Maybe I'm Zythepsary

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What do you mean you don't have a website? Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust on Unsplash

When I started contributing to open source, I was on other people's websites, and I co-founded a start-up that had a site. I didn't have my own URL though. I had personal web presences owned by companies like MySpace, Friendster, Google and Tumblr. From 2009 to 2010 I had a Facebook account. I was late to the FB party, and I didn't like the music. Yes, I am that old. Anyway, I bought my first 100% Laura domain – https://zythepsary.com – after the Executive Director of MoFo (Mozilla Foundation) told me I needed a domain starting with Z because I'm zany and zealous. In my brainstorming phase, I learned that "zythepsary" was an antiquated word for "brewery" and "Zythepsary, a Brewery of Thought" was born. Out of that dripped Freshly Brewed Thoughts and here we are.

I've kept the zythepsary domain because of the years worth of email, web accounts and nostalgia wrapped up in it. Slowly, but surely, I've been moving to laurahilliger.com

It nearly time to release zythepsary.com back into the wild, so I've turned off auto-renew. Some people buy and expire domains with little emotional attachment. We know, though, I'm a digital hoarder so this feels kind of big.

Some tips for the casual de-googler > https://ia601401.us.archive.org/5/items/fuck-google_202210/Fuck%20Google.pdf
How to leave dying social media platforms > https://doctorow.medium.com/how-to-leave-dying-social-media-platforms-9fc550fe5abf
Scientists Increasingly Can’t Explain How AI Works > https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pezm/scientists-increasingly-cant-explain-how-ai-works

Maybe I'm SAD

They own everything. Photo by SIMON LEE on Unsplash

It's so hard to remain positive and productive. For ever bit of good in the world, there's a little bit more of tragic. I'm not entirely sure there's a balance at play. I'm worried about nukes. It's November so the SAD (seasonal affective disorder) folks are out en masse. Lots of grumpiness, it would seem. I think I might be one of them.

This week I learned that we are on our way to the actual grey dystopian future. A corporation is taking colour away. I realise this maybe doesn't affect you. It doesn't affect me either – I stopped using Adobe products after I stopped getting discs for free for teaching Adobe employees how to use Adobe products. Discs. That's how long it has been.

Photoshop Paywalls Pantone Colors, Is Turning Users’ Art Black.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pedx/photoshop-paywalls-pantone-colors-is-turning-users-art-black
Ocean plastic ‘vacuums’ are sucking up marine life along with trash.
https://www.popsci.com/environment/ocean-plastic-clean-marine-organisms/
Moral and Refuge > https://www.laurahilliger.com/writing/moral-and-refuge/

Maybe I need help?

I need to pay more attention to my brain and take care of it right now. I've not been doing a good job lately. Instead, I've been stressing about work and the world, then playing Assassin's Creed for a daily amount of time that has become unchecked.

What are you doing? Are you ok?

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