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content/posts/2021-02-09-Extinguished-by-the-Platform/index.md

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+---
+title: "Extinguished by the Platform"
+date: 2021-02-09T12:34:08-05:00
+draft: false
+---
+What happens if a service you lean on for a key, everyday piece of your life suddenly is wiped away? [You don’t need to wonder, that happened to the Terraria developer.](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/terraria-developer-cancels-google-stadia-port-after-youtube-account-ban) Quoting the linked Ars Technica article:
+
+> Three weeks ago, the official Terraria Twitter account publicly pleaded with YouTube for some kind of resolution to a recent Google account ban. The Terraria account explained, “We have not added anything new to our only YT channel (RelogicGames) in several months. However, we randomly received an email saying there was a TOS violation but that it was likely accidental and as such, the account would receive no strikes.” The Terraria Twitter account continued, “Three days later, the entire Google account (YT, Gmail, all Google apps, even every purchase made over 15 years on Google Play Store) was disabled with no warning or recourse. This account links into many business functions and as such the impact to us is quite substantial.”
+
+This is eerily similar to tales I’ve heard from friends running YouTube channels. In the case of one friend, their channel was copyright struck after posting a video critical of a work that a media company had released. That media company had wielded the DMCA as a bludgeon against a consumer to suppress opinion of them.
+
+Best of luck if you think that you can reach a human being to resolve issues at Google, by the way. They are pretty notorious for leaving everything to the algorithms of the system which are very opaque even to the people working on them. Andrew Spinks announced the following on Twitter:
+
+> I absolutely have not done anything to violate your terms of service, so I can take this no other way than you deciding to burn this bridge. Consider it burned. [#Terraria](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Terraria?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) for [@GoogleStadia](https://twitter.com/GoogleStadia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) is canceled. My company will no longer support any of your platforms moving forward.
+> 
+> — Andrew Spinks (@Demilogic) [February 8, 2021](https://twitter.com/Demilogic/status/1358661842147692549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
+
+It’s unfortunate that a high profile game was pushed to such extreme lengths but what are you supposed to do? If a _relative_ celebrity like the developer of Terraria can’t get his issues resolved, then how could you? What if you needed tax forms or banking documents?
+
+A couple of suggestions I have if you’re considering changes:
+
+1. Personal Email Domains and hosting
+    - This is not a free option but it is a safe option, if you own your own domain, you can always change hosts from Gmail to Outlook to anyone else as needed without giving out a new email address. I use Fastmail and am very happy with them.
+2. Backup your files somewhere else
+    - Do not leave your files with the same place you host accounts such as youtube or email, its tempting to unify these things for usability’s sake but like in this case, you may lose everything. Consider for example, if you use Gmail, back up your files on OneDrive or Dropbox.
+    - I prefer neither options owned by large corporate partners so I opt to host my own Nextcloud instance on a VPS provided by Vultr. This requires a reasonably high degree of technical knowledge, especially Linux but they also have pre-configured images and a motivated person could get it working. Drop me a line if you need some help.
+3. Decentralize social media
+    - I suggest perhaps doing what I do here: blog on your own site and then syndicate the feeds to other social media that way if a single account gets taken down, your site is not totally offline. This option is great especially if you’re running a business.
+
+Rather than overload people with a big long list starting here is a first great start in decentralizing the internet again.

content/posts/2021-03-08-Pop-Culture-Metaphysics/index.md

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+---
+title: "Pop Culture Metaphysics"
+date: 2021-03-08T12:36:13-05:00
+draft: false
+---
+Over the years it seems that once in awhile we get something a little unique in our somewhat secular culture: the accusation that pop culture has secret, underlying metaphysical principles that exist to drive god fearing people away from Christianity. The Satanic Panic is archetypal of this fear but its remained extant into the modern day.
+
+In future blog posts I am going take a look at a few of the sporadic claims attacking mostly things I personally like such as Pokemon, Dungeons and Dragons and video games writ large but I am curious to see if there are metaphysical threads that emerge between all of them. I find this question interesting because as society secularizes, we aren’t necessarily hard atheists but rather a sort of vague irreligious but spiritual category. One that is defined by capitalism, globalism, democratized access to information and content creation. I’ve been reading a few books on the subject and I have become profoundly interested in it.
+
+For now I leave you with Seth Andrew’s fantastic talk on the original Satanic panic. Seth has such a wonderful radio-style of communication that makes him a joy to listen to. While most of his talk focuses on the 80s and early 90s its as relevant as ever.
+
+{{< youtube iW6UoIjy5F4 >}}
+

content/posts/2021-05-01-Moving-to-the-Dark-Side/index.md

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+---
+title: "Moving to the Dark Side"
+date: 2021-05-01T12:39:47-05:00
+draft: false
+---
+Well folks, after eleven years of Android usage which began auspiciously with the much hyped Motorola DROID line of phones, I finally did it; I switched to iOS. My Android user friends and Windows/Linux/Android fellow devs (colloquially called ‘Windroid’) gasp in horror as I pay the famed Apple tax for access to their much lauded (or maligned) walled garden.
+
+Why did I make this change? In short, its nothing sinister nor is it a given to be permanent. For starters, Apple’s recent move to crack down on spying applications over Google’s supreme disinterest in reigning in even the worst offenders was a major motivator. The comparatively closed ecosystem allows Apple to say “my way or the highway’ and it frustrates Zuck so much that he took out full page ads in the New York Times to come and complain about it.
+
+Apple’s attitude of selling you hardware fundamentally changes their business model; they make the process about devices. Since you’re paying a premium for the device, this means that YOU are not the product. You don’t need to have your information sold because you’ve already paid for a modicum of privacy. So no, iCloud is not analyzing all of your files and selling the useful bits to advertisers. In fact, [iCloud’s privacy policy is strong](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303) but is augmented further by the fact that a lot of data never leaves your phone by default including your Face ID or Siri training. This has meant a little bit weaker support AI and voice assistance but that’s a tradeoff I was willing to make.
+
+My hatred of Zuckerberg’s (un)ethics of Facebook is reason enough but I had a few other simple motivators, one being the simplest:
+
+I wanted to try something new.
+
+I’m very familiar with the Android ecosystem so it doesn’t seem fair to criticize a platform I’ve never used. I wanted to try new hardware, new software, new cloud platforms and see how tight this famed tight integration is.
+
+Another motivation is lifecycle: [Apple commits to five years of supported updates](https://tech-ish.com/2020/10/12/apple-5-year-updates-iphones/) where [Google can barely eke out three years](https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/10/08/google-needs-to-set-an-example-and-go-beyond-three-years-of-android-updates/), if you’re so lucky to be a much supported Google device. Incidentally, I owned a Pixel 3a before this and liked the phone but was weary it would even last that long. A fellow coworker’s 4a just bricked three weeks ago and my Nexus 6P bricked after fourteen months of usage. I didn’t want to chance it, so I sought out a different device in advance with that phone being a fallback if needed.
+
+A device that I can own for more than the traditional 24-month cycle is not only good for the environment but is also good for my wallet. Folks often complain about the Apple tax and their relative high prices, but if my device’s cost over its lifetime is amortized over four or five years rather than two, I think these concerns melt away.
+
+A future post is going to focus on my review of the device after a few more weeks of acclimation but for now I wanted to summarize the reason for my transition. It’s not likely that I’ll dive deeper into the Apple ecosystem because I prefer to be cloud neutral and my job requires that I retain Windows computers for work. At any rate, I am open to the bevy of comments these sorts of decisions always result in. Let em fly!

content/posts/2021-05-17-Cloud-Conundrums/index.md

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+---
+title: "Cloud Conundrums"
+date: 2021-05-17T12:41:31-05:00
+draft: false
+---
+It’s always an outstanding question to me about what cloud provider to use if any. If you’ve read [my previous post]({{< ref "/posts/2021-05-01-Moving-to-the-Dark-Side" >}}), you know that I’ve recently migrated to an Apple device. Thus the temptation exists to move all of my files to iCloud. The prices are cheap, I don’t have to own the servers, what’s not to like? Still, that’s no guarantee of anything. [Apple, like anyone else, has to answer to legal inquiries and they still have the decryption keys.](https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/17/sci_hub_apple_fbi_claim/)
+
+Of course if you’re the target of an ongoing FBI investigation, then no cloud is going to be safe and you should probably not break the law on someone else’s property. Putting that aside, there’s still a possibility that your account could get shut off if the host does not like the content of your files. In my head, Google is an especially bad actor in the space of privacy and Apple might be too much of a walled garden so who does that leave? Microsoft of course with their OneDrive product. After all, its tightly integrated into Windows and very useful if you have a personal Microsoft 365 account. This doesn’t mean you can’t get totally owned by them though. As evidenced by this story floating around that [Microsoft is banning accounts with lude material being hosted](https://borncity.com/win/2020/08/16/microsoft-kontensperrungen-und-die-onedrive-nacktfotos/), even if that content is legal. The blog post’s concern is substantiated by this reference to the [code of conduct, section 3a.](https://web.archive.org/web/20201020142532/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/servicesagreement/)
+
+All of these findings are pretty disheartening. All of this leads me back to hosting my own [Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com/) instance. Which, I highly recommend if you have the technical know-how and comfort to run your own Linux servers, nowadays its even more trivial to configure with snap packages on Ubuntu. I was simply hoping to minimize my footprint on the internet and have one less surface area to secure against outside threats.
+
+At any rate, I need to come up with a solution to backup my most important files at some point, a decision will be forthcoming.

content/posts/2021-06-14-iPhone-12-Two-Months-On/index.md

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+---
+title: "IPhone 12 Two Months On"
+date: 2021-06-14T12:44:46-05:00
+draft: false
+---
+After I announced my [move to the dark side]({{< ref "/posts/2021-05-01-Moving-to-the-Dark-Side" >}}) I promised that I’d come back and offer up some thoughts. I’ve had my phone since April 22 and have some opportunities to put it through its paces. Below, I’ll summarize some good and bad points I’ve found in my personal use case.
+
+GOOD: Device runs very smooth on long uptime. After 30 days without a reboot, the phone runs as it did on day one. I brought a reboot to update to the next version of iOS and updates as well are very smooth.
+
+BAD: Due to the device’s physical size, battery leaves a lot to be desired. This probably the largest bad thing for me but its more of a limitation of the form factor. The physical specs of the phone remain the same as other mainline 12 models, but with a smaller battery. Unfortunately this means 8-10 hours of moderate use is enough to nearly drain the battery. I had to really eyeball on my vacation to California and I am annoyed that I am doing that on basically a brand new phone.
+
+GOOD: iCloud. The platform is very slick, its straightforward with a simple and clear web interface and very tight integration with the device. So far I am not planning on buying a higher tier and have considered syncing my files with my Fastmail WebDAV instance because I already pay for it and so I’d get a de facto 10GB instead of 5GB without paying for more service. The cost for iCloud is good though and its a compelling offering.
+
+BAD: Some facts of the device are extremely well hidden in the OS and its a huge pain to figure them out. When I was diagnosing my father in law’s wireless network, I wanted to eliminate a problem with the wireless bands but nowhere in the device could I see if I was connected to a 2.4 or 5 GHz band on wireless. Best of luck finding the right iOS app to see all of this information. Android exposes a lot more information to me and I do miss that.
+
+NEUTRAL/MEH: Adapters. I thought this was going to annoy me more than I expected but mostly the lighting to jack adapters basically “just work” and stay out of the way. I don’t like having to be aware of where my adapters are but luckily I haven’t lost any or been without them yet. That said, I can’t support closing off the garden and eliminating long-held standards. Furthermore needing to buy them produces waste and locks us into a proprietary format.
+
+NEUTRAL: iMessage. It works very well and offers a rich text communication platform right off of the bat, as long as other devices support it. Too bad you cannot customize it at all though.
+
+GOOD: FindMyPhone. Being able to see where other users are is very useful in terms of planning or getting around town or organizing travel. I think Google has a similar experience but its not nearly as tightly integrated.
+
+BAD: FaceID. WHY WHY get rid of the Touch ID? In a world where I have to wear masks during a pandemic, the fact that I have to key in my PIN _every single time_ to unlock my phone is bonkers. It was so bad that even in light of the security concerns, I still shorted my PIN because its such a usage hassle. This works better if you ….surprise, buy an Apple watch, because using NFC it can approximate that you’re the owner of the device but I don’t really find this to be satisfying because they eliminated a superior technology.
+
+SUMMARY: In short, I am decently happy with the phone but I will be honest and say that I am not yet committed to buying another one. I am still living in the Windows/Linux world and I don’t really expect to become a Mac user. I understand why people love these phones but [Android 12 is coming right along](https://web.archive.org/web/20230331083019/https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/android-12s-beautiful-color-changing-ui-already-lives-up-to-the-hype/) and continues to modernize the UI in a way that I find pretty encouraging, at least without any deep usage of it yet. I am glad I’ve gone to the effort of trying out the platform so that I can speak more comfortably to it.

content/posts/2021-08-06-Digimon-Metaphysics/index.md

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+---
+title: "Digimon Metaphysics"
+date: 2021-08-06T12:57:15-05:00
+draft: false
+---
+In case anyone thought I was normal, allow me to disabuse you of that notion today.
+
+Recently I’ve been watching all of the Digimon series in chronological order, mostly as a time killer while I continue to work from home. This turns out to probably be the right choice as it looks increasingly likely that we are going to go back into lockdown, but I digress.
+
+Today I finished Digimon Adventure 02. This is the second season of the original Digimon Adventure, which made its breakout debut in August 1999 on American TV, almost to the anniversary of this post. If you’re only nominally acquainted with the show, the basic premise is: Young children (the “digi-destined”) get sucked up into a fantastical and mysterious world known as the Digital World wherein they meet, befriend and work with fantastic creatures called Digimon. These creatures are fragments and outputs of the data in this digital world but seem to have consciousness. They can be manipulated to do evil or sometimes they are innately evil. Digimon may also evolve, but not in the linear way of Pokemon, but with a series of branching outcomes catalyzed by their specific circumstances.
+
+The 50 episode second season builds off of the 64 episode first season, set three years later and involving an updated, rotating cast. The dubbing and voice acting is decidedly better than the first one but the storytelling is a little lackluster comparatively. It feels more akin to a sort of “monster of the week” Shounen that would have been popular in this era. The topic of this post doesn’t address the show at large but the implications at the end of this season.
+
+Looking back on these kinds of shows, I always wonder how they would _work_ in their given physical world. I like to figure out how the physics and philosophy come together to make up a cogent world where stakes and powers make sense because its a fun exercise in detail-oriented problem solving. The questions are going to surround the nature of digimon and the digit world and how we interface with it from the physical world.
+
+Different seasonal arcs assert different, sometimes contradictory ideas about what exactly the digital world. Some opt for a more sci-fi “naturalist” conception trying to stick with the idea that the world is an emergent property of the super-complicated internet. Digimon game producer Habu Kazumasa [asserts that digimon can be taken in an occult direction](https://twitter.com/digimon_games/status/1225871858773319681). Other content still suggests a fully “dualist” conception of the world where digimon function in a spirit world and are stand-ins for [Yōkai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dkai) or Japanese demons. My conception is somewhere in the middle. **I assert that the digital world and digimon are emergent properties of a physical thing (the internet) that are interfaced through occult, mystical or psychological means.**
+
+Starting backwards; I think the idea that digimon are spirits from a spirit world weakens the world considerably. Subjectively and critically, it makes it challenging to set it apart from lots of other media in the same genre. Anyone well acquainted with anime from the late 90s or even the modern day is well aware of the proliferation of spirit worlds and journeys through them. Adding on the thin veneer of “computer aesthetics” cheapens the world. If we go with the assumption of a spirit we can assume a Platonic (rather than property or substance) dualism wherein spirits exist on a separate “plane” and do not interact with the material world, we have the classic philosophical problem of how souls interact with the material. That is, if we cannot detect the mechanism through which those spirits interact with the world, what makes it functionally separate from magic? This pushes Digimon too far into the fantasy category and runs up against being just another “spirit Shounen”.
+
+The sci-fi “naturalist” approach appeals to me right away. As a software developer, its hard to ignore the fact that networks and software, while complicated, aren’t at the point of being a true universal mesh that has the complexity of something with emergent properties like consciousness. The digital world is a wholly immersive otherworld sustaining a whole ecosystem yet regularly subject to change by powerful forces. [Panpsychism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism) gives us some explanatory power here. We can assert that software, like matter, has some fundamental building block of consciousness that can be incremented to complexity. Once it achieves a certain complexity, that panpsychic result is the digital world and digimon. This is closer but we need to fill in some gaps to make it work.
+
+Let’s say that the sufficiently complex internet of clients, servers and complicated software are so extremely complicated that some emergent consciousness-like properties could emerge from them. I could shamelessly steal the Panpsychism idea as an excuse for the emergent consciousness to arise. I think [Neutral Monism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_monism) could also work here where we reject the dualist split by introducing a unified substance of mind and matter:
+
+{{< figure src="Dualism-vs-Monism.png" width="auto" >}}
+
+In this third substance we can come up with some sort of bridge between the worlds if we assume that digimon act as sort of occult [egregores](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore) that we can interact with. The visual representation here shows some potential applications of Platonic idealism or Neutral Monism. This opens a question about digi-vices (hand held units the main characters use) and the digi-destined kids. Are they manifesting occult powers? Perhaps they are, and by sharing their knowledge with their parents and others, they also become attuned to the knowledge of digimon and can perceive them.
+
+{{< figure src="digimon-occult-model.png" width="50%" >}}
+
+The graph above suggests Platonic idealism more so than neutral monism but we can see the “idea layer” as the monistic bridge between matter and mind. That is, we visualize digimon in our collective unconsciousness rather than them literally existing in the physical plane. Furthermore, the occult and secret knowledge of digimon can spread like a sort of mind-virus to people who can see them as more than just monsters or weird phenomenons.
+
+Perhaps the digital world is purely a product of the collective unconsciousness, an imaginary world wherein we project our desires and fears into creatures we can relate to. The ending of Digimon Adventure 02 suggests as much where everyone in the world can have digimon partners. The concept of occult psychological projections into monsters has been asserted in Pokemon. I suggest [listening to this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWRcnDYZP-8) by Placebo Magick that dives into the Pokemon application of the concept.
+
+It’s easy to stretch this little thought experiment way past the breaking point. Overall it leaves me thinking about how we can apply psychology, occultism, mysticism and philosophy as a whole to popular media either as a fun party conversation (maybe…) or to deepen our understanding and interests in different subjects.
+
+[Shoutout to this reddit thread for inspiring the original post.](https://old.reddit.com/r/digimon/comments/mvhej0/the_world_after_digimon_02/gvfmv4e/)

