Platinum ship of fools @conatus@octodon.social

Today's mood:
Alone at the office, working on my graduation project.
Drinking a cappuccino with the big debate in parliament as background noise.
Chill Vibes

Urghh, How do trick yourself into doing the boring stuff?

I have tried update the documentation for my graduation project, and have gotten nowhere with it. I feel like there is a huge mental block related to succeeding in writing reports for school, that isn't present if I do anything else.

Music nerds of the fediverse, does anyone know what for sort of saxophone this is at 0:29 in the following video?

https://youtu.be/bmjFJd6q4Es?t=29

Help me out of my procrastination please. I can't work without knowing this.

I should be sleeping but I can't stop thinking about making a CIA themed clicker game in Elm

I'm trying to change my porn watching into porn writing, redirecting my sexual energy into creative energy. The fact that this is the thing that finally gave me the motivation to write is really funny. If only I could use my hornyness to fix the procrastination in my studies.

@lyliawisteria I know the feeling :(

To cheer you up: I like the content you post on here, thanks for existing in the fediverse.

I normally try to keep my birdsite sharing to a minimum, but this thread slaps
https://twitter.com/unabanned/status/1171794187609657345?s=19

it's a thread of post-9/11 news that shows that we were in the weird timeline way before trump. I would even go as far to say that reality has always been weird. The only difference is that the internet enables us to inject the inherent weirdness straight into our brains.

Highlight: a huge military exercise shows US losing, so they change the rules to make them win
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

Heavily recommending this episode of Marc Maron's podcast where he interviews Buddy Guy. If you have any interest in blues music/history and/or guitars. Buddy Guy is super charming and has lots of great stories. http://wtfpod.libsyn.com/episode-1049-buddy-guy

Fuck man I don't know where I would be without xmind, it has become my favourite piece of software that I use on a daily basis. making tree structures of my thoughts works way better than just writing them down.

Shout-out to Affinity Designer for being a good Illustrator competitor without the monthly fee.

Working with a good designer is so great, I love it when you get into an effortless brainstorming mood, and ideas just keep on flowing.

Just walked headfirst into a huge metal staircase while looking at my phone. Its a pre-smartphone building so they assume you look where you walk.

Aha so that's why

Control is a stunning game. I haven't been this obsessed since Breath of the Wild released.

Amazing environment art, every new door you open has something exciting behind it.

basically: It's immoral to
- be a billionaire
- take money from a billionaire
- help a billionaire to make more money / improve their reputation

Evgeny Morozov:
The Epstein scandal at MIT shows the moral bankruptcy of techno-elites

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/07/jeffrey-epstein-mit-funding-tech-intellectuals

>The ugly collective picture of the techno-elites that emerges from the Epstein scandal reveals them as a bunch of morally bankrupt opportunists. To treat their ideas as genuine but wrong is too generous; the only genuine thing about them is their fakeness. The Big Tech and its apologists do produce the Big Thoughts–alas, mostly accidental byproducts of them chasing the Big Bucks…

Trying to plan out what I want with my life. recently realized that my whole self image is based on being useful to other people. I'm not sure what *I* want, just what makes other people happy in whatever context I happen to wander in. Not sure if that makes me a good person or not a person at all.