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content/AI art and human obsolescence.md

@@ -97,9 +97,15 @@ Individual artists came next, pushing forward weird movements like impressionism
 
 Between then and now, art has become increasingly accessible. AI will make it even more so.
 
+[[2023-12-01]]: Thoughts on formalism.
 
+[[2024-10-15]]: Scott Alexander posted an AI art turing test: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdqpfY0OXLQoO_UNkhKTAtQbmh8EX_xpAAaGV6mxlBDms9CzQ/viewform
 
+5- but a reluctant 5, because there's plenty unethical about where these models come from. That being said: any answer other than 5 feels a little disingenuous, unless the respondent rejects artistic formalism entirely (i.e. they believe art must always be judged as a product of its historical or author's context).
 
+To criticize AI art as bad while confusing it for human art is basically admitting that human art _can_ be bad just as AI art _can_ be good. Which seems like a perfectly valid take. But -- if that's your take -- I think you'd have to vote 5 here.
+
+[[2024-10-26]] Here it is happening in real time! https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/rX3lZza8SN someone knows it's AI art and appreciates it all the same. The comments are a minefield
 
 
 

content/Anchors.md

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# Anchors
+#publish 
+Opened [[2024-10-24]]. Related to [[My Obsidian setup]] and [[Musings on myself]].
+
+Daily anchors.
+
+They are part of my [[Daily journal template]] and have the form:
+
+**Today's work anchor: Finish the KR doc. And ideally spend time writing binary alerts**
+
+**Today's personal anchor: Get dinner with Nate**
+
+They also map to this daily habit on my home screen:
+
+![[Screenshot_20241024-081644.png]]
+
+![[Screenshot_20241024-081648.png]]
+
+I just thought it would be neat to "anchor" my day with goals that are ultra achievable and small.
+
+### Dates
+[[2023-11-06]]: Started using anchors.
+
+[[2024-10-24]]: Removed them from my daily template because I haven't been filling them in lately, and when I do I make them big goals that often don't get done. I'm doing an anchor cleanse.
+

content/Articles I like.md

@@ -1,16 +1,13 @@
 # Articles I like
 #publish
-Opened [[2023-12-07]] but I should have done it way sooner. Related to [[Poems and literature I like]].
+Opened [[2023-12-07]] but I should have done it way sooner. Related to [[Poetry and literature I like]].
 
 ## Articles
 ### Thought-provoking
 - [[Jhanas and the Dark Room Problem]] - I really like this one.
 - [On the Internet no one knows you're a god](https://www.drorpoleg.com/on-the-internet-nobodys-knows-youre/) - real life anecdote about how real online personas can be
 - [Hunter Thompson's letter to Hume Logan, 1958](https://fs.blog/hunter-s-thompson-to-hume-logan/) - I think about this one a lot. He was only 22 when he wrote it.
 - [A Cult of Ignorance](https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf) - Isaac Asimov being edgy in 1980
-- Qntm
-    - [Lena](https://qntm.org/mmacevedo) - Sci fi short story about uploaded intelligence written in the style of a future Wikipedia article. 
-    - [If you are reading this](https://qntm.org/readin)- Believable "that really happened" sci fi personal anecdote
 - [Your Real Biological Clock Is You’re Going to Die](https://hmmdaily.com/2018/10/18/your-real-biological-clock-is-youre-going-to-die/) - Bit of a morbid topic but an excellent reframing of what it means to be a parent and how one should measure their time left on Earth
 - https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/curiosity-and-the-prisoner - Commencement speech about curiosity and what equality really means
 - [ACX: The Far Out Initiative](https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/profile-the-far-out-initiative) - Related to the [[The Sinusoid]]. Scott analyses the Far Out Initiative.
@@ -43,4 +40,4 @@ _Nothing special, I just don't want to forget these exist._
 - [https://soranews24.com/2022/06/23/is-roughly-half-of-japan-preconditioned-to-hate-mint-chocolate-sweets/](https://soranews24.com/2022/06/23/is-roughly-half-of-japan-preconditioned-to-hate-mint-chocolate-sweets/) fascinating and hella specific article about Japanese preferences for mint chocolate chip ice cream where a city had 10% fondness for it. Relevant to [[Nature vs nurture]]
 
 ## Appendix
-This page is sort of related to [[Internet roasts]], lol.
+This page is sort of related to [[Internet roasts]].

content/Burning Man.md

@@ -14,4 +14,6 @@ Related notes:
 ## Random thoughts
 [[2024-08-04]]: [This 2014 post from eplaya.burningman.org](https://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic.php?f=286&t=71830#p1043968) is an excellent account of taking the BxB.
 