content/posts/2021-10-08-Facebook-Outage-Day-World-Stopped/index.md

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+title: "Facebook Outage Day World Stopped"
+date: 2021-10-08T20:28:42-05:00
+draft: false
+---
+Mondays are hard, they’re especially hard if your a Facebook engineer frantically, desperately trying to get your network connectivity back. Little did they know, or maybe they did know: [Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down globally.](https://web.archive.org/web/20230331083019/https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-and-oculus-are-down-heres-what-we-know/)
+
+Now I spent the day memeing this to death on Discord. Because frankly, there is no love lost for me. Where do we even begin on Facebook’s very numerous, protracted conflicts that are so long I can’t even summarize them entirely but here goes:
+
+[Ars Technica: Algorithms shouldn’t be protected by Section 230, Facebook whistleblower tells Senate](https://web.archive.org/web/20230331083019/https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/algorithms-shouldnt-be-protected-by-section-230-facebook-whistleblower-tells-senate/)
+
+[Business Insider: Facebook made money from dangerous ‘abortion reversal’ ads that targeted teens and were seen 18.4 million times](https://web.archive.org/web/20230331083019/https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-profits-from-abortion-reversal-ads-seen-184-million-times-2021-9)
+
+{{< figure src="facebook-down.jpg" width="auto" >}}
+
+So naturally, I am not sad to see it go and see Marky Mark sweat for a whole day while in the midst of being grilled by Congress over the whistleblower’s reports. However, the outage highlights a major issue with Facebook owning all of these properties; namely the outage of WhatsApp.
+
+For Americans not in the know, WhatsApp is a Facebook-owned chat service that took the world by storm when data plans became mainstream on phones. The reasoning for this is myriad but in general the lack of free SMS in most countries propelled it into first place globally. It holds its position as an early adopter and because these types of services, by virtue of using a data network, possess a lot more features and security than SMS ever will.
+
+{{< figure src="social-messengers-2019.png" width="auto" >}}
+
+As you can imagine, this global outage has crippled economies globally who rely exclusively on WhatsApp to communicate. It has brought down numerous countries:
+
+So it turns out that not only has Zuck managed to ruin the world via Facebook and Instagram but now, since they’re so consolidated, an outage can shut down the world dependent on WhatsApp? I think there’s a real possibility of breakup action being considered to separate WhatsApp from Facebook before we see any hand-waiving regulation of Facebook itself. Countries are slowly going to start to seeing these sorts of outages as national security threats and either in posturing or reality, will push back against the privitization of their infrastructure in the hands of a company who just doesn’t seem to care.
+
+The real question seems to be: How far can their reputation sink before we see something actionable? Apparently not far or fast enough, quickly enough. Facebook, after all, has nearly three billion years.
+
+You want to speak out against them on their own platform? Best of luck on that project!

content/posts/2021-12-13-My-Hero-Academia-and-Humanism/index.md

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+title: "My Hero Academia and Humanism"
+date: 2021-12-13T20:37:01-05:00
+draft: false
+---
+This season has had me busy at work but grinding a lot of anime over my lunch hour. Specifically, I decided to rewatch [My Hero Academia](https://web.archive.org/web/20230331083019/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5626028/) in order to get current. As of writing, I am a few episodes shy of the end of Season 5 and have watched the first two movies.
+
+{{< figure src="mha-banner.jpg" width="auto" >}}
+
+think that as far as Shounen anime goes, My Hero Academia is probably my favorite one. It’s not my preferred genre but I’ve really come to like the story and general feel of the show. The superhero subject matter, bright colors and interesting character designs are compelling and entertaining. They also offer a nice break from bleak media of all other kinds. In that way it really takes me back to being a highschooler.
+
+Something I’ve found very compelling about the show’s narrative is that its universe works well without reference to the supernatural. Now Japan is not very religious in the Western sense. We’re used to people who identify closely with a formal religion and adhere to some form of orthodoxy, however strained. As the figures from Wikipedia show, most people are irreligious while practicing a secular form of Shinto and Buddhism:
+
+{{< figure src="japan-religion.png" width="auto" >}}
+
+I surmise that this cultural, secular view of religion makes religious topics very accessible in Japanese media. I think this is a big part of why supernaturalism works so well in so many animes. The animistic and polytheistic nature of the religions make them very expansive for media settings. However, My Hero exceeds by not having to lean on this concept at all. The simple fact of the MHA world is that while most people have superhuman abilities; they are all still fundamentally considered human.
+
+> **Humanism** is a progressive philosophy of life that, without theism or other supernatural beliefs, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good.
+> 
+> [American Humanist Association](https://web.archive.org/web/20230331083019/https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/definition-of-humanism/)
+
+In the world of this anime, we contend with people of all types good and bad. People are not born innately one way or the other but are defined by their environment and choices. The show emphasizes how much justice and ethics matter and symbols of these things such as All Might. It’s focused on heroes building a better world and how that is desirable to encourage growth, flourishing and creativity in humanity. The main characters _Izuku Midoriya (Deku)_ and _Katsuki Bakugo_ are keys to showing this growth but the myriad supporting characters as well, too many to name, all of their own facets that are growing.
+
+{{< figure src="all-might-dandonfuga.jpg" width="auto" >}}
+
+My Hero Academia demonstrates that not prayers nor spirits will help you but motivated _people_ can step up to the plate to affect real change. They can do this for the better or for the worse. People are capable of making terrible decisions for self centered reasons. They may act out of drama or a warped sense of ethics, such as the _herokiller Stain_. They might try to be heroic symbols have broken families or serious physical or mental maladies, such as _Endeavor_ in the former or _Twice_ in the latter case. Not everyone is great, but people are what they are not because they are blessed or cursed but because of their circumstances and their choices and consequences.
+
+{{< figure src="mha-characters.jpg" width="auto" >}}
+
+I find this inspiring because I feel like a lot of anime in particular leans very heavily on spiritual tropes and while I have nothing against that (I think Shinto is cool frankly) it does feel a little bit repetitive. It’s especially prevalent in the Shounen genre that My Hero Academia is apart of. Other genres, it must be said, don’t have quite as much emphasis on this. I would encourage readers to view the [Amsterdam Declaration on the Humanist International website](https://web.archive.org/web/20230331083019/https://humanists.international/what-is-humanism/the-amsterdam-declaration/) to see if I am way off base or if some of these ideals fit the world aims of the author of the series.
+
+I hope this series stays in this vein and resists the temptation to introduce literal or figurative _Deus Ex Machina_ because I am really enjoying it as it is.
+
+For a little bit of fun I’ll list some of my favorite characters!
+
+**All Might** – How could you not like the man, the myth, the legend and the symbol of peace himself?
+
+**Eraserhead** – The stoic yet “protective in his own way” trope reminds me a bit of myself. Or so my friends say.
+
+**Uravity** – My friends and I call her the ‘Cinnamon Bun’, a cute character who has an honest motivation.
+
+**Ingenium** – At first I thought I would dislike him but rather than being just rules-for-rules-sake he does genuinely care about people around him and he possesses deep convictions.
+
+**Froppy** – Even headed, rational and casual with a very interesting character concept and design.
+
+**Lemillion** – Cheery but also very real, a prototypical All Might inheritor whose personality grows on you over time.
+
+**Ryuukyuu** – Lady who can turn into a dragon? Sign me the hell up, she just checks a lot of boxes for me LOL.
+
+**Nighteye** – A stern and forceful character whose impact is felt deeply in Season 4. His powers and motivates are very interesting and he leaves and impression.
+
+**Mt. Lady** – Her power is turning into a giant and she’s a tiny bit of a ditz and a little bit self centered. Very real feeling character, personality wise.
+
+**Present Mic** – Character who is always enthusiastic and creates loud noise as his power, a perfect analog of a good friend of mine.
+
+**Himiko Toga** – A yandere villain with a unique quirk and a penchant for chaos. I’ll take it.
+
+**Herokiller Stain** – A violent villain with compelling beliefs. Hard to ignore his ideological claims and criticism of society. I wish he got more play in the series though.
+
+**Principal Nezu** – A quirky mastermind who is capable of weathering a storm but able to unleash crazy to teach others. Another perfect analog for a friend.
+
+
+

content/posts/2022-02-27-Stand-With-Ukraine/index.md

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+---
+title: "Stand With Ukraine"
+date: 2022-02-27T20:43:06-05:00
+draft: false
+---
+I’ve got a couple more writings coming down the pipeline but I want to take this opportunity to announce that I stand with the people and the nation of Ukraine. We in the west should band together to support a country being bullied by the imperialist actions of a violent, expansionist power that is Russia.
+
+From my blog to the people of Ukraine we stand with you. слава україні!
+
+{{< figure src="ukraine-flag.png" width="auto" >}}

content/posts/2022-06-07-Old-Places-Liminal-Spaces/index.md

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+---
+title: "Old Places Liminal Spaces"
+date: 2022-06-07T11:25:36-05:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+Last week, the day before I flew out to Denver for a long time good friend’s wedding, I made a brief detour in my hometown and adjacent town. I visited the adjacent town because other long time friends have made a major decision to relocate to northern Wisconsin for a fresh start and new work opportunities. I visited the town for a suit fitting for my mother’s remarriage to someone who has basically been in my family for the majority of my life and is already my stepdad effectively.
+
+On my journey I decided to add a few stops. It was a beautiful spring day in early June. Midday and not too warm. First I stopped by a little mystical and occult shop that I’ve picked up supplies for since I was a high schooler. I stocked up on incense of every variety so that I would be ready for a long time!
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+{{< figure src="incense.jpg" width="40%" >}}
+
+Then after that I decided to hop by a local Chinese buffet that some old friends and I used to frequent. It’s simple, moderate quality comfort food where I could sit in silence for a bit and contemplate. I was feeling nostalgic this day and I wanted to make a couple more odd trips around town to see how far we’ve transitioned out of my old life as a young man into full adulthood. Since 2004, my hometown has been in steady decline. The departure of heavy industry like Maytag and Butler sent the town into an economic spiral that its never truly recovered from, even twenty years later. The relentless march of capitalism, globalizing economies and changing consumer demands has left towns like mine, which thrived in the 90s as not much more than hollow husks falling into disrepair.
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+{{< figure src="sandburgmall.jpg" width="60%" >}}
+
+
+After my stop at lunch I decided to pick up a pack of Pokemon cards at an old haunt. I don’t know if I was feeling especially nostalgic or what but I felt a spiritual need to visit some old places as all these areas in my life that have changed to be nearly unrecognizable. As I’ve hinted at before, my religious beliefs are a little wishy-washy but in general I would describe myself as a [Neopagan](https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://neo-paganism.org/what-is-neo-paganism/). I generally find that while I am spiritual, I am not a monotheist but rather somewhere between an animist, polytheist and pantheist. Sometimes I am more of an agnostic deist even. Lately I describe myself especially as an animist because I find that such a way of intuiting spiritual things feels the most natural to me. I think John Halstead’s [website entry about animism](https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://neo-paganism.org/animism/) is very illuminating for a quick rundown of what this entails.
+
+I can write on the topic in more depth in the future but the short version is that there are natural places in my life where I have had profound moments and as I grow older, now with my son, I want to return to some of those sites and pay homage. One specifically is at my old, abandoned elementary school. A collection of trees under which, at about age ten or fifth grade, I had a sort of revelation about what I think of the universe. It’s too numinous to describe here but I remember it as if it was yesterday. My best friend was standing near me at the time when I had this thought and I even remember the direction I was facing: southwest. So I visited this location and collected some pictures.
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+{{< figure src="galeschool.jpg" width="60%" >}}
+
+This was a positive, reflective experience for me where I got to relive a lot of childhood memories running around with my friends imaging worlds in a way only a child can. There was a sense of sadness at seeing this place closed but also a serene sense of peace. It was nice seeing that some of the open space was dedicated to solar fields. As an environmentalist its nice to see that even in small town America, there are some real sustainability initiatives. Hopefully the trees of my childhood stand for a long time and continue to tell their stories.
+
+One takeaway from this is that I would like to learn how to identify trees better. They live long, venerable lives and tell such stories that it seems only appropriate to learn more about them. Furthermore I am inspired to visit sacred groves and give offerings more to nature spirits to deepen my religious faith. This might seem such a strange takeaway to an outsider but for me it was a deeply fulfilling experience that left my mind at ease and my heart full. Though people move away, businesses close and things change, the memories were made here. That energy of human experience in one place remains with us so long as we remain and even afterwards, in the descendants of those people. I hope that everyone reading can find those places that put them truly in sync with themselves where they can reflect on the beauty in our world.

content/posts/2022-06-20-Summer-Solstice-Soundbites/index.md

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+---
+title: "Summer Solstice Soundbites"
+date: 2022-06-20T12:26:30-05:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+Summer Solstice, [also known as Litha](https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.learnreligions.com/guide-to-celebrating-litha-2562231), is less than twenty four hours upon us as of my writing. You wouldn’t know it based on the [record heatwave](https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/millions-set-to-swelter-as-intense-heat-builds-for-summer-solstice/1204496) many of us have been facing in the center of the country! Climate change continues its ravages across the world, heavily distorting the seasons in many parts of the globe but that discussion could take up many blog posts, I will set it aside for now.
+
+As is part of my faith, seasonal transitions are a big deal because not only is the world changing around me but its a good time to reflect back and look and what’s happened. This past spring, my son was born and has been in my life for nearly two months, I traveled to Vegas and to Denver to witness a childhood friend get married to the love of his life. I’ve introduced my son to many people and began showing him the world around us. I’ve [visited old childhood locations](https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://zoness.me/2022/06/old-places-and-liminal-spaces/) to relieve memories and focus on the way forward.
+
+Summer is a time of tremendous abundance, warm weather, long days and celebrations. I have many of those coming up; family weddings, birthdays, children’s milestones and parties for all manner of occasions. Bittersweet good-byes to friends on their next adventures to other states and surely more things I don’t yet know about.
+
+The colors of this season are green and yellow, for the world of growth and the sun. When I dress my altar in these colors its a reflection of what the summer means to me. It’s a remembrance of what has been in summers past and in summers to come. It’s anticipation for celebration, vitality, life and thriving in a bright and changing world. It’s a call to action to preserve our planet. The seasons are getting harsher due to human inflicted damage to our world; droughts, storms, floods and fires all becoming more and more frequent.
+
+However it is also a time of tremendous optimism too. Something about this season refreshes me and makes me feel like we can tackle anything as both a society and me as an individual. My paternity leave is coming to an end, I am considering changes in my career to move onto the next big thing. For now, however I am feeling the spark of joy returning a bit to programming. Not to work per se, but to furthering my own skills and growing my career legacy. I am more motivated now than ever with my son in my life to provide the best for him. Somewhat auspiciously (yet ironically, given he was born in April): my son’s name is a reference to a sun sign. Surely he will also love the summer! I can’t wait for him to be old enough to enjoy our walks, playing games, swimming in pools and shooting off fireworks with his friends.
+
+These seasonal changes are a stark reminder that time is my most valuable asset, and to enjoy every moment that I have in this world because they won’t last forever. But rather than dwelling on that, I’d rather dwell on the new season ahead of us and show my excitement and joy at what is to come.
+
+For now I leave you with these reflections but I say blessed be and happy summer!
+
+{{< figure src="litha.png" width="auto">}}

