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Intro — What Are Slashpages?
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Start here: Intro — What Are Slashpages?

Slashpages are common website pages, usually with a standard, root-level slug like /contact, /about, or /uses, usually giving basic factual information about the site or the individual behind it. They are distinguishing characteristics of the IndieWeb, a loose organization of web site owners and developers dedicated to cultivating independently owned, interoperable web sites and services, free of the data silos and walled gardens of the big, corporate-owned sites and technologies. Slashpages.net lists a bunch of common slashpages. I will tell you, as I am in the process of gradually getting slashpages set up, some of them replace pages I already had up. I haven't reconciled this yet so there's some duplicate content. Here's the current list of slashpages on this site:
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/Instruments

These are my musical skills, roughly in descending order of competency: Guitar (Acoustic & Electric, flat-picked & finger-picked) Keyboards (Electronic, Piano, Organ) Recorder & Chalumeau (Garkleit, Sopranino, Soprano, Alto, Tenor) Bass (Electric) Vocals Saxophone Clarinet Hand drums Lyre (24 string) Harmonica
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/Interests

Creative Arts, Hobbies & Interests: Music, both listening and making. Photography. Creative nonfiction writing. Generative art. Software engineering. Stock option trading. Electronics. Rubik's cube and similar puzzles. Indoor gardening/raising houseplants Intellectual interests: Oceanography, on an amateur or pop-science level. Language & Grammar. Movie special effects, especially the old practical effects masters. Physics. Psychology: Cognition, Persuasion & manipulation,  etc. Comms, Media & Entertainment: Horror, sci-fi, and true survival movies. Comedy & Humor. Conversation with people with thoughtful perspectives, something to teach, or something to learn. Off-and-on Social Media addict Travel & Adventure Hobbies: Free Travel/Vagabonding. Urban Exploration. Camping and the outdoors.
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/Guy

The secret is out!   I'm some sorta guy, I have no fucking idea what, at this point. Actually nowadays I feel more like a bug than a person—a specimen, not an individual. I'm good with it, though. My burrow is cozy. I am a zen insect.
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/Follow

RSS Right now, the site feed is live at feed://michaelkupietz.com/feed. It doesn't validate properly—I'm working on that—but it does work in my FreshRSS reader, so it should be ok. Alternatively you can see the most recent site updates listed in the browser on /changes. h-feed I've got this site's front page "hero" (featured posts) section and all archive pages—that's all pages listing articles on this site by any kind of category, tag, or author name (of which there's only me) tagged with the more modern h-feed microformat for reading in h-feed readers (such as, for example, the previewer at https://monocle.p3k.io/preview). This is a microformat (a set of codes added to a web page) recommended by the Indieweb folks that allows modern feed readers to directly read your web pages without having to have a separate RSS or other feed page. Here's some sample links to pages marked with h-feed. You can type any of the sesample links into https://monocle.p3k.io/preview and see them presented as a feed, or follow them in the h-feed reader of your choice. Home page (featured posts): https://michaelkupietz.com My author page (basically, all recent page updates): https://michaelkupietz.com/author/mike-kupietz/ Top category pages: Basically, at the top of every menu or submenu where you see "More info", that takes you to a page listing the articles in  that menu, which also works as an h-feed page: https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/about/ https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/images/ https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/music-sounds/ https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writing/ https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/code-algorithms/ https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/works-in-progress/ Similarly, subcategory (sub menu) pages work as well. For instance, there's a "Slashpages" submenu under the "About" menu,…
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/Contact

While I'm still transitioning to using default slashpages, this is just a mirror of info on my main Bio & Contact Info page. If you have any questions or concerns, I'm absolutely here to help. To get in touch, come to San Francisco and walk down each street shouting my name. Here's a map: Kidding. Your best bet to reach me about my creative work or issues about this site is email. Michael Kupietz Creative Productions, Arrangements, & Operations in Arts, Technology, and Entertainment Email: website@michaelkupietz.com (but read the warning below) Web: https://michaelkupietz.com Download vCard If you email me: As an anti-spam measure, you're going to have to make sure your subject contains "email re website", or my mail filters will assume you're a spambot and trash it without me seeing it. Also check back if you write later, because I'll probably change this contact address periodically and block the old ones. I've got fuller contact info, including a contact phone number, posted on my consulting business site, so if you want to call or text me, you can click through to that.
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/Colophon

