, just trawling for any opportunities through new connections. Sounds miserable to me. He's fortunate enough to have support from his father. Not everyone is so lucky.