content/posts/2022-06-28-Surveillance-Capitalism-Post-Roe-America/index.md

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+---
+title: Surveillance Capitalism in Post Roe America
+date: 2022-06-28T12:25:28-05:00
+draft: false
+---
+Unless you live outside of the United States, it would be impossible to ignore the news of the [Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade](https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/blog/supreme-court-abortion-live-updates-roe-v-wade-rcna35149). Republicans, Christian nationalists and reactionary conservatives have been pining for it since decades before I was born. Rather than lament the disastrous path that women’s rights in this country is headed down, because rant I can, I am going to focus in on a specific harrowing problem.
+
+[Surveillance Capitalism](https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism). Broadly, its the concept of using and commodifying personal data collected from our digital lives specifically for making _profit_. I go out of the way to make this distinction because as a technologist and software developer myself, I am not afraid technology nor the data it collects. I specifically advocate for control over my data, an understanding of who is using it an the desire for the ability to easily opt out. Bonus points for other wish list items like higher interoperability between digital systems.
+
+Rather than bogging us down in technical jargon let’s look at the very real impact this decision has on women. Overturning Roe officially sends the decision on abortion back to the states. Based on their legislatures this means that a simple majority of states are likely to make any form of abortion de facto or de jure illegal.
+
+With the [Texas anti-abortion law allowing individuals to bounty hunt for women seeking abortions](https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-abortion-law-bounty-hunters-citizens/); we can see downstream impacts not only from government or corporate abuses but also individuals.
+
+> Last month, as it became increasingly clear that constitutional abortion protections would soon be eliminated, EFF [warned](https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/what-companies-can-do-now-protect-digital-rights-post-roe-world) that “service providers can expect a raft of subpoenas and warrants seeking user data that could be employed to prosecute abortion seekers, providers, and helpers.”
+> 
+> The online civil liberties organization also told technology firms to “expect pressure to aggressively police the use of their services,” along with new demands to hand over information to law enforcement as this data “may be classified in many states as facilitating a crime.”
+> 
+> [Big Tech silent on data privacy in post-Roe America](https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/24/big_tech_post_roe_wade), The Register (Fri. June 24, 2022)
+
+The dangers are evident even in seemingly innocent _metadata_. That is, the information surrounding your actual activity such as timestamps, to and from fields like emails and phone numbers, hardware models, location, length of calls etc.
+
+Sure, anti-abortionists may not _know_ that you sought an abortion with certainty. However, if they can subpoena Google for your location data and search history that would be enough to prove at least some basic intent. Even fewer data points could incriminate you, in fact. Perhaps you had your phone records subpoenaed and all anyone could tell was a woman making a phone call to an out of state number that is a known abortion provider. Sure we don’t _know_ the contents of the phone call but we damn well guess. The same way we don’t know what you said on the phone to the Chinese restaurant but we can reasonably infer the service you sought.
+
+The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) puts out good information about securing your digital life and I’d recommend their primer on [security and privacy for people seeking abortion](https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/security-and-privacy-tips-people-seeking-abortion). They have many guides and are current on the most pressing issues facing our digital privacy and I greatly appreciate the work they do.
+
+**Well if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, right?** This classic argument is trotted out anytime someone complains about the gross expansion of the surveillance state. Surely, they think, nobody would ever dare come for them! America has free speech after all, right? As demonstrated above, something once legal has now become illegal in the United States. What’s next, contraception, gay marriage? [Justice Thomas Clarence has said that we should revisit the court decisions enumerating the legality of those items](https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/24/clarence-thomas-roe-gay-marriage-contraception-lgbtq). What else could potentially be on the docket? How much of this information such as condom purchases or, more irrevocably, people coming out as LGBTQ online is impossible to bottle back up?
+
+America’s polarizing political climate means that elections are won on paper thin margins. Social media and our culture has exacerbated deep wounds that make us suspicious and more partisan than ever. These things present real risks to people who are vulnerable to authoritarian crackdowns. The government can function as a force for good, and its good to have a tool that lacks the specific profit motive of private companies with massive resources. However, political regimes don’t last long and the tides change very quickly. A politically friendly executive branch may only last four years and a legislature much less. Governmental organizations can take on more militaristic views, similar to [police militarization](https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/police-militarization) which creates a general adversarial approach to the citizenry. These abuses need not even be systematic, look for example, at the [LOVEINT scandal](https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://web.archive.org/web/20140401212529/http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/23/nsa-officers-sometimes-spy-on-love-interests/) at the NSA where agents were using government resources to stalk love interests.
+
+It’s tempting to see the private sector as the savior here but they’re just as bad. A very large number of enterprise and private IT workloads (exceeding 80%) already have some presence in the clouds of only a few very large providers: Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle. [An Amazon software developer was recently convicted of stealing data from Capital One.](https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://news.yahoo.com/ex-amazon-employee-convicted-over-130248248.html) It’s reasonable to assume that there are many such cases that go undetected because they’re targeted at specific users or small customers. [Verizon’s 2022 data breach report shows that over 80% of bad actors steal data for financial reasons.](https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/2022/summary-of-findings/) The financial incentives get stronger as more and more of our data is centralized in a few private firms.
+
+There’s a lot here to doom over, and while its tempting to see the tide as totally insurmountable, I do not think we’re totally past the point of no return. In culture, data privacy is starting to pick up some steam. We’ve seen the GDPR in Europe and CCPA in California act as some simple backstops allowing us to delete more of our data from these providers. There’s simple things that the tech savvy people in our lives, myself included, can do to help. We can educate without inundating, we can set up simple alternatives or better default settings for family and friends. We can offer up discussions and opportunities to try new things. We can apply political pressure to crack down on bad actors AND beat back authoritarians at the ballot box.
+
+In the future posts I will elaborate on some specific ways to address some of these topics. I will attempt to categorize them as beginner, intermediate and advanced in terms of complexity to implement. I am also working on some code solutions to offer to our most technical users.
+
+These are trying times where people’s lives may be at risk and technology is going away. It’s better to embrace the good and throw out the bad, but we must be swift and discerning and vigilant.

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+title: "Grounding Oneself"
+date: 2022-09-09T12:21:54-05:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+The blog has been quiet lately because I’ve been mired in a well over a month long major work effort at my job. As a software developer responsible for a platform used by thousands, I’ve had a lot of work to deliver lately. On top of the late work nights, on call times, desperate panicked calls and more; my son is fourth months old and hitting a famous growth spurt. With that growth spurt comes a major sleep regression. We haven’t slept through the night in weeks and weeks as we were doing in July.
+
+All of this has made my wife and I feel very frayed. She’s low on sleep, I am low on sleep and our baby has advancing needs. Between work and home it can feel like too much. As a result, I am working harder to ground myself. To bring myself back to a stable baseline where I can feel like a normal person again.
+
+Earlier this week I got some alone time to get high and play videos and boy was that a relief! NOTE that I am not suggesting one do this to run from your problems, but it was a nice opportunity to clear my head. My work has a developer is very mentally intensive and there’s this sort of burning persistent “brain fuzz” that lingers on too much intensive work combined with little sleep. Such personal time helped me get grounded again.
+
+Furthermore I also lean on my religious practice. As its very nature oriented it helps me get outside and look at the world around me. For awhile, spreadsheets, emails and codebases fade into the background. I am not obsessing about “velocity” or SCRUM or Agile methodologies. Just me and the outdoor world.
+
+I am also trying to make more room in my life again for events. Family events mostly but also those with friends. I am preserving more memories in the form of photos that can be easily referenced in the future. I want to preserve a legacy for myself and for my family and this also has a grounding effect as well.
+
+Another sort of obscure one is family history and ancient places. As I grow older, my memories and experiences of the past fade more into the background. I am getting better at learning about my family, the places they spent time and also where I spent time as a kid. I am very “geo-focused” and interested in visiting different places in the world where memories are made.
+
+Everyone is different and nothing is perfect but I am working hard and being my best self as a new father, a husband, a software developer and a citizen of the world but sometimes I need some personal grounding.

content/posts/2023-04-22-Imgur-Great-Content-Purge/index.md

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+title: "Imgur Great Content Purge"
+date: 2023-04-22T12:18:21-05:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+Starting straight from the Gizmodo headline: [Imgur bans NSFW Content, Begins Purge](https://gizmodo.com/imgur-bans-nsfw-content-will-delete-old-posts-1850356455). Doesn’t get much simpler than that.
+
+Back in the early heyday of reddit, imgur was created by a sole developer attempting to offer an image hosting solution to a budding reddit in the wake of Digg’s utter collapse. This site has grown massively in the intervening 15 years due to the ease of posting images anonymously, without an account. It was also a major hosting haven for reddit’s burgeoning NSFW subreddits and relevant communities.
+
+Unfortunately, this bastion of free information on the internet is about to begin a major clampdown:
+
+Quoting from Imgur’s official statement which you can read in full [here](https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/14415587638029-Imgur-Terms-of-Service-Update-April-19-2023-):
+
+> Our [new Terms of Service](https://imgurinc.com/tos) will go into effect on May 15, 2023. We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account from our platform as well as nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content. You will need to download/save any images that you wish to save if they no longer adhere to these Terms. Most notably, this would include explicit/pornographic content.
+
+This of course is going to be majorly disruptive to NSFW subreddits but additionally its going to wipe out huge amounts of historic information from the first eight or so years of reddit’s life. Until reddit made their own image hosting platform in 2016, Imgur was the de facto standard for uploads. Now all kinds of information from old photos, charts, infographics, guides, albums and so on will be lost forever unless forces act to archive them quickly. But archiving them is not always easy, especially since many folks have abandoned accounts and move on.
+
+In my opinion this a dark day for the internet and its continued but unfortunate _[enshittification](https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys)_ to borrow Mr. Cory Doctorow’s term.

content/posts/2023-05-22-Transitions-and-Closures/index.md

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+title: "Transitions and Closures"
+date: 2023-05-22T10:22:00-05:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+Today bums me out. Why? Because the Peoria, IL [Round 1](https://www.round1usa.com/) location is closing tonight at 10pm for good. For those who aren’t familiar, Round 1 is an arcade chain in Japan and the United States which offers a mix of food, bowling, karaoke, classic arcade games but most importantly to me, Japanese rhythm games. Back in its pre-COVID heyday, it was opened until 2am and allowed adults only after 10pm which made it an excellent spot to have a beer and play some games with friends or sing our hearts out.
+
+With regard to rhythm games: think the well known titles like Dance Dance Revolution and Pump It Up but also a lot more specialized games like Beatmania IIDX (pronounced 2-D-X), Sound Voltex, Groove Coaster, Tetote and Wacca. These games have very limited presence outside of Japan. Short of visiting Japan, getting a hold of a cab yourself or ripping arcade copies from private internet sites, these arcades are the only chance to experience this niche gaming hobby.
+
+But this hobby goes well beyond just games, it also has a thriving micro-culture of locals who have been playing for years. For me, its how I met one of my now best friends back in 2006, when we played a DDR-clone game called [In The Groove](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Groove_(video_game_series)) back at the [Galesburg Sandburg Mall]({{< ref "/posts/2022-06-07-Old-Places-Liminal-Spaces" >}}) in the days where we still gathered in person for such things.
+
+It was not common to find these games or people into their special brand of electronic Japanese music. The crowd went beyond just casual gamers but extended into a fairly marginalized group that featured a mix of plain old nerds, cosplayers, furries, LGBT+ and those just interested in the fusion of dance, music and rhythm into video games. With this community I found another great group of friends that is scattered across the midwest and its hard to gather everyone.
+
+Round 1 in Peoria offered this focal point. It opened in late November of 2017 and is closing today May 21st, 2023. It’s crazy to think that this focal point in the center of the state offered a meetup spot for old friends but also helped to rekindle some relationships with friends too. Not only that, my wife was an active participant in these games and always felt included. Plus I made a lot of new friends. In a world where we are becoming more isolated, atomized and suspicious of each other, it was refreshing to have a public space where we could all very visibly enjoy our hobby. I am sad to see yet another one of these special places close in a long line of failed ventures. COVID really did it in between declining business, security issues and a revolving door of staff. Still, for even its short-lived time in our short-lived culture, it was nice to have that space where rhythm gamers could truly feel like themselves.
+
+In February 2019 and last week we had gathering specifically at our location. Coordinated by Discord, a gathering of folks from all across Illinois, some from Indiana and Wisconsin and others even further way, all meeting in person. Exchanging introductions usually with our Discord handles then often our real names and often times pronouns as people experiment with, and find comfort in their true identities. We are an inclusive community free of hate and vitriol sometimes seen in the wider world. Coming together felt like the childhood experience of meeting your friends on the weekend to talk video games, anime, Pokemon and to trade stories, jokes and laughs.
+
+Today’s closure disperses an already sparse community but I look at the positives: not only the memories we made but also the connections. We have more opportunities now than ever to stay in touch and to travel and meet even more people who share our interests. The next closest location of Round 1 is in Aurora, IL in the Chicago suburbs. Some of us have friends who run private basement arcades with real cabinets and cloned software to emulate the experience. I am sure these private spaces will be where many memories also made but today is the end of something and it makes me sad. I hold out hope that perhaps we transition into something else that can give me a bright hope for the future. Until next time, friends…THANK YOU FOR PLAYING!
+
+{{< figure src="image.jpg" width="auto">}}

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+title: "Enshittification Blues"
+date: 2023-06-07T09:57:46-05:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+The internet sucks lately. Well, not lately. There has been a rot that has been setting in for years, now more accelerated by rising interest rates making “free money” technology ventures very unpopular and risky. What we’re seeing today is what Cory Doctorow famously coins as [Enshittification](https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/). Quoting him directly from that link:
+
+> Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
+> 
+> Cory Doctorow
+
+His essay specifically describes this phenomenon on TikTok but its really infested many reaches of the internet. Some prominent examples include:
+
+- [Netflix and their new onerous password sharing crack down](https://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/netflix-password-sharing-crackdown)
+- I[mgur’s ban of NSFW content and deletion of old content, creating a lot of dead links](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/hosting-site-imgur-will-remove-explicit-and-anonymous-content-next-month/)
+- [Twitter and….basically anything they do now](https://www.npr.org/2023/07/03/1185740767/why-twitter-is-limiting-the-number-of-tweets-a-user-can-view)
+- [Reddit and its crackdown on third party apps such as Apollo, reddit is fun, Sync, BaconReader](https://www.androidauthority.com/third-party-reddit-apps-shut-down-3341631/)
+- [Youtube testing the blocking of adblockers and cramming more ads down our throats](https://www.tomsguide.com/news/youtube-is-going-to-stop-you-using-ad-blockers-heres-how)
+- [Gfycat going out of business, making the internet even more of a forest of dead links](https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/03/gfycat_snap_shutdown/)
+- [Google so totally infested with AI-driven SEO content farming that no reasonable search results can be found](https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2022/02/19/google-search-has-gotten-worse-heres-the-trick-people-have-found-to-get-around-it.html)
+
+Turns out that when interest rates creep up, these so called stewards of the internet realize they can and will milk the internet for every last penny. Who cares if the user’s experience is made worse? Where do they have to go? At least that’s the thinking in the short term. Mastodon and Bluesky are two up and coming projects to replace Twitter with a deep focus on federation and decentralization. Lemmy is a federated, open source reddit alternative. These ideas have a lot of hurdles to overcome, such as moderation, infrastructure spending and long term expansion plans.
+
+However as a regular user I have to say: this really sucks. The internet I grew up on in the late 90s and 00s was pretty much dead by the middle of the last decade, replaced by these giant social powerhouses. However even those have lost a lot of their core value propositions that have made them, and many other services totally unusable. As someone practically raised on engagement with the internet, seeing all of the services and culture that I love slowly (and even very rapidly) disappear has genuinely left me in a sour mood lately. I don’t really know what I can do about it other than run my small, informal little corner of the internet and hold out hope that some of the alternatives might take off.
+
+Another possibility is that maybe this is just a hard withdrawal from a social media era that needed to die anyways. After all, people are moving into smaller, easier to moderate, more curated audiences to avoid trolls, helicopter parents, invasive employers and others to vibe with a closer circle of friends and acquaintances on more specific topics. Discord excels at this but also any platform that supports closed group chats. I am very much in sync with this [Verge article titled “So where are we all supposed to go now?”](https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/3/23782607/social-web-public-apps-end-reddit-twitter-mastodon) which states:
+
+> As far as how humans connect to one another, what’s next appears to be group chats and private messaging and forums, returning back to a time when we mostly just talked to the people we know. Maybe that’s a better, less problematic way to live life. Maybe feed and algorithms and the “global town square” were a bad idea.
+
+And maybe its true. Maybe this was always a fleeting era of exploding out neurons full of dopamine in a culture already over saturated with appearances and “brand engagement”. It could be for the better than we’re moving beyond the social area. I am not going to mourn the social web disintegrating, in a lot of ways its responsible for how much of a trash heap the internet has become. I am afraid that we’re heading towards cable-package style siloing of internet experiences into small little channels for neat little demographics and I think the over-corporatization of the internet is going to get worse and worse.
+
+All of that said, at the end of the day I will still have my little corner of the internet here where I can vent my feelings into the wind, perhaps to only be read by large language models dutifully ingesting my hot takes. In the end at least I have some control over my tiny little platform, and maybe that’s all I can hope for.

content/posts/2023-08-21-Hugo/index.md

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+---
+title: "Init: Hugo Edition"
+slug: init-hugo
+date: 2023-08-21T16:39:26-05:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+Yo I am trying out Hugo as a replacement for Wordpress! Content will be restored as I figure out ways to port it.

content/posts/2023-12-01-New-iPhone/index.md

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+---
+title: New iPhone
+date: 2023-12-01T13:16:01-06:00
+draft: false
+---
+Welp I went ahead and did it AGAIN; I switched to the warm embrace of Apple and purchased an iPhone 14. My current Google Pixel 5a is a nice phone in working order, but its over two years old and so I was feeling the itch to upgrade. I managed to catch a Black Friday promotion for some money off of a new phone and figured, why not?
+
+See there's some backstory here: my growing frustration with Google as a money. It's clear to me that they've lost their way from their days as a plucky startup, onto a large but loveable tech giant moving the internet forward. Now they've atrophied into a directionless company that, addicted to the heroin drip of ad money, is not sure what they want.
+
+Unfortunately for consumers, they've decided to make this lack of identity our problem. Whether its the now very famous [Killed by Google](https://killedbygoogle.com/) site which, at the time of writing, boasts an impressive count of 290 products killed. Or perhaps, its the fact that [Chrome begin limiting Ad Blockers by June of 2024](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-chrome-will-limit-ad-blockers-starting-june-2024/) presumably as a way to bolster their ad business. If that wasn't bad enough, YouTube itself has become pretty much unusable without sophisticated ad blocking to which [Google has openly admitted its limiting users who use adblockers](https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/21/ad_block_google/). Now I am fine paying a couple of dollars a month to remove ads and compensate creators but I am not paying $14/month for it to all go into Sundar Pichai's pocket.
+
+Even further still we have more nastiness emerging on the consumer side such as [Pixel 8 bumps under the screen of components pushing into the OLED panel](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-says-bumpy-pixel-8-screens-are-nothing-to-worry-about/) which Google exists is not a production defect that will cause problems in the future but anyone who has owned the famous Nexus 6P knows to not trust their hardware claims. We're often always told that the Cloud platform will save us all, so feel free to dump all of your documents onto their storage platform. For a small cost, and permission to scan all of your documents and photos for advertising profiles, you too can access your data anywhere! Unless of course they [lose your Google Drive files](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-drive-users-angry-over-losing-months-of-stored-data/) which at the time of writing is a problem that's still actively developing, and not solved. 
+
+They regular meddle in open web standards, trying to use their Chrome majority position to push [onerous web changes that look more like DRM](https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/02/google_abandons_web_environment_integrity/) rather than any actual improvement to website security. Or perhaps the fact that Android at least one [fake toggle that promises to not track you while still doing so](https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/24/google_privacy_button/). All of these tracking things would perhaps be less egregious if it made their one core product, search, better. All signs point to the opposite as AI-generated content has completely overrun the search engine making it dulled to the point of worthlessness. I switched to a mix of Bing and DuckDuckGo of all things because the former now has a superior image search and the latter has the convenient "bang" system which allows me to forward my queries to be redirected to specific sites ex. !g for google, !w for wikipedia, !r for reddit.
+
+All of these things combined with more that I did not bother to list influenced my purchase choice: it's not that Apple does NO tracking of users, but it doesn't make up the majority of their business income. I would not personally get in the habit of presuming automatic good faith from them either, but its refreshing that their intentions are clear from the start: "Buy into our ecosystem, spend the money, but then you WILL have a positive, coherent experience where your data is tightly controlled within the walled garden". Historically this has not been a deal I have been willing to accept, but the older I get, and the more I expect things to just work, it has become more appealing.
+
+I'm hoping the next two years I spend on an iPhone are enough time for Google to decide what kind of company it wants to be. What might help with that soul-search is finding a replacement for Sundar Pichai, but I suspect it could take five or more years to really get them back on track. In the meantime, I am going to try to make the best of my new iPhone and see where this new ecosystem ride takes me. I'm currently trying to harmonize it with the rest of my workflow, a topic worthy of its own post.
+