Primarily as an interim measure as I adapt my site to using slashpages, this page largely repeats things you can find written about at greater length and in a way less exhausted state elsewhere on the site's About menu. This site runs at home. This is served by Wordpress running on a Debian 12 VM running in VMware on a 2012 Mac mini in my living room (then routed for protection through some things I won't name and then, out on the internet, some reverse proxies and CDNs and caches and other stuff. But you know that because you already ran a traceroute. I saw you coming.) The theme is an extremely customized version of an obsolete, apparently abandoned wordpress theme called Sinatra that looked good when I started but I have since discovered was written really inefficiently. I've changed huge chunks of it to make it do my bidding and stop grinding my browser's rendering engine to a halt. Folks: it's not hard. When you're building a them, don't have jQuery $("body.is_single a") selectors and a million CSS ancestor selectors that all run on every single anchor tag on the site. Use classnames. C'mon. This site lived in my head for many yearsas a hypothetical home for the creative endeavors I had scattered throughout a million different electronic venues, completely mentally designed in a very similar form to what you see here, before a long illness knocked me out of commission for a few months around summer of 2023,…
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/Chipotle

I've never eaten at Chipotle, so I don't really know. People actually eat at that place? I guess pick me up some nachos. With meat. Make sure there's jalapeños. Hard to go wrong with that.
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/Carry

My everyday carries are pretty simple: 1. Keys, chained to my belt so I can't lose them. 2. Cellphone, currently 1st generation iPhone SE as of this writing. 3. ID & similar wallet stuff, carried loose in a pocket so I can't lose them all at once. I'm a pretty simple guy. Optional - things I frequently carry but not always: 4. Pen knife (when traveling/camping, often a pen knife and utility knife... different tools for different uses.) 5. Rubik's cube or similar twisty puzzle. 6. USB phone charger and USB cable. 7. Tobacco pipe & pouch of tobacco, as an aid in self-destruction, but not as bad a one as I used to use. Thrilling, huh.
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/Blogroll

Let's make this easy. Here's my OPML file from my RSS reader. Some links or feeds may be obsolete. Inclusion in this list does not imply endorsement, just some sort of possibly perverse interest. Download OPML feeds_2024-10-24.opml OPML HTML Links "La flauta es dulce": recorder is sweet » Feed: RSS Url web pageAbnormal Returns: RSS Url web page - Forecast-free since 2005A Druid Way: RSS Url web pageAdventuresInCapitalism | Small Companies–Big Upside: RSS Url web page - Small Companies--Big UpsideAI Alignment: RSS Url web page - Aligning AI systems with human interests. - MediumAlice Bradley — Finslippy: RSS Url web pageAll Articles on Seeking Alpha: RSS Url web page - © seekingalpha.com. Use of this feed is limited to personal, non-commercial use and is governed by Seeking Alpha's Terms of Use (https://about.seekingalpha.com/terms). Publishing this feed for public or commercial use and/or misrepresentation by a third party is prohibited.All Things Linguistic: RSS Url web page - A blog about all things linguistic by Gretchen McCulloch. I cohost Lingthusiasm, a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics. I’m the author of Because Internet, a book about internet language!Analytics India Magazine: RSS Url web page - Artificial Intelligence, And Its Commercial, Social And Political ImpactApproximately Correct: RSS Url web page - Technical and Social Perspectives on Machine LearningAP Top News at 11: RSS Url web pagearg min blog: RSS Url web page - arg min: a blog of minimum value. on the history, foundations, and validity of "optimally" automated decision making.Ars Technica: RSS Url web page…
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/About

Note: This page is a mirror of my about/contact page at a href="https://michaelkupietz.com/?p=9103">https://michaelkupietz.com/?p=9103, just for consistency with the other slashpages. You should probably just read it there.
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The Whole Of The Law: Privacy Policy

