Just a guy in Vermont trying to connect all the dots...
Dan York
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Sep 07
TDYR 413 – Overcoming Fatigue and Malaise
Has it really be over a year since I last published a podcast episode? In this new episode, I talk about some of the fatigue and malaise that has kept me away from recording and also writing. I also provided an update on some of what has been going on in my life. *Hopefully* you'll see more episodes coming out from me soon! Links I mentioned:
- https://www.danyork.com/2023/01/my-themes-for-2023.html
- https://elemental.medium.com/your-surge-capacity-is-depleted-it-s-why-you-feel-awful-de285d542f4c
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/well/mind/covid-mental-health-languishing.html
May 01
43% of the Web Can No Longer (Easily) Auto-Share to Twitter
As of today, May 1, 2023, 43% of web sites will no longer be able to easily auto-share posts to Twitter. I’m referring, of course, to WordPress, which W3Techs shows as powering around 43% of all sites they scan.
Due to the continued incomprehensible decisions being made by Twitter’s new management, the company behind WordPress, Automattic, has stated that they have discontinued the easy auto-sharing of posts through their hosted WordPress.com service, and also through the Jetpack Social service used by many people (myself included) who operate their own WordPress instances.
The issue is that Twitter decided to start charging for API access, and as Automattic notes:
The cost increase is prohibitive for us to absorb without passing a significant price increase along to you, and we don’t see that as an option. We have attempted to negotiate a path forward, but haven’t been able to reach an agreement in time for Twitter’s May 1 cutoff.
When you publish a new post on WordPress.com or any WordPress site using Jetpack, it will no longer be automatically shared out to Twitter. You can, of course, manually copy and paste the URL from your site over into Twitter. And you can potentially use some other auto-sharing plugin that has decided to pay Twitter’s API fees.
Now of course all 43% of web sites using WordPress did NOT use this auto-sharing capability. Many sites did not, but many did - and this allowed Twitter to be the place where you could be notified when someone you followed published something new.
Of all the many ridiculous decisions Twitter’s management has made in the past six months, this excessive changing for API access seems to me to be one of the MOST short-sighted decisions.
One of the reasons I used Twitter was to get the latest news and content. Now Twitter is reducing the amount of content that will be shared. The API limits are expected to affect public service announcements - and now will affect the sharing of blog posts.
I get that Twitter’s new owners desperately need to figure out ways to make money, but this doesn’t seem to be the right one.
In my mind, if you want your social service to be THE place for people to go for the latest news and content, then you want to reduce any friction involved with posting content INTO your service.
The reality is that you (Twitter) need that content far more than the content providers need you!
The Good News
There was some good news in the post from Automattic - specifically that they will soon be adding Mastodon auto-sharing, as well as Instagram:
However, we’re adding Instagram and Mastodon very soon. In the meantime, auto-sharing to Tumblr, Facebook, and LinkedIn still works as expected
I don’t personally care as much about the IG linkage, but the Mastodon auto-sharing will be hugely helpful, as that is where I am spending most of my social time these days. There are no API fees there, and content can be shared in many ways.
You can already do this auto-sharing to Mastodon using ActivityPub plugins, but this announcement indicates it will be brought more into the main WordPress / Jetpack functionality, which will make it that much easier for people to use.
I look forward to trying the Mastodon sharing out when it becomes available!
Meanwhile… this announcement means there are even fewer reasons for me to be checking Twitter anymore. Sad to see the continued decline. 🙁
Apr 08
Do AI Systems Lie, Hallucinate, or Confabulate? (I’ll go for “lying”)
When ChatGPT and similar systems started being available, people noticed right away that they could provide completely wrong answers. But they would do so in language that was so confident and plausible (because that is how they are designed).
Some people started to say “ChatGPT lies about information”.
But somewhat immediately, people started pushing back and saying that it isn’t “lying” because that implies sentience or consciousness. Say it is “lying” is “anthropomorphizing”, i.e. attributing human behavior to something that is very definitely not human.
Instead, some people said, let’s refer to this false information as “hallucinations”, as that is in fact a term used in AI research. So we say instead “ChatGPT hallucinates information.”
I personally like that term. It provides a way to explain to people that these AI tools just make stuff up!
But, as noted in this excellent Ars Technica article by Benj Edwards (that you really need to read to understand all this!), the use of “hallucination” has two issues:
- It also is anthropomorphizing and ascribing human behavior to a non-sentient / non-human thing.
