I'm finding joy in posting little weekly reflection posts on my silly little personal website. Here's one for last week (that ended on Sunday, 2025-01-19): https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/weekly-assemblage/wa-2025-week-03
It glances a little on the exodus from Substack—I intend to do a separate post on that soonish—plus parts of the "extended" pomodoro technique.
I'd love to see your own #weekNotes or small / personal / indie / cozy / etc web site if you've got one!
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Really appreciate @aj_boston 's connection between journal-describing phrases like "high impact" and thought-stopping clichés!
https://aj-boston.pubpub.org/pub/cliche
It boggles my mind how quickly information infrastructure providers will scramble to add features & to present claims as "data" without deeply considering the ways these new terms / labels / widgets influence, interrupt, or distort the things they claim to represent.
(Yes, this is yet another "there is no neutrality" / "there is no fully-transparent representation" post.)
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The year is 2062. Your alma mater now only offers degrees in Engineering (Physical) & Engineering (Computing).
You haven't used your degree lately, since all GenAI require one to bring one's own energy.
How long will you have to keep mining so you can prompt again? How much entropy for an answer?
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Cannot imagine moving from the 20th century into the 21st and remaining more invested in governmental pretensions toward freedom of speech* than the fundamental social contract of universal human rights & equality.
Yes indeed, this is a subtoot of someone I've decided it's not worth engaging with directly.
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Just stumbled onto a cool image sharing service.
It's apparently called "wheatpasting"? Probably available near you.
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What was I up to the second week of this year?
Watched some movies, read some books—read all about it, if you're looking for something slightly longer than a social media post! #weekNotes
https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/weekly-assemblage/wa-2025-week-02
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Really peculiar how humanities folks are the ones who continually analyze the operations of myth & fantasy & ideology, while when I observe discussions of technology & privacy I routinely read people sharing Big Feelings and Convictions with little primary evidence.
Not saying that feelings & convictions are wrong, of course!
But I've got to complain that frequently encountering so many hypotheses advanced loudly with so little proof doesn't jibe neatly with the claims about the inherently superior STEM ways of knowing that are bandied about while humanities departments are placed in hock (or just plain gutted).
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I sea that workers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium are forming a union!
You otter lend them your support! (Puns aside, you can sign this Community Letter of Support: https://mbaworkersunited.org/community-letter-support)
https://mbaworkersunited.org
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You ever surprise yourself by remembering that we can just choose to maintain our own little spaces on the online?
Yep, I'm aiming to use my own site more frequently this calendar year, both with weekly(ish) notes like these & other little interstitial posts & notes & whatnots. #weekNotes
https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/weekly-assemblage/wa-2025-week-01
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Benefits of living with us include:
Spouse says "think around in circles", I start muttering the Soul Coughing song, it quickly morphs into "Urkels," we realize "Steven Quincy Urkel" fits the cadence perfectly, then the chorus also suggests giving the man cheese.
Hazards: also see above.
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Can you imagine how wild people would go if we learned that dolphins or orcas had figured out how to use kelp or whatever to filter smoke & ash from their breathing holes when they had to breathe while there was smoke blanketing their part of the ocean?
It'd quickly spawn Disney / AirBud / That Darn Cat kind of franchise. There'd be plushies and memes and gifs and social media dances and Lin-Manuel Miranda would pin the banger hit of the summer about them and who knows what else.
Meanwhile, we terrestrial tool-users have become jaded about our ability to use masks.
Please consider using them if you've got them.
Future you will certainly sing songs in your honor.
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Occasionally, creating websites lets one feel like a wizard.
This is a good thing.
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Thinking of all of you in SoCal tonight.
(Being from Riverside, I have enough experience that I don't want to imagine what you might be going through.)
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They're good words in a good order, Brœnt.
Your "Smith et al. (2024a)." would never.
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"Identifying the correct scale of phenomena is" thus, Montello writes, "a central problem for geographers."
The delightful qualities of this last sentence stem from the combination of its nearly obvious correctness and how deeply it puts the reader epistemologically in the shit.
Among the myriad other things stolen from us by the social sciences' short-sighted preference for passive voice, I particularly resent that generations of thinkers have been disciplinarily dissuaded from even conceiving of sentences like the gems honed by Eric Hayot in Humanist Reason.
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Just want to share that I really enjoy reading @hamatti 's Digital Garden.
Maybe check it out if you're so inclined? https://notes.hamatti.org/
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Okay, hear me out:
it's your regular yoga routine instructions, but delivered in the voice of the intro to Madness' "One Step Beyond".
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Okay, hear me out:
Remastered version of Star Trek: The Original Series where all the aliens are replaced with members of the B-52s (from their earliest videos).
That's it, that's the toot.
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"Say those three little words everyone wants to hear."
"Out of office."
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Clearly I need to make a folded paper fortune-teller to help produce a choice?
No, wait, that won't be re-useable; I'll just lose it. Oh, I should code one! Now I just need to decide which code framework / choices will be repurposeable, and whether I want to put it on my site,,,
(ad ADHD nauseam)
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