-[[2024-09-18]]: This is a nice view of what playa looks like from the ground: https://youtu.be/TasWKFbHJns
+[[2024-09-18]]: This is a nice view of what playa looks like from the ground: https://youtu.be/TasWKFbHJns
+
+[[2024-09-26]]: Scenic pictures of the burn taken with an actual camera. Basically just proves dust storms make everything look cooler https://duncan.co/Burning-Man-2024/

content/Cocktails.md

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ https://www.diffordsguide.com/ contains good resources.
 
 ## Non-basics
 - [[Double Chicken Please No. 10]] ... my fav alcohol-optional cocktail
+- The gatekey brunch cinnamon orange mocktail.
 
 ## Basics
 TODO: Move martini vs margarita etc into the articles, they can all just use coupe glasses.

content/Contact staff.md

@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ Working on
     - Tip for the pivot: chicken wings on both sides
     - Tip for fishtails: be patient, wait before pulling up
     - Tip for angel roll: stick head forward (?)
+- [[2024-09-26]]
+    - tip for Angel roll: let it fully tower over you and gently come hither it
 
 ### Full choreo routines (WIP)
 First try

content/Daily journal template.md

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+# Daily Journal template
+#publish 
+Opened [[2024-10-24]].
+
+This is my daily journal template, which I designate using Templater (and, usually, a Tasker workflow) to generate my daily note. See [[My Obsidian setup]] for details.
+
+The whole "anchor" system is described in [[Anchors]].
+
+> [!info] THIS IS A COPY OF MY TEMPLATE
+> Copy taken [[2024-10-23]].
+
+```
+# <% moment(tp.file.title).format("YYYY-MM-DD") %>
+_<% moment(tp.file.title).format("dddd") %>._
+[[Daily Journal/<% moment(tp.file.title).add(-1, "d").format("YYYY-MM-DD") %>|Yesterday]] | [[Daily Journal/<% moment(tp.file.title).add(1, "d").format("YYYY-MM-DD") %>|Tomorrow]] TODO: Today
+Top
+
+Pic
+_Cap_
+<%* if (moment(tp.file.title).format("dddd") != "Saturday" && moment(tp.file.title).format("dddd") != "Sunday" ) { %>
+**Today's work anchor: TODO**
+<%* } else { %>
+<%* } %>
+**Today's personal anchor: TODO**
+
+
+
+
+<%* if (moment(tp.file.title).format("dddd") == "Sunday") { %>
+
+#### Retro
+
+> [!todo]+ Weekly retrospective (make sure to do one, then flip this callout to "done").
+> [[Daily Journal/<% moment(tp.file.title).add(-7, "d").format("YYYY-MM-DD") %>#Retro|Last week]] | [[Daily Journal/<% moment(tp.file.title).add(7, "d").format("YYYY-MM-DD") %>#Retro|Next week]]
+> 
+> **1 thing I'm grateful for:**
+> 
+> **Patterns:**
+> - bullet
+> 
+> **Anything to try differently going into next week:**
+> - bullet
+
+<%* } else { %>
+<%* } %>
+
+```
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+

content/Event finder trifecta.md

@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ Update [[2024-05-14]]: Also https://www.sfirl.com , https://cerebralvalley.ai
 
 [[2024-09-09]]: https://hayesvalleyartworks.org/ for art events in Hayes
 
+[[2024-10-23]]: https://reddit.com/r/SFEvents - looks good for tech sphere networking but I imagine pretty dry for actually interesting events. Seems to be people promoting their parties
+
+
 
 
 

content/Excerpt from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Excerpt from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
 #publish
-Opened [[2024-06-10]], but I originally bookmarked this for myself on 2018-12-02. From [[Poems and literature I like]].
+Opened [[2024-06-10]], but I originally bookmarked this for myself on 2018-12-02. From [[Poetry and literature I like]].
 
 > Stephen watched the three glasses being raised from the counter as his father and his two cronies drank to the memory of their past. An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered them from him. His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth. No youth stirred in him as it had stirred in them. He had known neither the pleasure of companionship with others nor the vigour of rude male health nor filial piety. Nothing stirred within his soul but a cold and cruel and loveless lust. His childhood was dead or lost and with it his soul capable of simple joys, and he was drifting amid life like the barren shell of the moon.
 > _A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_, James Joyce, pg. 95-96.

content/Excerpt from The Demon-Haunted World- Science as a Candle in the Dark.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Excerpt from The Demon-Haunted World- Science as a Candle in the Dark
 #publish
-Opened [[2024-06-10]], but I originally bookmarked this for myself on 2021-11-22. From [[Poems and literature I like]].
+Opened [[2024-06-10]], but I originally bookmarked this for myself on 2021-11-22. From [[Poetry and literature I like]].
 
