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July 7, 2023: Rock On

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Grandma got the boy a rock tumbler and boy is that thing loud. I put it in the garage and each time I walk by there I still very briefly wonder what the hell that noise is before I remember.

13 thoughts on “July 7, 2023: Rock On”

  1. We have a rock tumbler that we used quite a bit when Younger Daughter went through a year-long rocks are cool stage. From time to time I think about setting it up and tumbling some quartz, granite, and agates I've found here and there, then I remind myself how long it takes and have a beer instead because immediate gratification.

  3. We looked at getting a rock tumbler for the boys, but in doing some initial research, it sounds like you have to run it for for-flipppin'-ever to get results.

  4. Cross another citizen off my list. Nice to have lunch with Beau today at the joint!

  5. No one can stop tech companies from launching new platforms. But people can refuse to join. It’s obnoxious enough to toggle between microblogging apps, tweeting and skeeting and tooting the same words to slightly different audiences. Adding threading to the mix is too much. I’ve already seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, copying and pasting to skeet a tweet. It’s no way to live.

    After Threads, There Has to Be a ‘New Twitter’ Moratorium

    1. I disagree with this conclusion, by and large. I agree that social media and "microblogging" services like Twitter, or even Bookface updates, are of questionable value, but without the threat of users moving to a different platform, there is nothing to stop the platform organizers from acting in nefarious ways. Like, the only thing worse than having to keep up with all of these different social media platforms would be to declare mission accomplished and stick with what we have in perpetuity.

      Also, to continue on with more cliches, the genie is out of the bottle. People are addicted to the dopamine hit they get from the updates and the perceived connectedness. (I'm not judging -- I'm one of them.) We've been on this path since at least the advent of the 24-hour news cycle, if not before that. Either you ban these platforms outright (seems unlikely for a number of reasons), or you need a different circus to divert everyone's attention away from these updates that they are addicted to.

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