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Best of my Blogs — Hi there! Welcome to my blog and thanks for reading. I’m a robotics engineer by day and I write for free at night, so every reader means a lot to me. …

Best Of The Blog

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Best Of The Blog

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Oct 24

WWC: i really did write i swear

Last week I wrote a semi-private critique of Zionism in light of the current conflict, using what I learned in an Israeli politics and culture course I had taken at MIT. By semi-private, I mean that it was shared on personal social platforms with my friends and community, as it’s…

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Oct 10

WWC: The Courage to Write

Weekly Writing Challenge — “Do you think Oz could give me courage?” asked the Cowardly Lion. “Just as easily as he could give me brains,” said the Scarecrow. “Or give me a heart,” said the Tin Woodman. “Or send me back to Kansas,” said Dorothy. “Then, if you don’t mind, I’ll go with you,”…

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WWC: The Courage to Write
WWC: The Courage to Write

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Oct 2

Weekly Writing Challenge

*dusts off cobwebs* — At some point in the last couple years, my writing frequency dropped dramatically. A combination of dark online attention, COVID, and entering the real world of tech (complete with complicated NDAs) did something to my motivation to write. It made me more hesitant about the content I put online —…

Writing

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Writing

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Oct 2

a girl deleted

on reflexivity — One of my favorite fictional robots is Dorothy from Westworld. Dorothy is a reflexive, iterative creature. In the most recent season of the show, she more or less becomes a god, but only god of her own copies. The humans that created her absent, she is the only one left…

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5 min read


Sep 18

Setup OpenGL on MacOS with VS Code

Tutorial — Whenever I get annoyed enough that the exact google search term I use for a dumb software setup issue has not been SEO’d by some blog, I take advantage of this by writing up my own blog post. I needed to compile OpenGL for a class. The professor directed everyone…

Opengl

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Set OpenGL on MacOS with VS Code
Set OpenGL on MacOS with VS Code
Opengl

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Jan 23

The Third First World

We all live on one round rock. — I feel very privileged to have roots in the place where I am from. I am eager to claim my heritage, even though I know some people in the “first world” might be confused as to why. I’ve alluded to this a few times in my blog posts, but my…

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The Third First World
The Third First World

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Jul 7, 2022

passing through the veil

a brutally honest story of COVID isolation — I wake up in the morning to the sound of the street cleaning machine, blaring at everyone to move their cars. I am achey and fatigued and congested. This is my first full day in isolation. I grab a yogurt from the cooler in one corner of my room and…

Covid Diaries

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passing through the veil
passing through the veil
Covid Diaries

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Jul 4, 2022

If a Tree Falls in East Africa

Do English-speakers hear it? — In a day and age where everything seems Google-able, still a large swath of information remains completely off the grid. Much of that “missing” information is about ethnic minorities. I don’t mean to say today whether this is a good or a bad thing, simply that this is currently true…

Ethiopia

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If a Tree Falls in East Africa
If a Tree Falls in East Africa
Ethiopia

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Apr 28, 2022

thinking safely

charting a path through despair — Content Note: this post does contain some mentions of suicidal-adjacent thoughts, I think in a way that’s ultimately uplifting, but nonetheless. Skip if it’s not for you today. It has been long and difficult, the hell of the last two years. Like many people, I feel that my emotional and…

Mental Health

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thinking safely
thinking safely
Mental Health

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Selam G.

Selam G.

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