content/posts/2024-03-06-Japan-Tomorrow/index.md

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+---
+title: Japan Tomorrow
+slug: japan-tomorrow
+date: 2024-03-06T12:54:18-06:00
+draft: false
+---
+At long last, my trip five years in the making, whose planning began in 2019 and was sadly cut short due to COVID-19 in March 2020 is finally coming to fruition. Myself and two of my best friends are finally making our way to Japan for ten days, tomorrow. Not only that, I began a new job role this week at my employer which will prove to boost my skills towards modernization in the software development. 
+
+There's a lot of new hitting in my life all at once and frankly, its a lot to take in. But I am excited to meet these challenges head on and to face them, plus I am very much looking forward to the experiences that they will offer.
+
+I will be silent while I am out of the country. Sorry, I have been silent all year so far, but that will change soon. I will post lots of photos and findings from my journey.
+
+Take care

content/posts/2024-05-09-Travel-Lookback-Shinto/index.md

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+---
+title: "Travel Lookback: Shinto"
+slug: travel-lookback-shinto
+date: 2024-05-09T08:53:45-05:00
+draft: false
+---
+⛩️ 🗾 🗻
+
+It's been nearly two months since I left for Japan. In that time I've had a lot of opportunities to wrangle my thoughts into something more coherent. My trip lasted ten days and had me covering Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Nara. I stayed in one neighborhood of Kyoto and two in Tokyo to cover this territory. I travelled with two other lifelong friends with a loosely coupled schedule so that we could be free to re-arrange at a whim.
+
+Since the trip was originally planned in 2020 but cancelled due to COVID, I had a lot of opportunities to consider what I wanted out of it. As a perennial meganerd and rhythm gamer, I was of course looking forward to the dazzling lights of Akihabara and its ubiquitous arcades and anime stores. These places did not disappoint and made the trip worth it by itself. I was also very interested in another aspect of Japan: it's spirituality. Specifically Shinto.
+
+[Religion in Japan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Japan) is a complicated subject that deserves its own treatment but a quick summary can basically be boiled down to; a highly secular population who practices Shinto, the indigenous animistic religion, and Mahayana Buddhism imported from China, sometimes syncretized with Shinto but mostly separate via historical happenstance. Shinto itself is a complicated thing to classify as a religion by American standards of Christianity. It does not have strict doctrinal commitments, its principally animistic or polytheistic, shrines are distributed all over the country in all sizes with many festivals, and it has periodically been co-opted by the government for authoritarian identity building projects. 
+
+There is a lot of positives I glean from this religion; I like its decentralized, localist nature that focuses on spirits of the natural world. Kami, whose [definition is as equally complicated](https://www.worldhistory.org/Kami/)
+as Shinto, are present in everything. The mountains, forests, weather, rivers, the villages, the roads, even deified people, concepts, machines, places, ideas. The world is full of gods and alive with their machinations. This way of relating to spiritual matters to me feels more natural that attempting to commune with a distant, authoritarian ruler of the universe who demands a doctrinal purity incompatible with personal flourishing or liberation.
+
+This animistic, ubiquitous presence of the Kami also leads to a tendency to treat the natural world with much more respect than can be seen in some other cultures. It's a great moral wrong to simply destroy forests or mountains or pollute rivers if you know you might be harming a spiritual being, to say nothing of the actual physical material conditions you are creating. This focus on the world we live in makes more sense than appealing to rules-based doctrine for the hope of a potential reward in a future life, or failing that an eternal punishment. As someone who sees American culture as very extractive and business-oriented, and often sanctioned by one god, this alternative has a lot of refreshing appeal.
+
+Ancestor worship, while less common in Shinto in the modern day, is still practiced. While this is not something that personally factors into my practice of religion, I think there is a lot appeal in remembering the dead as though they are still with us. For bad and good, our collective ancestors have brought us to where we are today. If they were not here, we would not be here. I think this fact makes for good reflection on our place in the world, and what we want out of life. 
+
+I must also say that there's a lot of aesthetic pleasantness in the ability to simply visit temples and shrines. Of course you can have massive complexes dedicated to specific Kami like [Fushimi Inari taisha](https://inari.jp/en/), but there are also thousands of small street side shrines and little ones nestled into neighborhoods. In my venturing I sought these places out which were almost always empty and they were places where I felt my most spiritual, slightly displaced from city live and travel it was great to just have a space where I could be outdoors and disconnect from life for a moment. 
+
+{{< figure src="Kameyama_Kyoto_Inari.jpg" width="auto">}}
+(Kameyama Inari Shrine, Shimogyo ward, Kyoto)
+
+{{< figure src="Shinjuku_Suwa.jpg" width="auto">}}
+(Shinjuku Suwa shrine, Shinjuku, Tokyo)
+
+Ritual is another aspect of Shinto that resonates with me. Though not exclusive to Shinto by any means, while some religions I have experience with (Protestantism) claim that religion is hollow and pointless, for me its the opposite. Their predictability has a grounding effect that pulls me out of the worries of the day and into spiritual realm of something different. This too can be seen in the likes of [mindfulness meditation](https://www.apa.org/topics/mindfulness/meditation), a sort of quiet calming grounding to refocus yourself on what is important. Setting aside decorated but personal space for worship is important to me. It's another mental pathway I can take towards this grounding that helps me feel more spiritual. 
+
+As someone sympathetic to alternative religions but who finds himself pretty spiritually homeless at times, Shinto  speaks to me in a way I don't find in monotheistic faiths. I made great effort to give many offerings to the Kami, practice my prayer and ritual form and I loved that these things were immediately accessible to me as a visitor in Japan. Back in the states, however, there are less than five active Shinto temples; mostly in Hawaii and on the west coast. As someone who lives in the Midwest, this makes practice at shrines unviable. It's possible that I could procure my own Ofuda (talisman imbued with spiritual power), Kamidana (home of the Kami, personal shrine) and shrine space to practice at home, but that pushes into another question of exploration; is co opting the faith of the Japanese people appropriate in the first place? 
+
+While many Japanese themselves might say No if they are more nationalistic, many others think its totally acceptable and openly welcome foreigners in practice, so long as they are respectful of the traditions, culture, and context in which Shinto happens. This is all very reasonable asks of respect that I think all people considering a faith outside of their nation should consider, but it also makes me wonder if I should be looking for something with a similar mentality that is more accessible in America. Does such a thing exist? So far, I've mostly turned up pretty empty but I will keep exploring. I do think there is something to be said of uniquely modern American faith journeys, but it does require dipping into new religious movements that require a lot of vetting.
+
+I've found that as my 30s drag on, I have more of that itch to find what fits for discovering the truly _numinous_ experiences in life.  So far my exploration of American Deism has lead me towards Pantheism, Transcendentalism and perhaps even Unitarian Universalism but I am still grappling with what that all means in relation to how I live my life. As of yet I have not found a totally satisfactory answer and maybe I never will, but I will keep searching.
+
+This was the first of several travel lookbacks I intend to write about my time and Japan and what stuck out to me. Religion, culture and politics will be in focus for a long time, especially as America's domestic political situation continues to heat up in light of several global conflicts and the upcoming election. Putting pen to paper even on a corner of the internet that nobody is reading really helps me clear my mind and organize my thoughts into meaningful chunks, I hope someone is able to resonate with the work produced here.

content/posts/2024-11-08-Aftermath/index.md

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+---
+title: "Aftermath"
+slug: aftermath
+date: 2024-11-08T14:26:32-06:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+:desktop_computer: :mag: :iphone:
+
+Unless you have been living under a rock, you probably know that [Donald Trump has won reelection](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-win-presidency-2024/). Rather than prognosticate at length about where the campaign failed I am going to focus on a short list of changes that I am making in my own life from a technology perspective.
+
+Firstly, and this began before now, I have been closing more accounts than ever. It's long and very tedious but it is made much easier if you use a reliable password manager. At the time of writing I recommend Bitwarden. This process is useful because over time you can accumulate all of your accounts and see how large your footprint on the internet really is. Closures of accounts can be nightmarish processes but thanks to European regulation like [GDPR](https://gdpr-info.eu/), more sites let you delete and export data than ever before.
+
+Secondly, I continue to keep my adblocking in force. Both in browser as well as on my home network using [PiHole](https://pi-hole.net/). It's not totally possible but I also am decoupling from the most ad-centric tech companies like Google. Small changes like switching off of Chrome and to [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/) make a big difference here. Reducing your ad tracking foot print makes it so its somewhat harder to build a hostile profile about you with a government that could be very vengeful.
+
+Thirdly, the elephant in the room: You need to seriously consider deleting or anonymising social media. Genuinely, who needs Facebook in 2024? I realize that's easy for me to say since mine has been an AI slop hell for years now. I mostly spent my time on less public places such as Discord. For your blood pressure alone, delete your X account.
+
+Fourthly, remove apps from your phone that you are not actually using. A lot of these apps on iOS and Android both have broad permissions that grant them sweeping access to your phone. This balance is different for everyone of course, I have a handful of things I spend all day in but I do not need a "BestBuy" app, I can just use the site in browser.
+
+Fifthly, look into services that allow you to proxy your email address with aliases to sign up for throwaway websites or accounts. iCloud offers this feature and my email provider offers something akin to it as well.  This is another way to separate the information blend data brokers possess about you. It makes it harder to build profiles. Additionally use fake names and birthdates where applicable. Odds are nearly all of these sites (even including storefronts) does not need your real name for anything other than billing records.
+
+Finally, be available for people in your life who might be hurt but don't be overly ready to reveal information about people to strangers. Doxxing people on the internet has become very dangerous business and vulnerable groups are at a heightened risk. Share information with them to reduce their presence and make themselves less available. 
+
+We are entering a trying period in American history, but we can survive. But in order to survive we need to do some basic work to protect ourselves. I am not offering a perfectly comprehensive list of solutions that magically make you safe. After all you live in the real world and run into confrontational people every day, but this is meant to be a jumping off point that can be easily shared with folks. Stay safe out there.

content/posts/2025-02-10-Reorientation-and-Compliance/index.md

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+---
+title: "Reorientation and Compliance"
+slug: reorientation-and-compliance
+date: 2025-02-10T11:05:00-06:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+:angry: :pout: :cursing_face:
+
+Continuing on his psychotic warpath of breaking the government and society, I want to draw your attention to a somewhat silly but relevant story. The story I am talking about is [Trump forcing a rename of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-rename-gulf-of-mexico-denali/). Additionally this story includes a renaming of Denali to Mt. McKinley, undoing over 50 years of established tradition deferential to local Alaskan tribes. Presumably because it _owns the libs_ sufficiently with the added bonus of sticking it to the groups of people the American government has repressed throughout history.
+
+On its face one might ask if this is something that really matters. Names are fickle, often change, and are often coded to certain political expectations. I do actually think it matters because of that political coding. Names matter a lot to people, as we of course see in the attempt to dehumanize trans people but in other less sinister ways such as using nicknames, avoiding outdated terms or just trying to generally identify things correctly. 
+
+There is a dangerous second order effect lingering underneath this change, one that is quick to get lost in the flooding of our newsfeeds. That is the fact that [Google has very quickly complied to implement this change](https://apnews.com/article/google-gulf-of-mexico-trump-96861212a9ee292966f19498338da6be) with the funny caveat that it only applies to US visitors to the Google Maps site. What is startling about this comes into focus when you see the wider movement of big tech. The big firms have been prostrating themselves before Trump in an attempt to curry favor with him, to craft policy away from holding them accountable. They ultimately would like to dispose of rules and institutions that hold them to any sort of legal scrutiny, but they also want to avoid being retaliated against by a petty man who controls a powerful legal apparatus. I can't say that I blame them for that last part. 
+
+The reason this should concern you, dear reader, is that in their fervor to comply aggressively with his orders, expect them to tighten the screws on free expression on their platforms. If they jump so readily at this request, what happens when Trump issues his executive order to ban liberal speech from the platforms? You might think I am being alarmist, but as we can plainly see already, courts have no meaningful enforcement mechanism. Even if the white house backs off in time, a lot of damage can be done. 
+
+I won't lament the end of the republic in this post. That said I do feel that we are rapidly moving to the kind of situation the screws will be tightened on speech. I have started exploring more and more [technology alternatives](https://european-alternatives.eu) so that I am not overleveraged too much in a handful of American companies who want to act as Trump's enforcement wing in the digital world.

content/posts/2025-04-22-Earth-Day-Notes/index.md

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+---
+title: "Earth Day Notes 2025"
+slug: earth-day-notes-2025
+date: 2025-04-22T12:34:11-05:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+:earth_americas: :recycle: :deciduous_tree:
+
+Continuing on his psychotic warpath of breaking the government and society....wait, [didn't I already write this?](https://zoness.me/posts/2025/02/reorientation-and-compliance/) Yes it turns out that things have not gotten better politically. We managed to eke out some little wins: [the liberal victory in the Wisconsin Supreme Court](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/live-results-wisconsin-supreme-court-special-election) on its 10 point margin was enough to critically embarass right wing oligarch Elon Musk who is now whining that he wants out of politics since he did not get his way, and [people are being too mean to him.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-donald-trump-doge-b2736753.html) Nevermind the real reason he was likely slapped down was interfering with Peter Navarro, Trump sycophant and policy advisor on tarrifs. Musk has decided to cross Navarro and therefore Trmp offending perhaps the only actual belief Trump holds about anything: that tariffs are good for America.
+
+Unfortunately, DOGE continues apace at dismantling government institutions and now we've risen a new spectre of disappearing immigrants and even US Citizens to detention centers in the United States or to a jungle gulag in El Salvador. The likes of which turn us from a respectable, if only barely functional, democracy into that of a hybrid regime that we must prevent from getting much, much worse.
+
+So where does that leave someone like me on Earth Day? Well, taking a walk today in the perfect midwestern spring weather several epiphanies have dawned on me over the early spring and I am going to consolidate the ideas in this post.
+
+The first thing I realized is, I am not ashamed to be a deeply liberal person. I always have been; since I formed my political identity in middle and high school. The nuances have changed but my core ideals and convictions have not. Especially from about 2009 onwards it was clear that my political identity would be what it remains today. I am a progressive liberal who believes in science, is not conventionally religious, accepts my LGBTQ+ community members and who fights for a better world and marginalized people. There is no point to hiding behind this, I should fully embrace it.
+
+On the heels of that declaration, the second point: I should present my values openly. To a bit of shame, I have always tried to play peacemaker in my social world. I've held onto my views but I don't put them on blast in an effort to hold up now quaint notions of civility. Meanwhile the world around me changed; it raelized I am upholding a truce that was broken years ago by friends, family and neighbors alike. While I tried to play polite and quiet, my next door neighbor (who I am very friendly with) has erected large Trump signs. While I nod politely, my parents will veer into full-on conspiracies about vaccines and immigrants in unprompted rants. I was duped into thinking that being quiet was the same as being agreeable but the truce about "religion and politics" is forever broken. I am pushing back more than I used to. I am not hiding who I am on my socials. I am boldly putting forth my liberal view.
+
+My third realization: caring about stuff is cool. I've seen a strain of nihilism and cynicism infect every facet of society both left and right where nothing matters, so why bother? No, that's stupid and lame! Stuff DOES matter, people matter, animals matter, the planet matters, our society matters. I am tired of pretending that its cool to let everything burn while people suffer. This is the crux of my attack for my second point: convincing people that things still matter. This is almost harder than actually arguing policy or worldview I've found but is totally worth it. I want to leave a better world for my kids and everyone else's too. Surely that resonates with people still.
+
+My fourth and final realization is all of these musings need to be turned into action. The best way to stave off the cynicism is community. Real, in person community. There is nothing wrong with being online, but it tends to distort our social relationships a bit. I am getting involved in my local liberally coded institutions to build up some sense of sanity: my library, my universities, the local Unitarian Universalist church, the local protest organizations. This is where change starts and where I can feel like I am making a differance so I will be doing more of it. In my home I have espoused my ideals more clearly and tried to give a framework for them to my family; this is where Earth Day comes in. Earth Day is an ostensibly global liberal non-religious holiday that anyone can celebrate so I am making an effort to bring these things to the headspace of my wife and kids. 
+
+Then looking at myself: Earth Day is a reflection to me about how important this fragile world is. It's a reminder that evil forces are trying to destroy it but that hope is not lost. When Earth Day was founded in 1970, American cities were smog filled nightmare zones where you couldn't even see clear skies on some days but now look at how much our air quality has improved with the rise of the EPA, climate consciousness and environmentalism. In 55 humanity has (slowly, often with failure) started to take these problems seriously and fix them as a global community, for the good of the global community. Today, that gives me hope that we too can rise above our current national nightmare. We just need to stop, show up, and smell the flowers. 
+
+On that note I leave you with some short additional references:
+
+> We light this chalice for the Earth,
+> 
+> Of which we all are part;
+> 
+> We pledge to care for what it needs
+> 
+> And hold it in our heart.
+
+[_Chalice for the Earth_ by Adena Dannouf](https://www.uua.org/worship/words/chalice-lighting/chalice-earth)
+
+{{< youtube SgTPuImHDPQ >}}

content/posts/2025-12-18-Winter-Ahead/index.md

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+---
+title: "Winter Ahead"
+slug: winter-ahead
+date: 2025-12-18T21:00:13-06:00
+draft: false
+---
+
+:snowflake: :snowman_with_snow: :cloud_with_snow:
+
+There's too many ideas to cram into one post in the last eight months. First, my bad for struggling to keep this updated. Life has a way of distracting you when you have two young kiddos. Secondly, a lot of things have weighed very heavily on me this year. Based on [previous posts](https://zoness.me/posts/2025/04/earth-day-notes-2025/) you can probably gather that the state of the American, and frankly western, political world isn't exactly thriving.
+
+I did start to make my voice heard this year. I attended my first protest for [No Kings](https://www.nokings.org/) on June 14th then again on October 18th. I plan to do many more times next year. I also began attending a local Unitarian Universalist church as I triangulate my faith values into something with tangible community and institutional presence. It has been a priority for me this year to converge my whole worldview into something more concrete and ationable: I am more overt in my liberal politics and in my religious faith which is pretty nontraditional.
+
+I don't need to spend large amounts of time on the specific political events of the year but I am heartened by the positive change and revolt that is beginning on the ground and translating into major [political wins](https://www.npr.org/2025/11/05/nx-s1-5599185/2025-election-results-georgia-pennsylvania-democrats-win) in historically dead off-year elections. 
+There is genuinely a lot to take away from these results but I will start with the obvious: people are PISSED. It's me, I'm people, but I am not the only one. We had [unexpected upsets](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/virginia-attorney-general-winner-election-race-jason-miyares-jay-jones-rcna238916) that have really signalled how frustrated people are increasingly becoming. No more do they feel that we have to "play nice". I also feel this way. I spent a decade pretending like being a peacekeeper has added value to discourse in my personal life, but I have just watched people close to me get more extreme. No more will I tolerate it.
+
+Lots of other things are changing that are not pure politics. Looking forward...
+
+Community involvement is taking front and center stage in my life: politics, religion, school for my kids and frankly my own hobbies. For the second year in a row I've attended Midwest FurFest and met decades-long internet friends at the occasion. I've been refining my fursona of a bighorn sheep over that year and I will probably post artwork in the future!
+I intend next year to be more time spent in nature with my kids as they get older and more curious about the world around them. My oldest turns four next spring and I want him to learn about his natural world; trees, plants, animals, rivers, the weather, the stars. 
+I also hope to travel more with my wife now that we are past that new parenthood stage, that will be nice to bring some little adventure back! So far I have a trip to Colorado on the books and who knows what else might come our way!
+
+Looking ahead at the blog I have some useful miscellany I'll get around to posting. My biggest technical project right now self-hosting git repos to centralize my config files. Not exactly the hardest thing in the world but I am far enough in my career now where I kind of want everything I work with to work _exactly_ the way I like it. Oh, I have lots of opinions of AI as well which is of course quite liable to eat this post up too. Say hi to Sam for me!
+I will be writing more in general next year, documenting the evolving political situation as well as my continued technical journey as I continue to move towards open source and away from big tech.
+
+I don't have any special words really to say at the close of the year here, or at least nothing especially profound. To all of you readers or bots out there, have a blessed winter or summer solstice. Keep your head held high and look forward to next year with hope.

