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Been feeling all dizzy and very forgetful, foggy for four weeks since having a mild cold. I swear to god if I get some sudden long covid thing that stays with me forever, bring on the ME/CFS, gaaahhhh.
💬 1 Reply · 0 Thumbs · 6 days ago
The new Shogun adaptation is pretty great, though some clever cinematographer got the clever idea of using a wide-open anamorphic lens for every shot, making the whole thing look like a hazy fisheye dreamscape. So much vignetting, chromatic aberration, and distortion.
💬 2 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 1 week ago
Developments in AI make me think about whether I should consider humanity's greatest strength its ability to deduce and think logically, which is being challenged, or just the ability to enjoy one's life, outside the nihilistic perspective of everything turning to dust and being forgotten in the course of thousands of years of history. Of course, for some, enjoying one's life is synonymous with intellectual challenge and accomplishment, but I guess I fear most that the average person will no longer feel impelled to challenge oneself when an unsurpassable creative force can dictate to them any mechanical course of action, or even thought.
💬 2 Replies · 1 Thumb · 2 weeks ago
Heyy, just got my first roll of film in. I'd say 30% good pics, 30% technically ok, terrible composition, 40% bad shots. I'm actually really into the ones that were underexposed on a strong light. Pet photos were obviously a gimme with an f/1.8 so those'll be popular. I got double prints cause it's free on mondays.
💬 2 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 4 weeks ago
My important service to the world today: you probably mean "raises the question" when you say "begs the question", unless you mean the logical fallacy of assuming the conclusion in the premises, /petitio principii/.
💬 0 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 1 month ago
My favourite existential philosophy is the mathematical universe hypothesis, which asserts that the universe is fundamentally nothing but math, and truth. A Turing machine can add numbers together... play a game... theoretically simulate a finite universe... The fact that that mathematical structure obviously can exist can give birth to a reality simply by being an even theoretically sound idea. You and I, its natural consequence at some unfathomably high-numbered step.
💬 1 Reply · 2 Thumbs · 1 month ago
I'm considering signing every diary entry and blog post and whatnot with "in the year of two plus two equals four" in 2024. It's too good to pass up.
💬 0 Replies · 1 Thumb · 1 month ago
Solution for a better internet: you cannot post anything, anywhere, without writing at least 300 words.
💬 9 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 1 month ago
Thought: modern social media embodies the saying "those who can't do, teach" precisely. Hardly anyone a master of their craft, they tend to be slightly above mediocre artists and craftspeople giving advice on how to accomplish their failed dreams.
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Learn Finnish, you'll get to say "in the 1997th" as "tuhannennessayhdeksännessäsadannessayhdeksännessäkymmenennessäseitsemännessä". Or avoid saying things in that manner to save your sanity, but who am I to judge? "from 1994 to 1997" would colloquially just be "välillä/vuodet ysineljä ysiseiska" to avoid compound words with forty syllables. I had to consult wiktionary to make sure I was inflecting that properly, and I'm native!
💬 6 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 1 month ago
I have purchased three separate tomes of Oxford dictionaries of English, each between 1100 and 1600 pages. Paper dictionaries are the best. You can get lost in them, and you don't have to go to the computer to check something with variable results and etymological veracity.
💬 0 Replies · 1 Thumb · 1 month ago
I want to see more youtubers who swear hard. Advertiser appeasement affects language itself, now. Fuck you. Ah, fucking solid catharsis I'd get, from that. Everything feels very soft around the edges, prepackaged and smoothed out for the consumer.
💬 1 Reply · 2 Thumbs · 1 month ago
I'm hit by an urge to read lots of classic and modern literature. Shakespeare, Pynchon, and that godforsaken mess of infinite recursive reference that is Joyce. Maybe I'll start from the shallow end.
💬 5 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 1 month ago
Interesting to think that all of culture is built from pretty much nothing interesting. Forests and sand and endless water. Thousands of years of culture from nothing. It gives me pause to consider just how arbitrary everything we value fundamentally is. And if we left the world as is and disappeared as a species, none of the things produced would ever have purpose or meaning.
