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Since I don't miss a chance to tell you how great A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs is, I'll not ethe most recent main episode again mentioned that first, as far as we know recorded use of the word “woke” is its now-embarrassing context came from Huddie Ledbetter. 500songs.com/podcast/song...

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My reader brain is liking Becky Chambers (Spacefarers and Monk&Robot), Arkady Martine, Marina Lostetter (Noumenon series). What else should I try soon? #books #SciFi #SpaceOpera #HardSF

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The overlap between what I want to eat and what gets delivered in god condition is not great. Nor the overlap between my brain’s insistence on pre-pandemic pricing and actual prices.

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With yesterday’s probably-shitty cancer news I suppose I’m allowed to lie about all day today. Finding it hard to do anything.

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I hear there’s gonna be an improv show set in the Star Wars universe. It’s called “Yes, Andor.”

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New Story Day: The Other River I've waited so long to say this, but The Other River is now available to read for free at Lightspeed. There's also an author spotlight, though since that interview I've left my job to focus on my health. Almost anything else I have to say about the story is in […]

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Slate changed their CSS and now article text is all bold in Safari. This is absolutely obnoxious and they should fix it.

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Maybe this point on my health journey is not an auspicious moment to try switching text editors. Or learning another programming language.

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The Wall Street Journal reports that tech company employees relocating to Texas and environs are learning to dress cowboy. Which is great, because if anyone can sour Americans on sexist, racist cowboy cosplay (and the attendant oversized trucks), these bros can. For once, “everything they […]

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Hanging out on that hairy edge between “treatment not working, I’m gonna die soon” and “but the next experimental treatment might work. Or maybe one after that.”

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Did fuck-all today. After yesterday’s health news I’m allowed a day or even three to mope. But I did teach the 10-year-old how to play Lode Runner.

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[CW: Cancer Update] Latest chemo/immunotherapy drugs clearly not working. Next step is a clinical trial drug that shows improvements in roughly 40% of the early phase 1 patients. Getting our ducks in a row for that.

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It is May 11, 2005. You power on your temporal quantum computer. C-SPAN is playing in the background as the REAL ID act is signed into law. The harmonic matrix hums as it picks up the audio and the CRT lights up with the inexplicable string "REAL ID Act will begin enforcement in the second […]

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When is Steve Earle gonna cover Bruce Springsteen's "Darlington County?"

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Completed and sent in my SSDI application, which feels not like an accomplishment but absolutely makes me feel shitty. (Or I was gonna feel that way anyway today and I’m just-so-storying it, which is my default expectation generally for moods.)

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I’m no economist, but… maybe these guys aren’t, either.

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It is an ancient Macintosh And it stoppeth one of three. “By thy compact case and platinum design, Now wherefore stopp’st thou me?”

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I have become Calvin's dad when it comes to slop coding.

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Do I know any Seattle folks who do 3D printing? I may need one of these: https://www.printables.com/model/9213-scsi2sd-bracket-for-mac-se-and-se30-v12

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All those bad facts about plastic are true. But, after years of waxed cardboard boxes, these are the first Mike & Ikes I’ve eaten where I can tell the flavors apart.

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Me: Hmmm… Carol Channing didn’t age as much as I’d’ve guessed between this Muppet Show episode and Space Ghost Coast 2 Coast. Maths Well, they weren’t as far apart in time as I would have guessed. More Math But much farther from SGC2C to now. Turns to dust

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When all I want is fewer devices notifying me of anything at all… https://mastodon.social/@verge/114249026841009116

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“The White Lotus” meets “Murder, She Wrote” — a family of rich, entitled assholes goes around the world to fancy resorts, squabbling as they solve murders, drink and drug, fuck around, and are generally unpleasant (but somehow read by the audience as aspirational).

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The DOGE bros who don’t understand that they need domain-specific knowledge to port SSA’s COBOL to Java are the spiritual descendants of the “you can manage anything” “scientific management” bros who drove Detroit into the ground in the 60s and 70s. But also they’re fascists.

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Working on a playlist for this story. What's your favorite rock or metal song invoking the devil? #AmWriting

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What are good places in #Seattle to buy a reliable used bike for a teenager? My 13yo has outgrown their bike from last year and I don’t want to invest beaucoup bucks if we can save money without compromising safety. #BikeTooter

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Buying ADB accessories on eBay like you do, as the local mall doesn’t have an Egghead Software or CompUSA anymore.

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Hey #Mac heads is there consensus on #SwiftBar vs #xBar for menu bar items? They seem interchangeable to me—I’ve been using SwiftBar a while now but not sure where the energy is.

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There is value and import to recognizing that the United States has always committed horrors, and. There is a small but loud strain of Very Online Leftism that prides itself on NOT being horrified by the deliberate Trumpian spectacle of arbitrary, escalating brutality. It is a rot.

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A cover of Ozzy’s “Mr Crowley” that sounds virtually identical to the original but pronounces The Great Beast’s name properly.

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Of course consultants and freelance developers love AI generated code. They’re already in the business of handing off half-baked deliverables they never understood to people making a lot less money to unfuck, deploy, and maintain seagull software. Now they can drop the same shit faster.

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