thinking about thoughts again

david wolfpaw

12 Mar 2024

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Hey all! No vlog this week, because reasons. Or no reasons! I don’t know, I just didn’t do one.

I do know that I want to get back to the basics. Back to my roots. Back in the day. I’m rambling. Basically, I want to start doing some of the things that I did a while ago and haven’t in a while.

For instance, I’m working on an essay of sorts. It may or may not incorporate video. It will be about AI. That’s about where I’m at right now. I have sources and links and stuff, but I’m letting it gel in my mind a bit more before doing something with it.

I’ve also been doing more crafting. Buttons and stickers of course, but also wooden pins, which have been a lot of fun. I shared some before, but here’s a picture of some in-progress ones. They are cute, if I say so myself!

A variety of fursona art wooden pins that are painted but not varnished on a paper towel

Now I’m making more of them, and working on getting pictures and videos that I can use to try selling some as commissions. I’ve never done commission based art sales before, and I’m interested to see how it works out, and how much interest there would be in things like these wooden pins.

My hope is that next week I will stop making promises that I don’t keep. I will have something to share here that I’ve been working far too slowly on.

Until then, stay wonderful 🥰

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US House to vote next week on TikTok crackdown bill – David Shepardson, Reuters

“about 170 million U.S. users” can be reworded as,”more than half of the population of the United States”.

“Why are Members of Congress complaining about hearing from their constituents? Respectfully, isn’t that their job?” the company said on X. – Yeah, that’s the question, isn’t it?

Piracy and the GPL – Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

“Piracy is Nuanced” 🏴‍☠️

Can a programming language implement time travel? – Ryan Donovan, Stack Overflow

Can we get a Primer situation, where we recursively invoke functions in this language and

Flop rock: inside the underground floppy disk music scene – Alexis Ong, The Verge

I love the ephemerality of art made by and for such niche communities speaking to experience that most of us (over the age of 30 I’d say) had at one point or another if we used computers prior to 2000.

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MatPat’s FINAL Theory! – The Game Theorists

MatPat says thanks for watching, I say thanks for creating so much entertainment, joy, and good for the internet over the past thirteen years.

Marvel rejected this couple, so they revolutionized the comic industry – matttt

This channel has been a great new find for me for comic book history. Hearing the passion of creators firsthand reminds me that there are people behind every product.

Into the Night | Horror Short Film – Chris Goldade

It’s short, it’s spoopy, it leaves more questions than answers.

I Miss Themes – bjiru

Same. Bring back the ability for us to customize our profiles and programs with our own wacky sensibilities!

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How the Algorithm Warps Our Culture with Kyle Chayka – Factually!

Whether a human hand tips the scale or not, we can’t ignore that what is pushed to us online affects how we react to one another in the offline world.

Everywhere at the End of Time but it’s for Gen Z – girl2374

This is such a meme mood, yet it’s still a good listen

Dance ‘Til You Stop (feat. Tom Cardy) – NSP

Finally! I’ve been hoping for this collab for over a year!

When Scammers Call, He Strikes Back In the Best Way🎙Darknet Diaries Ep. 143: Jim Hates Scams

Jim is just so deadpan when he talks to scammers in a way that I don’t think I could be in these hilarious and frustrating situations.

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