 > I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...  
   > 

content/Excerpt from The French Lieutenant's Woman.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Excerpt from The French Lieutenant's Woman
 #publish
-Opened [[2024-06-10]], but I originally bookmarked this for myself on 2017-06-11. It's actually at Dad's recommendation, I think. From [[Poems and literature I like]].
+Opened [[2024-06-10]], but I originally bookmarked this for myself on 2017-06-11. It's actually at Dad's recommendation, I think. From [[Poetry and literature I like]].
 
 (Excerpt from "The French Lieutenant's Woman", published in England in 1969)  
 

content/Excerpt from The Wise Man's Fear.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Excerpt from The Wise Man's Fear
 #publish
-Opened [[2024-06-10]], but I originally bookmarked this for myself on 2017-08-25. From [[Poems and literature I like]].
+Opened [[2024-06-10]], but I originally bookmarked this for myself on 2017-08-25. From [[Poetry and literature I like]].
 
 > Think of music as being a great snarl of a city [...]. In the years I spent living there, I came to know its streets. Not just the main streets. Not just the alleys. I knew shortcuts and rooftops and parts of the sewers. Because of this, I could move through the city like a rabbit in a bramble. I was quick and cunning and clever.  
 > 

content/Flow.md

@@ -16,4 +16,6 @@ Flow arts is basically just dancing with an object. Any object works. But some o
 - https://flowartsinstitute.com/festivals/ festivals for flow 
 - https://andrewnoske.com/wiki/Fire_Dancing_-_Bay_Area
 - https://flowtoys.com/events
+- https://seattleflowarts.org/calendar/
+- https://linktr.ee/seattleflowarts?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAabi8pP-TziGU86XA48mFJ77oiS9QQT3KGGX1LLVE9zSMp2QwMoDNr21ZPY_aem_ddUsqIJo7A5-dozkS_xW_A
 

content/Ghost kitchens.md

@@ -19,4 +19,9 @@ So maybe poor food quality is correlation without causation? Ghost kitchen food
 ![[Screenshot_20230531-200803.png]]
 _Could you be much more obvious. Also apparently Pearl's is the actual storefront, yet Sam's has more ratings_
 
-Update ([[2024-07-27]]): Had a really good experience with one unexpectedly. Should I update this article? I have google photos pics from that day.
+Update ([[2024-07-27]]): Had a really good experience with one unexpectedly. It was called Kumo Kitchen. Should I update this article? I have google photos pics from that day.
+
+Update ([[2024-10-20]]): Kumo Kitchen is CLOSED permanently:
+
+![[Screenshot_20241020-175249.png]]
+_RIP king_

content/Luv Me a Little.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Luv Me a Little
 #publish
-Opened [[2024-09-19]]. Originally wrote this down [[2024-02-02]]. Related to [[Poems and literature I like]].
+Opened [[2024-09-19]]. Originally wrote this down [[2024-02-02]]. Related to [[Poetry and literature I like]].
 
 [Spotify link](https://open.spotify.com/track/1SFA5zEVOsLhEg7ynbvQFT)
 

content/Movies to watch.md

@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E9zn-9I_1F4wEc83ZXUnoYnIUy02u0ogjFr315TK
 - [ ] 20 days in Mariupol - 2024 Oscar winning documentary
 - [ ] Megapolis - Francis Ford Coppola (director and co-writer on the Godfather) released this $120M, self-funded film that isn't even being shown in the USA (as of [[2024-05-21]] due to a real human presenter needing to interact with the on-screen actors at every showing. Sounds semi-pretentious and at the very least, interesting.
 - [ ] Didi - rec by Christie among other ppl 
+- [ ] Memories of murder - bong joon ho rec by Rudy. It's on Netflix
+- [ ] lotr
 
 
 ### Trash movies to watch while multitasking
@@ -116,4 +118,5 @@ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E9zn-9I_1F4wEc83ZXUnoYnIUy02u0ogjFr315TK
 - Orville
 - Ministry of ungentlemanly warfare
 - scavengers reign
-- blue eye samurai
+- blue eye samurai
+- severance

content/My Android setup.md

@@ -13,3 +13,7 @@ Example of what it looks like, highlighting the apps I should use:
 ![[Screenshot_20230525-230839.png]]
 _It has less personality, but it's way more calming and less distracting for my brain to look at_
 
+## Sleep as Android smart alarm
+Todo: Write this section.
+
+Note to self: [this reddit comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/miband/comments/17des75/mi_band_8_with_sleep_as_android/ka5cthd/) explains the janky way you set it up for a Xiaomi Mi Band 8 (the "DIY" app option).

content/My Obsidian setup.md

@@ -67,6 +67,13 @@ This one was annoying to set up. The `&heading=wololo` wasn't necessary until so
 
 Not sure what's going on here; it's not quite a search UI nor is it a backlinks page (if I had to guess, it looks like Obsidian is performing a search for the current date, 04/21). Weird. Anyways, it turns out Advanced URIs opens all pages like this if you previously had a session opened to the same page. Adding a bogus header like `wololo` overrides whatever special logic gets triggered for "open the same file that was open in a previous session," so that's what I'm doing.
 
