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2026-01-15 03:15:01

For the most part, I've been pretty insular here on Bear since I started this blog. A few of my earlier posts seemed to resonate with people, but as soon as I learned that you could turn toasts off, I stopped letting my posts show up in the Discovery feed.

Lately, I've been letting them pop up there again. My original goal with this blog was to just have my own little space where I could privately enjoy writing and being creative, kind of like my teenage bedroom. I view those days with rose-colored nostalgia, back when I'd go to my room, close the door, and sit on my bed journaling or listening to my Discman.

I've always been introverted and a bit solitary by nature, but I long for community, especially now. I've realized that I want to share this space with others, this little room that I've decorated and personalized. I want to be invited into other people's rooms as well, to sit with them as they open their notebooks and read aloud to me, to laugh with them as they tell me about their favorite plushie or their trip to Iceland.

Maybe I should end this metaphor, but all of this is to say that I've been not only exploring more blogs lately but also reaching out to other bloggers more, whether it be through email or guestbooks or comments. I long for warm conversation about the things we mutually love, for giving compliments on things that have helped me out or that I simply find beautiful, and for the joys of email again, as both of these blog posts so wonderfully detailed: BRING BACK EMAILS AS A FORM OF COMMUNICATION and can't we go back to being pen pals like the old times?

So this is me saying I'm here, I'm happy to be here with you all, and I'm grateful for this community. Please feel free to reach out, either via my guestbook or my email, and you may be hearing more from me soon!

2026-01-15 01:34:00

There's a game on Steam, made by a younger person using AI, which they've decided to delete now that their stance on AI has changed. I don't know how long this post will be visible - not sure what happens when games are deleted off the service - but you can read it here. It's a really astonishing text and it has an incredible punchline:

AI is bad, game will be deleted 30.1.

AI is evil, and game will be deleted 30.1.

This game will be deleted at 30.1.

I made this game during the summer in couple months and thought to use AI because in university there is so much brainwashing on students and all the tools are given for free, so I could generate unlimited images for free and so.

But I have realized the AI is not actually free, and it has a major effect on the economy and environment. Some AI companies can use this game just existing as a reason the get more investment for their AI companies, that benefit no one, but rather suck resources from the economy from hard working people.

I coded everything myself, so I can in the future make a new game with real assets if I feel like it, but the game existing in its current form is a disgrace to all game makers and players. Ethically only logical reason is to delete the game from Steam. The girl I've been dating for a month made me realize this.

This is brave! It takes a lot to make a post like this - taking art off the internet because you don't stand by it anymore is a very vulnerable and difficult thing to do.

Also, wow, huge ups to girls!!

I omitted the writer's name from the end of their post because Bear blogs have uncommonly good SEO and there's a risk that if I include it, they'll get nailed to the wall on the SEO from this post for who knows how long. But yeah: brave kid, cool girlfriend. If you can code the whole damn game and stick it up there with unconsidered slop assets, you can find an artist friend to art direct the game for you again next time, I bet. Good luck!!

2026-01-15 01:00:00

My you guys are boring post really blew up for some reason. I guess it resonated with a lot of you who more or less felt the same frustrations that I felt about going on bear blog, only to find news posts and AI.

I get that they are both hot topics, but I don’t share the same viewpoints that most people do about both of those topics, and finding posts only about both of those topics is tiring and a bit annoying.

I just want to read some fun niche subject blogs or life stories and experiences.

I wrote that post in a moment of frustration and picardness.

Anyway, it’s nice seeing everyone’s thoughts on my post. Most agree, some disagree and reply that I can’t expect much entertainment from others.

Which, is true. The way that I see It, why make a post solely for engagement on a platform that’s main intent is detoxing from most engagement and social media?

On another note—- I made some not so popular points on previous posts, and they received a lot of negative attention mostly.

My sole intent was to show a different perspective.

It’s not that I don’t care what people think about me, but I recognize that the internet is full of pockets and bubbles of identities and niches. I am here to pop that bubble to show that I am here, and I am sure somebody else agrees with me. I am simply making way for others like me and for myself.

The people that reply negatively to my posts and send me insults and threats, they don’t know me and they barely know my full stance, but I do hope that they recognize that and read into any other perspective past their own.

Sincerely, a person who is not on the fence, about anything.

2026-01-14 17:06:40

Initially, I bought the domain of my self-hosted blog (kamiscorner.xyz) because it was cheap. Really, that's the only reason. If I was able to afford it, I'd probably have gone with kamiscorner.com, or kami.dev, even.

Still, I ended up with a .xyz domain. And, over the two(?) years I've had the site, it's kind of grown on me. I've taken a liking to the TLD. The same thing can kind of be said for this blog. Initially, I made an account on bear on a complete whim, expecting this to be a sideblog I might crosspost to ocassionally. But now, this is basically my main online presence. Both bear and my personal website have, over time, kind of grown into extensions of myself. It's kind of odd how much of an attachment you can form to these things. But it does really feel like both of these places are well, just that. Places. My little corner of the internet I own.¹

It's interesting how, over time, whether you intend it or not, your site will kind of grow to reflect who you are. There's been quite a number of times I've had a conversation with someone online and realized I've already written about the exact topic we're talking about. By reading all of the posts on here you won't know me as a person, but... You'll get an idea of who I am. Honestly, I wish more people had websites for that reason. It's an incredibly interesting way to get to know someone. You can learn things about me on here that I probably wouldn't tell anyone were I to actually meet them. Partially because they'd just never come up in conversation, but also because some of it is quite personal. It's easier to open up to strangers, oddly enough.

