Category: Me Myself&I

One thing about me is, I’m wearing something that I like until it dies dies.

This Supreme shirt has seen a lot in about 15 years. The most action and sweat was from TV shows all over the valley and from a local library branch. It supported me well and I would get regular comments (this is a special Powell Peralta edition shout out ex wife!) on it. It has seen a lot of different vistas and people.

I do not know if I threw it away the other day or if I put it aside for some zombie action like using it for a future paint job.

I might see it again.

Thinking about Google. They’re in court right now being investigated for monopoly practices (paying Apple $20B/year to be the default search engine while competing against them in the phone business is some wild shit), their Android phones are quite a mess from so many angles despite being on version 14, they’re notorious for bad support and killing products people enjoy. And yet, the brand is intact and they’re making more money than ever.

There’s a sunk-cost fallacy happening with everyone who grew up with Google. It’s like they can’t possibly turn their back from a company that is uh, well a big, US corporate company.

Baby you need help. Understand that the world with the least possible amount of Google, works well. Maybe a couple billion people do that just fine? Probably more.

Get into the open web. Email for private, site for public. Full RSS, period. No ads, no stats. Give. Ponder. Squeeze your brain. That’s what the internet was invented for.

The Aces made it back to back. The bench showed up. Jackie Young with the defensive play at the last second to secure the win (defense wins championships, always), just impeccable. I had paused that video and found it a few days later:

W A S T E D and cute.

Not going to lie, I’m glad Ms. Parker didn’t have anything to do with winning this title. The amazing thing is that she will be needed next year because the Aces are the target now.

No WNBA team has ever threepeated and I believe that they can do it. They’re so amazingly fun to watch and they are so good. Congrats!

Now Victor and my Spurs? Yeah, tons of fun already after a few games. I have no idea if they’ll make the playoffs but they sure will upset and make things difficult for a lot of teams out there. This man is so quick and long, it is completely a cheat code, as basketball’s field and basket size were designed for 5’9 folks, not 7’15 mfs. But whatever. The rest of the team is solid and as usual with San Antonio, is progressing rapidly and constantly.

I’m running and shooting at 6:30am these days. Swishing while the sun is rising. It’s a great feeling.

Saw a woman with a shirt that said “sk8 fast & eat ass” and I agree.

Dear future,

That’s it! 2023-24 is the start of something different. Everything can be faked online and robots can do super complex stuff offline, like driving nicely through traffic.

We can fake what we see and what we hear enough to believe it, especially for anyone born 2000 and beyond. Folks who don’t have the analog ear, when faking a voice was just not possible at all. People who didn’t experience the transformation of Photoshop and digital editing.

I just read about a young man who creates AI porn stars, buys IRL videos of models, deepfakes those with his AI stuff and sells those packages as chatbots to other young dudes I guess. The insanity. The implications.

It’s just that seeing Waymo cars every single time I go out now —I’ll probably try one sooner than later—, using ChatGPT daily… The before and after those things that didn’t exist a few years ago. I’m pondering.

It induces a pretty drastic change of how one understands the world. And where it’s going. It’s nuts. The acceleration.

It’s fucking nuts. And society is all disjointed in the middle of this.

(this is why I preach for individual, sustainable housing; to stay out of the upcoming madness)

So that was last year, right?

Now same prompt:

Closer:

I mean Jesus Christ. August 2022 to October 2023 and it’s THAT much better. Harriet? Bet:

I only added she’s smiling to the prompt. Here’s the other version DALL-E gave me:

“Get in son we going back to Cali Cali!”

I’m speechless. It’s just a new plateau for human beings and it’s kind of changing everything. And don’t forget: this is getting better all the time, 24/7 and probably increasing every metrics by 3 to 20x every year.

I urge y’all to demand UBI, I swear.

Anyway. I moved! I’m still in the logistics madness but it’s getting quieter.

The new crib is still in flux but it’s getting there. It’s dope, it’s going to be even better and I’m making this end of the year as sweet as possible.

Moving is always hard but the interesting thing is that it makes us make decisions, right now. Which item is going to be useful, when, should it be at the bottom of a box or in the bag pack ready to roll? It depends. Right now I thought my small speaker wouldn’t be important and I’ve been looking for it for a couple hours although headphones are just fine too.

It makes me ponder a lot. How much space do we actually need per person? Isn’t some outdoor personal space super essential even though we dismiss it all the time? What is really useful in a bedroom? Isn’t a big room where you also sleep in, better than a dedicated room mostly for sleep? We can never be in two rooms at the same time, we’re individuals in flesh.

I’m thinking super-insulated small units would save us and the world, helping us to redesign the bigger spaces so that we’re building healthier and less wasteful societies. Good challenges to tackle, I’d say.

And you hear some nasty coughing in the grocery store two aisles away, though it might be closer:

I’m all over my architecture books going through time and there’s something funny about those pictures: the cars around are always a decade or more off. 80s architecture has 70s cars around. 90s architecture has 80s cars around. Etc.

I think that I only now see cars that are truly 2000s and beyond. They’re also all hybrid or electric meaning that when I see them they’re completely silent, rolling around, making a turn. It’s a pretty hot first impression. And a break from the smelly past.

(shout out to Car Pixel for the pictures!)

Hyundai Ioniq 5

Those sharp lines and overall aesthetic would have been fabulous on 2002-2003 roads, y’all. In the 00s architecture leaned towards polygons a lot, thanks to technology (GFRC, BIM) providing the possibility. It kind of leaped over to car design in the 2010s, maybe thanks to technical advances as well (cheaper to create edges these days?).

Polestar 2

I see them around here and they look slick yet humble and that’s kind of a tour de force design-wise. Love it.

Lucid Air

Rare, but I see some. They look gorgeous. They’re fat and plump and beautiful on our large roads, no doubt. I cannot imagine driving one (I picture that you don’t hear anything inside and I like to hear stuff in a car when I drive, pre-2000 born sorry), but being in the back floating in the middle of a highway in the desert? Yeah. I can see that.

Toyota 2023 Prius

Someone at Toyota snapped over the joke. This version is a thing of beauty. Like, it should be illegal that a basic car like that looks that good. As of September 2023, everyone turns their heads when one rolls down a street. Toyota must have orders until 2039. The Wii of cars: everyone wants one.

Now, all that tech in a vehicle exposed to hacking, malware, surveillance, overriding, ransomware? I need a phone to use my car now? Wrong turn.