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erik

@erik@iam.reasonably.social

Pluto is a planet. I'm an artist, photographer, and enterprise software engineer out of PHL ✈️ . I post white noise, my own photos, generative AI experiments, and blog spam, but mostly I boost art and photography.

#Philadelphia #music #punk #punkrock #dnb #jungle #alternative #art #fineart #painting #scifi #philosophy #houseplants #webdev #programming #photography #philadelphia #skateboarding #blog #graffiti #generativeAI

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erik, to random
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I'm looking for alternatives. I'm finding the latest iterations make too many errors when analyzing complex sentences. More importantly, despite my best efforts to disable the dozen or more language policing features, it's starting to feel like HR is constantly reading over my shoulder.

Me: "Then we all headed out for the old watering hole."

Grammarly: "Then we all headed out for the older watering hole."

erik, to random
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I don't mind tipping whatever we're tipping these days, but I don't like restaurants or takeout in the first place, and I like to cook. Honestly, I think a lot of the tips should go directly to the dishwasher. He's the only reason I'm there.

erik, to random
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Bluesky is a lot like what you'd get if the guy who made Twitter sold the site for billions of dollars, then immediately turned and made a new Twitter that nobody but wannabe influencers used.

erik, to art
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I was looking through a big book of Andy Warhol Polaroids in the park, but had to cut it short, because Warhol with a Polaroid in the ‘70s involves a fair number of ambush dick pics.

hosford42, to philosophy
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So-called "Objectivism", the "philosophy" of Ayn Rand, is nothing but ableism thinly disguised as a philosophy.

A person's abilities and disabilities DO NOT define that person's worth. Thinking they do is putting the cart before the horse. Who cares what you can or can't do if it isn't useful TO someone? So answer me this: Are people valuable because they can do things, or are the things people can do valuable because they're useful...to people?

The value of all the things we experience comes from our experience of them. Our moral worth originates within us. It is primary, and is not derived, as the value of our abilities is.

#ableism
#AynRand
#Objectivism
#philosophy
#value
#worth

erik,
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@hosford42 Everyone should read Ayn Rand's "The Romantic Manifesto." It's short and will prevent you from accidentally mistaking her for a philosopher while innoculating you from getting dragged into her long fiction as well.

erik,
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@ScottAkenhead @hosford42 Ubik.

rafa, (edited ) to random
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I’m looking for some advice on how to upgrade my TV audio setup:

I currently have a Beam (Gen 1), what you would do?

erik,
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@rafa I keep mine on two blocks of 3-inch acoustic foam.

erik, to random
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In all seriousness, I think it's time to accept that web search is currently broken as an idea, and we all need to go back to sharing our favorite links on personal websites. And we need to make personal websites a thing again, too.

erik,
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@kroc I have never forgotten WebRings!

erik, to random
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The cover photo for the new Musk book speaks volumes. It is the sort of painfully cliche and generic executive headshot that shouts, "I watch Rick and Morty ."

erik, to random
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When lurking the web, I often have to remind myself that people frequently say wild things because they’re in a bad pace. I wonder to what extent constantly sharing and reading maladaptive thoughts and perspectives serves to spread them like digital prions for the soul.

erik, to random
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Futurama is very silly.

erik, to photography
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Big Box o' Melons

Bigger version: https://www.erik365.com/Y52/i-Z3Fcvhr/A

erik, to photography
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Pigeon of the Grass

Bigger version: https://www.erik365.com/Y52/i-b4h3Qg9/A

erik, to random
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I opened the windows this morning, and a strange air blew in. It wasn't hot or sticky. In fact, I almost felt as though I should be wearing more clothes.

paintedsky, to Flutter
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Holy shit, I'm looking at the output HTML for a app for the first time in my life and it's a goddamn MESS

erik,
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@paintedsky Modern frontend is an atrocity. And remarkably difficult and expensive as well.

erik, to random
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"Life is the process of learning shit that you never ever wanted to hear." ~ Nick Harkaway

erik, to random
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Wawa complains about crime at their Center City locations, which is fair. However, the neighborhoods mysteriously improve dramatically soon after the Wawa is gone.

erik,
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@jake4480 These didn't have gas stations. There is actually only one gas station in Center City that I can think of. At any rate, the neighborhood always gets grimier and crime-ier wherever they open one up downtown. They had to close one on South Street that was directly next to the police station. They shared a wall.

erik, to random
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Amazon tells me searches for "n95 masks for adults", "vitamin d", and "hand sanitizer" are trending. Lovin' that synergy.

erik, to random
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At any rate, destroy everything you touch.

https://youtu.be/J2MdJKYsapg?si=A0YduNtsnPSHyj-C

erik,
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@jake4480 I have not. I'll put it on the stack.

erik, to politics
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We should be celebrating the demise of a murderous warlord guilty of any number of crimes against humanity. Instead, the media focuses on run-of-the-mill Putin intrigues, a failed coup, and what a "charismatic" leader he had been, without even mentioning a career based on atrocities.

AndyPaciorekArt, (edited ) to random
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Still from The Twilight Zone- episode Nick of Time


erik,
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@AndyPaciorekArt Twilight Zone, "Nick of Time".

MissingThePt, to random
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"Twitter/X plans to disable the block feature, impacting both user experience and safety.”

"There's this alternative called Mastod-"

"And it’s beholden to one vain, insecure, capricious man obsessed with fighting Zuck."

"There's this federated option Mast-"

"Not to mention it refuses to suspend pro-Hitler accounts and unsuspends CSAM accounts because it’s lucrative."

"The non-profit Ma-"

"Welp, nothing to be done about Twitter/X I suppose, might as well stick it out on this hellhole."

erik,
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@MissingThePt Journalists have spent the last 10 years or so addicted to Twitter. It's hard for them to let go.

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