2026-02-26 05:11:54
Read something from Zarsace today that’s been sitting with me.
“The ‘New Money’ entrepreneur claims they are ‘buying back time’ to build global empires, but there is a fine line between optimizing your schedule and losing the human grit required to lead. When you automate every real-world problem, you aren’t becoming a master of your time. Rather, you are forgetting how to navigate the very world you seek to disrupt.”
Everyone’s trying to buy back time, remove themselves from anything that feels like friction.
I get it.
Nobody wants to waste time on things that don’t matter.
But somewhere along the way, we started confusing efficiency with avoidance.
You’ve removed yourself from the parts that actually make you capable.
All in the name of efficiency.
But what are you efficient at? Being present? Or being absent?
There’s a difference between optimising your time and removing yourself from your own existence.
One makes you better.
The other makes you irrelevant.
I’ve started doing ‘done with you’ services over ‘done for you’ because I actually want to have that skill too.
Not just pay someone 5K a month and never look at it again.
I want to get good at that thing myself.
Because I can’t understand something I’ve never done and I can’t lead something I don’t understand.
You don’t master your time by avoiding hard things.
You master it by getting so good at navigating them.
So yeah. Optimise. Delegate. Build systems.
But don’t remove yourself from the very experiences that made you capable in the first place.
Because the moment you stop doing hard things is the moment you stop growing.
And if you’re not growing, you’re dying.
2026-02-26 02:52:00
As language models grow in capability, certain tasks are becoming closer and closer to free and trivially easy.
In some ways, this is liberating. In others, the price is difficult to see or notice until it has already been paid.
This is evident in the flood of social media posts that all sound the same. If you've been on social media lately, you'll recognize them - they have the same cadence, vocabulary, and lack of meaningful message.
They use overly complex language to sound authoritative and entice engagement while offering nothing to the world beyond more text. Of course, this is a natural extension and amplification of the bot activity that was already prevalent. It further pollutes communication channels already near breaking point and devalues genuine discourse.
Resilience in the face of hard things makes us stronger. Removing pain and struggle in the name of improved efficiency and increased productivity might lead to short-term gains, but at what cost? Recent studies have shown that people will take the easy way out if given the chance. Cognitive surrender and an atrophied ability to think critically are a high price to pay for a temporary productivity boost.
In observing the trend of increasing reliance on LLMs to produce content, I see several possible personas.
For me, writing down my thoughts helps me immensely. It's one of the reasons I started this blog. It's also part of the reason I picked bearblog as a platform - it's quiet. There aren't a thousand fiddly settings that drain time and mental energy. I can just write things.
The act of writing, of pulling a tangled mass of thoughts from my head and combing through them to decide both what makes sense and to clarify my own position, forces me to spend time thinking.
After using generative AI all day at work, this process is both difficult and a relief in ways that are difficult for me to describe. I feel an urge to take the easy way out and let an LLM draft something for me, but the sense of peace I feel after dumping my thoughts into a blank text box is astonishingly cathartic.
If you're struggling with how you feel about AI and its impacts on society, thought, discourse, or humanity in general; I encourage you to join me in writing down your thoughts somewhere. You don't have to share them. May you find peace in the process.
2026-02-26 02:42:00
Update: It’s a “photography festival”. In the US. I honestly cannot roll my damn eyes hard enough. You could pay me all the money in the world and I would still never set foot on US soil.
On the bright side, at least it’s not AI. 🙄
Flickr just announced MODE but are being quite coy about what exactly it is.
A lot of people, myself included, are apprehensive worried about it being AI. But I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt and say it could potentially be a photo taking app and/or a different kind of photo sharing app based around community. Maybe.
Without much more information to go on, I can only hope that this post doesn’t age like spoiled milk.
Crossing my fingers, toes, pubes and arse hairs.
2026-02-26 00:33:00
Regarding this post from Anongoose on those still on X.com.
I was eating at “No Ramps Carnivore Café” long before they removed the entrance ramp. You can’t expect me to boycott just because some wheelchair users can’t get in anymore.
I only attend "Misogyny HQ" for the ambience.
