neverland

Notes

July 2024

Note (2024-07-10 21:27)

“[B]eing” a self is inextricably bound to “doing” a “caring self,” […] “both a performance and a technique used to generate valuations of responsibility and respectability.” […] [T]he mother experiences [a] different subjectivity as a rejection of her own identity and thus may feel impelled to quash it […].

doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57580-7_9

Note (2024-07-09 07:02)

Software developers are the wizards and shamans of the modern age. We ought to use our powers with the austerity and integrity such power implies.

more like minions and puppets in $bigco cases (but can at least leverage the agency to tolerate obscure, non-critical hacks & workarounds)

https://conduition.io/coding/ticketmaster/

Note (2024-07-08 06:38)

“Stockpiling information about other people’s behavior like cookies on a browser””Mental folders filled with scripts, permutations of outcomes” relatable af 🙃

“My ‘Difficult Character’” by Mary H.K. Choi https://www.thecut.com/article/mary-hk-choi-adult-autism-diagnosis.html (but cf. “Read the Label” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/13/why-were-turning-psychiatric-labels-into-identities)

Note (2024-07-07 14:00)

may the sunburn leave me with thicker skin as well as a tanned one

Note (2024-07-05 06:51)

IA 总能看到一些上古奇文

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-learned-maid/

Note (2024-07-04 12:18)

所以说 fediverse 做不起来有一半属于活该社区没做起来几个叉子倒是做了一堆

Note (2024-07-03 06:46)

I have absorbed so much poorly lit human misery, so much operatic anxiety, so much gleeful and yet humorless gore, so much soul-destroying viciousness disguised as cleverness, all in the guise of entertainment, all ostensibly my break from the real world. Blooper reels are my vacation from that vacation. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/magazine/enough-with-prestige-tv-give-me-the-bloopers.html （TIL, NG 是翻译成 blooper

June 2024

Note (2024-06-28 21:26)

笑吐了 https://video.weibo.com/show?fid=1034:5050351628255240

Note (2024-06-28 00:40)

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/advice-from-my-editor

Note (2024-06-22 16:09)

starting to see can necessitate an epistemic disruption, and to unsee, a performing art

Note (2024-06-18 02:05)

anecdotally, also work as deterrents that effectively annul any presumptive parental authority 🙃

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/should-we-expect-more-from-dads

Note (2024-06-11 07:16)

I had hoped that Apple could do better than the clichéd, gaudy rainbow effect in the visual design of their AI features

come to terms with my dysnomia in reading fictions after finding an analogy in hearing anecdotes, where one is not expected to capture all the characters in one pass but just the rough dynamic and vibe; confusing names is venial if the confusion is part of the experience