ttt + computer

Here I sit, Harris Manor (RCF) in old/downtown Farmington. MO. I am 17 days sober(!), updating every so often on Mastodon ( @x2600 ) and keeping up with the regs (blogs, masto accounts) via RSS. Lurking, as always, on #sdf and #ctrl-c IRC (irc.sdf.org and irc.tilde.chat are those servers, respectively) – having a swell time :)

Why an RCF?

Well, a temporary fix in order to avoid homelessness, as the continual apartment search in STL is turning up a bust (so far). At this point, my best bet is renting a tiny house/office space in South St Louis City, which is MUCH more affordable than a dedicated apartment. Avoiding market rate pricing is the Name of the Rose

Not much else for right now. But soon soon soon

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A prediction:

AI, and the companies that develop it – Google/Gemini, Meta/Llama, MS/OpenAI, X/xAI, etc etc – who are now 1T+ (yes, that's a T) in the hole to financial institutions (banks) wealthy investors and hedge funds, will (of course) have a day of reckoning when XYZ investor(s) realize their investment won't pay off in their own lifetime, and pull their money OUT of such and such companies.

But

Unlike what I've eluded to before, I think those exact same investors will then put their money into a (top) competing AI co. Then the dominos not just fall for the co that has the initial investor/investment loss, but a fast race amongst investors to see who can pull their money out of X company faster, and put that money inTO the dominant AI company at that time.

Do I KNOW this? No of course not. I cannot predict the future. Just an assumption.

But, when the remaining AI co's have that same debt ($1 trillion, maybe more, maybe less) in LOSS, the dominant AI co can buy up the hardware, software, and engineering talent of the disgraced company for pennies on the dollar. 10-figure purchase of technology worth 11 or 12 figures. Deal!

Part of the AI Notes series. Previous entries here

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I brought back the blog entry the-links which has also been updated.

I also joined Mastodon (hark!) at oldbytes.space as @x2600. I chose ob.s because it's retro computing and other hobbyist things.

I am inside planning the next move(s) in life. More on that on Masto

I also put the Internet Phonebook (“Internetbook”) entry back on ttt/c, as I want people to see the “anonymous” pastebin job of the .json file. Write.as converted it to .MD, but I need to clean it up to look prettier, which I won't because it is 750+ entries

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Reading RSS, as one does, I came across another entry from Mike's Thoughts, a blog that has had varying domains and hosts, but the same man behind the words. The same voice, with different adventures.

He said (on walking, coffee, Cambodia):

“I don’t need complexity in a life that’s not”

...and I agree 1000%. Less bags, baggage (material and emotional), and stress is a fine way to live ones life.

For me, writing has increased since doing away with the Amazon lists. The “need these” items (which usually wasn't the case). The extras, bells, whistles, etcetera.

I figure I am more an “elements” person. Protection from the elements, first aid, medication(s), good shoes, good conversation, and good coffee. That works. Volunteer work happens in the mix. Writing, IRC, blogs and the Smol Web, all indulgent and delightful digital habits. Of which I love all of.

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Dark Mode on Write.as, the true home

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Call it a mindmap, thought cloud – or perhaps a vision board (via text), but here goes

Things I like (a lot):

System administration Dark clothing (mostly black, considering band merch) Music, and high fidelity gear when I can get it Localizing media – movies, music, photos, .html documents, text, ebooks Physical media – physical books, magazines, sometimes zines An ambiant atmosphere – dim red lighting, candles, mostly darkness in my apartment Retro furniture, retro decor – photo prints of punks from the 70s, Debbie Harry, Keith Richards, Iggy Pop, Loud Reed (mostly taken by Warhol) A cubby/nook in my apartment (the commandcenter) – just me and the gaming laptop on a VESA mounted display, mechanical keyboard, Lenovo mouse, various peripherals Smoking – cigarettes and a pipe Therapy Writing opensource Linux UNIX Ctrl-c.club SDF.org IRC COM[] e-mails the Smol Web Ctrl-ZINE adult entertainment (!!) online shopping stocking the apartment (food, life items) keeping track of the weather keeping track of blogs on rss keeping track of masto accounts on rss keeping .txt files up to date – cli.txt, document-1.txt, links.txt, media.txt, contacts.txt Talking to my best friend Steven daily Hanging out at home alone (solitude) meditation low blood pressure vitamin c fruit a diverse diet vegetarianism

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Early on, early to mid-90s, as we all know (for those who were there) the Web was “The Web”, skipping the obvious – HTML, PHP, landing pages, static sites, etc. (although PHP was Personal Home Page in it's original naming scheme), we're back to (some still coming back to) the personal Home page. The spot, hub, “safe” spot of their Web.

I think of the 2018 era, more people refamiliarizing themselves with blogs, rss, following a mass exodus from Twitter, Facebook as well. Decentralizing, firing up a VPS or just joining a small blog platform. In this time (the first blog reconnaissance since...ever), I saw many people start blogrolls, Webrings, publicly listed e-mails, About pages, things to put a presence online. Not just a presence, a personal presence. Not an ego, or a public ego, like one would have at work or some other regularly attended public setting – but just them. The Web is everywhere and for everyone, a distancing or “front” of an ego as one's only presence on it, takes one away from what is there. Connections that can be made. Conversations that can be had.

The Home Web, the personal aspect of it, reminds me of a group of regular pubgoers, always seeing each other at their favorite bar, who attend a St Patricks Day parade – partying and getting shitfaced, then in the evening, back to their regular pub, the familiar settings and faces, the Home Web barkeep behind the bar, ready with warm appetizers and drinks for the friends who are “back from it all”.

For the ups and downs of social media over the years, the proposed “public square” was (if anything) just that, a public square – a park of crowd and busyness, not a place one can rest and converse in a relaxed setting. The Home Web is the start. As a homepage in a browser (“what will I say today?“) and the in's and out's of what is discovered beyond there. And then, if one wants (and always) they can return to their Home Page.

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I will opt for Write.as Pro ($9 per mo) in July, granting me the ability to create a few more blogs here, and then re-create tt-archive as the archiving method is nicer for my “headspace” (no further comment)

I will also regain access to Snap.as and other features (of which I seldom use)

Coffee cheers

[edit/update: Oh and Public feed access! back to read.write.as!]

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500mg in the AM, another at 4PM

Funny, Vitamin C the letter affiliated with Ctrl-c.club, a life changer of a different, equally significant proportion.

Also one I think of when wanting to write a thing – to compose. Like a composer of text I find I can (if I try, am lucky) piece together the words just right to make a prose document that reads effortlessly and enjoyably.

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“God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man, man destroys God, man creates dinosaurs”

(of the many amazing quotes from Jurassic Park)

My parable of the parable -

Web spawns blogging blogging spawns microblogging media destroys blogging microblogging destroys media blogging spawns the small web

(took some energy when piecing this together to NOT use WWW throughout, or/and smallWeb or/and sWWW (I am a sucker for hotty terms like that))

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