Opinions on life, tech, music, movies, television — whatever. The busier the featured image looks, the longer the post will take to read.
Last week, I released a blog post (https://jesse.id/blog/agi-is-here-yeah-well-thats-just-like-your-opinion-man) that had been sitting in my drafts for awhile. I kept going back to edit it over and over again, completely rewriting it at least once, because I was having a lot of trouble not being a jerk about people — especially the frontier labs — flippantly…
Why are you the way you are and why is it different than the way that I am? Our conscious experience of life is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in the universe. We are driven to seek experiences, interpret them, and turn them into novel ideas, art, and stories. We know consciousness is there,…
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been watching things over Discord on a nearly nightly basis with my friends Felicia and Beth. Sometime in March of 2025, we welcomed our friend Casey as a fourth to our nightly “watchies” group. Casey and I have similar tastes in movies, but Beth, Felicia, and myself have wildly…
I’ve been going with three artists on the Fridays I remember to post new music so far, but there are five fresh tracks that I was into this week. One of my favorite groups, Sylvan Esso, powered by one of my favorite music producers — Nick Sanborn — dropped a new track this week. Sounds…
How I don’t use AI I don’t use generative AI to write prose or lyrics. I don’t use it to write blog posts. I don’t use it to write e-mails for me, outside of the occasional auto-complete of what I was going to say anyway. I don’t use it to create music. I don’t use…
This week, I have three tracks from YouTube. One a track by a brand new band to me named Wishy, a 5 piece band from Indianapolis — a good rec from friend Christian. The other two are from Slow Joy and Dev Lemons. I’ve been listening to them for awhile so I’m always happy to…
I’ve been having deep discussions with friends of late, and in one of them, I said that I am slowly coming to the realization that anyone, at any time, can just create their own version of reality and their version of it can spread to envelop the world depending on how many people believe them.…
My Instagram Reels algorithm served me up a couple of Nashville singer-songwriters on what I assume is the come up. Who knows in the current music landscape? Both have two very DIY looking videos that have garnered many plays from me over the past few weeks. A.G. Sully has a trip-hoppy sound straight out of…
I am in my 40’s now and I’ve not only been on the Internet since 1995, but chronically online for the entire time. The Internet is at the center of nearly everything in my life, including music, but I have been obsessed with music for much longer than the Internet was available to me. The…
Karabiner-Elements is an incredible free tool for customizing your keyboard, mouse, and other input devices on macOS. Its most powerful feature is the ability to create complex modification (macro) scripts that can perform a variety of actions when a key — or a combination of keys — are pressed. I’m going to share the scripts…
I’ve been alive for 43 years at this point and I have been using a Microsoft operating system as my daily driver for the last 37 years, starting with MS-DOS running on a Commodore Colt PC in 1988. I have used every version of Windows from 3.0 in 1990 up until Windows 11 in 2025,…
Sike! I saw definitely something but I don’t believe that ghosts are a thing. I really enjoy the mythology around them though, so it’s not that I’m not a ghost hater. I just don’t think that the souls if Victorian children are floating around us in forms that match the ones they had in their…
When a post doesn't have its own featured image, the artwork you see is not generated by AI, but rather by an algorithm, and no two are alike. Each image actually tells you something about the post. Each post's URL slug is run through a hash to seed a small deterministic random-number generator, which picks the grid's resolution (some come out chunky, others finely pixelated). The color comes from the post's category, so every music post shares one hue, every code post another. How many cells light up in the mosaic is driven by the post's length relative to the average across all posts — so a fuller, busier graph means a longer read, and a sparse one means a quick one.