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+  widgets = ["search", "recent", "categories", "taglist", "social", "languages"]
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+There&rsquo;s too many ideas to cram into one post in the last eight months. First, my bad for struggling to keep this updated. Life has a way of distracting you when you have two young kiddos. Secondly, a lot of things have weighed very heavily on me this year. Based on previous posts you can probably gather that the state of the American, and frankly western, political world isn&rsquo;t exactly thriving.
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+	
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+		<h2 class="list__title post__title">
+			<a href="/posts/2025/04/earth-day-notes-2025/" rel="bookmark">
+			Earth Day Notes 2025
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+		&#x1f30e; &#x267b;&#xfe0f; &#x1f333;
+Continuing on his psychotic warpath of breaking the government and society&hellip;.wait, didn&rsquo;t I already write this? Yes it turns out that things have not gotten better politically. We managed to eke out some little wins: the liberal victory in the Wisconsin Supreme Court on its 10 point margin was enough to critically embarass right wing oligarch Elon Musk who is now whining that he wants out of politics since he did not get his way, and people are being too mean to him.
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+	
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+		<h2 class="list__title post__title">
+			<a href="/posts/2025/02/reorientation-and-compliance/" rel="bookmark">
+			Reorientation and Compliance
+			</a>
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+	</header>
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+		&#x1f620; &#x1f621; &#x1f92c;
+Continuing on his psychotic warpath of breaking the government and society, I want to draw your attention to a somewhat silly but relevant story. The story I am talking about is Trump forcing a rename of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. Additionally this story includes a renaming of Denali to Mt. McKinley, undoing over 50 years of established tradition deferential to local Alaskan tribes. Presumably because it owns the libs sufficiently with the added bonus of sticking it to the groups of people the American government has repressed throughout history.
+	</div>
+</article><article class="list__item post">
+	
+	<header class="list__header">
+		<h2 class="list__title post__title">
+			<a href="/posts/2024/11/aftermath/" rel="bookmark">
+			Aftermath
+			</a>
+		</h2>
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+		&#x1f5a5;&#xfe0f; &#x1f50d; &#x1f4f1;
+Unless you have been living under a rock, you probably know that Donald Trump has won reelection. Rather than prognosticate at length about where the campaign failed I am going to focus on a short list of changes that I am making in my own life from a technology perspective.
+Firstly, and this began before now, I have been closing more accounts than ever. It&rsquo;s long and very tedious but it is made much easier if you use a reliable password manager.
+	</div>
+</article><article class="list__item post">
+	
+	<header class="list__header">
+		<h2 class="list__title post__title">
+			<a href="/posts/2024/05/travel-lookback-shinto/" rel="bookmark">
+			Travel Lookback: Shinto
+			</a>
+		</h2>
+		<div class="list__meta meta"><div class="meta__item-author meta__item">
+	<svg class="meta__icon icon icon-author" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16"><path d="M8 1c2 0 3.5 2 3.5 4.5S10 9 10 9c3 1 4 2 4 6H2c0-4 1-5 4-6 0 0-1.5-1-1.5-3.5S6 1 8 1"/></svg><span class="meta__text">Zoness</span>
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+	</header>
+	<div class="content list__excerpt post__content clearfix">
+		⛩️ 🗾 🗻
+It&rsquo;s been nearly two months since I left for Japan. In that time I&rsquo;ve had a lot of opportunities to wrangle my thoughts into something more coherent. My trip lasted ten days and had me covering Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Nara. I stayed in one neighborhood of Kyoto and two in Tokyo to cover this territory. I travelled with two other lifelong friends with a loosely coupled schedule so that we could be free to re-arrange at a whim.
+	</div>
+</article><article class="list__item post">
+	
+	<header class="list__header">
+		<h2 class="list__title post__title">
+			<a href="/posts/2024/03/japan-tomorrow/" rel="bookmark">
+			Japan Tomorrow
+			</a>
+		</h2>
+		<div class="list__meta meta"><div class="meta__item-author meta__item">
+	<svg class="meta__icon icon icon-author" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16"><path d="M8 1c2 0 3.5 2 3.5 4.5S10 9 10 9c3 1 4 2 4 6H2c0-4 1-5 4-6 0 0-1.5-1-1.5-3.5S6 1 8 1"/></svg><span class="meta__text">Zoness</span>
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+	<svg class="meta__icon icon icon-time" width="16" height="14" viewBox="0 0 30 28"><path d="M15 0a14 14 0 1 1 0 28 1 1 0 0 1 0-28m0 3a3 3 0 1 0 0 22 3 3 0 0 0 0-22m1 4h-2v8.4l6.8 4.4L22 18l-6-3.8z"/></svg><time class="meta__text" datetime="2024-03-06T12:54:18-06:00">March 06, 2024</time></div></div>
+	</header>
+	<div class="content list__excerpt post__content clearfix">
+		At long last, my trip five years in the making, whose planning began in 2019 and was sadly cut short due to COVID-19 in March 2020 is finally coming to fruition. Myself and two of my best friends are finally making our way to Japan for ten days, tomorrow. Not only that, I began a new job role this week at my employer which will prove to boost my skills towards modernization in the software development.
+	</div>
+</article><article class="list__item post">
+	
+	<header class="list__header">
+		<h2 class="list__title post__title">
+			<a href="/posts/2023/12/new-iphone/" rel="bookmark">
+			New iPhone
+			</a>
+		</h2>
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+	<svg class="meta__icon icon icon-author" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16"><path d="M8 1c2 0 3.5 2 3.5 4.5S10 9 10 9c3 1 4 2 4 6H2c0-4 1-5 4-6 0 0-1.5-1-1.5-3.5S6 1 8 1"/></svg><span class="meta__text">Zoness</span>
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+	</header>
+	<div class="content list__excerpt post__content clearfix">
+		Welp I went ahead and did it AGAIN; I switched to the warm embrace of Apple and purchased an iPhone 14. My current Google Pixel 5a is a nice phone in working order, but its over two years old and so I was feeling the itch to upgrade. I managed to catch a Black Friday promotion for some money off of a new phone and figured, why not?
+See there&rsquo;s some backstory here: my growing frustration with Google as a money.
+	</div>
+</article><article class="list__item post">
+	
+	<header class="list__header">
+		<h2 class="list__title post__title">
+			<a href="/posts/2023/08/init-hugo/" rel="bookmark">
+			Init: Hugo Edition
+			</a>
+		</h2>
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+	</header>
+	<div class="content list__excerpt post__content clearfix">
+		Yo I am trying out Hugo as a replacement for Wordpress! Content will be restored as I figure out ways to port it.
+	</div>
+</article><article class="list__item post">
+	
+	<header class="list__header">
+		<h2 class="list__title post__title">
+			<a href="/posts/2023/06/enshittification-blues/" rel="bookmark">
+			Enshittification Blues
+			</a>
+		</h2>
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+	<svg class="meta__icon icon icon-author" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16"><path d="M8 1c2 0 3.5 2 3.5 4.5S10 9 10 9c3 1 4 2 4 6H2c0-4 1-5 4-6 0 0-1.5-1-1.5-3.5S6 1 8 1"/></svg><span class="meta__text">Zoness</span>
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+	<svg class="meta__icon icon icon-time" width="16" height="14" viewBox="0 0 30 28"><path d="M15 0a14 14 0 1 1 0 28 1 1 0 0 1 0-28m0 3a3 3 0 1 0 0 22 3 3 0 0 0 0-22m1 4h-2v8.4l6.8 4.4L22 18l-6-3.8z"/></svg><time class="meta__text" datetime="2023-06-07T09:57:46-05:00">June 07, 2023</time></div></div>
+	</header>
+	<div class="content list__excerpt post__content clearfix">
+		The internet sucks lately. Well, not lately. There has been a rot that has been setting in for years, now more accelerated by rising interest rates making “free money” technology ventures very unpopular and risky. What we’re seeing today is what Cory Doctorow famously coins as Enshittification. Quoting him directly from that link:
+Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves.
+	</div>
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+		Today bums me out. Why? Because the Peoria, IL Round 1 location is closing tonight at 10pm for good. For those who aren’t familiar, Round 1 is an arcade chain in Japan and the United States which offers a mix of food, bowling, karaoke, classic arcade games but most importantly to me, Japanese rhythm games. Back in its pre-COVID heyday, it was opened until 2am and allowed adults only after 10pm which made it an excellent spot to have a beer and play some games with friends or sing our hearts out.
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+      <title>Winter Ahead</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2025/12/winter-ahead/</link>
+      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:00:13 -0600</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2025/12/winter-ahead/</guid>
+      <description>&amp;#x2744;&amp;#xfe0f; &amp;#x2603;&amp;#xfe0f; &amp;#x1f328;&amp;#xfe0f;&#xA;There&amp;rsquo;s too many ideas to cram into one post in the last eight months. First, my bad for struggling to keep this updated. Life has a way of distracting you when you have two young kiddos. Secondly, a lot of things have weighed very heavily on me this year. Based on previous posts you can probably gather that the state of the American, and frankly western, political world isn&amp;rsquo;t exactly thriving.</description>
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+      <title>Earth Day Notes 2025</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2025/04/earth-day-notes-2025/</link>
+      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:34:11 -0500</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2025/04/earth-day-notes-2025/</guid>
+      <description>&amp;#x1f30e; &amp;#x267b;&amp;#xfe0f; &amp;#x1f333;&#xA;Continuing on his psychotic warpath of breaking the government and society&amp;hellip;.wait, didn&amp;rsquo;t I already write this? Yes it turns out that things have not gotten better politically. We managed to eke out some little wins: the liberal victory in the Wisconsin Supreme Court on its 10 point margin was enough to critically embarass right wing oligarch Elon Musk who is now whining that he wants out of politics since he did not get his way, and people are being too mean to him.</description>
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+      <title>Reorientation and Compliance</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2025/02/reorientation-and-compliance/</link>
+      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 11:05:00 -0600</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2025/02/reorientation-and-compliance/</guid>
+      <description>&amp;#x1f620; &amp;#x1f621; &amp;#x1f92c;&#xA;Continuing on his psychotic warpath of breaking the government and society, I want to draw your attention to a somewhat silly but relevant story. The story I am talking about is Trump forcing a rename of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. Additionally this story includes a renaming of Denali to Mt. McKinley, undoing over 50 years of established tradition deferential to local Alaskan tribes. Presumably because it owns the libs sufficiently with the added bonus of sticking it to the groups of people the American government has repressed throughout history.</description>
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+      <title>Aftermath</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2024/11/aftermath/</link>
+      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 14:26:32 -0600</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2024/11/aftermath/</guid>
+      <description>&amp;#x1f5a5;&amp;#xfe0f; &amp;#x1f50d; &amp;#x1f4f1;&#xA;Unless you have been living under a rock, you probably know that Donald Trump has won reelection. Rather than prognosticate at length about where the campaign failed I am going to focus on a short list of changes that I am making in my own life from a technology perspective.&#xA;Firstly, and this began before now, I have been closing more accounts than ever. It&amp;rsquo;s long and very tedious but it is made much easier if you use a reliable password manager.</description>
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+      <title>Travel Lookback: Shinto</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2024/05/travel-lookback-shinto/</link>
+      <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 08:53:45 -0500</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2024/05/travel-lookback-shinto/</guid>
+      <description>⛩️ 🗾 🗻&#xA;It&amp;rsquo;s been nearly two months since I left for Japan. In that time I&amp;rsquo;ve had a lot of opportunities to wrangle my thoughts into something more coherent. My trip lasted ten days and had me covering Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Nara. I stayed in one neighborhood of Kyoto and two in Tokyo to cover this territory. I travelled with two other lifelong friends with a loosely coupled schedule so that we could be free to re-arrange at a whim.</description>
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+      <title>Japan Tomorrow</title>
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+      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 12:54:18 -0600</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2024/03/japan-tomorrow/</guid>
+      <description>At long last, my trip five years in the making, whose planning began in 2019 and was sadly cut short due to COVID-19 in March 2020 is finally coming to fruition. Myself and two of my best friends are finally making our way to Japan for ten days, tomorrow. Not only that, I began a new job role this week at my employer which will prove to boost my skills towards modernization in the software development.</description>
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+      <title>New iPhone</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2023/12/new-iphone/</link>
+      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 13:16:01 -0600</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2023/12/new-iphone/</guid>
+      <description>Welp I went ahead and did it AGAIN; I switched to the warm embrace of Apple and purchased an iPhone 14. My current Google Pixel 5a is a nice phone in working order, but its over two years old and so I was feeling the itch to upgrade. I managed to catch a Black Friday promotion for some money off of a new phone and figured, why not?&#xA;See there&amp;rsquo;s some backstory here: my growing frustration with Google as a money.</description>
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+      <title>Init: Hugo Edition</title>
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+      <description>Yo I am trying out Hugo as a replacement for Wordpress! Content will be restored as I figure out ways to port it.</description>
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+      <title>Enshittification Blues</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2023/06/enshittification-blues/</link>
+      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 09:57:46 -0500</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2023/06/enshittification-blues/</guid>
+      <description>The internet sucks lately. Well, not lately. There has been a rot that has been setting in for years, now more accelerated by rising interest rates making “free money” technology ventures very unpopular and risky. What we’re seeing today is what Cory Doctorow famously coins as Enshittification. Quoting him directly from that link:&#xA;Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves.</description>
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+    <item>
+      <title>Transitions and Closures</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2023/05/transitions-and-closures/</link>
+      <pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2023 10:22:00 -0500</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2023/05/transitions-and-closures/</guid>
+      <description>Today bums me out. Why? Because the Peoria, IL Round 1 location is closing tonight at 10pm for good. For those who aren’t familiar, Round 1 is an arcade chain in Japan and the United States which offers a mix of food, bowling, karaoke, classic arcade games but most importantly to me, Japanese rhythm games. Back in its pre-COVID heyday, it was opened until 2am and allowed adults only after 10pm which made it an excellent spot to have a beer and play some games with friends or sing our hearts out.</description>
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+    <item>
+      <title>Imgur Great Content Purge</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2023/04/imgur-great-content-purge/</link>
+      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2023 12:18:21 -0500</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2023/04/imgur-great-content-purge/</guid>
+      <description>Starting straight from the Gizmodo headline: Imgur bans NSFW Content, Begins Purge. Doesn’t get much simpler than that.&#xA;Back in the early heyday of reddit, imgur was created by a sole developer attempting to offer an image hosting solution to a budding reddit in the wake of Digg’s utter collapse. This site has grown massively in the intervening 15 years due to the ease of posting images anonymously, without an account.</description>
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+      <title>Grounding Oneself</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2022/09/grounding-oneself/</link>
+      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2022 12:21:54 -0500</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2022/09/grounding-oneself/</guid>
+      <description>The blog has been quiet lately because I’ve been mired in a well over a month long major work effort at my job. As a software developer responsible for a platform used by thousands, I’ve had a lot of work to deliver lately. On top of the late work nights, on call times, desperate panicked calls and more; my son is fourth months old and hitting a famous growth spurt. With that growth spurt comes a major sleep regression.</description>
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+      <title>Surveillance Capitalism in Post Roe America</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2022/06/surveillance-capitalism-in-post-roe-america/</link>
+      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:25:28 -0500</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2022/06/surveillance-capitalism-in-post-roe-america/</guid>
+      <description>Unless you live outside of the United States, it would be impossible to ignore the news of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade. Republicans, Christian nationalists and reactionary conservatives have been pining for it since decades before I was born. Rather than lament the disastrous path that women’s rights in this country is headed down, because rant I can, I am going to focus in on a specific harrowing problem.</description>
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+    <item>
+      <title>Summer Solstice Soundbites</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2022/06/summer-solstice-soundbites/</link>
+      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2022 12:26:30 -0500</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2022/06/summer-solstice-soundbites/</guid>
+      <description>Summer Solstice, also known as Litha, is less than twenty four hours upon us as of my writing. You wouldn’t know it based on the record heatwave many of us have been facing in the center of the country! Climate change continues its ravages across the world, heavily distorting the seasons in many parts of the globe but that discussion could take up many blog posts, I will set it aside for now.</description>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <title>Old Places Liminal Spaces</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2022/06/old-places-liminal-spaces/</link>
+      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2022 11:25:36 -0500</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2022/06/old-places-liminal-spaces/</guid>
+      <description>Last week, the day before I flew out to Denver for a long time good friend’s wedding, I made a brief detour in my hometown and adjacent town. I visited the adjacent town because other long time friends have made a major decision to relocate to northern Wisconsin for a fresh start and new work opportunities. I visited the town for a suit fitting for my mother’s remarriage to someone who has basically been in my family for the majority of my life and is already my stepdad effectively.</description>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <title>Stand With Ukraine</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2022/02/stand-with-ukraine/</link>
+      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2022 20:43:06 -0500</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2022/02/stand-with-ukraine/</guid>
+      <description>I’ve got a couple more writings coming down the pipeline but I want to take this opportunity to announce that I stand with the people and the nation of Ukraine. We in the west should band together to support a country being bullied by the imperialist actions of a violent, expansionist power that is Russia.&#xA;From my blog to the people of Ukraine we stand with you. слава україні!</description>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <title>My Hero Academia and Humanism</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2021/12/my-hero-academia-and-humanism/</link>
+      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2021 20:37:01 -0500</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2021/12/my-hero-academia-and-humanism/</guid>
+      <description>This season has had me busy at work but grinding a lot of anime over my lunch hour. Specifically, I decided to rewatch My Hero Academia in order to get current. As of writing, I am a few episodes shy of the end of Season 5 and have watched the first two movies.&#xA;think that as far as Shounen anime goes, My Hero Academia is probably my favorite one. It’s not my preferred genre but I’ve really come to like the story and general feel of the show.</description>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <title>Facebook Outage Day World Stopped</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2021/10/facebook-outage-day-world-stopped/</link>
+      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2021 20:28:42 -0500</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2021/10/facebook-outage-day-world-stopped/</guid>
+      <description>Mondays are hard, they’re especially hard if your a Facebook engineer frantically, desperately trying to get your network connectivity back. Little did they know, or maybe they did know: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down globally.&#xA;Now I spent the day memeing this to death on Discord. Because frankly, there is no love lost for me. Where do we even begin on Facebook’s very numerous, protracted conflicts that are so long I can’t even summarize them entirely but here goes:</description>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <title>Digimon Metaphysics</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2021/08/digimon-metaphysics/</link>
