Today is my 20-Year WikiLog-iversary - going back to 2002-02-05-a. I have 20,722 pages. * 11,156 are dated BlogBit pages (I also have 4,443 pages in my PrivateWiki Notebook.) 2023 update: have 21,873 pages. 2024 update: have 22,840 (plus 4,827 private) pages. 2025 update: have 24,041 plus 5,045 private pages. 2026 update: 25,278, plus 5,352 private, pages

OpenAI just released a new macOS app for their Codex coding agent. I've had a few days of preview access - it's a solid app that provides a nice UI …

damned if you do, damned if you don't _double bind is a dilemma incommunication in which an individual (or group) receives two or more mutually conflicting messages. In some scenarios (such as within families or romantic relationships), this can be emotionally distressing, creating a situation in which a successful response to one message results in a failed response to the other (and vice versa), such that the person responding will automatically be perceived as in the wrong, no matter how they respond._ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bind * _Double bind theory was first stated byGregory Bateson and his colleagues in the 1950s,[1] in a theory on the origins of schizophrenia. It was theorized that schizophrenic responses were a reaction to an individual facing competing demands, leaving them with no clear way of responding.[2]_ * _Double binds are often utilized as a form of control without opencoercion—the use of confusion makes them difficult both to respond to and to resist._ * cf matrix management http://www.behavenet.com/capsules/treatments/famsys/dblebnd.htm http://ub-counseling.buffalo.edu/Abpsy/lecture13.html http://www.envf.port.ac.uk/illustration/images/vlsh/codepend/dbind.htm