💬 1 Reply · 0 Thumbs · 2 months ago
I've thought for a long time that I've learned to deal with my ADHD constructively, but recently, I'm starting to think I have pretty severe issues with executive dysfunction. Periods of extreme hyperfocus sweep me away to dedicate everything to art, followed by intensely apathetic weeks of being unable to do *anything* but scroll reddit, because there's too many interests and hobbies that require your time, so you just fizzle out after two minutes on all of them. Bleeeugh.
💬 3 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 2 months ago
I've been shredding some Yngwie Malmsteen stuff lately. It's so tiring for the left hand, makes you all sluggish after a good fifteen minutes of practice. Fun though. I never did much sweep picking so it's really filling in some blanks there.
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 2 months ago
I've begun to find the word "hobby" slightly irksome. It somehow makes me think "your passions are commodified distractions" instead of "this is what you're alive for and what you want to dedicate your life to."
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Thought: the culture you grow in irrevocably influences your thought so much that a major reason the world is socially more fractured now is because the world is changing faster and faster (internet), making it harder for each successive micro-generation to relate to the previous and fundamentally understand the ideas they hold dear. This occurred when I realised just how much "being Finnish from the early 90s" has to do with any argument I might have with someone from a different country. Very subtle, usually, but I've been paying attention more, lately. No one was born in a vacuum without cultural ideas, just associations made to stimuli. Arbitrary base truths.
💬 2 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 2 months ago
Looking into getting a cheap 35mm SLR and developing the B&W myself. I'm sick of the perfect cleanliness of digital photography. Need to breathe life into them with physical manipulation of the film.
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Watched Timo Suosalo's "Kalteva Torni" (The Leaning Tower), starring the inimitable Martti Suosalo. Bit cheesy at times, but the protagonist's depiction of a schizophrenic with his free association, demanding inner voice, and dramatic flair, what a great time. Coulda watched his parts for the whole film. Kupolit kultaa!
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 2 months ago
I have celebrated the changing of the year by violently expelling all the past year's woes into the toilet following a night of excessive drinking. I sport several layered headaches.
💬 1 Reply · 0 Thumbs · 2 months ago
I'm completely radicalised by AI "art": I will never accept it, and in fact fundamentally reject any product made with the help of it. You have given up any right to ever call yourself an artist by giving up your autonomy and pursuit of skillful perfection. Soon, I may begin to consider no longer consuming certain mediums made past year 202X if the trends don't change.
💬 10 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 2 months ago
realising basically everyone online is on mobile- i *hate* making every web page design conform to mobile devices, because it means you have to keep scrapping functionality by the boatload. no buttons, huh? alternative is ignoring mobile users, in which case your traffic will be zero.
💬 0 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 3 months ago
ah, i've stalled in my writing. i'm stuck on a couple world-building necessities to move on, but i feel like i should just write and it'll probably turn out okay regardless of whether the ideas are *perfectly* planned out or not. blegh.
💬 2 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 3 months ago
the worst part of aging on the internet is realising no one else is aging with you and everyone is still a teenager, forever.
💬 2 Replies · 1 Thumb · 3 months ago
I'm stuck writing this theme that I'm using for the story, right? I'm trying to do this thing where there's recurring motivic content for emotional impact as the story unfolds, but man it's easy to get stuck in two-chord loops, hah. I'm no Bach here, regardless of how experienced a musician. Been playing a ton of piano lately- different compositional feel to the guitar.
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 3 months ago
I've spent the past week just putting in the hours with Blender. Thing's basically magic with how it's free, too. Amazing piece of software.
💬 1 Reply · 0 Thumbs · 3 months ago
I've spent all day learning Blender so I could create a couple assets for the next part of my story. That was painful. Maybe I'll get faster as time goes on, hah. Welp, back to writing. On another note, I came up with some worldbuilding that actually had me consult my old graduate topology textbook and thesis to make sure it all works right, hah.
💬 2 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 3 months ago
I've begun to believe that all online video essay content is trash where the value is entirely parasocial by talentless hacks who have no central thesis at all. Maybe it's just the blurry plastic film of advertiser appeasement on top, but god, feel like I've never seen anyone say something *interesting* in one of those. There's so many, and they all belong on the third monitor to keep the silence and your own thoughts at bay. Like most of the modern internet.
💬 4 Replies · 1 Thumb · 3 months ago
Oh my poor lethargy. The sunlight hours are about to drop under 7 a day. Not that any sunlight shows for those either through the permanent overcast!