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Watched: Clue 🍿

I don’t know where I’ve been that I’ve only just now seen this a few days ago. Very fun and the ending was great.

When I started this blog I started it with the intention of it being a way for me to get my thoughts out of my head, to share moments and photos with primarily myself, and to be a diary of sorts. This is one of those posts.

Early last week Jacy and I had to help her cat, Archie, across the rainbow bridge. No matter how many pets you’ve had or home many times you’ve had to do it, it’s a terribly sad experience. I try to frame it in my head as the ultimate act of love for a pet – the erasure of pain and suffering – in exchange for ones own pain and heartache, but that doesn’t help it.

I only had the pleasure of knowing Archie for a couple years, but he was a perfect, sweet curmudgeon. When he jumped on the couch to lay next to me, it was not because I wanted it, it was because he allowed it. He had his own way of being affectionate and I appreciated that about him. Every morning while I was making coffee or in the evening making dinner, he was follow me into the kitchen and sit in the absolute worst spot possible. Forcing me to watch my step like he was playing the role as the worst sous chef in history, but it I enjoyed it.

The house is a little quieter now without his yells echoing down the stairs. My late night ice cream a little less exciting without having to dodge his – frankly aggressive – swipes at my spoon followed by the pleading and begging for the bowl. The house a little sadder. It’s been a little over a week and while easier it’s not easy. With time, the distance between the waves of sadness and grief will grow longer, the terrible memories will fade, and the happy times will shine, but right now we’re still in our cloud – and that’s ok.

RIP Archie

Watched: Everything Everywhere All at Once 🍿

I don’t know why it took me so long to watch this, but I’m glad I finally got around to it. Very enjoyable even though I kept thinking, “Is this the Matrix?"

Watched: Balls of Fury 🍿

We had a pretty stressful and emotional evening Tuesday and needed something silly to turn the brain off. Jacy has never seen Balls of Fury and it popped up under “Comedies” in Netflix so I suggested it. It was perfectly silly. If only the take out Indian food was as good.

Reading this amazing story from Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge (archive.is LINK) has put me in a fresh “fuck all this mood” for today. Gaslighting us into believing “compute” – aka chips – is an asset and doesn’t depreciate is A+ conman work.

Can this bubble please burst already?

If Fast and the Furious was created in 2026: Cargo Thefts Have Turned Violent in Pursuit of AI Hardware.

This section pulled out by Daring Fireball sounds like a scene straight from 2001:

The incidents involved two different shipments of high-value technology traveling from Silicon Valley to Southern California, according to Pachuca, who says he learned about the thefts from law enforcement authorities. Each truck was tailed by private security professionals driving unmarked escort vehicles, which were supposed to ensure the goods made it to their destinations safely. But hours into one journey, another driver rear-ended the escort in a hit-and-run, forcing it to stop. In the other case, the escort stopped after another car nudged it into a tailspin, a ploy commonly known as a PIT maneuver, and then fled.

Everyone familiar with the “accidents” believes the escorts were deliberately immobilized, according to Pachuca. Once the semitrucks lost their escorts, the drivers proceeded without halting — but not to their planned destinations. They were never heard from again, Pachua says, and millions of dollars in data center gear remains unaccounted for.

Now if only all the hardware used for AI can become as cheap as DVD players.

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects. That’s not saving $1 trillion, that’s taking $1 trillion out of hard working, generous billionaires' pockets. In what socialist hell-scape is that morally right?

I haven’t played Cards Against Humanity in years, but I’m always willing to donate to a good cause. To that extent, giving a middle finger to the richest man on Earth is a very good cause.

Middle fingers can be donated here.

Flock Pitched a Plan To Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers Into Roaming Surveillance Vehicles. From the article:

…the presentation, written by Flock to present to the Georgia Office of the Attorney General last August, reads. “Plus Nexar partnership which includes 350k Uber/Lyft and other delivery service devices.”

The deal didn’t go through but what the actual fuck?

Just so I’m understanding something correctly,

• China state surveillance = very bad
• US private company selling surveillance data to government = perfectly fine. what do you have to hide commie?

Almost like there needs to be some regulations put on these companies. The social contract of American capitalism hasn’t been working for quite sometime and it’s obvious to a lot of us that we are heading full steam into a fascist state, but I’m still gob smacked.

Watched: Mountainhead 🍿

Wasn’t sure what to expect going into this and it was fine. It was amusing seeing the downward spiral to conspiracy, to coup, to murder. I like to imagine that’s how Peter Thiel and his buddies truly are.