Who we are This website address is: https://michaelkupietz.com. It is the showcase website for creative works by artist and technologist Mike Kupietz, the owner and author of this site, hereinafter referred to as "Mike". I. Mike's Commitment To Your Privacy And Right Not To Be Abused For Commercial Purposes This site is noncommercial and intended 1.) primarily for Mike's entertainment; and 2.) secondarily for yours. No commercial use of your identifying information or resources is ever knowingly made by Mike. Those information and resources are never knowingly shared with others by Mike, except as necessary to resolve technical issues hindering the proper functioning of this site. II. Information About Site Functions Coded By Mike. Much of this site runs on code personally authored or audited by Mike. The guarantees in this section II pertain to that code. What Information About You Mike's Own Authored Code Collects This site logs standard http header information when you access it: referring page, your public IP address, etc. This information is kept indefinitely for purposes of troubleshooting server performance. Your general physical location, on the town or city level, may be revealed by your IP address. What Information About You Mike's Own Authored Code Shares With Anyone Else Information collected as described above is visible to Mike. It is not shared with anyone else. What Information Mike's Own Authored Code Saves On Your Computer Some of the front-end widgets may save position or visual settings information about elements displayed in the web page you…
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Bio — About Mike Kupietz
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The Man Behind The Curtain: Bio — About Mike Kupietz

It is I! About Mike Kupietz A year of this site, my baby, my pride and joy, ranking on page 11 of Google search results for my own name has convinced me it's time to do a little search engine optimization, so here's some brief biographical information about artist and technologist Michael Kupietz to tip off the brilliant algorithms out there as to who and what this site just might be about (including awkward third-person references to please Google's SEO.) Mike Kupietz is an avid musician, artist, and by day a software engineer, much of which is linked to on my Other Sites section at bottom. Mike Kupietz: Origins, range, and distinguishing characteristics I'm an east coast expatriate who somehow, incomprehensibly, has been based for half my life now in San Francisco. I grew up on Long Island, and attended Very Big State U upstate for two years, where I studied computer science and was a teaching assistant in the electronic music studio, before transferring to Tiny Little Liberal Arts College in the beautiful Hudson Valley, where my heart still resides, where I just barely completed a degree in physics with a concentration in acoustics and an effective minor in playing rock & roll with complete abandon if not much skill. I've been a software programmer since I was a kid, and also grew up an artistic dilettante: writing, taking painting lessons, always looking for some sort of self-expression, until at about the age of 15 I started learning music…
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About Sexism In The AI Images On This Site
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Hey, You Got Your Social Awareness In My AI!: About Sexism In The AI Images On This Site

A number of the AI-generated images on this site contain artistic depictions of nudity, presented in a way that might seem to reasonably suggest some confusion between real artistic or aesthetic value, and what gives some people, perhaps including myself, some level of simple va-va-va-voom visual jollies. Put simply: there's a lot of images of naked, topless, or scantily-dressed women in some of the image galleries here, but not so many men. Almost none, in fact. Although it's in several galleries, this is most evident in, say, "Previsions of Johanna", where the many female figures, and only the female figures, all came out either nude, topless, or wearing a low-cut dress, while the male figures are always fully clothed from neck to wrists and ankles. In fact, the lone arguably male figure in that entire set that is wearing a loose tank top, rather than some kind of suit, is decidedly androgynous. Interestingly, I never specified anything like that in creating the images, and in fact, most of the images containing nudity were generated using Stable Diffusion XL, which is actually designed to block creating intentional NSFW images. There's even a few around here created with Bing's instance of Dall-E, which is highly censored, yet even so, still include the odd bare female breast. So, in recognition of the fact that some viewers will notice in many galleries on the site the huge discrepancy between the high visibility of female skin, and the total absence of visible male skin besides…
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Programming tricks used on this site
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Under The Hood: Programming tricks used on this site

This is (or, will be) a meta-post listing all posts I've written about the techniques used to create this site.
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Site Design Overview: Featured Images Gallery

Since they're not always clearly displayed on the front page or in every post, for convenience, this is an automated scrape of all original "featured images" (the background or front page image for a post) on the site.
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Administrivia: Site Content, Design, & Technical IAQs

An early viewer asked some questions about the art I use on my site, so I thought I would put together a page of Q&A about the site and the materials on it. Who are you, now?I'm Mike Kupietz. You can be forgiven for not knowing who I am. Although I do have to admit I privately hoped I'd make more of a splash. I'm a musician, artist, and by day a FileMaker consultant and web developer based, strictly due to an accident of fate, in San Francisco. Where did you get _____ image? / Did you do all this art?Mostly all the images on this site are my own art. There are a few public domain images on this site. As of this writing the images I didn't create are: - the poo emoji on the BS Detector post - Cezanne's "House with Red Roof", which I used a detail of as the cover of my perpetually under-construction album "Five Themes In Uncertain Times" as a symbolic representation that I'll try to get around to explaining if I ever get that album finished and released - The ornate "K" stamp logo (in the background of the header and used as a default featured image for posts without a custom one), which is a logo I've used for many years, from an actual rubber stamp that I bought in the stamp store in Northgate Mall in Seattle in probably 1995. It's originally from the decorative typeface "Cloister Initials" created in…
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My Whole Raison D'isaster: About This Site — An Introduction

