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jacobtothe
life
2026-04-29 00:01
Technology Perspectives: Past, Present, and Predictions
I am older than Facebook. I remember when Netflix mailed DVDs. I am older than Google, which once promised not to be evil. I am older than the World Wide Web itself. I remember the DOS prompt, and A and
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jacobtothe
life
2026-04-13 01:38
A Minor April Update
It's been almost two weeks since my last post again. I just haven't felt inspired to write anything. I'm still alive, and the stress which inspired that post has abated somewhat. However, I just realized
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jacobtothe
ramblewrite
2026-04-01 05:18
Fathers, Frustration, and Faith
I know I've been somewhat absent for over a week. Sorry. Happy Hive Power Up Day, Happy April Fools, etc. I don't like writing about deeply personal issues. Even though this is at least a pseudo-anonymous
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jacobtothe
trump
2026-03-09 20:24
Assessing Trump vs. My Predictions
Sixteen months ago, Donald J. Trump was re-elected to a non-consecutive second term. This is only the second time in the nearly 240 years since the US Constitution was ratified in 1787 that such a re-election
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honeydue
Loving HIVE ❤
2026-05-13 08:51
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Hiving a New Hobby & an Exciting Project
I'm a much worse person when I'm not writing. I get too much time inside my head, and that almost never leads to good things. Which in turn leads me to write even when I should be stopping and recharging
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jacobtothe
ai
2025-12-04 22:51
A.I. Slop and My Thoughts
I know this seems like beating a dead horse after the past couple years, but I really, really dislike most generative artificial intelligence content. HIVE frontends are integrating A.I. tools to varying
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jacobtothe
life
2025-12-02 18:40
Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way?
Many debates seem to boil down to arguing over who needs to be in charge, and who needs to do as they are told. Politics is the most obvious example, but the idea lurks behind a lot of conversations. In
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jacobtothe
ramblewrite
2025-11-26 04:49
Cluttered Musings on Travel, History, and the Future
I was recently reading about American history, particularly the early colonists and the later Oregon Trail settlers. Suppose you were uprooting your entire life and traveling across an ocean or continent
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jacobtothe
ramblewrite
2025-09-11 05:52
Assassins, Blame Games, and American Politics
Earlier today, American right-wing activist and media personality Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a gunman while speaking at a Utah university. I'm not a huge fan of the guy. He was a state supremacist
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travelflower
Worldmappin
2026-05-12 15:25
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Where Wine Carries Faith – Rüdesheim on the Rhine
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After Neuruppin, where the water calmed every thought and everything seemed quietly balanced, something heavier and older rises above the vineyards of Rüdesheim. St. Hildegard Abbey does not merely stand
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jacobtothe
ramblewrite
2025-09-07 20:56
What Are We Leaving Behind?
There is a common perception that people in the past were better builders, writers, thinkers, and craftsmen. This is in part nostalgia, and in part survivorship bias. What does this tell us today? And
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jacobtothe
hive
2025-08-11 07:37
Nine Years on HIVE!
According to HiveBlocks, my account was created on 2016-08-11 at 19:16:36 (presumably UTC). This was on the old version of our blockchain, then called Steemit. It was a wild era. The initial hype bubble
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jacobtothe
ramblewrite
2025-06-30 22:43
Turmoil and Trouble in North Idaho
I haven't really felt the urge to write lately. I've thought about re-posting more Creative Commons articles I found interesting while declining payout and offering appropriate attribution, but it's a
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jacobtothe
blog
2025-06-18 06:37
Bumblebees and Persistence
It's already been a week since my last post, and it seems like on the one hand, time has flown by, but on the other, it's been a month of struggle compressed into such a short time. Before I get into the
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veryhappyday
Korean Hive Village
2026-05-17 22:33
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Korean Hive Village Contest #47 Sharing K-Culture #15 🎁
If there is a K-culture you experienced this week, please share your story. We hope you will participate.
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jacobtothe
Weekend Experiences
2025-06-11 00:57
Blisters and Roses
First things first: there will only be pictures of the roses, not the blister, or the mosquito bites. Those also happened. You're welcome, or sorry for the disappointment if you're some kind of creepy
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jacobtothe
School Days
2025-05-03 17:32
Homeschooling: Early Recollections and Overview
When I was a very small child, home-schooling was a rare thing in the United States. By the time I was approaching kindergarten age, it wasn't a completely new idea, but it was still uncommon and widely
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jacobtothe
ramblewrite
2025-04-25 00:17
Updates About Nothing
It's been a while since I posted last. I have a few things I want to write about, but offline life has been taking precedence. Burnout Quitting my job at the end of last year after a couple years of escalating
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jacobtothe
FreeSpeech
2025-02-27 10:46
Artificial Intelligence, Spam, & Dead Internet Theory
It's been well over a decade since I noticed something was amiss online. Neither Hive nor its predecessor existed yet. Web2.0 juggernauts Twitter and Facebook had not yet approached the levels of censorship
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cliffblank
oracle
2026-05-11 05:36
Promoted
Past Life
ESOTERIC WISDOM · SOUL MEMORY · BEYOND THE VEIL The Library Between Lives Recovering the soul's hidden autobiography through the Akashic Records Somewhere beyond the reach of ordinary mind — beyond the
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scribblingramma
Silver Bloggers
2025-01-23 18:28
Today's Ramblings
It has been a month since I last posted, and I really want to post today, but I have no idea what to write about. Some folks always post fiction, others always post about their daily lives, some do a bit
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jacobtothe
ramblewrite
2024-11-25 21:44
Shrinkflation and the Illusion of Value
One of the many hats I wear at the library is that of planning and presenting programs for adults. My goal is to provide ongoing education and entertainment through arts, crafts, cooking, music, and local
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jacobtothe
Tabletop / DND
2024-11-17 02:01
Morality & Monsters 5E
When last I wrote about my library Dungeons & Dragons game, there was an incident with a cursed axe. Since then, the party managed to free a Marid (a sort of aquatic-themed djinn) and gain its help
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jacobtothe
ThreeD (3D) Printing
2024-10-02 05:12
Library Odd Jobs: A Southpaw SNAFU
I mentioned yesterday that I planned to post this, and here we are! I don't know whether this will become a regular series. I don't even know how much longer I will be a librarian. I am growing frustrated
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