h. Play

I’m thinking about it, and it’s making more and more sense.

Love for da game

Well she’s a professional basketball player, I work out my fade away turnaround Js every morning at sunrise since 2015. ‘nough said.

International flavor

WNBA players often play overseas in Europe, or have. As black folks who lived in a wide variety of environments, we would have a lot to talk about.

Between the sheets

Athletic bodies want to sweat. I feel like competitive sex would be super fun. We’d try to kill each other by Snu-Snu more often than not, and that would be dope.

Choices

Cat, no cat. Dog, no dog. Kid, no kid. All of them at once. I’m down with everything, boo. I’ll hold the fort while you go GET IT on the road.

Form factor

She could be a 5’7 point guard or a 6’12 center, she’d be my girl. Her holding the shelf while I’m on the stool screwing it in sounds like perfect teamwork and I’m all for it.

I need to get some Sparks season tickets ASAP.

I’m proud of what we achieved and keep pushing with my parents.

We don’t share much. They can live without music, I cannot. I have no idea what they’re watching on TV and they don’t know anything about blackness.

Our bond has been solid though. After seeing them this year (we made it!!!) with our future plans and having the conviction that we’re going to be well, the bond feels immutable. Maybe it’s because it is a conscious bond: they decided to adopt me, so did I. Maybe because it is a bond that allowed us to be who we want to be without conflicting each other. Mutually Applied Mindfulness, since we met. It was our duty.

They are fiercely independent and as close to incorruptible as one can be. I think that might be were I definitely took on them.

Give it up to honest, loving in a very lowkey sense relationships with relatives. A bit dry sometimes, but no spoiling means endurance.

Seeing my family after nine years keeps on giving, like an earthquake’s late seismic wave. The epicenter is my heart.

It was this year and feels like it was last year. In December 2022 I didn’t care about anything as I was a couple weeks away from going to visit the past, looking exactly how it was.

That Sunday morning breakfast with my parents and my sister, like nothing happened, after almost a decade and 13 hours in the sky, is carved into my soul. Even asking for the butter across the table felt fabulous. Still gives me the mental zoomies.

And then last summer. Soundtrack (without the wobbly bass, played on laptops and shitty headphones). Walking around my old neighborhood of Vincennes. The ground in downtown is white marble and stores left and right all seem to be unique and worth the try. I’m a tourist now.

I can’t wait to observe my folks’ faces when they’ll taste America and its California. Their smiles in the back of the minivan after dinner at a classic American restaurant. Or my dad’s giggle driving a 1971 Cadillac going down Hawthorne. Life is about making good memories and usually, you don’t need much to make good ones.

• You own your body. It is yours and yours only, forever.
• However ownership is adjacent in life. What’s important is access.
• Memory and synapses are like muscles; they grow when being used. Therefore use technology to extend yourself, not assist yourself.
• Technology is just tools. Cars are tools. Computers, guitars as well. Do not worship tools. Just use them.
• Communities are like feelings. They come and go. Individuals is what we are, and that’s why they stay with you.
• Long term over short tem, most of the time.
• Questions over dogma, every single time.
• Care about real numbers: number of people living under and above poverty, the optimal length for a wood beam, etc. Don’t care about fake numbers: number of steps, calories, views, JS libraries, hours spent in a game, etc.
• Hierarchy is fluid: someone might be a great mentor for something, and not to be listened to for other things.
• Happiness is a process, not a destination.

Got some stuff to distribute today.

There’s a lot going on in the chat app field. Fediverse, Activitypub, Mastodon and Bluesky and Threads, etc.

I think this is a vast waste of time because chatting is not important. Never was, never will. It’s ephemeral. It’s in the moment. Reading 10-year-old chat logs will make anyone cringe at themselves. There’s no value in chatting besides the few minutes around when it happens. Thus all those companies and developers trying to grab an aspect of our lives that is not really worth anything, is weird (I know, they’re here for the tracking/ad potential but still).

And on the other hand, if you’re a person who likes to write and communicate with others, you probably already have a website/newsletter/stream and discuss things with people in many ways, from SMS to Zoom to Discord and whatnot. There’s no need for one chat thing to rule them all. It’s usually bad for all of us.

Just like chatting a lot.

Also WordPress is better than ever, and RSS is the only thing you really need. Tata,

Them: “Generative AI is not smart, it’s just text and data parsing repeated and matrix’d up, it’s not actual comprehension!”

Me absorbing architecture daily through photos, layouts, axonometric views, articles, 3D scenes, schemes over dozens and dozens of books, blog posts, videos, understanding more and more of its importance in our lives, its literal costs, its structural engineering sub-division via repetition, revisiting the ones that I liked the most and comparing them to what I’m trying to build:

The year of generative AI, for sure.

I have never seen anything take over everything like LLMs did over the year. There are so many things going on in that space on all fronts that I can barely keep up.

Know for instance that full body deepfake humans in videos, at different freaking angles, are a thing now. Or that realistic 3D animation can be made from a single image. You know AI voices are extremely good now, right? Copilot on Windows 11 is impressive. And all those things are developing and improved on at an absurd velocity.

I could see that once the AI chips announced recently are used at high scale with the latest algorithm improvements and data, we’re going to break through something.

There are two main currents these days in tech about AI:

“great, a personal assistant for anyone, democratization of knowledge and increase of freedom, how awesome!!”

or

“AI is going to kill us all.”

I’m neither. I’m more like “the incentive for capitalism is to use the shit out of AI, therefore every single market out there is going to be massively impacted resulting in constant layoffs and more frightening, a lot less hiring.” Which is already happening, after barely 12 months of ChatGPT.

It’s impossible to see what it will be in five years. But I can safely say, be ready to be happy with not much. Get closer to nature, y’all.

I can’t believe he passed.