I guess one way to get over my anxiety and awkwardness is to just push right through…
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kevin humdrum
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🥱 a cynical optimist lacking excitement and variety; making a big fuss about minor matters; liable to deviate from the typical form
🔎 Publishing the digital zine @foofaraw@beep.town
🔗 Editing the linkblog @tiv@beep.town
💼 Freelance consulting as Humdrum Industries
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Joined December 20, 2022
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@Chapz@mastodon.online I'm done though. You keep making up things no one has said to defend a a company with a $380 billion valuation. Have a day.
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@Chapz@mastodon.online Not a single person saying Claude is complicit thinks they are more to blame than this administration. No one, including OP, said users of Claude are complicit; just that your subscription money supports a company that is. If I could determine where my tax dollars went, they wouldn’t go to missiles... There’s a massive difference in doing what is required to participate in society and knowingly giving someone something you know they are going to use to murder people.
Go get it. Now. This an order. Loves using it and seeing the progress made during the beta to get to this point. Super smooth, super easy. @hiro@social.lol @hiro@social.lol
So I did my first live video interview as the “editor of foofaraw" with Lit Mag News… it was weird and fun, and I nervously rambled a bit… but overall, I think it turned out okay… https://litmagnews.substack.com/p/i-want-something-fun-a-chat-with
Got a pullout couch for the office to replace my old, broken recliner so guests don't have to sleep on the air mattress anymore and the couch is so comfy that I might just nap—I mean work—from here for now on.
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@hosford42@techhub.social @lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net @mhoye@cosocial.ca The Anthropic CEO has publicly stated every use case so far by the US government, including the bombing of the school in Iran, is well within the right of the current contract they have (had).
The ruckus in the news is about an new, expanded contract where now Anthropic is putting their foot down around certain use cases (domestic mass surveillance, fully autonomous drone strikes), but they have no problems with how the government has used AI up to this point using their products in Iran.
I agree that that putting their foot down there, is a positive step forward, but I still think there are things that need to be reckoned with around how these tools can be used to intentionally (or unintentionally) assist in killing people.
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@Chapz@mastodon.online @mhoye@cosocial.ca And either way, if you want to stick with your comparison, the government is basically saying, "I want to slit this guy's throat, give me a knife," if you give them the knife, you're complicit.
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@Chapz@mastodon.online @mhoye@cosocial.ca I think the more apt comparison you are looking for is “guns don’t kill, people do,” (which, for the record, is stupid) but when you intentionally make it easy for nefarious actors with harmful intent to acquire tools that give them the capability to kill a large number of innocent civilians—especially when you know that’s the intended goal—you absolutely become complicit.
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@Chapz@mastodon.online @mhoye@cosocial.ca You obviously haven't been paying attention to the news because they can determine how that tool is used. Guns are also used for hunting and self-defense, both of which are different than murder, but that's neither here nor there
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@hosford42@techhub.social @lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net @mhoye@cosocial.ca This interview with The Economist from this morning is where I’m getting that from, if curious. https://www.economist.com/insider/the-insider/zanny-minton-beddoes-interviews-anthropics-boss
Edit: and before someone tries to correct me, he doesn’t explicitly mention the school bombing in Iran, but it is brought up, and he unequivocally says the administration has followed the current contract in regards to using their AI. Could he be cowtailing to curry favor, perhaps, because he definitely has been doing some of that.
@hiro@social.lol Would love a way to toggle more easily between the regular capture and the append to daily note capture that I have set up. I'm terrible with keyboard shortcuts, so I'm always just doing the main one and then remembering I wanted to do the daily note. If I could jump to that from my regular capture window quickly and easily or even a hint, that would be cool.
What are folks using for browsers these days? I found myself just using Safari for everything again, which feels a bit boring.
🐛 Guest #20: GrubStar by Jen Kershaw https://grub.humdrum.me/posts/guest-20-grubstar-by-jen-kershaw
Had to give a big shout out to @arrowtype@typo.social for releasing Kyrios 1.0—especially since the /// ligature was something I asked for to use on TIV! https://tiv.today/at-kyrios-a-curious-slightly-psychedelic-blackletter-font-family/
From TIV ✖︎
Meryl Streep Calls Out “Marvel-ization” of Movies: “It’s So Boring”
https://tiv.today/meryl-streep-calls-out-marvel-ization-of-movies-its-so-boring/
From the Foof 〄
Presenting: The Foofs 2025
https://foofaraw.press/presenting-the-foofs-2025/
From the Foof 〄
🌳 Removal
https://foofaraw.press/removal/
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@hosford42@techhub.social Of course! Too often, people (including myself) will say things without anything concrete so I’m trying to be better at that… 😬🥸
From TIV ✖︎
AT Kyrios /// a curious, slightly psychedelic blackletter font family
https://tiv.today/at-kyrios-a-curious-slightly-psychedelic-blackletter-font-family/
From the Foof 〄
📺 The Media Guide S7E5
https://foofaraw.press/the-media-guide-s7e5/
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@stublag@xoxo.zone have you ever shipped large furniture before? Curious what that cost looks like... and have experience with drawers..?
From TIV ✖︎
A Great Big Fuss (2025)
https://tiv.today/a-great-big-fuss-2025/
From the Foof 〄
🔭 The Monster At the End of the Essay
https://foofaraw.press/the-monster-at-the-end-of-the-essay/
From TIV ✖︎
Ari Aster Sets Next Film ‘Scapegoat’ With Scarlett Johansson at A24
https://tiv.today/ari-aster-sets-next-film-scapegoat-with-scarlett-johansson-at-a24/
From the Foof 〄
📺 The Media Guide S7E6
https://foofaraw.press/the-media-guide-s7e6/
Has anyone ever made tortillas from sushi rice? I feel like that'd be delicious.
From the Foof 〄
⏳ Dating Advice For Time Travelers
https://foofaraw.press/dating-advice-for-time-travelers/
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🧩 Jigsaw
https://foofaraw.press/jigsaw/
From TIV ✖︎
Pokopia is my post-gender utopia
https://tiv.today/pokopia-is-my-post-gender-utopia/
IDK if anyone will actually use this, but it was so much fun to make!
From TIV ✖︎
GameStop Wants To Buy, Uh, eBay? [Update]
https://tiv.today/gamestop-wants-to-buy-uh-ebay-update/
![GameStop Wants To Buy, Uh, eBay? [Update]](https://og.kortum.world/tiv/gamestop-wants-to-buy-uh-ebay-update.png)
From TIV ✖︎
Dirty Little Zine /// Free 8-Page Printable Zine Maker
https://tiv.today/dirty-little-zine-free-8-page-printable-zine-maker/
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🎙️ Maureen Bowden
https://foofaraw.press/maureen-bowden/
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🕹️ Pirates and vampires
https://foofaraw.press/pirates-and-vampires/
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@neatnik@social.lol This is awesome! Going to try to move Foofaraw’s Gemini site to this.
From TIV ✖︎
New Banksy: Blinded by Nationalism
https://tiv.today/new-banksy-blinded-by-nationalism/
From TIV ✖︎
Jeffrey Epstein’s Possible Suicide Note Hidden From Public View
https://tiv.today/jeffrey-epsteins-possible-suicide-note-hidden-from-public-view/
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@stublag@xoxo.zone also... one idea might be to have some stock shelves, offered in different finishes, wood types, and a couple sizes. Just a thought…