Can we please stop banning things on the internet? Please?
Utah is banning VPN access for minors. And this follows from a long line of events where states and countries are mandating age-verification on everything. While I understand the sentiment of “would you please think of the children”, just, what are you trying to do to our children?
While the intentions are all good, can we please stop and think how this is done?
Don’t you just love AI as your literary critic. You give it the same draft you write and you get some sensible output. Fair enough, sounds agreeable. Then, just to fiddle around, you regenerate a response. And now all your pros are cons and all your cons are now not so bad. I mean, what? What are we doing here, man?
Yeah, no, AI writing is still terrible. Even the heavyweight frontier models.
This is what crashing out looks like.
Deployment History, Cloudflare, circa 2026.
So I was back at that particular grocer. They actually have it now. 30 eggs for $6.88.
But can you believe it though? Like, people are queuing up to buy eggs like how they were queuing up to buy bread in the late Soviet Union. The parking lot is already nearing capacity and it’s only what, 0900 on a Saturday?!
You know, if some economic shock comes about with where we are now, we’re all fucked.
It’s ridiculous out there. People are going crazy for eggs.
Can you believe that? $6.88 for 30 large white eggs. I was there at around 1700; they had two refrigerator units allocated just for these and they are all out! They’ve even put up a little sign that says “we will have more stock tomorrow”.
I swear I’m not obsessed, you’re obsessed.
About Me/關於我
Heya! I’m 星見紅楓 (Hoshimi557), a pseudonymous writer based somewhere in Canada.
I write about politics, economics, technology, transportation, and whatever else crosses my mind. This is 隨筆 — spontaneous writing. Some posts are polished, some are not.
Background I speak Mandarin Chinese, English, and a little bit of Cantonese. You can guess my ethnicity. You will probably get it right.
My educational and cultural background is a mix of East and West.
In (some) Defense of Milton Friedman
Some thoughts on economic theory, and how, at the end of the day, no one listens (in entirety) so it doesn't even matter, probably.