- On the Eve of My Facebook Death
I made the decision to delete my Facebook and Instagram one month ago. I stopped posting to social media nearly four years ago. I stopped learning new social medias at Snapchat—fourteen years ago. I opened my Facebook account during a sleepover on St. Patrick’s Day weekend of my senior year of high school, 18 years…
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- Let’s Name MLB’s New Baserunners Since the League Hasn’t Yet!
Even the most buttery smooth baseball announcer can’t quite churn out the name for a new type of baserunner in Major League Baseball.
Placed runners became the rule as part of the MLB’s effort to speed up America’s Pastime. And while the games are brisker than ever, there is still room to polish these rules. Hearing the MLB struggle with the verbiage for the placed runner concept is troubling to me, as baseball has a storied history of delightful names.
- I am a Casualty of AI
I originally wrote this in March 2023 after one of my employers, a content writing site, transitioned to AI-generated content moderated by humans. While this was an appealing job description for a professional writer, it also came with a 67% pay reduction. This article was my farewell to AI, and (fingers crossed) meaningless content writing.
- I Have Some Ideas to Improve American Football
Super Bowl Sunday, America’s most beloved unofficial national holiday, kicks off in a few days. However, I feel particularly uninterested this year. Perhaps because my team, the Chicago Bears, effectively quit their season in late November when they took the rare step of firing their head coach in-season (timing that was mere days before my personal day of birth AND ALSO the Sunday I watched my Bears flop around from a sunny seat at San Francisco’s Levi’s Stadium [THE PAIN]).
Or perhaps because I have so many good ideas for the NFL (and the Chicago Bears):
- Internet too exhausting? Find peace in PFFs!
Four years ago, the news was so alarming I reached out to a wise person for advice on how to process the disorienting reality I was living in.
Some of their advice included a different way to think about the Internet, with the first step of displacing social media’s role. They suggested viewing my browser app as a newspaper, returning to an earlier, website-based form of surfing the web now replaced by doomscrolling.
I made the decision to delete my Facebook and Instagram one month ago. I stopped posting to social media nearly four years ago. I stopped learning new social medias at Snapchat—fourteen years ago. I opened my Facebook account during a sleepover on St. Patrick’s Day weekend of my senior year of high school, 18 years… Read more: On the Eve of My Facebook Death
Even the most buttery smooth baseball announcer can’t quite churn out the name for a new type of baserunner in Major League Baseball. Placed runners became the rule as part of the MLB’s effort to speed up America’s Pastime. And while the games are brisker than ever, there is still room to polish these rules. Hearing the MLB struggle with the verbiage for the placed runner concept is troubling to me, as baseball has a storied history of delightful names.
I originally wrote this in March 2023 after one of my employers, a content writing site, transitioned to AI-generated content moderated by humans. While this was an appealing job description for a professional writer, it also came with a 67% pay reduction. This article was my farewell to AI, and (fingers crossed) meaningless content writing.
Super Bowl Sunday, America’s most beloved unofficial national holiday, kicks off in a few days. However, I feel particularly uninterested this year. Perhaps because my team, the Chicago Bears, effectively quit their season in late November when they took the rare step of firing their head coach in-season (timing that was mere days before my personal day of birth AND ALSO the Sunday I watched my Bears flop around from a sunny seat at San Francisco’s Levi’s Stadium [THE PAIN]). Or perhaps because I have so many good ideas for the NFL (and the Chicago Bears):
Four years ago, the news was so alarming I reached out to a wise person for advice on how to process the disorienting reality I was living in. Some of their advice included a different way to think about the Internet, with the first step of displacing social media’s role. They suggested viewing my browser app as a newspaper, returning to an earlier, website-based form of surfing the web now replaced by doomscrolling.