Obsessed with tetris lately. A game that I cannot win. I think that’s something that I love about it. You are playing against yourself. That’s why I’m not fond of the ones where you start with an already set puzzle. I want a blank screen and falling tiles and my own failure.
There’s something unsettling about feeding an untested machine centuries of human creativity just to produce an imitation of soul. Art has always thrived on imperfection—the mess, the emotion, the human error—and I’m not convinced any AI can capture that. -Guillermo Del Toro
Reading The Odyssey, or as I like to call it: deadbeat dads are eternal.
**iPhone Setup and rules**
This is a tool.
Go back to basics: Phone. iPod. Internet Communicator.
Live in text. Ebooks, RSS, email, essays, and messages.
Different focus modes for different locations and moods, with home screens to match.
No notifications except messaging apps. Even that feels like too much.  Don’t read socials on the phone. They aren’t worth the attention. No apps for these are allowed. Log off on browsers.
(The one exception is micro.blog, set to post only, for posting pictures and ideas.)
Post as if it is a letter or gift for your friends.
Don’t be part of the river of suffering.
You don’t have to be there.
Get rid of apps if you feel you are checking them too often or they are just taking up room. Don’t use blocking software…Either have apps on your phone or don’t. Log out if it gives you anger. Delete if you don’t find joy there.
Search protocols: Wikipedia first. Then DuckDuckGo.
Siri AI for quick answers (but don’t trust it!). Never for writing or creation. That way lies violence against everything good about being human.
Turn off all AI writing tools in chat and email. Be human to the people.
No games. Not even Tetris.
No video allowed on phone. Too easy to fall in a youtube shaped hole.
News is allowed in magazine or newspaper form only, and only in the morning. Don’t go to news sites.
It should not interrupt you, or make you suffer.
Big playlist of music, curated by you and your friends.
The question should always be: does this make me feel happy and productive? If not: remove.
Trying to do a bunch of repairs with stickers today. We’ll see if this one lasts.
Currently reading: the Odyssey (translated by Emily Wilson), because I’ve never actually read it, and because it’s in the air, and because I want to read something my grandpa read. Break bread with the dead, and all that.
Alchemists rejoice! Scientists have turned lead into gold using the Large Hadron Collider. “The ALICE scientists calculate that, while they are colliding beams of lead nuclei, they produce about 89,000 gold nuclei per second.”