Neuron Plectrum

Threads is beginning to depress me.

I've recently discovered God Is An Astronaut and it must be said this Origins album kicks all manner of ass.

Maybe my memory is going, but when I worked for a wireless provider (circa 2006), I don't think we charged people upgrade fees. I mean, you'd have to go out of your way to pay an activation fee. Now, you're charged for volunteering to give your cell carrier more money. When did this happen?

My wallet is falling apart. I mean, it's probably been 10 years at least.

LinkedIn asked me if I wanted to edit a comment because I said the salesman using clickbait was insecure, saw people only as a means to an end, and made his entire life a numbers game with all the redeeming value of a tropical skin disease. I made no edits.

AI shartist: So, you thought it was good until you found out it was AI and that changed your opinion? Me: Yes. Yes, it did. It's like finding out someone traced someone else's art and passed it off as their own. I liked it, but only because of a false pretense. This is not hard to understand.

Roommate's last radiation session is today.

Today's fountain pen practice.

I think I figured out what was wrong. I took the battery out to reset it, and did some recalibrations in the app. Now my activity looks more normal.

I think my smartwatch has a problem. It says I did 12,000 steps today and that's just not possible. 3,000 is typical if I don't go for a walk.

A Threads user said that the shittiest stick figure drawing is better than anything made by prompting generative AI. I fully agree and made this in solidarity using Affinity.

As the kids say, not the flex you think it is.

There's always merit in being the first when it comes to a technology, but I'd argue there's just as much merit in getting it right. There's nothing wrong with being an early adopter, but not everyone is willing to take the risk. neuronplectrum.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/w...

Someone on LinkedIn is arguing that those who oppose AI yet eat meat are hypocrites. Basically, if the resources used by datacenters are outrageous, then where is the outrage for the agricultural sector raising animals for meat? This argument is stupid because YOU CANNOT EAT AI SLOP!

Saw an ad from @displate.com that used generative AI. Come on, guys. You're better than that.

How long before Scam Faultman starts suggesting cannibalism instead of wasting resources raising chickens, cows, and pigs?

So, instead of HOMES, it's now SHAME.

It's Lake Ontario. That's it. That's the post.

In a world where a spinning potato chip set to "Funkytown" on loop for 10 hours can get just shy of 4 million views, bragging about how many people are watching your slop is not the flex you think it is.

Just my luck. The day I consider getting a paid package for Wordpress, the site spits a 502 error at me. Unsurprisingly, the AI support chatbot is of no help whatsoever.

5 days until the Inktober prompts drop.

This is proof that genAI is not inevitable. If it was, they wouldn't have to spend billions of dollars forcing it down your throat. They wouldn't have to force everything to be opt-in by default. They wouldn't have to build data centers in poor neighborhoods where people can't fight back. Deny them.

I wonder if anyone has made some kind of database of toys with built-in motion sensors. I can only think of two (this is one of them, the other is a Stormtrooper figure), but it's a simple enough circuit that there have to be more. youtu.be/0Qy4D6LFnDo?...

The Last House in one sentence: The denizens of Innsmouth have mastered waterbending.

Roommate is out of the hospital today. Everything is on schedule for her to start radiation tomorrow.

Roomie's numbers are better thanks to a pair of transfusions and a saline drip, but now she has to wait for a GI specialist to weigh in. It might be the entire weekend before we know what the next steps are. May even have to reschedule her radiation treatments this coming Monday.

My cable provider bumped up my internet bill. Fuckers.

My roommate is back in the hospital. Nearly fainted in the shower. All signs point to dehydration, but we don't know for certain. Right now they're going to pump her full of fluids and go from there.

Of all the Dreamcast games I had, Crazy Taxi was never one of them. No idea why, just never got around to it.

How have I never noticed this before?

Why are there sirens blaring outside for the past 30 minutes? There's no storm warnings. If it's because of the heat, please enlighten me why you need to warn people about the temperature with sirens. I can't make my house any cooler.

When are all the AI companies going to move on from destroying books to buying up used DVD's and Blu-Rays to scan and destroy for the sake of training their models?

Well, no wonder it made me think of it:

Picked up Pattern Recognition by William Gibson on Audible for less than 5 bucks. Reading the description makes me want to reread The Crying of Lot 49.

"Your definition of progress seems to be 'nothing has improved until everything is fixed.' That’s not how technology works." - A Gen-AI Slop Plopper If your word processor is still randomly deleting paragraphs, it doesn't matter how many new fonts v2.0 supports.

I was in Walgreens today buying plastic bags. The seasonal aisle already has Halloween stuff set out.

I ate my bagels and wrote about it. neuronplectrum.wordpress.com/2026/08/01/t...

In the morning I shall dine on Asiago cheese bagels.

Dear Pinterest, "AI Insight" is the digital equivalent of that one asshole we've all met at some point who has an opinion on absolutely everything & anything, offers it without anyone asking, and ultimately has no idea what he's talking about. Please do what we all wanted to do then and hurt it.

I made the mistake of making nuggets and I think it raised the temperature inside the house at least 5 degrees. Not helping the heatwave conditions.

Happy Friday, everybody!

I'm leaning towards pizza because I've got the sauce open, the right amount of Beyond meatballs, and one pizza crust left. Plus, it'll be on a Friday.

Should I make pizza or pasta tomorrow?

I really wish this rain would at least take the edge off the heatwave instead of adding to the mugginess.

Wherein I semi-somberly serenade you with a soliloquy surrounding speakers and the sort of serendipitous summing-up of an only somewhat-selective and slightly over 30-year search for a sound setup that I’m probably never actually going to use. neuronplectrum.wordpress.com/2026/07/19/w...

Create problem. Sell "solution."

The orzo turned out well. Tomorrow is hummus.

It's decided. I'm making orzo tonight.

More than 30 states have reported infections this year, and current data from them shows the number of infections surpassing the record U.S. mark of about 4,700 set in 2019. https://to.pbs.org/4hdCduE