Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Anime News Network’s Confusing Season Ranking Anime News Network does a “best of” run-down at the end of every anime season. I decided to check out the Winter 2026 season review to see what I should watch in a couple of months after I catch up...
Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Re; On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity (4/4) (See parts 1, 2, and 3 of my response.) I conclude my response with a favorable reply to Mr. Powiertowski’s eloquent penultimate paragraph. He includes a general disclosure statement of sorts above...
Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Re; On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity (3/4) (See parts 1 and 2 of my response.) Mr. Powitowski shared an interesting essay by Benjamin Breen. Mr. Breen, a historian and writer, explained that he respectfully abstains from AI in his areas of ...
Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Re; On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity (2/4) (See part 1 of my reply.) Mr. Powiertowski writes that the point on which he would “push back gently is on the implication that AI-assisted media is somehow lesser for being assisted,” using early ...
Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Re; On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity (1/4) I published a short post titled A Positive Technologist Identity, wherein I offered my thoughts on a longer post by Wojtek Powiertowski titled The tool, the craft, and the joy. In the main, I appre...
Mar 24, 2026 from Toni Notes Distribution should not begin with panic Small-blog distribution works better when it is designed before publication. A post should have a public shape, a resurfacing path, and a few fitting routes before it goes live.
Mar 24, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Mirror I've been having a few different threads of thought over the last 24 hours or so; lots of theses swirling around in my head. I want to try and combine all of them into a single cohesive piece, as i...
Mar 24, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 a self-driving waymo future Self-driving cars where instead of getting a driver’s license and calling AAA to help with a flat tire, you’re instead calling AAA to drive your car because you can’t when the AI breaks
Mar 24, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 I’m glad my mom died - a book review harrowing interesting how she stayed in present tense and present-mind the whole time. It kept the book fresh, in a way, because her mother’s actions don’t change, but Jeannette’s emotions and expe...
Mar 24, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 three holidays and a wedding - a book review On the one hand: I was up until 3am devouring this book. I wanted to feel the feels that a romance book is designed to make you feel. And the setup felt delectable. But in the end, the execution wa...
Mar 23, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Adding Victor V. Gurbo’s YouTube Channel to NLJ Blogroll Victor V. Gurbo is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter (see his official website). I have known him for just about 20 years now (we both agree that has been way too long but it is too late now to do...
Mar 23, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Sony’s Very Long-Term PS3 Support On February 8, 2022, I wrote an article praising Nintendo for its apparent commitment to support the Nintendo Switch (which is still being supported notwithstanding the presence of Switch 2) for a ...
Mar 23, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-23-26 Monday is the beginning of the work week. But it is also Pook-Emu Bee links day. Of course, every day except Newsletter Saturday is Pook-Emu Bee links day… 1. Hiding Behind Pen Names (Jerome Mazand...
Mar 23, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Internet Reply Posting Maddy Miller wrote a good essay titled I wish reply articles worked better. As a fellow fan of site-to-site conversations (and not at all a fan of social media), I too wish that reply articles work...
Mar 23, 2026 from Ploum.net Scène de salle d’attente Scène de salle d’attente Extrait de mon journal du 6 mars, dans la salle d’attente du docteur X. Le couple entre, asphyxiant l’air de l’étroite salle d’attente avec leurs remugles de fumée de cigar...
Mar 23, 2026 from Noahie's Blog The Pursuit Last night, I was reminded of this clip from Slavoj Žižek where he discusses the futility of happiness. To summarize, he says that happiness is an "unethical category" because people think they wan...
Mar 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social NAF Blogroll Entry: Joel Chrono I credited a blog post to the personal blog of the pseudonymous Joel Chrono with giving me a concept for my new New Leaf Journal Blogroll. Because Joel Chrono’s post gave me an idea and I read his ...
Mar 22, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Uncle Susan Graffiti in Carroll Gardens "UNCLE SUSAN" graffiti tag sighting on a sign post on the periperhy of Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
Mar 22, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Zim’s Invasion Blueprints: A Rough Guide To the NNYverse Jhonen Vasquez hit his highest level of cultural prominence with Invader Zim, a Nickelodeon cartoon which benefitted from his distinctive artistic aesthetic and playfully overexcitable style. Overs...
Mar 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-22-26 The daily Pook-Emu Bee links were off yesterday thanks to Newsletter Leaf Journal 272. But with no new newsletter coming until next Saturday, the Pook-Emu Bee returns. If you enjoy the (almost) dai...