- More importantly, saying an AI “hallucinates” has a nuance of being excusable behavior. “Oh, yes, Fred was just hallucinating when he said all that.” As if it was just random memories or a trip on some kind of drugs. It lets the AI creators off the hook a bit. They don’t have to take responsibility for their errors, because “it’s just the AI hallucinating”!
Which is fine… I can go along with that reasoning.
But… the author then suggests instead we use the term from psychology of “confabulation”, as in:
”ChatGPT confabulates information”
Hmm. While I get that “confabulation” may be more technically accurate, I think it still has the issues:
- It is still anthropomorphizing.
- It still lets developers not take responsibility. “Oh, it’s just the AI confabulating.”
But more importantly… “confabulation” is NOT A WORD PEOPLE REGULARLY USE!
At least, people who are not in psychology.
If we as technologists want to help the broader public understand these AI systems, both their opportunities and challenges, then we need to speak in plain language.
I do think we need to go back to the beginning and just say “ChatGPT lies”.
This has two important aspects:
- All of us understand “lying”.
- It puts the responsibility on the AI system - and its developers - for “behaving” that way.
Yes, it’s anthropomorphizing. No, ChatGPT and other AI systems are NOT human or sentient. No, they can’t really “lie” in the human understanding of it.
But we can use that term to help people understand what is happening here.
ChatGPT and other systems are lying. They are NOT giving you true information.
Let’s call it like it is.
——
P.S. It turns out that Simon Willison, who has been diving deep into the world of AI far more than I, has written something similar: “We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics” - please read Simon’s post for a another view!
——
Image credit: from Bing Image Create (DALL-E) using prompt “create an image showing an AI that is hallucinating”
Apr 08
Do AI Systems Lie, Hallucinate, or Confabulate? (I’ll go for “lying”)
When ChatGPT and similar systems started being available, people noticed right away that they could provide completely wrong answers. But they would do so in language that was so confident and plausible (because that is how they are designed).
Some people started to say “ChatGPT lies about information”.
But somewhat immediately, people started pushing back and saying that it isn’t “lying” because that implies sentience or consciousness. Say it is “lying” is “anthropomorphizing”, i.e. attributing human behavior to something that is very definitely not human.
Instead, some people said, let’s refer to this false information as “hallucinations”, as that is in fact a term used in AI research. So we say instead “ChatGPT hallucinates information.”
I personally like that term. It provides a way to explain to people that these AI tools just make stuff up!
But, as noted in this excellent Ars Technica article by Benj Edwards (that you really need to read to understand all this!), the use of “hallucination” has two issues:
- It also is anthropomorphizing and ascribing human behavior to a non-sentient / non-human thing.
- More importantly, saying an AI “hallucinates” has a nuance of being excusable behavior. “Oh, yes, Fred was just hallucinating when he said all that.” As if it was just random memories or a trip on some kind of drugs. It lets the AI creators off the hook a bit. They don’t have to take responsibility for their errors, because “it’s just the AI hallucinating”!
Which is fine… I can go along with that reasoning.
But… the author then suggests instead we use the term from psychology of “confabulation”, as in:
”ChatGPT confabulates information”
Hmm. While I get that “confabulation” may be more technically accurate, I think it still has the issues:
- It is still anthropomorphizing.
- It still lets developers not take responsibility. “Oh, it’s just the AI confabulating.”
But more importantly… “confabulation” is NOT A WORD PEOPLE REGULARLY USE!
At least, people who are not in psychology.
If we as technologists want to help the broader public understand these AI systems, both their opportunities and challenges, then we need to speak in plain language.
I do think we need to go back to the beginning and just say “ChatGPT lies”.
This has two important aspects:
- All of us understand “lying”.
- It puts the responsibility on the AI system - and its developers - for “behaving” that way.
Yes, it’s anthropomorphizing. No, ChatGPT and other AI systems are NOT human or sentient. No, they can’t really “lie” in the human understanding of it.
But we can use that term to help people understand what is happening here.
ChatGPT and other systems are lying. They are NOT giving you true information.
Let’s call it like it is.
——
P.S. It turns out that Simon Willison, who has been diving deep into the world of AI far more than I, has written something similar: “We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics” - please read Simon’s post for a another view!
