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Ben

@ben.casita.zone

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Ben @ben.casita.zone · 15/09/2026

Zack Brown (@LuminanceBloom)

ZIZEK: that AI will be the death of learning & so on; to this, I say NO! My student brings me their essay, which has been written by AI, & I plug it into my grading AI, & we are free! While the 'learning' happens, our superego satisfied, we are free now to learn whatever we want

Ben @ben.casita.zone · 28/04/2026

Compare this seething rage to the bliss of Steve Wozniak

Comment from SteveWoz on SlashDot from 2025:

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

Ben @ben.casita.zone · 04/03/2026

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Hitting `e` opens the files in a neovim vimdiff view.

Custom approve/reject overlay in the pi agent.

Ben @ben.casita.zone · 19/12/2025

nassim nicholas taleb

Ben @ben.casita.zone · 01/07/2025

Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address:

How then shall we perform it?--At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!--All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Ben @ben.casita.zone · 01/07/2025

Link seems to be broken.

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An error occurred during a connection to pscale.link. PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR

Ben @ben.casita.zone · 11/04/2025

Now That's What I Call Government Efficiency™!

Ben @ben.casita.zone · 30/03/2025

bensmithgall.com/blog/a-big-b... Made a giant button you can hit to answer a call on FaceTime.

A picture of the big button. It is bigger than the palm of your hand.