When making this site, I also never really set out to do much customization. I'm still using a default theme, completely unmodified. But this isn't really the default bearblog either. I've made a good amount of Javascript modifications, added subpages, all that stuff. I never really set out to do that originally. But as it turns out, websites tend to kind of grow with you. If you keep working on them, they'll start reflecting who you are in a way no other medium really can. Just like people, a website is never really "finished". It will grow and change as you change, and as you keep using it. There's not really any other form of art that... does that, I think. There's usually a defined ending and starting point, or at least cleanly seperated volumes, like entries in a series of books. You can go visit a personal site and, just by looking around for a few minutes, get a rough idea of who the person is.

And you can do it on any basically device, just by typing in a domain. Sometimes I feel we don't appreciate the web enough. Despite all its flaws, its still an incredible technology. Websites are pretty cool. That's the blogpost.

2026-01-14 07:52:00

Always a good day for news, never a day for good news

I haven’t opened a news website or seen a headlines section of any app that wasn’t COMPLETELY negative in… well, I can’t remember when it wasn’t that way.

It’s absolutely insane that the news is so fixated on negative information. We know this. It’s nothing new. The old saying “if it bleeds, it leads” is forever true. But… just one main headline being positive? Is that possible? Is it even allowed?

I would love to see a news outlet make one day of the week dedicated to positive, feel good news stories. Other news could obviously get posted in the “back pages” where the user needs to click links or navigate to. But the whole front page would be positive.

I’m interested to see if this would result in even a small percentage of people having overall more positive feelings throughout the week or not. Mundane, local stories could reshape somebody’s whole outlook.. I think, anyways.

“Girl beats cancer,” “Company donates millions to charity”, “New sandwich released by McDonald’s,” “Local woman wins major award.”

So tired of the negativity. I get it - it gets clicks and views. But all I want is a single day of the week for good news.

Hope you’re doing well out there.

2026-01-14 06:11:15

Recently I have been doing lots of thinking about AI, mostly against my own will, since at work the propaganda machine is running at full tilt. We seem to contract a new tool every week. It is easier to name what isn’t AI than it is to name all the things being Copiloted or integrated with ChatGPT.

Since I come from a technology background, people around me expect me to be both literate and enthusiastic about AI.¹ The reality is that I am neither. In fact, I have yet to meet anyone at work more resistant to using these tools than I am. I find them an insult to my work, and to make matters worse, in spite of all the efforts to the contrary, I have not seen any meaningful productivity gains or improvements to the quality of work I produce.

So what have we been doing? We take assigned mandatory AI training, which for most people goes in one ear and out the other. We watch deepfaked videos of our coworkers during security training and pretend to be impressed. We try every new tool that gets approved and try to conjure up use cases for them. We are now being evaluated during our performance reviews based on how much and how effectively we use AI. We are not only being asked to use it to complete our tasks, we are being asked to use it before we even do anything else. It is a solution begging for a problem to solve.

Much of my ill will towards using AI stems from being obligated to use it. In a vacuum, I think it could be useful. But when I am forced to use it for every task at work, even those that don’t warrant it, when I go home and see my feeds increasingly filled with slop, when I see that distinctive writing style infiltrating even personal blogs and websites, I want to throw my hands up and scream.

What bothers me more than being forced to use these tools is not being able to voice any of our concerns. The faked enthusiasm is deafeningly loud. Because there is no space allowed for dissent, I am not sure if I am the only one who feels this way, or if others are tired too and simply too wary to call it out. I have brought it up timidly in a few private conversations to test the waters and gotten nowhere. Often I feel as though I am the only one who cannot see the emperor’s new clothes.

As someone who is still relatively early in my career, using ChatGPT hinders my learning. The mandate to use it indiscriminately is making me realize that nobody cares whether I learn how to do my job or not, or whether I find the work fulfilling. They only care how much content I am able to churn out.

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At an internal meeting they recently unveiled a new tool that gives technology support visibility into every computer’s activity. The tool will purportedly help them be better positioned to proactively offer support before issues occur. I poked around in it and was shocked to find just how much information was plainly available (to me of all people!). I looked myself up out of curiosity and found listed on the dashboard, down to the minute, what I was doing on my computer, what apps I was running, what websites I was on. When questioned about the potential privacy ramifications, the technology director shrugged. “We track everything you do anyway,” he said. It does not take a cynic to wonder just how this could go south.

When I was at home, my mother told me that the last time I visited our auto insurance fined her because I exceeded the mileage allowance for the month. I asked her how the insurance company even knew how much we had driven, and she told me that they’d installed trackers on our cars in exchange for a small discount on our premiums. I was appalled. It takes so little for people to give up what little remains of their privacy.

I am worried about a great many things going on in technology these days. I am worried that people don't care enough about giving up their privacy. I am of course worried that all this data will fall into the wrong hands (more than it already has). I am worried that it is already too late, that we have already ceded too much to be able to claw it back. But more than anything I am worried that I am not worried enough: what if I am still not even aware of the scope or severity of these issues? What then?