Darryl Wright 🇨🇦 🎧 @darryl@qoto.org

Should we bring pelts to trade for books to the Anarchist Book Fair?

Every statement about what AI cannot do should be read with an implicit postfix "yet".

@jasondmoss @pluralistic A national treasure.

Waiting until at least Sept 1st to get a Pumpkin Spice Latte is a stand against hyper-capitalist exploitation of the middle class. A small one, perhaps. But it's something.

He end of episode 2... 👀😎🥚👏

Alien: Earth is already the best show on TV.

Please stop flying drones near the wildfires... You f**king tits. #halifax

Songs that heal.

https://youtu.be/FydutBS1CtQ?si=W67qY7Boz6L9V0_W

Most of Bukowski's poetry would be failed social media posts in 2025. # facts

(... But in fairness, cancelling Nova Scotia summer straight through to Fall was never going to over well.) There will be riots.

NS Gov: Hiking is banned due to the danger of our woodland tinderbox.

Comment Sections who haven't seen a tree in a decade: F**k this pandemic-era BS, I'm going hiking, see you in court.

I hate when restaurants have decorative book shelves because I actually want to go browse the books but I suspect the people who sit at the table you're leaning over would be uncomfortable with that.

99% of head injuries go unreported and they are from wearing sunglasses on the top of your head.

#factsimadeupbutareprobablytrue

You know what you need to do: $20K by Friday and they've marked all the books down by 40%.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/doull-s-bookstore-institution-halifax-closing-by-end-of-week-1.7591181

Enjoyed this:

https://open.substack.com/pub/dblthink/p/the-great-mental-models-visual-book?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=9hott

My gawd, this was vile and hard to watch. I didn't realize the extremes were this extreme -- especially Mr. "Quite Frankly".

https://youtu.be/2S-WJN3L5eo?si=IKdBKzkCmtGvIVud

So, middle-aged women with floppy sausage fingers is "artistic genius" but six realistic fingers is "AI slop". I see how it is.

This is a really fascinating and thought provoking talk about the ongoing evolution (metamorphosis?) of software development.

https://youtu.be/8rABwKRsec4?si=yrXLy-8AEgEIg1A6

Seems to me that "I'm going to rent an escooter to get home" has somehow become code for "Darryl is drunk and needs a ride."

Been talking about doing this and needing this for so long and it's finally fully functional. My own light weight music collection streamer that runs on a ~$30 Raspberry Pi. Introducing Tower of Song -- web app and API. Next step, an Android app.