——
Image credit: from Bing Image Create (DALL-E) using prompt “create an image showing an AI that is hallucinating”
Mar 14
After Almost 15 Years, Saying Goodbye to Evernote (and Moving to Obsidian)
On April 8, 2008, I started using Evernote as a place to store all my various notes. It would come to be a critical part of my daily workflow… so much so that I became a paying customer back in 2011 or so.
Today, March 13, 2023, I uninstalled it from my devices.
I’m done.
It’s been a long time coming. Way back in 2012 I was super frustrated with how they destroyed the Skitch application with its 2.0 release. And yet I kept using Evernote because it had become my central repository. And… I hung on long enough that many of the Skitch features I complained about in that post were brought back.
In fact, I basically stayed with Evernote BECAUSE of how easy Skitch made taking - and adjusting - screenshots. Do a quick screenshot, tweak it, adjust it, annotate it… and have the result live on inside of Evernote, where it could then be tagged and further annotated.
Pretty much every single screenshot I’ve taken across my blogs in the past 10+ years has been done with Skitch.
I stayed with Evernote through all their various pivots… getting more annoyed each time they did something new. No, I didn’t want Chat to be everywhere… no, I didn’t want collaboration pieces - I’m the only user of my Evernote account! No, I didn’t want any of the other features they kept adding. All I wanted to do was add simple notes and also screen captures! I also watched in concern as there were layoffs at various times.
Then yet another redesign happened in early 2021 that changed how the application operated! When you opened up the app, the notes were no longer instantly there. It seemed like you had to wait for them to download from the server.
It was at that point that I actively started looking at ALL THE MANY alternatives that had emerged… and getting into a bit of “analysis paralysis”.
Finally, what pushed me to end was their latest price increase this year that jumped the pricing I was on by about 40%. Combined with my continually growing dissatisfaction, and a concern about the uncertainty of the direction of the new owners… I migrated all my notes and canceled my subscription.
The good news, as I understand it, is that even with the free version all my data will still be intact inside the Evernote app. So if I missed anything in the migration I should be able to get it.
Switching to Obsidian
I chose to migrate to using Obsidian. I could probably write several posts about WHY, but the simplest answer is:
- I’M NOT LOCKED IN TO A PROPRIETARY FORMAT!
- I’m not LOCKED IN to a proprietary user interface.
- I’m not LOCKED IN to a proprietary server infrastructure.
The beauty of Obsidian is that it uses plain, old, regular Markdown files! They are just md files in a directory. You can edit them with ANY appropriate editor! You don’t need to use the actual Obsidian app. You can open them with other editors. You can move them around and re-organize them simply in Finder on a Mac.
And you can put those Markdown files wherever you want. In my case I’ve put them in a folder on my personal iCloud Drive. This enables me to easily access them across all my IOS devices and Macs. And I can do so without using a centralized architecture from the vendor. I mean, yes, iCloud is centralized… but that is needed for the sync between devices. I could have used Dropbox or Microsoft OneDrive or Google Drive or even set up my own NextCloud instance.
I mean.. yes, the Obsidian developers do offer an “Obsidian Sync” service … and I might choose to use that if I see issues with syncing via iCloud. But the point is I HAVE CHOICES, which I didn’t have with Evernote. I was locked into whatever they were doing - and however they were changing the user interface - or the pricing.
With Obsidian I have the freedom that if I don’t like what they’re doing, I can just stop using the app. The “vault” is just a folder of markdown files. Easy enough to use with other apps.
Migrating from Evernote to Obsidian
The actual process of migrating was not terribly difficult. Douglas Muth, another frustrated long-time Evernote user, wrote out excellent instructions about his migration to Obsidian.
1. Export each Evernote notebook as an Evernote XML (“ENEX”) file. (Select notebook, Ctrl- or right-click to bring up menu, choose Export…)
2. Install YARLE and run it for every ENEX file. This will create folders full of markdown files and at lease one with attachments.
3. Move the folders of markdown files into your Obsidian vault (wherever you have stored it). Now Obsidian will show those notes there!
That’s it!
Now… it DID take a bit to figure out the various YARLE settings and what I wanted to do. If you install YARLE for the command line, Douglas Muth provides a script to help use the common configuration options. I opted to try the graphical version of YARLE which required some different tweaking. I also had an issue where the graphical YARLE was not putting images into an attachments folder inside each folder… no matter how many times I changed the options.