Hey there! Thanks for visiting my online showcase. I'm Mr. Roarke, your host. Welcome to Fantasy Island. But seriously, folks... I've had a personal website for about 20 years, as well as an ancient blog, neither of which ever got many reads. But I've had it in my head for a while to put together something a little nicer as a portfolio, something which could accommodate my longstanding habit of getting projects 98% finished, often almost presentable but for my perfectionist tendencies, before getting distracted by something else while the final work on them dragged out for years. As a consequence of this, my hard drive has become a repository for tons of mostly-finished art, music, and writing that nobody ever sees. Not that that mattered much—I actually don't have much need for applause or care for other people's opinions of my creative work, I mostly just do it for my own pleasure. But at the same time, I thought perhaps having a comprehensive, consolidated archive to look over might feel validating in my occasional darker moments, plus a showcase might provide some additional incentive to actually finish some things occasionally. Plus, as I rounded the 660th month of my extended youth, I found myself a little less worried about what people think of what I say. Other than my professional FileMaker Pro consulting site, I've always been pretty scrupulous to keep any online dealings that might involve expressing opinions or telling unsavory tales of my misspent youth under a…
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Site Disclaimer, Terms of Use, and Conditions
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The Man Is Out To Get Me: Site Disclaimer, Terms of Use, and Conditions

Commencing herewith are the understandings and conditions (hereinafter referred to as the "Terms Of Use") to which you must agree to be permitted to access, view, or use the whole or any constituent part of michaelkupietz.com's technology, data, resources, contents, privately-owned intellectual property, visual pages or media, electronic files, and RSS or other author-published data feeds (all hereinafter referred to collectively as the "Site"), whether accessed by michaelkupietz.com or any other domain or means by which any part of the Site may be accessed. You must immediately close and and terminate whatever means you are using to view or access the Site if you do not agree with the Terms Of Use in full. The below interstitial numbered section titles in blue text are intended only for amusement and to facilitate easier reading, and are to be taken merely as visual page decoration and not as part of the semantic contents of the Terms Of Use. 1. It's all lies Anything that is part of the Site, now or in the future, whether included by accident or design, is strictly and without exception meant as entertainment only, and is included in the Site entirely without prejudice. No warrantee is expressed nor implied. The Site is solely intended for entertainment. No part of the Site should be construed as truthful, or as signifying, implying, or meaning anything at all other than the singular fact that author(s), creator(s), owner(s), and/or administator(s) of the Site (hereafter referred to as "Michael") at some point…
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External Links: Fellow Travelers, Friends’ Sites, and other related links

Some IRL Friends My old friend, a music professor and composer of both opera and rock music: Dan Sonenberg A ridiculously talented friend and endless font of creativity who goes by many names, currently going by Piscadoro Kingfisher Mike Brown: music videos, and writing Looks like my old friend Chris Simunek, whom I call Gene, was running a website of his countercultural journalism & writing for a while over at Paradise Burning. He never mentioned it to me. That's vintage Gene. Gene and his talented wife Rebekah Harris also run Shipwreck Montauk fine jewelery waaaay out on Long Island's eastern end. My good friend, inspiration, and fellow traveler H. Dean Clark documents his adventures as a road scholar as h.deanclark6796 on YouTube and on his professional photography website, Clark Fine Photography. My friend Nicole Gluckstern runs Substrate Arts, in-depth and experimental coverage of the Bay Area’s arts and cultural scenes, and chronicles her theater and journalism at Estrella Suerte Productions. I've recently gotten involved with IndieWeb, a loose organization of developers and website owners dedicated to cultivating independently owned, interoperable web sites and services, free of the data silos and walled gardens of the big, corporate-owned sites and technologies. Though I haven't talked to them in a while, I'd be remiss in not mentioning my very long-term friends and employers at Green Tortoise Adventure Travel and the Green Tortoise Seattle Hostel and San Francisco Hostel, where I was alternately in-house FileMaker developer, Webmaster, IT Manager, and guitar-strumming hippie resident (not…
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