+## Daily Template
+I'll post an example if anyone reads this far.
+
+[[Daily journal template]]
+
+It uses [[Anchors]].
+
 ## Appendix
 If I ever need clickable graphs, [mermaid](https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/s/vP5fBlGx3Q) seems really cool 
 

content/My Procreate brushes.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ aliases: Warrbrush
 ---
 # My Procreate brushes
 #publish 
-Opened [[2024-05-25]]. Related to [[My art]].
+Opened [[2024-05-25]]. Related to [[My art]] and [[Resources for readers]].
 
 I made some Procreate brushes! [Shareable GDrive link](https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1UD--EQD7yHeFsgdN1z3xtkUIOzq5XE_h)
 

content/My art.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Opened [[2024-05-25]], to consolidate a few articles.
 
 Related to:
 - [[Improving at art]]
-- [[Obsidian art project]] (kind of?)
+- [[Obsidian art project]]
 - [[My Procreate brushes]]
 
 TODO: Add info from https://perdicis.com/art here, then delete that page

content/My tech setups.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # My tech setups
 #publish 
-_Tangentially related to [[Productivity]]._
+Tangentially related to [[Productivity]].
 
 Meta page.
 

content/My terminal setup.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # My terminal setup
 #publish 
-Opened [[2024-04-12]]. Although this is mostly from September 24, 2018... wow
+Opened [[2024-04-12]]. Although this is mostly from September 24, 2018. Related to [[My tech setups]].
 
 Basic setup is iTerm 2 + zsh. I also added:
 

content/Poetry and literature I like.md

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# Poetry and literature I like
+#publish 
+Opened [[2023-12-28]]; had the idea [[2023-12-24]]. Related to [[Articles I like]].
+
+My Goodreads (very incomplete): [Click me](https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/176518516-warren-p)
+
+## Literature I like
+### Short stories
+- Flowers for Algernon - [pdf link](https://www.sdfo.org/gj/stories/flowersforalgernon.pdf)
+- [[Zima Blue]]
+- Written by Qntm
+    - [Lena](https://qntm.org/mmacevedo) - Sci fi short story about uploaded intelligence written in the style of a future Wikipedia article. 
+    - [If you are reading this](https://qntm.org/readin)- Believable "that really happened" sci fi personal anecdote
+
+### Excerpts
+- [[Excerpt from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]
+- [[Excerpt from The Demon-Haunted World- Science as a Candle in the Dark]]
+- [[Excerpt from The Wise Man's Fear]]
+- [[Excerpt from The French Lieutenant's Woman]]
+- [[Excerpt from The Man in the Arena]]
+
+### Poetry
+- [Sonnet 19](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45088/sonnet-19-devouring-time-blunt-thou-the-lions-paws) - Shakespeare
+- Teddy Bear - A.A. Milne
+- [Adonais](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45112/adonais-an-elegy-on-the-death-of-john-keats) - Percy Bysshe Shelley
+- [Swan and Shadow](Attachments/Screenshot_20231224-171025.png) - John Hollander
+- [[The Epitaph of Edward, the Black Prince]]
+
+### Books
+- [[Trick Mirror]] (article not finished)
+- [[Brief Answers to the Big Questions]] (article not finished)
+
+## Music I like
+- [[Whirring]]
+- [[Portuguese Man of War]]
+- [[Luv Me a Little]]
+
+## Film I like
+- More generally: [[Movies I've seen]]
+- Anton Ego's (technically, Brad Byrd's) [speech](https://youtu.be/Ih6jcKd7VwU) from Ratatouille.

content/Portuguese Man of War.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Portuguese Man of War
 #publish
-Opened [[2024-06-10]]. From [[Poems and literature I like]].
+Opened [[2024-06-10]]. From [[Poetry and literature I like]].
 
 It's off the Blue Planet 2 soundtrack but it's kinda awesome.
 - [YouTube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2dSUu8KetQ)

content/Productivity.md

@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ Philosophically productive too
 
 Maybe Terry's notes on team building
 
-[[2023-07-17]]: Quote from Ernest Hemingway: "The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel, you will never be stuck." - https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/use-hemingway-trick-to-supercharge-your-morning-productivity.html
+[[2023-07-17]]: Quote from Ernest Hemingway quote that resonated: "The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel, you will never be stuck."