King of the Chill is Guy Andrew.
King Chill was a roaming igloo.
Try Me! is my new community.
GuySpace is my humorous blog.
Jude is about Jews and our haters.
Art Car Inspiration Day (ACID) is my blog about art cars and mutant vehicles.
Wordly Durdley is a Simpsons-Wordle game I made in under 1 hour.
Play Local Games was my first app.
(A better app, Hobiz, exists.)
All in REPOST
“the national shortage of homes in a broad range, from 4 million to 20 million.”
During a discussion of biases, the topic of “$2.99’ vs “$3.00” came up.
“A third of Gen Zers also said they ask other people to order at restaurants because of this anxiety.”
“Only 7.9% of respondents said they agree women must be made to wear hijab, down from 18.6 percent.”
“You should also never charge your device at a public USB port. That same port that charges your gadget can also infect it.”
"As the data have worsened, Beijing has tightened the flow of information around its economy."
“the fair-minded listener could likely find a kernel of truth in each of the stories mentioned above despite their almost comic slantedness.”
“In 1846, former President John Quincy Adams suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed. Voters didn’t care. The former U.S. senator from Massachusetts overcame its debilitating effects and was then sent back to Washington”
“The data supports longtime research that shows that Black women receive less than 1% of venture funding”
“the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations.”
I used Chat GPT to give me the sparknotes on these three websites. I’ll vaguely promise to revisit each of them later. Two relate to influencers in the business world, the other a concept.
I grew up during early internet days. I still yearn to turn on a clunky desktop with my big toe, and patiently wait for it to boot. Hell, I’ve even thought of making my laptop’s fingerprint scanner learn my big toe.
“UK drum & bass artist Halogenix posted his concerns about the social-media landscape. ‘I refuse to participate in this relentless game of social-media-driven visibility… The insatiable appetite it creates to be constantly seen is destroying not only my mental health, but the core values and qualities of the [music] culture that I fell in love with.’”
I do not agree with the author. The book he cites references female competition with other females. He brings up #metoo, missing that #metoo was focused on exposing men. His analysis is wacky at best.
“Everything is shades of gray, but there are shades of gray so light as to be very nearly white, and shades of gray so dark as to be very nearly black. Or even if not, we can still compare shades, and say “it is darker” or “it is lighter.””
“But, as many commenters have pointed out and academic studies have shown, trying to eliminate hateful speech by removing individual actors or groups rarely has the intended effect.”
Are allergies caused by toxins, climate change, hate for our mothers or something else? Read this Wired post to not get a straight answer.
