three new phenomena in my #tinnitus today:
- pulsing, normally it’s a constant tone
- a tone that’s a higher frequency than I can normally hear; I tested this with a sine wave and my monitors at “potential structural damage to the house” levels and it’s about 18kHz; normally the tones are closer to 11kHz
- a tone that shifts frequency subtly, randomly

all in my right ear. these happen exclusively to each other

of course, the internet has nothing to offer about this, aside from crazy theories, and of course, insurance doesn’t cover audiology (though if it did I’m sure we as a society would have much lower rates of dementia)

so apparently the new thing for medical companies is to send bills straight to collections claiming they emailed the bill to you and you didn’t pay it

15 days after the bill was issued

nevermind that I get 100+ fraudlent bills for shit a day in my spam folder

the thing about “never attribute to malice what can be easily explained by incompetence” is that it’s rat-fuckable

when there is functionally no difference between the two, engaging with someone as if they’re incompetent means accepting their frame, that what they’re ultimately trying to accomplish isn’t *bad*, they’re just going about it in a way with bad side-effects, and people use in bad-faith our good-faith willingness to treat them as incompetent to push their agendas

engaging with someone as if they’re malicious, on the other hand, means rejecting the harmful frame, recasting the argument in terms of “why are you trying to do this bad thing?”, and not quibbling about the details of why the thing is bad

these age-verification laws whose implementations are a form of category error is a good example; if you engage with a proponent of them with “well here’s why your implementation is bad” you’re tacitly approving the larger idea that surveliance is good, and you just disagree with the techniques; bad-faith actors use this

If instead you come back with “why are you trying to surveil everyone’s computer use? Why are you laying the groundwork to prevent people from using their own computers?”, you re-cast the frame. Sure, there are probably incompetent people who don’t realize the results of what they’re going to do, but casting the larger idea into question AND KEEPING IT IN QUESTION is the only effective path I’ve found to debating people on things like this

so, instead:

don’t ascribe to incompetence something that is functionally malicious

< your essay is good but you obviously used an LLM to write it – look at all those em dashes!

> a: it was published in 2015. Here's the discussion on Hacker News to prove I didn't backdate it

> b: those are en-dashes, not em-dashes. You imbecile. You absolute tool.

are you napping this #caturday?

tired: five nines
wired: nine fives
inspired: uptime is from 9-5, while Dolly Parton’s “Nine to Five” is on repeat

... I was not expecting this, but niiice https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1sboprh/comment/oe8n9k7/