n. del t.

My Graduate Degree Has Lead Me to Places I Wouldn't Even Go with A Gun

The phrase "They don't want it perfect, they want it Friday" does wonders for my productivity.

good morning it's don't crash out Thursday where we try our hardest not to crash out. on Thursday

“how do you get stuff done?” with tears in my eyes.

No, actually, i want cables and not bluetooth, i don't want touchscreens, i want buttons and knobs, i want to be able to take the battery out of my phone, i want to charge my phone and plug in head phones at the same time, i want a cd drive in my laptop and not have to buy an external drive, i want a car without a display, i want to turn on the lights with a switch not with my voice, i want to have a paper cinema ticket not a QR code, i want to listen to illegally burned music on a 00s cd player, i want to watch movies that i actually own, i want to read news once a day on paper, i want to aimlessly flick through magazines and not doomscroll on social media, i want to write emails and not talk to chatbots, i want to own stuff without hundreds of digital subscriptions, i want

the scariest thing about the generative AI thing is how quickly people have accepted it as an indefinite, irrevocable part of their reality. people have genuinely convinced themselves that ChatGPT is the only solution to most tasks - tasks they did with their own brain without any large effort two years ago. like you know damn well all of us used to write emails ourselves why are we pretending like this is an impossible task to do with your own two hands. what's with the fucking. AI revisionism. i feel like i am going insane.

generative AI literally makes me feel like a boomer. people start talking about how it can be good to help you brainstorm ideas and i’m like oh you’re letting a computer do the hard work and thinking for you???

i never check my email because then i will have to reply to some of them and that is how you get more emails

if i stay very still and don't make any noise maybe they'll forget that i'm there and leave me alone

thinking about schwa today. he really is the perfect vowel. schwə əf yə cən hər əs pləs səv əs. pləs səv mə schwə.

that it's all good now, it's all good