But in the end, it all worked.
I have the Obsidian app on all my devices, and, courtesy of iCloud Drive, they are all working off the same set of markdown files.
So… goodbye, Evernote! You were super helpful at different times… when you weren’t trying to get me to use whatever latest pivot you were making.
P.S. I’ll note that someone else did the migration by using Notion as an intermediary. That may perhaps work for you, but I wanted to keep all my files on my local computer and not give them to yet another service.
Mar 14
After Almost 15 Years, Saying Goodbye to Evernote (and Moving to Obsidian)
UPDATE - 2 Jan 2024 - Back in July 2023, the Obsidian team announced an officially-supported "Importer" plugin that includes the ability to import from Evernote.
This sounds easier than the method I outline below using YARLE. I have not tried this new "Importer" plugin (because I already migrated from Evernote!), but you may want to go try that new plugin before doing what I outline below.
On April 8, 2008, I started using Evernote as a place to store all my various notes. It would come to be a critical part of my daily workflow… so much so that I became a paying customer back in 2011 or so.
Today, March 13, 2023, I uninstalled it from my devices.
I’m done.
It’s been a long time coming. Way back in 2012 I was super frustrated with how they destroyed the Skitch application with its 2.0 release. And yet I kept using Evernote because it had become my central repository. And… I hung on long enough that many of the Skitch features I complained about in that post were brought back.
In fact, I basically stayed with Evernote BECAUSE of how easy Skitch made taking - and adjusting - screenshots. Do a quick screenshot, tweak it, adjust it, annotate it… and have the result live on inside of Evernote, where it could then be tagged and further annotated.
Pretty much every single screenshot I’ve taken across my blogs in the past 10+ years has been done with Skitch.
I stayed with Evernote through all their various pivots… getting more annoyed each time they did something new. No, I didn’t want Chat to be everywhere… no, I didn’t want collaboration pieces - I’m the only user of my Evernote account! No, I didn’t want any of the other features they kept adding. All I wanted to do was add simple notes and also screen captures! I also watched in concern as there were layoffs at various times.
Then yet another redesign happened in early 2021 that changed how the application operated! When you opened up the app, the notes were no longer instantly there. It seemed like you had to wait for them to download from the server.
It was at that point that I actively started looking at ALL THE MANY alternatives that had emerged… and getting into a bit of “analysis paralysis”.
Finally, what pushed me to end was their latest price increase this year that jumped the pricing I was on by about 40%. Combined with my continually growing dissatisfaction, and a concern about the uncertainty of the direction of the new owners… I migrated all my notes and canceled my subscription.
The good news, as I understand it, is that even with the free version all my data will still be intact inside the Evernote app. So if I missed anything in the migration I should be able to get it.
Switching to Obsidian
I chose to migrate to using Obsidian. I could probably write several posts about WHY, but the simplest answer is:
- I’M NOT LOCKED IN TO A PROPRIETARY FORMAT!
- I’m not LOCKED IN to a proprietary user interface.
- I’m not LOCKED IN to a proprietary server infrastructure.
The beauty of Obsidian is that it uses plain, old, regular Markdown files! They are just md files in a directory. You can edit them with ANY appropriate editor! You don’t need to use the actual Obsidian app. You can open them with other editors. You can move them around and re-organize them simply in Finder on a Mac.
And you can put those Markdown files wherever you want. In my case I’ve put them in a folder on my personal iCloud Drive. This enables me to easily access them across all my IOS devices and Macs. And I can do so without using a centralized architecture from the vendor. I mean, yes, iCloud is centralized… but that is needed for the sync between devices. I could have used Dropbox or Microsoft OneDrive or Google Drive or even set up my own NextCloud instance.
I mean.. yes, the Obsidian developers do offer an “Obsidian Sync” service … and I might choose to use that if I see issues with syncing via iCloud. But the point is I HAVE CHOICES, which I didn’t have with Evernote. I was locked into whatever they were doing - and however they were changing the user interface - or the pricing.
With Obsidian I have the freedom that if I don’t like what they’re doing, I can just stop using the app. The “vault” is just a folder of markdown files. Easy enough to use with other apps.
Migrating from Evernote to Obsidian
The actual process of migrating was not terribly difficult. Douglas Muth, another frustrated long-time Evernote user, wrote out excellent instructions about his migration to Obsidian.
