an end in itself2025/06/11I keep hearing this in the back of my mind, these past few years: "Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end." ...read more
bad utilitarianism takes its primary value judgment for granted2024/10/28I realized something about why the tech-bro-qua-longtermist notion that the ultimate goal is basically to maximize the number of 'people' in existence is so irritating. It's not just that it's wrong, or self-serving and wrong. It's how it's wrong. ...read more
one little htaccess bug2024/09/28I use a '.htaccess' file to limit bots' ability to ignore my 'robots.txt', and until sometime in the past couple of days, it worked fine as-is. But when I tried to visit my site this evening, I got a stark white page with a 500 error. ...read more
Category and genre pages return2024/06/20I've added back archive pages for post categories, quotes by genre, and bibliography entries by genre; the text above post titles is clickable again, now. ...read more
Scheduled posts and deployments with 11ty2024/06/18When I'm actually keeping up with my quote blog, I like to schedule posts out in advance so I don't post more than one quote a day but also don't have to manually deploy numerous updates. ...read more
oops i changed it again2024/06/15After much trying of many typefaces, I've updated the site's base font to League Spartan Light and headings to Goudy Bookletter 1911, ...read more
everything old2024/06/09Hey there. If you've been here before, you might notice things look a little bit different all of a sudden. After six years on self-hosted Wordpress, I'm trying a return to a static site ...read more
Comments on generative 'AI' and copyright2023/10/28The US Copyright Office solicited comments on 'AI' & copyright (re training 'AI' on copyrighted work, whether 'AI' output should be copyrightable, liability for infringement, and how to treat outputs that imitate human artists). I...uh...I wrote some. ...read more