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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • I don’t have an internal monologue, it works more like a blackbox releasing thoughts when they are finished, the reasoning stays hidden more or less. I can reject the thought or send it back for further refinement, but it does not at all resemble a monologue or train of thought thing. Fun story, I was at a Buddhist meditation session once, and while sitting there I discovered that I can turn my thoughts off almost completely. Which includes the processing of sensory information, like leg going numb or the guy next to me farting. These continued to exist but lost any meaning or relevance to react upon. It was a very weird experience, turning my mind completely inwards, experiencing an intense but pleasant void of complete nothingness while being conscious. It took about an hour for me to get back to normal afterwards. I asked the Buddhist guys later if that is an expected experience with this type of meditation, and they had never heard of such a thing.

    Odd how different people’s brains can be wired internally. And yet, I am able to communicate with all those fancy “internal monologue” people as if I was one of them.





  • “Microsoft changed course” (about shoving Slop into every nook and cranny of their products)

    I very much doubt that. When I have to open Office365 (Copilot… Sloppity… WhateverItIsCalledThIsWeek) in a browser they manage to hide the actual apps like Word, Excel etc. a little more behind the giant empty chat interface. Last time I checked my pinned Apps were gone and now there is a tiny button containing some of the apps. To make it worse, this button changed the location on screen almost every time I opened this website in the past months (I’m not using it very often).