Happy Twosday, Part Two
Now the real celebration can happen, as we put Twosday to bed.
See you in 198 years.
Rambles that are fluffy, by fluffy
Now the real celebration can happen, as we put Twosday to bed.
See you in 198 years.
It is 2:22:22 on 2/22/2022, which happens to also be a Twosday.
This is not the only Twosday which will ever happen on the Gregorian calendar; 2/22/2220 is also on a Twosday. If anyone else is still around in 198 years, they can also have a celebration of numerical assonance.
2/22/2222 is, unfortunately, on a Friday. Pope Gregory XIII clearly failed to think ahead.
Anyway, the real celebration will be in 20 hours, when it’s 22:22:22.
I really want to make comics again. But none of the drawing programs I’ve tried have been suitable. They’re all overcomplex in ways that don’t help with the drawing process, or buggy, or have enormously troublesome user interface issues.
I used to use Photoshop but it’s gotten unwieldy, slow, and expensive. There were many really nice things in it which most drawing programs fall incredibly flat on.
Just a followup, I ended up staying awake for over 25 hours, finally fell asleep for a bit today at 10, woke up again at 11, and mostly I’m feeling like I have a gigantic hangover.
Apparently armodafinil’s mechanism of action is identical to cocaine’s, so it actually IS stimulant-based and not just “a wakefulness agent” and I wish i’d known that before embarking on this. I don’t know why my research failed me this badly this time. Probably me being desperate for something that works.
I’m definitely not interested in continuing with armodafinil, in any case. Advice for dealing with this massive pounding headache would be appreciated.
i feel like crap and i;m wide awake and i want to sleep but i can;t sleep
i;ve been having electric pains through my nerves all night and i feel like i drank three pots of coffee and i am not sleepy at all but i am very very tired
on the plus side i’m having no apnea symptoms tonight but that’s because i’m not getting into a state of relaxation which allows it to occur in the first place
why is my body so awful at processing medications
So, I was willing to give Sahil the benefit of the doubt; I thought he might have simply been NFT-curious or keeping his options open. But that’s just because I wasn’t looking.
I am against NFTs.
I am an investor in Gumroad, not because I expect my shares to ever be worth anything but because I love Gumroad’s mission. It’s probably the best place online for independent creators to sell both digital and physical goods. Every now and then I look to see what other merch-fulfillment options exist out there, and none of them are nearly as fair to creators as Gumroad. The next-best one is Etsy, which charges monthly per-item listing fees and is part of a bigger problem with long-tail economics in this day and age. I do not have an Etsy store, or any plans to open one. (Most of my physical merch I sell on Storenvy just because I’ve been too lazy to migrate it over to Gumroad. Storenvy is pretty awful too, although for different reasons than Etsy.)
Just to keep track of stuff here for onlookers
Time | Systolic | Diastolic | HR | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
9:11 | 120 | 76 | 59 | Just took dose |
9:13 | 119 | 78 | 59 | Validation check |
10:01 | 136 | 90 | 52 | Felt it starting to kick in |
10:02 | 132 | 86 | 51 | |
10:20 | 130 | 93 | 52 | Feeling a bit bad |
10:38 | 142 | 99 | 55 | Feeling quite bad |
10:46 | 147 | 102 | 54 | hi |
10:50 | 136 | 67 | 64 | the ratio |
10:59 | 140 | 100 | 54 | am i going to die? |
11:17 | 148 | 87 | 50 | yeah probably |
11:21 | 151 | 91 | 54 | if i hit 160 I’m going to the hospital |
11:30 | 156 | 95 | 55 | really shouldn’t have taken this on an empty stomach, huh |
11:38 | 158 | 96 | 55 | but hey at least I’m very much awake |
11:56 | 171 | 109 | 61 | 911 is being called right now |
12:15 | 170 | 87 | 68 | EMTs don’t seem to be very worried |
12:17 | 152 | 89 | 60 | Called doctor, seems the EMTs were right |
12:20 | 156 | 96 | 65 | |
12:26 | 144 | 86 | 60 | Out of the woods? I’m feeling better but just shaken |
12:57 | 142 | 89 | 57 | Still feeling really shaky but at least I’m pretty sure I’m not gonna die today |
14:36 | 145 | 94 | 56 | feeling like garbage but I also still haven’t eaten which might have something to do with it |
16:56 | 147 | 91 | 62 | still feeling shitty but at least I’m stable, hopefullY I sleep really good tonight |
18:56 | 139 | 86 | 62 | |
23:46 | 137 | 01 | 59 | bedtime |
A few weeks ago I learned about armodafinil as an alternate non-stimulant ADHD treatment; this seemed pretty compelling to me because stimulant-based meds have always been troublesome for me for various reasons.
Unfortunately, it’s only off-label for ADHD; fortunately it’s on-label for a bunch of other conditions I have, and the theory of it working for ADHD is that it treats underlying sleep conditions that make ADHD worse, rather than treating the ADHD itself.
There is an open call for commentary on some pendidng legislation. Here is what I submitted:
As an independent musician, I often run into many problems with automated copyright enforcement online. Quite often I’ll upload a music video to YouTube containing only my own original work, but then I get a copyright strike because the drum beat or some incidental noise happened to match something on a major label track. The recourse for this is to appeal the copyright strike, and YouTube almost always finds in favor of the record label, as they have huge amounts of money and I do not.
Similar issues are faced by individual photographers who take photographs of well-known landmarks, being issued takedown notices because their photograph happened to closely match a similar photo owned by Getty Images or the like. For that matter, Getty Images often assumes they own photos that independent journalists put on their articles, when those photographs were taken specifically for the article.
There are also many content creators who create videos which include thorough academic analyses of copyrighted work, completely within the bounds of fair use, but algorithmic copyright detection filters do not understand any nuance when it comes to the difference between analysis and outright copying. In one particularly ironic case, Adam Neely made a video in defense of Warner Media regarding a copyright dispute over a song, and then Warner Media flagged that video – for the part of it which wasn’t even owned by Warner!
The copyright system is also often abused to prevent discussion of important issues, and copyright reporting mechanisms are often used as an end-run around anti-SLAPP measures.
Algorithmic copyright matching needs to come with extreme human oversight. While an algorithmic match can and should be used to inform people about potential infringement, it should never be used as an automated means of preventing access to a work, legal or otherwise.
If you care at all about the garbage clusterfuck that is the US copyright system, please share your comments in advance of the public consultation by February 8, 2022.