"Humans are to blame for climate change".

Really? Is a Bangladeshi seamstress to blame? Is a street child from a Brazilian favela to blame? Or perhaps a subsistence fisherman from Somalia or an elderly tribeswoman from Papua New Guinea?

Some quite specific humans are to blame.

blep!

I just upgraded, and my Neovim became terribly sluggish. I'd switched from standard Vim to Neovim because back then, Neovim was less sluggish than standard Vim. And both projects are now filling up with AI slop.

After using Vim for 30 years (literally - I first used it in 1996) I'm seriously considering switching to Helix.

Dinner is served - homemade Swedish svamppaj.

(The recipe called for chantrelles, but those are out of season, so we used a mix of button mushrooms, beech mushrooms, shiitake and enoki. Also some chopped up ancho chili instead of ground cayenne pepper. Vegetarian, but not vegan.)

Today's Igor spam, freshly received, is a very sleepy skink.

I don't have the words to express the revulsion I have for the future these people want.

When someone declares that in a couple of years we'll replace books with personally tailored, optimized AI text because we won't be able to tell the difference between human and AI text anymore, as if this is a *good* thing ...

I want to close my laptop, throw it in the sea, and then throw myself after it.

I sometimes quip that I'm a "third-generation atheist" - both my parents are atheists, and my maternal grandparents were both atheists too. (I don't know about my paternal grandparents; I never really knew them.)

But it occurs to me that somewhere deep in my ancestry, there must have been someone who was a first-generation theist - the first to be converted to a theistic religion. And, even further back, there must have been a first-generation animist. I'm pretty confident that the former of those two must have looked recognizably human, but I'm less sure about the latter. Might H. sapiens sapiens have arisen as already animist, as we arose as already tool-makers?

We don't know anything at all about Neanderthal or H. erectus spiritual or religious life, or if they even had any. We do know that at least some Neanderthal populations had ceremonial burials, but we don't know if this was done out of any concern for the spirit of the deceased or to manage grief in the living.

Once again I find myself thinking about Little Lisp Machines.

I have two ideas for how a heap architecture for one could work, and I'm unsure which one to develop further. If there was a way to turn me into the fabled 10x developer, it would be a cure for indecisiveness.

I have now arrived in Uppsala. Also I am tired.

On the ferry, on my way to Sweden.

This year, Igor stays in the apartment, but he'll get regular visits from my mother. She has promised to send me pictures of him when she's there and he's out.

(Last year, she put him up in a luxurious Lizard Hotel in her house. But this year he gets a staycation.)

A little stack of 140mm fans.

I have replaced the black antivibration pads with brown ones from older 120mm Noctua fans from a past build. I like Noctua's black fans better than their beige-and-brown ones, but I think *something* on a Noctua has to be brown, right?

I have begun the transplant.

I actually did cable management *reasonably* well in the old case.

Frankly, given the bizarre wilderness relatives tell me Facebook has turned into, Attenborough is probably the only person I'd trust to go there.

I have three weeks of summer vacation starting today! Next week I shall go to Sweden as is my way.

After my workplace started insisting we use AI, I've come to realize (which is unsurprising, and which I in fact predicted at the outset) that addiction-tendrils can sink into the brains of even an AI hater like myself, so for the sake of getting my mental health a bit back up I'm going to refrain entirely from engaging with any conversational LLM system until I go back to work. It really, really hasn't been good for me.

If you're currently a software dev, have you thought about what you will be trying to do for a living when our profession is soon destroyed?

Who of the following would you consider most evil?

(the GRAND FINALE)

I am tired and depressed.

A worry / anxiety / depressive intrusive thought I keep coming back to is this:

What place is there even left for someone like myself in the future they're building?