Last week was a week of milestones. And now, the emptiness has descended. I am not working and I've finished my school program. It's summer vacation, so no more waking to prepare food for my high schooler and then playing taxi driver to drop them off before returning home for a walk around the neighborhood. Now, the day is a collection of errands and chores, none of which are particularly urgent.

Establishing habits - deliberately - is hard for anyone, but particularly hard for someone with ADHD. Medication doesn't really help with that. But that's the challenge for the summer - rebuild a routine.

The Atlantic - No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious: Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning. (By Ted Chiang, who I always find a voice of insight and reason regarding AI. This is possibly my pick for Essay of the Year.)

Jake Orlowitz - Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

David Karpf - The Data Center Bankshot: This is how we win

London Review of Books - AK-47 and Guitar: Versions of the Sahara

The New York Times - What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity

Urban Omnibus - Locations, Locations, Locations

My Wikipedia Wabbithole

Condorman | Goodhart’s Law | visual kei | Gad Beck | LitRPG | Thaddeus Stevens

Cover Song of the Week


Until next week, gassho.