weeknotes 32.26
omg halfway mark!! april 13th would actually be the halfway point? and i knew this was going to happen since the first weeknotes i started numbering. i'll worry again about this in october when i begin posting weeknotes on tuesday instead. i'm also going to act like leap days don't exist. numbers dont really matter. shh.
to set the vibe before i keep rambling: drinking so much water because its 80 degrees, listening to slurmcore version of songs because i Don't understand whats happening.
new, and hopefully temporary addition to weeknotes, gas prices!!!! i paid $6.19 a gallon saturday morning.
my internet keeps cutting in and out which is actually making this really hard because i can't upload pics and i cant find the links i wanted to post. and its been like this all day. because i've been trying to do my taxes with this fucked up internet connection and its not working. i thought i had a lot to say but kind of funny how ive forgotten if i can't link anything. when i started this blog i set out some guidelines to just convince myself to post and one of them was to not link things, because mentally i knew i would use this as an excuse to not post but it is also turning into the way to forget what i'm talking about. but i think posting once a week has mentally benefitted me. i know i have at least once a week where i hold people captive to read whatever garbage i'm writing. and i remember how old i am because i have to type 32 at least once a week. it has also made me bummed with my work life balance.
i'd like to formally declare i watched my 2nd movie of the year. i'm not really counting it because its the 10 commandments, and in my catholic upbringing i have seen many times (yes in its nearly 5 hr entirety when its on tv with commercials) during holy week. but this movie is sooo funny. its a good movie to goof on. also reminds me that i need to cut my bangs.
anyways, there was an interview about mackenyu in esquire singapore. just google it. i deliberately say 'about' and not 'with' because this is your hashtag tw for generative ai. there was also an article from the financial times this week called "whats the point of an AI novel" or something like that. on top of the article about that lady churning out (likely smut) books and being sold on amazon? and the allegation that 'shy girl' by someone i'd google if my internet was working (both connection and not 'ai summary' answers) i begin to really think whats the point of AI. i have been thinking this dont get it twisted. shout out to anyone who has listened to me voice my theory that ai is misogynist and tech bros heavily push for the proliferation of generative ai is due to womb envy. this is the most tin foil hat idea i have that i cannot safely voice on the internet because i think i might be too insane. but maybe the people in my life are super supportive of me, or they go "oh that kind of makes sense" to walk me off my ledge. of course it also involves capitalism, like everything awful in the world. but its rooted in misogyny. am i a luddite? idk. depends on how you're defining luddite, correctly or incorrectly. and in that case, yes. but whats the point of creatively offloading the parts of life worth living. i think thats the part most people will agree with if you are capable of your own thoughts. but also why the fuck would you have to run this delusional ass topic through chatgpt? like its basically a teenage girl (not derogatory, never derogatory) delusional self-insert Y/N scenario. use your imagination at least. and the """"acceptance" of ai usage actually pisses me off because esquire sg is incapable of booking an interview with mackenyu so they think AI will save the situation? whats the point of journalism? its not even journalism. they couldve done something FUN and entertaining and make shit up before resorting to running something through claude or whatever. but the fact that this was their redemption plan makes me very depressed for anything actually being Valuable. and people actually being skilled at things. but in life if you fumble like this you should just get fired?????? whatever this is pointless, most of the people i know have never used gen ai. thank god.
i swear i'm actually calm, i'm just Baffled.
i went out this week!!!!! i went to sf to see 3 bands, that i am too lazy to link because i'm typing this oh my phone. blogging on a phone is kind of miserable. but it was quarters, porch light and telescreens. and i went to get fried chicken with justin so he could deliver me all the things misaki gets for me in japan (mostly hachiware or chiikawa related) and 3 chuuhai from narita airport, which they have improved their post-security selection at the 7-11 in the last few months...
i think other things happened? but its almost midnight and i just wanna post this, i've given up on my internet connection... sleeping will definitely fix the connection. i believe that