Watched The Way Home finale on Fubo, with ads, and the little Hallmark scroll at the bottom.
Twice, in dark moments of pathos, the scroll at the bottom went to...
"JOY! Christmas in July..."
Like dafuq? Let me get into my feels.
I have signed up for a free trial to a streaming TV service so that we can see the final episode of The Way Home tonight, rather than tomorrow on Hallmark+.
Being excited about a TV show at a specific time feels *so* last millenium.
The not biologically mine but grateful enough for my influence on their lived kids who call me on Father's Day are getting old enough (40s) that I need another cohort to corrupt.
Alas I'm now all "let's build stuff" rather than "let's blow shit up!", so today's kids don't find as compelling.
Depending on final details, we plan on getting one of these flip phones for Charlene, and what the heck, if a referral link leads to goodies, so much the better...
https://order.commodore.net/callback-boundary?ref=ZGFubHlrZUBmbHV0dGVyYnkuY29t
Dan Lyke 17:24:16+0000 (2026-06-20)—
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A few notes on watching Jean Luc Godard's "Breathless" back to back with Richard Linklater's "Nouvelle Vague" last night:
https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/36308.html
I'm listening to the Game Studies Study Buddies episode on Natasha Dow Schüll’s "Addiction By Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas", and... ad blocking is a start, but I need to be doing more to control the external impacts on me.
https://rangedtouch.com/2022/01/31/43-schull-addiction-by-design/
The Vacancy Project has some media coverage in Petaluma Voice, including mention of next week's meeting!
https://www.petalumavoice.org/fenced-lots-and-empty-storefronts/
My old house server died, so looking for a cheap replacement I grabbed a pair of Optiplex 7050s off of the Sonoma County surplus auction, for about what the RAM in them would cost at retail (Moved the RAM from my old server into one of them, gonna put it in the other one).
Of course it doesn't really have room for all the drives I need to put in it, so I have an external enclosure coming...
https://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/list/current?orgid=173161
Searching for stuff on the TV show The Way Home last night, and the word salad that Google's AI Overview provided was... something.
I'm becoming more selective about publishing slop, even to laugh at it, but it feels like when we inadvertently uncover this stuff we need to note it, as a reminder.
I remember one of B.F. Skinner's books ending with "Now, let us see what man can do with man".
If the continuum from A/B testing ads to LLMs and AI psychosis is the leverage of automated exploits of unconscious human behaviors, I think...
... I think we're discovering what that means.
When I type this out, it feels obvious: Multi-layered AI agents (OpenClaw, etc) are an attempt by an industry that's constantly flailing at trying to automate processes they don't understand to automate their own bad processes.
Thought we'd found a place for this final SFBABC.org bench, went and talked with someone tending the space and discovered that they were delicately managing relationships with the two property owners, and didn't want to introduce a bench to that.
So we're back to the two playgrounds that feel kinda like a slap in the face of Parks & Rec, or finding another space. Anyone in Petaluma got suggestions for a public space that could use a bench?
If anybody in the North SF Bay area is interested in a late 1990a era Endless Pool (with some modern upgrades), hit me up before I write the whole Craigslist posting. It won't be cheap to move, but for the right DIYer with a plan it might be cool.
Finished watching Motel Drive last night. That's a powerful (short, 1 hr) movie with no good answers, but a lot of questions we should be having conversations around.
Housing policy, drug policy, urban design, education... and it ends maybe kinda hopeful?
Renaissance Petaluma: Who gets to build?
Good to see downtown merchants getting on board with reforming how we permit and approve new construction.
https://renaissancepetaluma.org/who-gets-to-build
With the news that Meta's AI bot is being used to steal accounts, hat tip to everyone who's used "Facebook Login" to trust Meta with their identity on third party services.
Casual question: Is there a discography to YouTube database anywhere? I dummied up some data using yt-dlp and Jacob Collier's playlists, but I'm playing around with browsing an artist, and it'd be cool to do this in a more generic sense.
A "pride flag" rainbow in which the blue line extends outside the rectangle. The caption reads:
There is no such thing as pride without a thin blue line.
The brave men, women, and non-binary heroes at Stonewall couldn't have thrown bricks at cops if there hadn't been any cops.
Interesting conversation at square dancing last night, someone had tried to use one of the chatbots, and his take-away was that as long as it didn't have any model for correctness it really wasn't useful for anything but entertainment.
Good to see non-tech people discovering this independently.
Woohoo! Knew that trading my privacy for a browser gamification experience would pay off some day!
Dan Lyke 20:22:39+0000 (2026-06-04)—
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Say someone wanted to buy a small batch, 50-100, of compression springs. I'm flexible, from ball point pen size to say .25"od by 1" long.
There has to be a cheaper way to do this than buying 100 retractable ball point pens, right?
Yesterday receiving a friend took me on a tour of the Portland maker space they're a member of, Past Lives. It's an amazing space, but getting there reminded of how much zoning has taken from us.
My neighbor turned me on to this story of a former coworker of his.
If I ever deck someone in a church, I hope I'm prepared enough to throw multiple 40 oz "incendiary devices" at the cops.
https://contracostaherald.com/concord-man-convicted-of-detonating-explosives-during-high-speed-police-chase/
I recently learned that the city of Petaluma complained about the guerilla garden at the 5th and H St traffic circle because of the height.
This is what real cities do for neighborhood traffic circles.
Audiveris is amazing for music OCR, though I'm trying to figure out how to clean up lyrics, but dang the search engines are falling down on serving up the malware dot-com address rather than the actual site.
We definitely need a better web.
https://github.com/Audiveris/audiveris
I love a good "show asks if there's anyone in the audience who can play, random pianist saves the show" story.
https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/sydney-la-la-land-justin-hurwitz-audience-concert-video-b2987083.html
Holy shit it's time to accelerate the migration away from Gmail.
That is not the ferry...
The future is going great (with picture)
I'm not sure a still picture can capture the sense of "saunter" that's happening with these geese. They own the space, and they are aware.
A "pride flag" rainbow in which the blue line extends outside the rectangle. The caption reads:
There is no such thing as pride without a thin blue line.
The brave men, women, and non-binary heroes at Stonewall couldn't have thrown bricks at cops if there hadn't been any cops.
Woohoo! Knew that trading my privacy for a browser gamification experience would pay off some day!
Portland has malware on bill boards. This is a redirect to Cody(dot)md, a chatbot that... Uh. Yeah. Don't take medical advice from a chat bot.
Slow street signs in Portland are a mood.
I recently learned that the city of Petaluma complained about the guerilla garden at the 5th and H St traffic circle because of the height.
This is what real cities do for neighborhood traffic circles.
Helping Celia put up her pictures at the Rivermark Community Credit Union.
If we can't see its pupils, does that mean we have no eye deer?
Kinda getting concerned that this one is still here...
I deer you.
I double deer you.
And then the road ended.
Stopped to take a (picture of a) pea.
Oh deer.
Wat?
Current status. (With picture)