+      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2021 12:57:15 -0500</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2021/08/digimon-metaphysics/</guid>
+      <description>In case anyone thought I was normal, allow me to disabuse you of that notion today.&#xA;Recently I’ve been watching all of the Digimon series in chronological order, mostly as a time killer while I continue to work from home. This turns out to probably be the right choice as it looks increasingly likely that we are going to go back into lockdown, but I digress.&#xA;Today I finished Digimon Adventure 02.</description>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <title>IPhone 12 Two Months On</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2021/06/iphone-12-two-months-on/</link>
+      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2021 12:44:46 -0500</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2021/06/iphone-12-two-months-on/</guid>
+      <description>After I announced my move to the dark side I promised that I’d come back and offer up some thoughts. I’ve had my phone since April 22 and have some opportunities to put it through its paces. Below, I’ll summarize some good and bad points I’ve found in my personal use case.&#xA;GOOD: Device runs very smooth on long uptime. After 30 days without a reboot, the phone runs as it did on day one.</description>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <title>Cloud Conundrums</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2021/05/cloud-conundrums/</link>
+      <pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2021 12:41:31 -0500</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2021/05/cloud-conundrums/</guid>
+      <description>It’s always an outstanding question to me about what cloud provider to use if any. If you’ve read my previous post, you know that I’ve recently migrated to an Apple device. Thus the temptation exists to move all of my files to iCloud. The prices are cheap, I don’t have to own the servers, what’s not to like? Still, that’s no guarantee of anything. Apple, like anyone else, has to answer to legal inquiries and they still have the decryption keys.</description>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <title>Moving to the Dark Side</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2021/05/moving-to-the-dark-side/</link>
+      <pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2021 12:39:47 -0500</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2021/05/moving-to-the-dark-side/</guid>
+      <description>Well folks, after eleven years of Android usage which began auspiciously with the much hyped Motorola DROID line of phones, I finally did it; I switched to iOS. My Android user friends and Windows/Linux/Android fellow devs (colloquially called ‘Windroid’) gasp in horror as I pay the famed Apple tax for access to their much lauded (or maligned) walled garden.&#xA;Why did I make this change? In short, its nothing sinister nor is it a given to be permanent.</description>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <title>Pop Culture Metaphysics</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2021/03/pop-culture-metaphysics/</link>
+      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2021 12:36:13 -0500</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2021/03/pop-culture-metaphysics/</guid>
+      <description>Over the years it seems that once in awhile we get something a little unique in our somewhat secular culture: the accusation that pop culture has secret, underlying metaphysical principles that exist to drive god fearing people away from Christianity. The Satanic Panic is archetypal of this fear but its remained extant into the modern day.&#xA;In future blog posts I am going take a look at a few of the sporadic claims attacking mostly things I personally like such as Pokemon, Dungeons and Dragons and video games writ large but I am curious to see if there are metaphysical threads that emerge between all of them.</description>
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+      <title>Extinguished by the Platform</title>
+      <link>https://zoness.me/posts/2021/02/extinguished-by-the-platform/</link>
+      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:34:08 -0500</pubDate>
+      <guid>https://zoness.me/posts/2021/02/extinguished-by-the-platform/</guid>
+      <description>What happens if a service you lean on for a key, everyday piece of your life suddenly is wiped away? You don’t need to wonder, that happened to the Terraria developer. Quoting the linked Ars Technica article:&#xA;Three weeks ago, the official Terraria Twitter account publicly pleaded with YouTube for some kind of resolution to a recent Google account ban. The Terraria account explained, “We have not added anything new to our only YT channel (RelogicGames) in several months.</description>
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+		Starting straight from the Gizmodo headline: Imgur bans NSFW Content, Begins Purge. Doesn’t get much simpler than that.
+Back in the early heyday of reddit, imgur was created by a sole developer attempting to offer an image hosting solution to a budding reddit in the wake of Digg’s utter collapse. This site has grown massively in the intervening 15 years due to the ease of posting images anonymously, without an account.
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+		The blog has been quiet lately because I’ve been mired in a well over a month long major work effort at my job. As a software developer responsible for a platform used by thousands, I’ve had a lot of work to deliver lately. On top of the late work nights, on call times, desperate panicked calls and more; my son is fourth months old and hitting a famous growth spurt. With that growth spurt comes a major sleep regression.
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+			<a href="/posts/2022/06/surveillance-capitalism-in-post-roe-america/" rel="bookmark">
+			Surveillance Capitalism in Post Roe America
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+		Unless you live outside of the United States, it would be impossible to ignore the news of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade. Republicans, Christian nationalists and reactionary conservatives have been pining for it since decades before I was born. Rather than lament the disastrous path that women’s rights in this country is headed down, because rant I can, I am going to focus in on a specific harrowing problem.
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+			<a href="/posts/2022/06/summer-solstice-soundbites/" rel="bookmark">
+			Summer Solstice Soundbites
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+		Summer Solstice, also known as Litha, is less than twenty four hours upon us as of my writing. You wouldn’t know it based on the record heatwave many of us have been facing in the center of the country! Climate change continues its ravages across the world, heavily distorting the seasons in many parts of the globe but that discussion could take up many blog posts, I will set it aside for now.
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+			<a href="/posts/2022/06/old-places-liminal-spaces/" rel="bookmark">
+			Old Places Liminal Spaces
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+		Last week, the day before I flew out to Denver for a long time good friend’s wedding, I made a brief detour in my hometown and adjacent town. I visited the adjacent town because other long time friends have made a major decision to relocate to northern Wisconsin for a fresh start and new work opportunities. I visited the town for a suit fitting for my mother’s remarriage to someone who has basically been in my family for the majority of my life and is already my stepdad effectively.
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+			<a href="/posts/2022/02/stand-with-ukraine/" rel="bookmark">
+			Stand With Ukraine
+			</a>
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+		I’ve got a couple more writings coming down the pipeline but I want to take this opportunity to announce that I stand with the people and the nation of Ukraine. We in the west should band together to support a country being bullied by the imperialist actions of a violent, expansionist power that is Russia.
+From my blog to the people of Ukraine we stand with you. слава україні!
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+			<a href="/posts/2021/12/my-hero-academia-and-humanism/" rel="bookmark">
+			My Hero Academia and Humanism
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+		This season has had me busy at work but grinding a lot of anime over my lunch hour. Specifically, I decided to rewatch My Hero Academia in order to get current. As of writing, I am a few episodes shy of the end of Season 5 and have watched the first two movies.
+think that as far as Shounen anime goes, My Hero Academia is probably my favorite one. It’s not my preferred genre but I’ve really come to like the story and general feel of the show.
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+			Facebook Outage Day World Stopped
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+		Mondays are hard, they’re especially hard if your a Facebook engineer frantically, desperately trying to get your network connectivity back. Little did they know, or maybe they did know: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down globally.
+Now I spent the day memeing this to death on Discord. Because frankly, there is no love lost for me. Where do we even begin on Facebook’s very numerous, protracted conflicts that are so long I can’t even summarize them entirely but here goes:
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+			Digimon Metaphysics
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+		In case anyone thought I was normal, allow me to disabuse you of that notion today.
+Recently I’ve been watching all of the Digimon series in chronological order, mostly as a time killer while I continue to work from home. This turns out to probably be the right choice as it looks increasingly likely that we are going to go back into lockdown, but I digress.
+Today I finished Digimon Adventure 02.
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+		After I announced my move to the dark side I promised that I’d come back and offer up some thoughts. I’ve had my phone since April 22 and have some opportunities to put it through its paces. Below, I’ll summarize some good and bad points I’ve found in my personal use case.
+GOOD: Device runs very smooth on long uptime. After 30 days without a reboot, the phone runs as it did on day one.
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+Three weeks ago, the official Terraria Twitter account publicly pleaded with YouTube for some kind of resolution to a recent Google account ban. The Terraria account explained, “We have not added anything new to our only YT channel (RelogicGames) in several months.
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+			<p>What happens if a service you lean on for a key, everyday piece of your life suddenly is wiped away? <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/terraria-developer-cancels-google-stadia-port-after-youtube-account-ban">You don’t need to wonder, that happened to the Terraria developer.</a> Quoting the linked Ars Technica article:</p>
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+<p>Three weeks ago, the official Terraria Twitter account publicly pleaded with YouTube for some kind of resolution to a recent Google account ban. The Terraria account explained, “We have not added anything new to our only YT channel (RelogicGames) in several months. However, we randomly received an email saying there was a TOS violation but that it was likely accidental and as such, the account would receive no strikes.” The Terraria Twitter account continued, “Three days later, the entire Google account (YT, Gmail, all Google apps, even every purchase made over 15 years on Google Play Store) was disabled with no warning or recourse. This account links into many business functions and as such the impact to us is quite substantial.”</p>
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+<p>This is eerily similar to tales I’ve heard from friends running YouTube channels. In the case of one friend, their channel was copyright struck after posting a video critical of a work that a media company had released. That media company had wielded the DMCA as a bludgeon against a consumer to suppress opinion of them.</p>
+<p>Best of luck if you think that you can reach a human being to resolve issues at Google, by the way. They are pretty notorious for leaving everything to the algorithms of the system which are very opaque even to the people working on them. Andrew Spinks announced the following on Twitter:</p>
+<blockquote>
+<p>I absolutely have not done anything to violate your terms of service, so I can take this no other way than you deciding to burn this bridge. Consider it burned. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Terraria?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Terraria</a> for <a href="https://twitter.com/GoogleStadia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GoogleStadia</a> is canceled. My company will no longer support any of your platforms moving forward.</p>
+<p>— Andrew Spinks (@Demilogic) <a href="https://twitter.com/Demilogic/status/1358661842147692549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2021</a></p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>It’s unfortunate that a high profile game was pushed to such extreme lengths but what are you supposed to do? If a <em>relative</em> celebrity like the developer of Terraria can’t get his issues resolved, then how could you? What if you needed tax forms or banking documents?</p>
+<p>A couple of suggestions I have if you’re considering changes:</p>
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+<li>Personal Email Domains and hosting
+<ul>
+<li>This is not a free option but it is a safe option, if you own your own domain, you can always change hosts from Gmail to Outlook to anyone else as needed without giving out a new email address. I use Fastmail and am very happy with them.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Backup your files somewhere else
+<ul>
+<li>Do not leave your files with the same place you host accounts such as youtube or email, its tempting to unify these things for usability’s sake but like in this case, you may lose everything. Consider for example, if you use Gmail, back up your files on OneDrive or Dropbox.</li>
+<li>I prefer neither options owned by large corporate partners so I opt to host my own Nextcloud instance on a VPS provided by Vultr. This requires a reasonably high degree of technical knowledge, especially Linux but they also have pre-configured images and a motivated person could get it working. Drop me a line if you need some help.</li>
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+<li>Decentralize social media
+<ul>
+<li>I suggest perhaps doing what I do here: blog on your own site and then syndicate the feeds to other social media that way if a single account gets taken down, your site is not totally offline. This option is great especially if you’re running a business.</li>
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+<p>In future blog posts I am going take a look at a few of the sporadic claims attacking mostly things I personally like such as Pokemon, Dungeons and Dragons and video games writ large but I am curious to see if there are metaphysical threads that emerge between all of them. I find this question interesting because as society secularizes, we aren’t necessarily hard atheists but rather a sort of vague irreligious but spiritual category. One that is defined by capitalism, globalism, democratized access to information and content creation. I’ve been reading a few books on the subject and I have become profoundly interested in it.</p>
+<p>For now I leave you with Seth Andrew’s fantastic talk on the original Satanic panic. Seth has such a wonderful radio-style of communication that makes him a joy to listen to. While most of his talk focuses on the 80s and early 90s its as relevant as ever.</p>
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+<p>Of course if you’re the target of an ongoing FBI investigation, then no cloud is going to be safe and you should probably not break the law on someone else’s property. Putting that aside, there’s still a possibility that your account could get shut off if the host does not like the content of your files. In my head, Google is an especially bad actor in the space of privacy and Apple might be too much of a walled garden so who does that leave? Microsoft of course with their OneDrive product. After all, its tightly integrated into Windows and very useful if you have a personal Microsoft 365 account. This doesn’t mean you can’t get totally owned by them though. As evidenced by this story floating around that <a href="https://borncity.com/win/2020/08/16/microsoft-kontensperrungen-und-die-onedrive-nacktfotos/">Microsoft is banning accounts with lude material being hosted</a>, even if that content is legal. The blog post’s concern is substantiated by this reference to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201020142532/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/servicesagreement/">code of conduct, section 3a.</a></p>
+<p>All of these findings are pretty disheartening. All of this leads me back to hosting my own <a href="https://nextcloud.com/">Nextcloud</a> instance. Which, I highly recommend if you have the technical know-how and comfort to run your own Linux servers, nowadays its even more trivial to configure with snap packages on Ubuntu. I was simply hoping to minimize my footprint on the internet and have one less surface area to secure against outside threats.</p>
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+			<p>Well folks, after eleven years of Android usage which began auspiciously with the much hyped Motorola DROID line of phones, I finally did it; I switched to iOS. My Android user friends and Windows/Linux/Android fellow devs (colloquially called ‘Windroid’) gasp in horror as I pay the famed Apple tax for access to their much lauded (or maligned) walled garden.</p>
+<p>Why did I make this change? In short, its nothing sinister nor is it a given to be permanent. For starters, Apple’s recent move to crack down on spying applications over Google’s supreme disinterest in reigning in even the worst offenders was a major motivator. The comparatively closed ecosystem allows Apple to say “my way or the highway’ and it frustrates Zuck so much that he took out full page ads in the New York Times to come and complain about it.</p>
+<p>Apple’s attitude of selling you hardware fundamentally changes their business model; they make the process about devices. Since you’re paying a premium for the device, this means that YOU are not the product. You don’t need to have your information sold because you’ve already paid for a modicum of privacy. So no, iCloud is not analyzing all of your files and selling the useful bits to advertisers. In fact, <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303">iCloud’s privacy policy is strong</a> but is augmented further by the fact that a lot of data never leaves your phone by default including your Face ID or Siri training. This has meant a little bit weaker support AI and voice assistance but that’s a tradeoff I was willing to make.</p>
+<p>My hatred of Zuckerberg’s (un)ethics of Facebook is reason enough but I had a few other simple motivators, one being the simplest:</p>
+<p>I wanted to try something new.</p>
+<p>I’m very familiar with the Android ecosystem so it doesn’t seem fair to criticize a platform I’ve never used. I wanted to try new hardware, new software, new cloud platforms and see how tight this famed tight integration is.</p>
+<p>Another motivation is lifecycle: <a href="https://tech-ish.com/2020/10/12/apple-5-year-updates-iphones/">Apple commits to five years of supported updates</a> where <a href="https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/10/08/google-needs-to-set-an-example-and-go-beyond-three-years-of-android-updates/">Google can barely eke out three years</a>, if you’re so lucky to be a much supported Google device. Incidentally, I owned a Pixel 3a before this and liked the phone but was weary it would even last that long. A fellow coworker’s 4a just bricked three weeks ago and my Nexus 6P bricked after fourteen months of usage. I didn’t want to chance it, so I sought out a different device in advance with that phone being a fallback if needed.</p>
+<p>A device that I can own for more than the traditional 24-month cycle is not only good for the environment but is also good for my wallet. Folks often complain about the Apple tax and their relative high prices, but if my device’s cost over its lifetime is amortized over four or five years rather than two, I think these concerns melt away.</p>
+<p>A future post is going to focus on my review of the device after a few more weeks of acclimation but for now I wanted to summarize the reason for my transition. It’s not likely that I’ll dive deeper into the Apple ecosystem because I prefer to be cloud neutral and my job requires that I retain Windows computers for work. At any rate, I am open to the bevy of comments these sorts of decisions always result in. Let em fly!</p>
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+<p>GOOD: Device runs very smooth on long uptime. After 30 days without a reboot, the phone runs as it did on day one. I brought a reboot to update to the next version of iOS and updates as well are very smooth.</p>
+<p>BAD: Due to the device’s physical size, battery leaves a lot to be desired. This probably the largest bad thing for me but its more of a limitation of the form factor. The physical specs of the phone remain the same as other mainline 12 models, but with a smaller battery. Unfortunately this means 8-10 hours of moderate use is enough to nearly drain the battery. I had to really eyeball on my vacation to California and I am annoyed that I am doing that on basically a brand new phone.</p>
+<p>GOOD: iCloud. The platform is very slick, its straightforward with a simple and clear web interface and very tight integration with the device. So far I am not planning on buying a higher tier and have considered syncing my files with my Fastmail WebDAV instance because I already pay for it and so I’d get a de facto 10GB instead of 5GB without paying for more service. The cost for iCloud is good though and its a compelling offering.</p>
+<p>BAD: Some facts of the device are extremely well hidden in the OS and its a huge pain to figure them out. When I was diagnosing my father in law’s wireless network, I wanted to eliminate a problem with the wireless bands but nowhere in the device could I see if I was connected to a 2.4 or 5 GHz band on wireless. Best of luck finding the right iOS app to see all of this information. Android exposes a lot more information to me and I do miss that.</p>
+<p>NEUTRAL/MEH: Adapters. I thought this was going to annoy me more than I expected but mostly the lighting to jack adapters basically “just work” and stay out of the way. I don’t like having to be aware of where my adapters are but luckily I haven’t lost any or been without them yet. That said, I can’t support closing off the garden and eliminating long-held standards. Furthermore needing to buy them produces waste and locks us into a proprietary format.</p>
+<p>NEUTRAL: iMessage. It works very well and offers a rich text communication platform right off of the bat, as long as other devices support it. Too bad you cannot customize it at all though.</p>
+<p>GOOD: FindMyPhone. Being able to see where other users are is very useful in terms of planning or getting around town or organizing travel. I think Google has a similar experience but its not nearly as tightly integrated.</p>