If I stop going to “The Algorithmic Harassment Emporium,” the trolls win. That’s exactly what they want.
I have to keep drinking at “The Openly Hostile To Trans People Tavern.” I mean, they only demand you verify your chromosomes at the door. After that, it's fine.
I just don't join in on the "Trans People aren't People Happy Hour" trivia.
You’re being dramatic. “Pronouns Are Oppression Pub” is simply concerned about grammar.
ABM
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2026-02-25 23:25:00
I have to keep patronizing Adolf Hitler’s Pub.
I was patronizing Adolf Hitler’s Pub long before it was owned by Adolf Hitler’s financier, and I do not intend to stop just because of its change in name.
Lots of other things are owned by Adolf Hitler’s friends, you can’t seriously expect me to stop patronizing those places too.
Almost everyone I know still goes to Adolf Hitler’s Pub. Are you suggesting they stop going to Adolf Hitler’s Pub as well?
Where else can I go to talk to Eva Braun (she’s not as bad as they say) and Heinrich Himmler (disagree with the man all you’d like, he has some very interesting points).
All of the most important people are at Adolf Hitler’s Pub.
If I don’t go to Adolf Hitler’s Pub, then it will only be Nazis at Adolf Hitler’s Pub. Do we really want that?
I have to keep patronizing Adolf Hitler’s Pub.
2026-02-25 13:22:00
Check out this new AI product— the AI bag, you don’t need to carry your stuff anymore, just have chatGPT or Gemini generate your wallet.
Note: this article is very hypocritical, I talk about why near the end. But, still fair to disclose
Okay, you got the point. This is going to be a long rant about AI, which normally says nothing new but, I’m not going to make it crazy researched or anything. Just what I think personally. I encourage you not to rely on my or anyone else's opinions but rather form your own.
AI should have never been introduced to the general human populace. I’ve already heard the counterpoint of ‘We used AI before! Like, what about how we make models of proteins?’ But the difference is— That is useful.
A big part of AI being ass to me is it’s lack of ability regarding to make anything even though advertised, while AI used in STEM’s never mentioned to make anything— but rather speed up and improve our understanding and knowledge of topics, as well as help with accuracy.
AI cannot be leading scientist, it cannot come up with hypothesis, as it has geeks on reddit talking about D&D in its training models. It is not, and will not ever, be creative.
Now that it’s introduced to the general public for years now, it’s hard to rip it out. Especially with the communities I’ve seen. Like, ‘AI is my boyfriend’.
I saw a good dozen of people having religious psychosis regarding it— which as a person who understands why someone would spiral there, AI is in a tough situation.
Either cut these people off with guard rails, or slowly just… not. You could also do the guard rails slowly, or whatever.
AI makes the internet the same, just bad. And I’m honestly scared for our future. How will kids get their nostalgia? Honestly; If a parent is reading this, give your kid old dumb tech. And even better; those educational rubber tablets for kids specifically!
I miss the times where my DSi was the best novelty I had, when the PS4 was considered new— I still consider it new! — And I think if you “retreat” for your kids, they’d be much more developed.
Now, I hate the whole idea that kids are getting dumber, but due to AI, I think something will change.
Kids could start talking to AI at young ages, picking up speaking habits commonly found in AI, like;
And this could alter language, but also the AI discussion as a whole. At what point will AI stop being dumb if everyone mimics AI?
The acknowledgements
I know I said earlier the internet is basically becoming one big blob. And… yeah. I am contributing to that. But I guess I just wanted to let my thoughts run their long course, I’ve watched many videos on it, hours to days. Not because I’m a particular tech-bro, but because why not?
EDIT, 25th of Feb 2025:
I forgot to say this, but I’m scared of AI. Grok is a good example of why I am, there needs to be more… More stuff. More rules, more preventive measures, etc. You know this.
It’s kinda sad I can’t really do much.
But, I think I’ve heard everything enough. I guess if I ever get more ideas, I’ll just edit this post / Re-post with the previous deleted. Depends on how I feel.
Thank you for reading, and have a great day!