numb3r_5ev3n: 7 from Matrix Online (Default)
- I changed my DW theme again. This one is kind of reminiscent of my OG Livejournal theme, but with a background I made myself in GIMP. I need to do some more work on my website.

- The NIN show was great! There was some fuckery because Dallas is gonna Dallas (why do people keep trying to start fights in the pit during Hurt? Apparently this is a common occurance?) But Boys Noize rocked as an opening act, and Trent and Atticus still got it. I have a lot of pictures from the show. All of them were taken from the nosebleed section: and therefore, none of them are awesome. Someone uploaded an entire recording of the concert to youtube.

- Continuing the theme of partying like it's 1996, I went with some friends on a pub crawl through Deep Ellum Saturday night. This may partially account for how I feel this week.

- I am not usually this affected by the time change, but this week it is just hitting me like a ton of bricks. I overslept my alarm this morning, something I have not done in three years or more. I think I might be fighting something off.

- I got my physical and bloodwork done, and I need to start really watching my cholesterol. My platelet level is also elevated, but not enough for it to be a cause for alarm yet. But they also want to monitor that pretty closely over the next few months. At least I'm not anemic right now?

- Barry's Economics is *the* Youtube channel to be following right now. He nails the intersection between wealth and late-stage capitalism with all of the factors which enabled the Epstein Web to hijack every aspect of our culture and society. Your moment of Zen: this video, about the super-richs' disconnect from the rest of the human experience. (Just as I was writing something eerily similar in my Tron Ares fanfic, lol.)

- "Someone is actually reading the room." Firefox just got an AI kill switch. From Tech Radar. Though I'm still bouncing back and forth between Vivaldi and Waterfox. I may go back to Firefox if I can disable AI.

- How Epstein’s biggest financial client shaped millennial teen culture.

- I switched to MX Linux on the XFCE DE in order to get away from Systemd, which will likely be used in age verification rollout/surveillance initiatives. Hopefully MX Linux will resist said initiatives. But if they don't, there are other distos that will. Keep Linux free.