+<p>BAD: FaceID. WHY WHY get rid of the Touch ID? In a world where I have to wear masks during a pandemic, the fact that I have to key in my PIN <em>every single time</em> to unlock my phone is bonkers. It was so bad that even in light of the security concerns, I still shorted my PIN because its such a usage hassle. This works better if you ….surprise, buy an Apple watch, because using NFC it can approximate that you’re the owner of the device but I don’t really find this to be satisfying because they eliminated a superior technology.</p>
+<p>SUMMARY: In short, I am decently happy with the phone but I will be honest and say that I am not yet committed to buying another one. I am still living in the Windows/Linux world and I don’t really expect to become a Mac user. I understand why people love these phones but <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230331083019/https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/android-12s-beautiful-color-changing-ui-already-lives-up-to-the-hype/">Android 12 is coming right along</a> and continues to modernize the UI in a way that I find pretty encouraging, at least without any deep usage of it yet. I am glad I’ve gone to the effort of trying out the platform so that I can speak more comfortably to it.</p>
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+			<p>In case anyone thought I was normal, allow me to disabuse you of that notion today.</p>
+<p>Recently I’ve been watching all of the Digimon series in chronological order, mostly as a time killer while I continue to work from home. This turns out to probably be the right choice as it looks increasingly likely that we are going to go back into lockdown, but I digress.</p>
+<p>Today I finished Digimon Adventure 02. This is the second season of the original Digimon Adventure, which made its breakout debut in August 1999 on American TV, almost to the anniversary of this post. If you’re only nominally acquainted with the show, the basic premise is: Young children (the “digi-destined”) get sucked up into a fantastical and mysterious world known as the Digital World wherein they meet, befriend and work with fantastic creatures called Digimon. These creatures are fragments and outputs of the data in this digital world but seem to have consciousness. They can be manipulated to do evil or sometimes they are innately evil. Digimon may also evolve, but not in the linear way of Pokemon, but with a series of branching outcomes catalyzed by their specific circumstances.</p>
+<p>The 50 episode second season builds off of the 64 episode first season, set three years later and involving an updated, rotating cast. The dubbing and voice acting is decidedly better than the first one but the storytelling is a little lackluster comparatively. It feels more akin to a sort of “monster of the week” Shounen that would have been popular in this era. The topic of this post doesn’t address the show at large but the implications at the end of this season.</p>
+<p>Looking back on these kinds of shows, I always wonder how they would <em>work</em> in their given physical world. I like to figure out how the physics and philosophy come together to make up a cogent world where stakes and powers make sense because its a fun exercise in detail-oriented problem solving. The questions are going to surround the nature of digimon and the digit world and how we interface with it from the physical world.</p>
+<p>Different seasonal arcs assert different, sometimes contradictory ideas about what exactly the digital world. Some opt for a more sci-fi “naturalist” conception trying to stick with the idea that the world is an emergent property of the super-complicated internet. Digimon game producer Habu Kazumasa <a href="https://twitter.com/digimon_games/status/1225871858773319681">asserts that digimon can be taken in an occult direction</a>. Other content still suggests a fully “dualist” conception of the world where digimon function in a spirit world and are stand-ins for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dkai">Yōkai</a> or Japanese demons. My conception is somewhere in the middle. <strong>I assert that the digital world and digimon are emergent properties of a physical thing (the internet) that are interfaced through occult, mystical or psychological means.</strong></p>
+<p>Starting backwards; I think the idea that digimon are spirits from a spirit world weakens the world considerably. Subjectively and critically, it makes it challenging to set it apart from lots of other media in the same genre. Anyone well acquainted with anime from the late 90s or even the modern day is well aware of the proliferation of spirit worlds and journeys through them. Adding on the thin veneer of “computer aesthetics” cheapens the world. If we go with the assumption of a spirit we can assume a Platonic (rather than property or substance) dualism wherein spirits exist on a separate “plane” and do not interact with the material world, we have the classic philosophical problem of how souls interact with the material. That is, if we cannot detect the mechanism through which those spirits interact with the world, what makes it functionally separate from magic? This pushes Digimon too far into the fantasy category and runs up against being just another “spirit Shounen”.</p>
+<p>The sci-fi “naturalist” approach appeals to me right away. As a software developer, its hard to ignore the fact that networks and software, while complicated, aren’t at the point of being a true universal mesh that has the complexity of something with emergent properties like consciousness. The digital world is a wholly immersive otherworld sustaining a whole ecosystem yet regularly subject to change by powerful forces. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism">Panpsychism</a> gives us some explanatory power here. We can assert that software, like matter, has some fundamental building block of consciousness that can be incremented to complexity. Once it achieves a certain complexity, that panpsychic result is the digital world and digimon. This is closer but we need to fill in some gaps to make it work.</p>
+<p>Let’s say that the sufficiently complex internet of clients, servers and complicated software are so extremely complicated that some emergent consciousness-like properties could emerge from them. I could shamelessly steal the Panpsychism idea as an excuse for the emergent consciousness to arise. I think <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_monism">Neutral Monism</a> could also work here where we reject the dualist split by introducing a unified substance of mind and matter:</p>
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+<p>In this third substance we can come up with some sort of bridge between the worlds if we assume that digimon act as sort of occult <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore">egregores</a> that we can interact with. The visual representation here shows some potential applications of Platonic idealism or Neutral Monism. This opens a question about digi-vices (hand held units the main characters use) and the digi-destined kids. Are they manifesting occult powers? Perhaps they are, and by sharing their knowledge with their parents and others, they also become attuned to the knowledge of digimon and can perceive them.</p>
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+<p>The graph above suggests Platonic idealism more so than neutral monism but we can see the “idea layer” as the monistic bridge between matter and mind. That is, we visualize digimon in our collective unconsciousness rather than them literally existing in the physical plane. Furthermore, the occult and secret knowledge of digimon can spread like a sort of mind-virus to people who can see them as more than just monsters or weird phenomenons.</p>
+<p>Perhaps the digital world is purely a product of the collective unconsciousness, an imaginary world wherein we project our desires and fears into creatures we can relate to. The ending of Digimon Adventure 02 suggests as much where everyone in the world can have digimon partners. The concept of occult psychological projections into monsters has been asserted in Pokemon. I suggest <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWRcnDYZP-8">listening to this video</a> by Placebo Magick that dives into the Pokemon application of the concept.</p>
+<p>It’s easy to stretch this little thought experiment way past the breaking point. Overall it leaves me thinking about how we can apply psychology, occultism, mysticism and philosophy as a whole to popular media either as a fun party conversation (maybe…) or to deepen our understanding and interests in different subjects.</p>
+<p><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/digimon/comments/mvhej0/the_world_after_digimon_02/gvfmv4e/">Shoutout to this reddit thread for inspiring the original post.</a></p>
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+			<p>Mondays are hard, they’re especially hard if your a Facebook engineer frantically, desperately trying to get your network connectivity back. Little did they know, or maybe they did know: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230331083019/https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-and-oculus-are-down-heres-what-we-know/">Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down globally.</a></p>
+<p>Now I spent the day memeing this to death on Discord. Because frankly, there is no love lost for me. Where do we even begin on Facebook’s very numerous, protracted conflicts that are so long I can’t even summarize them entirely but here goes:</p>
+<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230331083019/https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/algorithms-shouldnt-be-protected-by-section-230-facebook-whistleblower-tells-senate/">Ars Technica: Algorithms shouldn’t be protected by Section 230, Facebook whistleblower tells Senate</a></p>
+<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230331083019/https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-profits-from-abortion-reversal-ads-seen-184-million-times-2021-9">Business Insider: Facebook made money from dangerous ‘abortion reversal’ ads that targeted teens and were seen 18.4 million times</a></p>
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+<p>So naturally, I am not sad to see it go and see Marky Mark sweat for a whole day while in the midst of being grilled by Congress over the whistleblower’s reports. However, the outage highlights a major issue with Facebook owning all of these properties; namely the outage of WhatsApp.</p>
+<p>For Americans not in the know, WhatsApp is a Facebook-owned chat service that took the world by storm when data plans became mainstream on phones. The reasoning for this is myriad but in general the lack of free SMS in most countries propelled it into first place globally. It holds its position as an early adopter and because these types of services, by virtue of using a data network, possess a lot more features and security than SMS ever will.</p>
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+<p>As you can imagine, this global outage has crippled economies globally who rely exclusively on WhatsApp to communicate. It has brought down numerous countries:</p>
+<p>So it turns out that not only has Zuck managed to ruin the world via Facebook and Instagram but now, since they’re so consolidated, an outage can shut down the world dependent on WhatsApp? I think there’s a real possibility of breakup action being considered to separate WhatsApp from Facebook before we see any hand-waiving regulation of Facebook itself. Countries are slowly going to start to seeing these sorts of outages as national security threats and either in posturing or reality, will push back against the privitization of their infrastructure in the hands of a company who just doesn’t seem to care.</p>
+<p>The real question seems to be: How far can their reputation sink before we see something actionable? Apparently not far or fast enough, quickly enough. Facebook, after all, has nearly three billion years.</p>
+<p>You want to speak out against them on their own platform? Best of luck on that project!</p>
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+			<p>This season has had me busy at work but grinding a lot of anime over my lunch hour. Specifically, I decided to rewatch <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230331083019/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5626028/">My Hero Academia</a> in order to get current. As of writing, I am a few episodes shy of the end of Season 5 and have watched the first two movies.</p>
+<figure><img src="/posts/2021/12/my-hero-academia-and-humanism/mha-banner.jpg" width="auto">
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+<p>think that as far as Shounen anime goes, My Hero Academia is probably my favorite one. It’s not my preferred genre but I’ve really come to like the story and general feel of the show. The superhero subject matter, bright colors and interesting character designs are compelling and entertaining. They also offer a nice break from bleak media of all other kinds. In that way it really takes me back to being a highschooler.</p>
+<p>Something I’ve found very compelling about the show’s narrative is that its universe works well without reference to the supernatural. Now Japan is not very religious in the Western sense. We’re used to people who identify closely with a formal religion and adhere to some form of orthodoxy, however strained. As the figures from Wikipedia show, most people are irreligious while practicing a secular form of Shinto and Buddhism:</p>
+<figure><img src="/posts/2021/12/my-hero-academia-and-humanism/japan-religion.png" width="auto">
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+<p>I surmise that this cultural, secular view of religion makes religious topics very accessible in Japanese media. I think this is a big part of why supernaturalism works so well in so many animes. The animistic and polytheistic nature of the religions make them very expansive for media settings. However, My Hero exceeds by not having to lean on this concept at all. The simple fact of the MHA world is that while most people have superhuman abilities; they are all still fundamentally considered human.</p>
+<blockquote>
+<p><strong>Humanism</strong> is a progressive philosophy of life that, without theism or other supernatural beliefs, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good.</p>
+<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230331083019/https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/definition-of-humanism/">American Humanist Association</a></p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>In the world of this anime, we contend with people of all types good and bad. People are not born innately one way or the other but are defined by their environment and choices. The show emphasizes how much justice and ethics matter and symbols of these things such as All Might. It’s focused on heroes building a better world and how that is desirable to encourage growth, flourishing and creativity in humanity. The main characters <em>Izuku Midoriya (Deku)</em> and <em>Katsuki Bakugo</em> are keys to showing this growth but the myriad supporting characters as well, too many to name, all of their own facets that are growing.</p>
+<figure><img src="/posts/2021/12/my-hero-academia-and-humanism/all-might-dandonfuga.jpg" width="auto">
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+<p>My Hero Academia demonstrates that not prayers nor spirits will help you but motivated <em>people</em> can step up to the plate to affect real change. They can do this for the better or for the worse. People are capable of making terrible decisions for self centered reasons. They may act out of drama or a warped sense of ethics, such as the <em>herokiller Stain</em>. They might try to be heroic symbols have broken families or serious physical or mental maladies, such as <em>Endeavor</em> in the former or <em>Twice</em> in the latter case. Not everyone is great, but people are what they are not because they are blessed or cursed but because of their circumstances and their choices and consequences.</p>
+<figure><img src="/posts/2021/12/my-hero-academia-and-humanism/mha-characters.jpg" width="auto">
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+<p>I find this inspiring because I feel like a lot of anime in particular leans very heavily on spiritual tropes and while I have nothing against that (I think Shinto is cool frankly) it does feel a little bit repetitive. It’s especially prevalent in the Shounen genre that My Hero Academia is apart of. Other genres, it must be said, don’t have quite as much emphasis on this. I would encourage readers to view the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230331083019/https://humanists.international/what-is-humanism/the-amsterdam-declaration/">Amsterdam Declaration on the Humanist International website</a> to see if I am way off base or if some of these ideals fit the world aims of the author of the series.</p>
+<p>I hope this series stays in this vein and resists the temptation to introduce literal or figurative <em>Deus Ex Machina</em> because I am really enjoying it as it is.</p>
+<p>For a little bit of fun I’ll list some of my favorite characters!</p>
+<p><strong>All Might</strong> – How could you not like the man, the myth, the legend and the symbol of peace himself?</p>
+<p><strong>Eraserhead</strong> – The stoic yet “protective in his own way” trope reminds me a bit of myself. Or so my friends say.</p>
+<p><strong>Uravity</strong> – My friends and I call her the ‘Cinnamon Bun’, a cute character who has an honest motivation.</p>
+<p><strong>Ingenium</strong> – At first I thought I would dislike him but rather than being just rules-for-rules-sake he does genuinely care about people around him and he possesses deep convictions.</p>
+<p><strong>Froppy</strong> – Even headed, rational and casual with a very interesting character concept and design.</p>
+<p><strong>Lemillion</strong> – Cheery but also very real, a prototypical All Might inheritor whose personality grows on you over time.</p>
+<p><strong>Ryuukyuu</strong> – Lady who can turn into a dragon? Sign me the hell up, she just checks a lot of boxes for me LOL.</p>
+<p><strong>Nighteye</strong> – A stern and forceful character whose impact is felt deeply in Season 4. His powers and motivates are very interesting and he leaves and impression.</p>
+<p><strong>Mt. Lady</strong> – Her power is turning into a giant and she’s a tiny bit of a ditz and a little bit self centered. Very real feeling character, personality wise.</p>
+<p><strong>Present Mic</strong> – Character who is always enthusiastic and creates loud noise as his power, a perfect analog of a good friend of mine.</p>
+<p><strong>Himiko Toga</strong> – A yandere villain with a unique quirk and a penchant for chaos. I’ll take it.</p>
+<p><strong>Herokiller Stain</strong> – A violent villain with compelling beliefs. Hard to ignore his ideological claims and criticism of society. I wish he got more play in the series though.</p>
+<p><strong>Principal Nezu</strong> – A quirky mastermind who is capable of weathering a storm but able to unleash crazy to teach others. Another perfect analog for a friend.</p>
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+<p>On my journey I decided to add a few stops. It was a beautiful spring day in early June. Midday and not too warm. First I stopped by a little mystical and occult shop that I’ve picked up supplies for since I was a high schooler. I stocked up on incense of every variety so that I would be ready for a long time!</p>
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+<p>Then after that I decided to hop by a local Chinese buffet that some old friends and I used to frequent. It’s simple, moderate quality comfort food where I could sit in silence for a bit and contemplate. I was feeling nostalgic this day and I wanted to make a couple more odd trips around town to see how far we’ve transitioned out of my old life as a young man into full adulthood. Since 2004, my hometown has been in steady decline. The departure of heavy industry like Maytag and Butler sent the town into an economic spiral that its never truly recovered from, even twenty years later. The relentless march of capitalism, globalizing economies and changing consumer demands has left towns like mine, which thrived in the 90s as not much more than hollow husks falling into disrepair.</p>
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+<p>After my stop at lunch I decided to pick up a pack of Pokemon cards at an old haunt. I don’t know if I was feeling especially nostalgic or what but I felt a spiritual need to visit some old places as all these areas in my life that have changed to be nearly unrecognizable. As I’ve hinted at before, my religious beliefs are a little wishy-washy but in general I would describe myself as a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://neo-paganism.org/what-is-neo-paganism/">Neopagan</a>. I generally find that while I am spiritual, I am not a monotheist but rather somewhere between an animist, polytheist and pantheist. Sometimes I am more of an agnostic deist even. Lately I describe myself especially as an animist because I find that such a way of intuiting spiritual things feels the most natural to me. I think John Halstead’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://neo-paganism.org/animism/">website entry about animism</a> is very illuminating for a quick rundown of what this entails.</p>
+<p>I can write on the topic in more depth in the future but the short version is that there are natural places in my life where I have had profound moments and as I grow older, now with my son, I want to return to some of those sites and pay homage. One specifically is at my old, abandoned elementary school. A collection of trees under which, at about age ten or fifth grade, I had a sort of revelation about what I think of the universe. It’s too numinous to describe here but I remember it as if it was yesterday. My best friend was standing near me at the time when I had this thought and I even remember the direction I was facing: southwest. So I visited this location and collected some pictures.</p>
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+<p>This was a positive, reflective experience for me where I got to relive a lot of childhood memories running around with my friends imaging worlds in a way only a child can. There was a sense of sadness at seeing this place closed but also a serene sense of peace. It was nice seeing that some of the open space was dedicated to solar fields. As an environmentalist its nice to see that even in small town America, there are some real sustainability initiatives. Hopefully the trees of my childhood stand for a long time and continue to tell their stories.</p>
+<p>One takeaway from this is that I would like to learn how to identify trees better. They live long, venerable lives and tell such stories that it seems only appropriate to learn more about them. Furthermore I am inspired to visit sacred groves and give offerings more to nature spirits to deepen my religious faith. This might seem such a strange takeaway to an outsider but for me it was a deeply fulfilling experience that left my mind at ease and my heart full. Though people move away, businesses close and things change, the memories were made here. That energy of human experience in one place remains with us so long as we remain and even afterwards, in the descendants of those people. I hope that everyone reading can find those places that put them truly in sync with themselves where they can reflect on the beauty in our world.</p>
