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Better Prompting Habits I am using the OS’s built in text replacement to add some mix-ins to my prompts.

Working with the bots So, you’re working with an LLM chat bot more?

Welcome to RSS Club.

It’s the end of 2025, my second quarterly check-in, and the beginning of 2026, all in one.

Fiction, Non-fiction, and Business reads this year.

This first quarterly review covers July through September, 2025.

Exit - Exit

Circle - Untitled - 2025

Nilir - Graffiti tag on a painted over Neighborhood Watch sign.

Lines - Old Lines.

Trench - Paver's graffiti, 2025.

So, I have problems with this story.

Burny - Tire mark, 2025.

Eano - Graffiti, 2025.

Evil S1-3 What a weird show.

Yellow - Grease on the crosswalk.

I’ve never heard of Erik Davis before.

It’s just some stuff that I’ve seen recently.

In today’s post, I’ve explored what I think about the idea that the world is being consumed by Casino logic and how that connects into an older idea that I’ve been kicking around which is that America is a Death Cult.

I mentioned the term “Aesthetic Residual” earlier this week but left it at that.

I have open-loop free-written on the topic of our collapsing methods of making meaning.

These are more provisional notes, thinking in the act of being thought.

Santa Teresa Park A few links to set the stage.

I haven’t researched this theory at all.

Do you like photography?

I am reporting back from my phone fast / internet sabbath, which was a success in several ways.

I’m ready to throw my phone in the lake again.

The internet news and analysis periodical, Garbage Day, surfaced some important IRL facts: the ships aren’t in the ports anymore.

I just finished reading Rules: A Short History of What We Live By, by Lorraine Daston, published in 2022.

I had a reaction to one part of Robin Sloan’s Energy Suck post from 25APR19.

Boosting Mu-An Chiou’s post about keeping appointments with yourself: Therapy note: prescribe myself relaxing activities and treat them as seriously as I’d treat medication.

I took about 20 days off from regular posting.

[backfilled on or after 25MAY01] It’s okay to plan a meal around dessert.

[backfilled on or after 25MAY01] More than a week ago I promised to report back on two tiny experiments, one about reducing the number of RSS feeds, and the other about using a writing schedule.

[backfilled on or after 25MAY01] These are provisional notes from a raw writing session today.

Just a quick reminder that I am on a short hiatus.

[backfilled on or after 25MAY01] These are provisional notes from a raw writing session today.

[backfilled on or after 25MAY01] A la Le Cunff’s recommendation, here are N tiny experiments that I am running this week.

[backfilled on or after 25MAY01] Autumn, by Knausgaard, is a lovely book of carefully noted observations and connections made from memories, personal experiences, social order, and nature.

Random food notes from the week.

[backfilled on or after 25MAY01] So we’re not doing the tariffs just yet; there is now a 90 day pause on the tariffs for all countries except China.

A lot of good reading this week.

[backfilled on or after 25MAY01] Tariffs land today and it’s chaos.

I encountered a number of words that I had never seen before this week.

I’ll be taking the rest of April off to regroup on my blogging/writing goals.

Thinking a bit about YouTube channels and the inevitable AI updates.

Random food notes from the week.

Longer than the DESCRIPTION but the same thing.

It sure sounds like the computers are coming.

I found my words this week.