1. Export each Evernote notebook as an Evernote XML (“ENEX”) file. (Select notebook, Ctrl- or right-click to bring up menu, choose Export…)
2. Install YARLE and run it for every ENEX file. This will create folders full of markdown files and at lease one with attachments.
3. Move the folders of markdown files into your Obsidian vault (wherever you have stored it). Now Obsidian will show those notes there!
That’s it!
Now… it DID take a bit to figure out the various YARLE settings and what I wanted to do. If you install YARLE for the command line, Douglas Muth provides a script to help use the common configuration options. I opted to try the graphical version of YARLE which required some different tweaking. I also had an issue where the graphical YARLE was not putting images into an attachments folder inside each folder… no matter how many times I changed the options.
But in the end, it all worked.
I have the Obsidian app on all my devices, and, courtesy of iCloud Drive, they are all working off the same set of markdown files.
So… goodbye, Evernote! You were super helpful at different times… when you weren’t trying to get me to use whatever latest pivot you were making.
P.S. I’ll note that someone else did the migration by using Notion as an intermediary. That may perhaps work for you, but I wanted to keep all my files on my local computer and not give them to yet another service.
Mar 13
Three Years Ago Today, Vermont Shut Down Due to COVID-19
Today I was wondering why “March 13” was pulling at the back of my brain as a date of some importance… and then I realized why.
Three years ago today, everything changed.
It was on Friday, March 13, 2020, that Governor Phil Scott issued Executive Order 01-20, “Declaration of State of Emergency in Response to COVID-19 and National Guard Call-Out”. It imposed visitor restrictions at hospitals and state facilities, restricted travel by state employees, prohibited large gatherings, and called up the National Guard to assist. The Executive Order did not itself shut down schools, but it directed the Secretary of Education to prepare for school closings. And only a few days later, all schools would shut down.
It concludes with this section that was in retrospect rather optimistic (my emphasis added):
This Executive Order shall take effect upon signing and shall continue in full force and effect until April 15, 2020, at which time the Governor, in consultation with VDH and DPS/VEM, shall assess the emergency and determine whether to amend or extend this Order.
How little did we know then...
The Governor would of course extend that Order… again and again and again...
Our lives would change in SO MANY ways.
And in fact we would come to divide our lives and world into “now” and a “time before the pandemic”.
For us here in Vermont, that journey into pandemic precautions all began… three years ago… today.
Mar 13
Three Years Ago Today, Vermont Shut Down Due to COVID-19
Today I was wondering why “March 13” was pulling at the back of my brain as a date of some importance… and then I realized why.
Three years ago today, everything changed.
It was on Friday, March 13, 2020, that Governor Phil Scott issued Executive Order 01-20, “Declaration of State of Emergency in Response to COVID-19 and National Guard Call-Out”. It imposed visitor restrictions at hospitals and state facilities, restricted travel by state employees, prohibited large gatherings, and called up the National Guard to assist. The Executive Order did not itself shut down schools, but it directed the Secretary of Education to prepare for school closings. And only a few days later, all schools would shut down.
It concludes with this section that was in retrospect rather optimistic (my emphasis added):
This Executive Order shall take effect upon signing and shall continue in full force and effect until April 15, 2020, at which time the Governor, in consultation with VDH and DPS/VEM, shall assess the emergency and determine whether to amend or extend this Order.
How little did we know then...
The Governor would of course extend that Order… again and again and again...
Our lives would change in SO MANY ways.
And in fact we would come to divide our lives and world into “now” and a “time before the pandemic”.
For us here in Vermont, that journey into pandemic precautions all began… three years ago… today.
Mar 07
Waking Up at Times Beginning With A "4"
For most of 50 years, I held very firm to the belief that the ONLY time I should ever see a time beginning with a “4” in the morning was when I needed to get up and go to the airport to catch an early flight. Otherwise, any time like 4:30am was just downright uncivil and hostile. I should be asleep at that time. I should NEVER be awake at times beginning with a 4.
And yet… here I am writing this post at 4:55am. 🤷♂️
What happened? Well, our dog got older! (And I might have, too.😉)
For some context, I have always been an early riser. Ever since I was a child.
But for the first 35 years of my life “early” was defined as 6:00am.