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+			<p>Summer Solstice, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.learnreligions.com/guide-to-celebrating-litha-2562231">also known as Litha</a>, is less than twenty four hours upon us as of my writing. You wouldn’t know it based on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/millions-set-to-swelter-as-intense-heat-builds-for-summer-solstice/1204496">record heatwave</a> many of us have been facing in the center of the country! Climate change continues its ravages across the world, heavily distorting the seasons in many parts of the globe but that discussion could take up many blog posts, I will set it aside for now.</p>
+<p>As is part of my faith, seasonal transitions are a big deal because not only is the world changing around me but its a good time to reflect back and look and what’s happened. This past spring, my son was born and has been in my life for nearly two months, I traveled to Vegas and to Denver to witness a childhood friend get married to the love of his life. I’ve introduced my son to many people and began showing him the world around us. I’ve <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://zoness.me/2022/06/old-places-and-liminal-spaces/">visited old childhood locations</a> to relieve memories and focus on the way forward.</p>
+<p>Summer is a time of tremendous abundance, warm weather, long days and celebrations. I have many of those coming up; family weddings, birthdays, children’s milestones and parties for all manner of occasions. Bittersweet good-byes to friends on their next adventures to other states and surely more things I don’t yet know about.</p>
+<p>The colors of this season are green and yellow, for the world of growth and the sun. When I dress my altar in these colors its a reflection of what the summer means to me. It’s a remembrance of what has been in summers past and in summers to come. It’s anticipation for celebration, vitality, life and thriving in a bright and changing world. It’s a call to action to preserve our planet. The seasons are getting harsher due to human inflicted damage to our world; droughts, storms, floods and fires all becoming more and more frequent.</p>
+<p>However it is also a time of tremendous optimism too. Something about this season refreshes me and makes me feel like we can tackle anything as both a society and me as an individual. My paternity leave is coming to an end, I am considering changes in my career to move onto the next big thing. For now, however I am feeling the spark of joy returning a bit to programming. Not to work per se, but to furthering my own skills and growing my career legacy. I am more motivated now than ever with my son in my life to provide the best for him. Somewhat auspiciously (yet ironically, given he was born in April): my son’s name is a reference to a sun sign. Surely he will also love the summer! I can’t wait for him to be old enough to enjoy our walks, playing games, swimming in pools and shooting off fireworks with his friends.</p>
+<p>These seasonal changes are a stark reminder that time is my most valuable asset, and to enjoy every moment that I have in this world because they won’t last forever. But rather than dwelling on that, I’d rather dwell on the new season ahead of us and show my excitement and joy at what is to come.</p>
+<p>For now I leave you with these reflections but I say blessed be and happy summer!</p>
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+			<p>Unless you live outside of the United States, it would be impossible to ignore the news of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/blog/supreme-court-abortion-live-updates-roe-v-wade-rcna35149">Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade</a>. Republicans, Christian nationalists and reactionary conservatives have been pining for it since decades before I was born. Rather than lament the disastrous path that women’s rights in this country is headed down, because rant I can, I am going to focus in on a specific harrowing problem.</p>
+<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism">Surveillance Capitalism</a>. Broadly, its the concept of using and commodifying personal data collected from our digital lives specifically for making <em>profit</em>. I go out of the way to make this distinction because as a technologist and software developer myself, I am not afraid technology nor the data it collects. I specifically advocate for control over my data, an understanding of who is using it an the desire for the ability to easily opt out. Bonus points for other wish list items like higher interoperability between digital systems.</p>
+<p>Rather than bogging us down in technical jargon let’s look at the very real impact this decision has on women. Overturning Roe officially sends the decision on abortion back to the states. Based on their legislatures this means that a simple majority of states are likely to make any form of abortion de facto or de jure illegal.</p>
+<p>With the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-abortion-law-bounty-hunters-citizens/">Texas anti-abortion law allowing individuals to bounty hunt for women seeking abortions</a>; we can see downstream impacts not only from government or corporate abuses but also individuals.</p>
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+<p>Last month, as it became increasingly clear that constitutional abortion protections would soon be eliminated, EFF <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/what-companies-can-do-now-protect-digital-rights-post-roe-world">warned</a> that “service providers can expect a raft of subpoenas and warrants seeking user data that could be employed to prosecute abortion seekers, providers, and helpers.”</p>
+<p>The online civil liberties organization also told technology firms to “expect pressure to aggressively police the use of their services,” along with new demands to hand over information to law enforcement as this data “may be classified in many states as facilitating a crime.”</p>
+<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/24/big_tech_post_roe_wade">Big Tech silent on data privacy in post-Roe America</a>, The Register (Fri. June 24, 2022)</p>
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+<p>The dangers are evident even in seemingly innocent <em>metadata</em>. That is, the information surrounding your actual activity such as timestamps, to and from fields like emails and phone numbers, hardware models, location, length of calls etc.</p>
+<p>Sure, anti-abortionists may not <em>know</em> that you sought an abortion with certainty. However, if they can subpoena Google for your location data and search history that would be enough to prove at least some basic intent. Even fewer data points could incriminate you, in fact. Perhaps you had your phone records subpoenaed and all anyone could tell was a woman making a phone call to an out of state number that is a known abortion provider. Sure we don’t <em>know</em> the contents of the phone call but we damn well guess. The same way we don’t know what you said on the phone to the Chinese restaurant but we can reasonably infer the service you sought.</p>
+<p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) puts out good information about securing your digital life and I’d recommend their primer on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/security-and-privacy-tips-people-seeking-abortion">security and privacy for people seeking abortion</a>. They have many guides and are current on the most pressing issues facing our digital privacy and I greatly appreciate the work they do.</p>
+<p><strong>Well if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, right?</strong> This classic argument is trotted out anytime someone complains about the gross expansion of the surveillance state. Surely, they think, nobody would ever dare come for them! America has free speech after all, right? As demonstrated above, something once legal has now become illegal in the United States. What’s next, contraception, gay marriage? <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/24/clarence-thomas-roe-gay-marriage-contraception-lgbtq">Justice Thomas Clarence has said that we should revisit the court decisions enumerating the legality of those items</a>. What else could potentially be on the docket? How much of this information such as condom purchases or, more irrevocably, people coming out as LGBTQ online is impossible to bottle back up?</p>
+<p>America’s polarizing political climate means that elections are won on paper thin margins. Social media and our culture has exacerbated deep wounds that make us suspicious and more partisan than ever. These things present real risks to people who are vulnerable to authoritarian crackdowns. The government can function as a force for good, and its good to have a tool that lacks the specific profit motive of private companies with massive resources. However, political regimes don’t last long and the tides change very quickly. A politically friendly executive branch may only last four years and a legislature much less. Governmental organizations can take on more militaristic views, similar to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/police-militarization">police militarization</a> which creates a general adversarial approach to the citizenry. These abuses need not even be systematic, look for example, at the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://web.archive.org/web/20140401212529/http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/23/nsa-officers-sometimes-spy-on-love-interests/">LOVEINT scandal</a> at the NSA where agents were using government resources to stalk love interests.</p>
+<p>It’s tempting to see the private sector as the savior here but they’re just as bad. A very large number of enterprise and private IT workloads (exceeding 80%) already have some presence in the clouds of only a few very large providers: Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://news.yahoo.com/ex-amazon-employee-convicted-over-130248248.html">An Amazon software developer was recently convicted of stealing data from Capital One.</a> It’s reasonable to assume that there are many such cases that go undetected because they’re targeted at specific users or small customers. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/2022/summary-of-findings/">Verizon’s 2022 data breach report shows that over 80% of bad actors steal data for financial reasons.</a> The financial incentives get stronger as more and more of our data is centralized in a few private firms.</p>
+<p>There’s a lot here to doom over, and while its tempting to see the tide as totally insurmountable, I do not think we’re totally past the point of no return. In culture, data privacy is starting to pick up some steam. We’ve seen the GDPR in Europe and CCPA in California act as some simple backstops allowing us to delete more of our data from these providers. There’s simple things that the tech savvy people in our lives, myself included, can do to help. We can educate without inundating, we can set up simple alternatives or better default settings for family and friends. We can offer up discussions and opportunities to try new things. We can apply political pressure to crack down on bad actors AND beat back authoritarians at the ballot box.</p>
+<p>In the future posts I will elaborate on some specific ways to address some of these topics. I will attempt to categorize them as beginner, intermediate and advanced in terms of complexity to implement. I am also working on some code solutions to offer to our most technical users.</p>
+<p>These are trying times where people’s lives may be at risk and technology is going away. It’s better to embrace the good and throw out the bad, but we must be swift and discerning and vigilant.</p>
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+			<p>Unless you live outside of the United States, it would be impossible to ignore the news of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/blog/supreme-court-abortion-live-updates-roe-v-wade-rcna35149">Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade</a>. Republicans, Christian nationalists and reactionary conservatives have been pining for it since decades before I was born. Rather than lament the disastrous path that women’s rights in this country is headed down, because rant I can, I am going to focus in on a specific harrowing problem.</p>
+<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism">Surveillance Capitalism</a>. Broadly, its the concept of using and commodifying personal data collected from our digital lives specifically for making <em>profit</em>. I go out of the way to make this distinction because as a technologist and software developer myself, I am not afraid technology nor the data it collects. I specifically advocate for control over my data, an understanding of who is using it an the desire for the ability to easily opt out. Bonus points for other wish list items like higher interoperability between digital systems.</p>
+<p>Rather than bogging us down in technical jargon let’s look at the very real impact this decision has on women. Overturning Roe officially sends the decision on abortion back to the states. Based on their legislatures this means that a simple majority of states are likely to make any form of abortion de facto or de jure illegal.</p>
+<p>With the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-abortion-law-bounty-hunters-citizens/">Texas anti-abortion law allowing individuals to bounty hunt for women seeking abortions</a>; we can see downstream impacts not only from government or corporate abuses but also individuals.</p>
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+<p>Last month, as it became increasingly clear that constitutional abortion protections would soon be eliminated, EFF <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/what-companies-can-do-now-protect-digital-rights-post-roe-world">warned</a> that “service providers can expect a raft of subpoenas and warrants seeking user data that could be employed to prosecute abortion seekers, providers, and helpers.”</p>
+<p>The online civil liberties organization also told technology firms to “expect pressure to aggressively police the use of their services,” along with new demands to hand over information to law enforcement as this data “may be classified in many states as facilitating a crime.”</p>
+<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/24/big_tech_post_roe_wade">Big Tech silent on data privacy in post-Roe America</a>, The Register (Fri. June 24, 2022)</p>
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+<p>The dangers are evident even in seemingly innocent <em>metadata</em>. That is, the information surrounding your actual activity such as timestamps, to and from fields like emails and phone numbers, hardware models, location, length of calls etc.</p>
+<p>Sure, anti-abortionists may not <em>know</em> that you sought an abortion with certainty. However, if they can subpoena Google for your location data and search history that would be enough to prove at least some basic intent. Even fewer data points could incriminate you, in fact. Perhaps you had your phone records subpoenaed and all anyone could tell was a woman making a phone call to an out of state number that is a known abortion provider. Sure we don’t <em>know</em> the contents of the phone call but we damn well guess. The same way we don’t know what you said on the phone to the Chinese restaurant but we can reasonably infer the service you sought.</p>
+<p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) puts out good information about securing your digital life and I’d recommend their primer on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/security-and-privacy-tips-people-seeking-abortion">security and privacy for people seeking abortion</a>. They have many guides and are current on the most pressing issues facing our digital privacy and I greatly appreciate the work they do.</p>
+<p><strong>Well if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, right?</strong> This classic argument is trotted out anytime someone complains about the gross expansion of the surveillance state. Surely, they think, nobody would ever dare come for them! America has free speech after all, right? As demonstrated above, something once legal has now become illegal in the United States. What’s next, contraception, gay marriage? <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/24/clarence-thomas-roe-gay-marriage-contraception-lgbtq">Justice Thomas Clarence has said that we should revisit the court decisions enumerating the legality of those items</a>. What else could potentially be on the docket? How much of this information such as condom purchases or, more irrevocably, people coming out as LGBTQ online is impossible to bottle back up?</p>
+<p>America’s polarizing political climate means that elections are won on paper thin margins. Social media and our culture has exacerbated deep wounds that make us suspicious and more partisan than ever. These things present real risks to people who are vulnerable to authoritarian crackdowns. The government can function as a force for good, and its good to have a tool that lacks the specific profit motive of private companies with massive resources. However, political regimes don’t last long and the tides change very quickly. A politically friendly executive branch may only last four years and a legislature much less. Governmental organizations can take on more militaristic views, similar to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/police-militarization">police militarization</a> which creates a general adversarial approach to the citizenry. These abuses need not even be systematic, look for example, at the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://web.archive.org/web/20140401212529/http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/23/nsa-officers-sometimes-spy-on-love-interests/">LOVEINT scandal</a> at the NSA where agents were using government resources to stalk love interests.</p>
+<p>It’s tempting to see the private sector as the savior here but they’re just as bad. A very large number of enterprise and private IT workloads (exceeding 80%) already have some presence in the clouds of only a few very large providers: Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://news.yahoo.com/ex-amazon-employee-convicted-over-130248248.html">An Amazon software developer was recently convicted of stealing data from Capital One.</a> It’s reasonable to assume that there are many such cases that go undetected because they’re targeted at specific users or small customers. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/2022/summary-of-findings/">Verizon’s 2022 data breach report shows that over 80% of bad actors steal data for financial reasons.</a> The financial incentives get stronger as more and more of our data is centralized in a few private firms.</p>
+<p>There’s a lot here to doom over, and while its tempting to see the tide as totally insurmountable, I do not think we’re totally past the point of no return. In culture, data privacy is starting to pick up some steam. We’ve seen the GDPR in Europe and CCPA in California act as some simple backstops allowing us to delete more of our data from these providers. There’s simple things that the tech savvy people in our lives, myself included, can do to help. We can educate without inundating, we can set up simple alternatives or better default settings for family and friends. We can offer up discussions and opportunities to try new things. We can apply political pressure to crack down on bad actors AND beat back authoritarians at the ballot box.</p>
+<p>In the future posts I will elaborate on some specific ways to address some of these topics. I will attempt to categorize them as beginner, intermediate and advanced in terms of complexity to implement. I am also working on some code solutions to offer to our most technical users.</p>
+<p>These are trying times where people’s lives may be at risk and technology is going away. It’s better to embrace the good and throw out the bad, but we must be swift and discerning and vigilant.</p>
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+<p>All of this has made my wife and I feel very frayed. She’s low on sleep, I am low on sleep and our baby has advancing needs. Between work and home it can feel like too much. As a result, I am working harder to ground myself. To bring myself back to a stable baseline where I can feel like a normal person again.</p>
+<p>Earlier this week I got some alone time to get high and play videos and boy was that a relief! NOTE that I am not suggesting one do this to run from your problems, but it was a nice opportunity to clear my head. My work has a developer is very mentally intensive and there’s this sort of burning persistent “brain fuzz” that lingers on too much intensive work combined with little sleep. Such personal time helped me get grounded again.</p>
+<p>Furthermore I also lean on my religious practice. As its very nature oriented it helps me get outside and look at the world around me. For awhile, spreadsheets, emails and codebases fade into the background. I am not obsessing about “velocity” or SCRUM or Agile methodologies. Just me and the outdoor world.</p>
+<p>I am also trying to make more room in my life again for events. Family events mostly but also those with friends. I am preserving more memories in the form of photos that can be easily referenced in the future. I want to preserve a legacy for myself and for my family and this also has a grounding effect as well.</p>
+<p>Another sort of obscure one is family history and ancient places. As I grow older, my memories and experiences of the past fade more into the background. I am getting better at learning about my family, the places they spent time and also where I spent time as a kid. I am very “geo-focused” and interested in visiting different places in the world where memories are made.</p>
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+<p>Back in the early heyday of reddit, imgur was created by a sole developer attempting to offer an image hosting solution to a budding reddit in the wake of Digg’s utter collapse. This site has grown massively in the intervening 15 years due to the ease of posting images anonymously, without an account. It was also a major hosting haven for reddit’s burgeoning NSFW subreddits and relevant communities.</p>
+<p>Unfortunately, this bastion of free information on the internet is about to begin a major clampdown:</p>
+<p>Quoting from Imgur’s official statement which you can read in full <a href="https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/14415587638029-Imgur-Terms-of-Service-Update-April-19-2023-">here</a>:</p>
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+<p>Our <a href="https://imgurinc.com/tos">new Terms of Service</a> will go into effect on May 15, 2023. We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account from our platform as well as nudity, pornography, &amp; sexually explicit content. You will need to download/save any images that you wish to save if they no longer adhere to these Terms. Most notably, this would include explicit/pornographic content.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>This of course is going to be majorly disruptive to NSFW subreddits but additionally its going to wipe out huge amounts of historic information from the first eight or so years of reddit’s life. Until reddit made their own image hosting platform in 2016, Imgur was the de facto standard for uploads. Now all kinds of information from old photos, charts, infographics, guides, albums and so on will be lost forever unless forces act to archive them quickly. But archiving them is not always easy, especially since many folks have abandoned accounts and move on.</p>
+<p>In my opinion this a dark day for the internet and its continued but unfortunate <em><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys">enshittification</a></em> to borrow Mr. Cory Doctorow’s term.</p>
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