tags: friendfeed

I'm still not really in the right frame of mind to write a well-thought out blog post to explicate the thoughts that led me to stop visiting Friendfeed for now.

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April

2010 Apr 20

post-mortem

So it's been a little more than a month since I stepped away from Friendfeed. To be honest, I didn't expect to be gone this long. I really did need to take a break though. My initial intention was to walk away for a few days and let the threads fall off my front page, and let my temper cool. But work got really busy, and the past month ended up being pretty rough. The whole episode pretty much took a back seat to everything else I had to deal with. But the longer I stayed away, the more I felt that I had to work through why I got so pissed off before I came back.

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2012

November

2012 Nov 1

rudeness and privilege

The problem I have with the concept of rudeness is that it is frequently used by the privileged to stifle the speech of the marginalized. For example, we can't talk about racism, much less call someone out as saying/doing something racist, because it's rude. Never mind whether the accusation of racism may be true….

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2014

November

2014 Nov 15

time traveling

"This weekend left me thinking about the nature of courage: To stay in the fight, even without any hope of winning, and let yourself be destroyed ingloriously? Or to look at the darkness with both eyes wide open, and realize, it's time to let go, there's no point in hanging on and tearing the whole thing down with me? Each to their own, I guess."

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2015

January

2015 Jan 21

dreamtimehop

Syncing Twitter with Timehop is the only way for me to reach really old Friendfeed entries now.

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2015 Jan 26

Hotel Figueroa

So the last (and the first) time I was at Hotel Fig, it was 4½ years ago for a Friendfeed meetup chandelier hallway atrium

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July

2015 Jul 29

HTML dreams

I have the nerdiest dreams sometimes.

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2016

January

2016 Jan 26

There's More Than One Way to Think about It

I find it funny that the thing the scientific method and quantum physics and biology taught me is that duality, diversity, plurality is reality. There isn't one right answer to anything. Reductionism can be useful, but it's not reality. And anyone who says it is is trying to sell you something.

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2016 Jan 26

Ptolemy and Empiricism

It's funny how people use the example of Copernicus and the heliocentric model as the archetype for scientific progress. The fact of the matter is that, at least initially, Ptolemy's geocentric model actually still made more accurate predictions.

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