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Horror As a Service
There's a thing I think some folks don't get about the horror genre. There's a point to it beyond the blood and gore and existential dread. Well several points, actually.
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Escaping the Endless Scroll Part Three: Deprecating the Attention Generator
The journey so far: Yours truly had a stroke and one of the unexpected side effects was a shift in their relationship with social media and being online. So here’s the story of the break up. When people ask me why I moved to a small town in the
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That One Time I Used Midjourney to Make a Lenormand Deck
So one time I used Midjourney to make a Lenormand deck. This is how and why I did it.
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State Management
The green text on the black screen, embraced by the monitor that smelled like dust and the future, was a portal to a magic world. I could create, I could navigate. The entire world inside the computer was mine to control and modify as I pleased.
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Escaping the Endless Scroll - Part Two: What Happens When Our Friends Are Electric
My several hundred word post about having a stroke didn't go viral. I didn't receive a mountain of condolences or Get Well Soons. The former would have been disturbingly strange. The latter was actually pretty disappointing.
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Escaping the Endless Scroll - Part One: The Hard Restart
Something strange had happened. Well, something strange in addition to having a stroke and being in the hospital recovering from it. Social media couldn't have gotten so bad so suddenly. The only thing that had changed since I had last logged on was my brain, but that seemed just so... so simple.
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Undercover in Diversity Training
As someone with a handful of intersections often talked about in diversity trainings, I sometimes feel a bit like I'm undercover when I attend a training related to an axis of my identity that isn't visible or otherwise obvious about myself.
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There’s No Place Like Hello World
Let’s talk about workplace culture. We love to talk about building it and how we need it to be good. Sometimes we brag that our companies have a good one, but do we really know what we are doing with it?