That was when I woke up. Never at times beginning with a 5, either. 6:00am or later.
I am also one of those people who snaps wide awake and is fully alert and ready to go. No “wake up time” needed. It’s like a light switch where I am no longer asleep - I am now fully awake. And… fully talkative 😀, to the immense annoyance of every roommate I have ever had, including my wife. (The success of our marriage for 26 years so far is perhaps in part because I learned NOT to talk to her when she wakes up! 🤣)
And then our first daughter was born… and in a bit of karmic retribution, she had the same “instant on and fully talkative” characteristics as me, but she ratcheted the wake up time back to 5:30am! 😀
Suddenly, I was seeing times that began with a 5!
Seven years later, our second daughter was born and she continued the progression by getting up even earlier, closer to 5:00am!
And so it was for many years until they hit teenage years and flipped to wanting to sleep in later. (They are now 20 and 13.)
By that time, however, I was stuck with a body that had now adjusted to waking up in times beginning with a “5”.
Still, times with a “4” were only ever to be for airport trips!
Then, starting about five years ago or so, our dear dog started to wake up increasingly early and want to go outside. At times like 4:30am!
At 15 years old, she’s still in great physical condition, prancing around sometimes like she is MUCH younger. But… when a girl’s gotta go… someone has to let her outside… and due to the aforementioned “instant on” capabilities, that someone is… me.
We’ve tried all sorts of things to see if we could get her to just wait until maybe a time starting with a “5”. We kept her up much later. We changed feeding schedules. We let her out very late in the evening. (Okay, which for us.. “very late” means 10pm 🤣)
Nothing worked. She still gets up sometime between 4:30 and 5:00 am.
So here I am! Wide awake, alert, enthusiastic… at a time beginning with a 4!
Feb 26
The Single Biggest Thing Preventing Me From Doing More Writing Is…
As I’ve frequently lamented in my yearly themes (although not this year), I would like to get myself to write more. And back on December 1, 2022, I tried to commit to #100DaysOfBlogging, but that hasn't worked out so well.
I’ve been watching how I spend my time lately, and to I’m sure the surprise of absolutely NO ONE, including myself, it would seem the single biggest thing preventing me from doing more writing is… getting distracted by social media! 🤣🤣🤣
Take this morning. I was awake early at around 5:00am (courtesy of our wonderful but early-rising dog) and I sat on our couch drinking some tea and browsing through Mastodon (you can find me there). About 1.5 hours later, I’d read some great commentary, found some new articles to share, engaged in some conversations, and generally had an enjoyable time interacting with people.
But… could part of that time have been better spent getting some writing done?
I struggle with this, because on the one hand I learn things from social media that are then useful in new articles or other work. It’s “research” of one form. And engaging with people in an online community is a good thing to do.
But on the other hand, I find myself doing this a bit too much.
I’ll note, of course, that THIS IS NOT A NEW ISSUE FOR ME! In fact, I can easily scan my archives and find I’ve been writing more or less this same kind of post for ** 15 years **! 🤦♂️
- 2008 - Paying Yourself First - Starting the day with blogging… (email, work deadlines, and Twitter were seen as issues)
- 2011 - On The Need To FOCUS In Our Age Of Hyper-Distraction… (Google+, Facebook, Twitter)
- 2012 - Barriers to Blogging - #1 - Distraction By Facebook, Twitter, News, Internet (everything! 😀)
- 2013 - Every Minute You Spend Consuming Content Is A Minute You Are Not Creating Content (everything)
- 2015 - The Tension Between Consumption and Creation of Content (a.k.a. spending time reading Facebook doesn't help with writing)
- 2018 - Revisiting a Not-So-New Rule - No Social Media Usage Until I Have Created Something New
- 2023 - This post (where I mention Mastodon)
The common theme through all of that is… “I’ve got to change… I’ve got to not get so sucked into <whatever services>”.
And yet I do.
The siren song of distraction is incredibly strong.
Perhaps this is the thing where I’ll keep shouting about it in the hopes that eventually by saying it enough I will make it happen in my life.
Or perhaps in 2033 I’ll be writing the same basic post again, lamenting how much time I spend with some new service. 🤣
P.S. And I don’t even mention TikTok, which seems to be wired into my brain in a way that whenever I open up the app it is then an hour or so later when I emerge again! (Hence why I don’t open it all that often.)
