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Reminding myself why I write

The last few months, I've been dealing with writer's block. For the love of me, I cannot come up with something to actually write about and it's been stressing me out. As if I were some huge and famous writer who needs to continue feeding the content machine so people are happy with me. I somehow keep forgetting that the real reason I haven't written a single word in 4 months is expectations. My expectations, of course. It's weird how critical of yourself you can be become the moment you start d...

writingpersonal

Yesterday, my golden –retriever– boy Mantequilla woke up with a little hump behind his nose. After much deliberation, investigation and back and forth calls with multiple vets, I now recognize these and call them by the, well deserved, term of fucking mosquito bites. If you're a dog person and it's affected often by mosquitoes, you know how hard dealing with them is. If you have a solution, let me know, 'cause if seems that everything that really kills mosquitoes may actually try to kill your do...

mantequillapersonal

Every now and then, because of my wife's job, I found myself seating in a coffee for what nowadays could be considered long periods of time—that is to say, two hours, or 3, tops. Today is one of those days, but what makes particularly interesting is that I didn't have time to prepare. I didn't have the chance to charge my Chromebook tablet before leaving, so I only brought my Kindle, my phone and earbuds. I started with some browsing and socials before my cold brew arrived. Once the caffeine sou...

personalfrom aelo

AELOVE: "The Who Cares Era" by Dan Sinker

AELOVE is this brief section where I share something I found, loved.and I have some thoughts on it. Hope you like it: This has been in my mind for months and I couldn't find the words to say it. Dan said it perfectly. I'm baffled every day by people using AI as if everything it spews is absolutely and irrevocably truth, perfect, or worst, human-like. I've seen coworkers use it to make their scribble of an email into something that no one ever would write and that someone with a single brain cell...

Finding home away from home

I have this, very important, very serious, promise to myself: I will visit my friends at least once per year. To note: I will travel to them. With the exceptions of the pandemic years –when my friends got trapped in my city because US closed the border– and the year of my wedding –because saving money– I've been fairly good on keeping my word. Every year I do the, more or less, same ten hours of roadtrip to them and, while it's tiring to drive that far and for that long, I find myself catching t...

from aelofriends

Unsociably social

I've spent most the time since the pandemic in a remote / hybrid position at work, which I now swear by and do not want to change, and while it has a incredible high number of benefits it also has really deep downs. I, personally, have found that the most striking change is how my social interaction has changed. I'm by no means antisocial or lacking in the social behavioral rules department, but I've noticed how slow, for lack of a better word, I've become. It's like I'm out of condition in my c...

from aelopersonal

I cannot remember exactly when this came to my mind. I mean, it was today, but I cannot pinpoint at which moment today –as it has happened with most things since the pandemic. I just got the thought burnt into my brain. It was screaming loudly and with an intensity that's now lost but I can recall vividly. It said: And I know it's not as easy as it reads. I mean, I would be the first one to say fuck that, there's things that cannot be forgiven and it's something that's hard-coded in me. You scre...

from aelopersonal

On writing nonsense with Oscar

I don't feel the pass of time... Until I return here and try to make something out of my thoughts. That it takes this long is not something I despise or hate, it's just something that happens. That I'm still here, and still me, being able to come back to my corner of the internet is a thing I underestimate. I don't really feel the need to write when morning comes, but I would be lying if I say that I don't think about it. It's all caused by this juxtaposition of my character: I wish I could writ...

personalfrom aelo

The one where I meet again with old friends

For how often I use them, it's ironic how much I hate social apps. Why? Well, there's nothing social about them anymore. It's just memes and some bragging here and there. Maybe it's just me not wanting to connect? Or maybe I'm not able to do it in the way the apps set me up to do it. Giving a like to a photo doesn't mean Hey, pretty cool. Where's that and what are you up to? Then again, if I received a comment like that I may forget to reply. Anyways... Lately I've been trying to change. I'm try...

from aelopersonal

I miss the old internet

It finally happened today: I got bored of the internet. Let's be honest, what's there to do? Other than mind-numbly scrolling the feed of social apps, I mean. And what's social about that? The most social I get is when I share a fucking thousand short videos with my friends and to be honest I don't think they see all of them, 'cause sometimes I don't do it with theirs, either. And after searching which square or circle –squircles, even– to press next on the screen of your phone, you go back to t...

from aelointernet

Lumiere and Sora are giving AI video super powers

While I've talked about AI in general and also focused a little bit on how it's being used to make music, the topic today is certainly one I thought we would have to wait more to see. Quite literally, to see. On January 23th, the Research Arm of Google AI efforts published a video to YouTube announcing Lumiere, what they call A Space-Time Diffusion Model for Video Generation. What does that mean? Well, from their research paper they tell us it's the following: If that's something you can underst...

Rambling about AI

I was discussing with my friend Pablo what to write here next. You know, it's been a while... again. — Have you done your tour of AI chat bots?— Nope, and I don't really think I will, I said to Pablo. — Why not? Maybe you should write about that, then. I've been reluctant to touch on the topic of AI because it's been discussed once and once again, everywhere. Of course I'm interested in the area and its technical advances over the last years – I think anyone that considers itself a geek or nerdy...