14:41:49
	- I've been exploring the wider internet the past few weeks. I'm not as
fully convinced about the doom of the web as some others are, and my
explorations are paying off. There are decentralized, close-knit communities
just about everywhere you care to look: my "communities" bookmark folder is up
to seven, and that's only counting the ones that appeal to me. I'll dip my
fingers into them, see where I fit in best. The republic is where I'm investing
the most right now, though.
	Currently I just found out about neocities [1]. It's old, so I'm sure I'm
very late to the party, but it seems like a lovely nexus of creativity which
I'll be spending the following week exploring. Maybe I'll post here if I find
anything really good. Or would that be a little too close to advertising?

	I keep drawing a parallel in my mind, which I think I read somewhere. In
music, nowadays, the 'mainstream' of massive pop is more like a big dumb lake where
no experimentation (and not much that music lovers would be interested in)
happens. And then there are a million tiny brooks veering off of it of people
doing their own thing, enabled by readily available tools and knowledge plus
ease of connecting with like-minded people over the internet. The same is kind of
true in videogames.
	Maybe this is just how human interests end up working with enough people in
the mix. Maybe there's no sense in trying to make the big lake more like the
tiny brooks.
	Of course the internet has the added level of complication of ending up
intertwined with some mandatory elements of modern life, like bank services,
the whole goverment surveillance deal and whatnot. I won't pretend I know enough
to speak on that. But the hobbyist side of it might not be in as terrible a
place as I thought.

	All of which is to say, screw social media. I'm staying in my little corner.
Or, in my many little corners.

[1] https://neocities.org/browse
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17:05:35
	- Found a really interesting journal by a schizophrenic in neocities. This may
be insensitive, but I'm *really* enjoying my life right this moment. You gotta
appreciate what you got, fellas.
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22:26:51
	- Found a 7k large dataset of drug experience reports, scraped off erowid.
Interesting corpus, and fun to just read through. Will save it and try and do
some exploratory playing with it at some point to keep my data science skills
sharp. Run some random nlp stuff on it and put it on graphs, see how it looks.
	I've always been interested in trying psychedelics. Haven't found any
opportunity to get my hands on any though, what with it being usually illegal
and all. Why are they illegal anyway?