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• i’m letting half of my domain name collection expire this year, please clap (8 out of 16)

• this is a great read if you want to understand what advances were made in the field of “AI” this year

  Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

• not drinking, smoking, gambling, doing drugs is also dangerous because it’s easy to think to yourself “wow i’m saving so much money by not doing those things that i can more than afford to indulge in some other non-normative financially draining behavior”

• i will not get into vinyl in 2025, i will not get into vinyl in 2025, i will not get into vinyl in 2025, i will not get into vinyl in 2025, i will not get into vinyl in 2025, i will not get into vinyl in 2025, i will not get into vinyl in 2025, i will not get into vinyl in 2025, i will not get into

• one of my goals for 2025 is to finally build myself a fully custom personal website rather than relying on a builder like squarespace, wordpress, etc

  instead of waiting to have it finished to release it, i’m just going to start with 1 simple page on january 1 and build it bit by bit in public

• an understated boon of the atproto is that it makes creating a new social media platform quite easy and significantly reduces the friction of getting new people to join

  i hope we see lots of experiments in alternative social media futures

• i’ve been impersonating myself online for the past 2 decades and i think i’ve finally just now started getting good at it

• having a personal profile on social media is just an elaborate form of impersonating your self

• i can’t do the whole “write first, edit later” thing… i have to write a couple of paragraphs, read them, make changes, and then press onward

  i felt bad about it for a long time cuz so many professional writers & authority figures say not to do it, but then i realized they aren’t me

• birds and turtles

  

• it’s interesting how rare it is for both people in a relationship to be twitter/bluesky users

  almost always there’s a poster and a non-poster

• “respect your elders” is good wisdom, but it only applies to true elders — being old doesn’t make you wise… you can be in your 70s and farther away from being an elder than someone in their 20s

• imagine if a “follow” would expire… if after 1 year of following an account you still had not interacted with it, your “follow” would fade away naturally

  the current “following” framework that social media uses doesn’t do a good job of mimicking how relationships work IRL

• “i recommend meticulously documenting your life and mythologizing yourself into exceptionalism” - lola dement myers

• if you’re quoting an internet-native writer who speaks in all lowercase, you should under no circumstances capitalize anything they didn’t capitalize (even if you are a journalist with style guides to adhere to!)

• my bluesky account is 666 days old today

  

• truth is not a good ultimate goal

• traditions are great, but knowing when to retire old ones and start making new traditions is even greater

• proud of myself for overcoming a lot of religious trauma and relational dysfunction to 1) still appreciate religion/spirituality, and 2) having a pretty secure attachment style currently

  took many many many years of intentional work, but the labor has finally paid off (for now)

• if we’re going to continue to make long movies, we need to bring back intermissions

• the ideal amount of engagement is 2-10 reposts and 10-30 likes

• if you prefer any version of The Grinch other than the 1966 version you are a war criminal

• bruh someone just told me “you’re not neurodivergent, you’re just odd”

  

• i failed the autism test… i’m not as neurospicy as i thought :(

  the max score is 240: embrace-autism.com/raads-r/

  

• sneezing is the orgasm of the nose