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Creepy AI bullshit of the day: i’ve used Perplexity AI as a “get answers to questions quickly” tool for about a year. Always set it to Incognito mode. Always trying to keep it at arms length and away from my data.

They just added a new tool called Perplexity computer, which basically gives it access to everything on your computer and phone so that you can make it do stuff for you. When you update it, it pretty much defaults to having file access.

So now I’m deleting that from my phone, and going back to using DuckDuckGo as quick answer shit.

My search engine shouldn’t have access to my poems without permission. Fucking creepy as hell.

An article in the times includes these pictures of the number two pencils used to draw the current version of Heathcliff, and hit me that comics are made with the tools of childhood.

So are poems if we’re lucky.

Good morning. It is 2026-06-16, and it's a Tuesday.

Good morning. It is 2026-06-16, and it’s a Tuesday.

Today is a bit of A Day. Gus has been left behind at a friend’s house while we are having our house inspection. J and I both cried. He’s such a good little guy, and we do not like to traumatize him.

I am at the reed college library doing some basic computing. Wanted to see if everything would work here, and they do. I am redoing my entire back up strategy, because I’m trying to keep things cheap.

Backups:

  • Physical backups using time machine.
  • Backup to Google Drive once a week.
  • Removing Backblaze from my computer.
    • Subscription that costs too much.
    • Do I really need that level of backup when Google Drive is ubiquitous and works?
      • Not ideal. I don’t like the idea of my poems being used to train AI. But we are well passed that, aren’t we?

Also updates on friends:

  • A is home after her bottom surgery. Will be supporting her Friday night.
  • Everyone else seems to be recovering well.

Also added todoist to my computer so that when I get back to work, I can use it.

So overall, doing the small things that will make things Easier around here.

I’m listening to an interview with Brian Eno, and the interviewer is explaining Slipknot to him, and he seems delighted.

My worth is based on 3 things:

  • do I love?
  • Do I write?
  • Do I contribute?

I have 1 and 2 down. I don’t know about 3.

Good morning. It is 20206-06-14, and it’s a Sunday.

Going to experiment with posting poems on Bsky for a bit. Just see if I want to have that be a part of my practice. Get things out there more.

The only worry, of course, is if I get enough “likes” to be happy. And honestly, I worry about that. Hence why I should be able to turn that off.

Continuing to try to get my phone to be a tool and not just a consumption device. Not sure if I’m succeeding, but whatever. Nuked all the cookies on my browser so all the websites seem to be not working. Sigh.

Still unemployed. It’s starting to get scary. Really really scary. I’ve applied to almost 200 jobs. The only two that showed any interest would be miserable as hell. Maybe that’s the only kind of work that trannies like me deserve. 

defuddle.md maybe my favorite thing on the Internet right now. Takes any webpage, and converts it to markdown. Can’t read an article because too many ads? Want to live in text?