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Jo Walton recently mentioned that she's always reading 16 books at once, so we asked her...how? In this article, @bluejo.bsky.social maps out her system, tracking different categories, genres, and formats, and rules for reading...it's really very simple!

SLEEPING WIZARDS: Come for the fun dungeon-crawl story and vibrant artwork, stay for the gorgeous lettering, then stay even longer for Sir Vance catching strays from the narrator again 🚨👇 Only 4 DAYS LEFT to back!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

One of the many, many things genAI destroys is human collaboration. It actively creates loners, guys spinning off into the deep end with literally no one around them to go "hey what the fuck are you talking about" or "hey this sounds like the thing I've been working on" or "check out this book"

ryan coogler wins best original screenplay for 'sinners' and gets a well-deserved standing ovation. "everyone sit down, i don't wanna get played off. i'm from oakland and we talk a lot."

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

#SomethingBeautiful three angels with interiority from Botticelli's Madonna of the Magnificat

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Amy Madigan becomes, FINALLY, the first Oscar winner from STREETS OF FIRE

This US based teashop got broken into and needs to replace a whole bunch of things (their door/windows/possibly more). Give them a visit and try their teas if you can? They could use the financial support

"I don't think Iowa's flippable" well here's a freebie. I keep saying it. Run a dem candidate who is all in on right to repair and crushing Monsanto, AND THEN MAKE SURE WE CAN FIND OUT ABOUT IT. Watch that ocean of blue swallow the farmland.

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

I love this joke. You love this joke. We all do. It is hilarious. Buuuuuut...you know we're about to discuss Roman calendars, right? And that this joke isn't quite right? SO! Let's talk about Roman calendars and why the 'number months' (Sept-Dec) do not match their numbers (7-10)! 1/

Adam Baldwin was literally *the* guy who named GamerGate and made it go viral. It was just some loser 4chan/incel YouTuber shit before then. They spammed him to get his attention because they knew he’s also a psycho loser and they wanted to make it go viral, and he did it. And it worked.

Two days left to destroy both my garden and my mind with goats.

They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

Also, be sure not to spread this video of Justin Fox, the other DOGE bro who revealed that he's a malicious moron who caused incredible destruction. Do not hurt Justin Fox's reputation just by linking Justin Fox's name to the sworn testimony Justin Fox gave about what Justin Fox did.

Never fund DHS again. Abolish it completely. If someone wants to moan about "but but we have to ____" yeah fine we can discuss a new department, but *this* department has to go.

Reading TRACE ELEMENTS is like having one of those wonderful idea-spinning conversations that can happen in the SF world. Open to any page and fall immediately in. Genre, genre conventions, writing craft, disability—the spectrum is so wide and so full of sparks

YouTube has removed "sort by date" in search results. Here's why that's "platform enshittification" (© @doctorow.pluralistic.net) the recurring process of 1. Lock in users with good service 2. Exploit your monopoly for advert £$€ 3. Chase profit so hard that your platform becomes bad for everyone

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“I think people are dancing with the ghosts of the past” might be the best quote to describe not only the tech world going all in on AI but the current state of America.

this is the guide I used to gtfo spotify, took a little time but now it is done

The problem with the president of the United States breaking multiple treaties, including his own, repeatedly lying to just about every country on Earth, and holding peace talks as a perfidious ruse to murder other heads of state, means any promises he makes, oral or written, are worthless.

I am trying to think of any security assurances anyone could offer Iran as part of a negotiated cease fire, and I can't think of anything except the GCC+Iraq canceling US basing rights and closing the gulf to foreign warships.

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Can’t believe nobody wanted to read the articles nobody bothered to write

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

If you can't attend in-person, a) we offer Supporting Memberships, and b) we're holding an online event this very weekend!

I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/

I’m afraid that quote has nothing to do with Thucydides, though often misattributed to him on the Internet; it is in fact a simplified version of a line by nineteenth-century soldier and author Sir William F. Butler.

The new fancy sparkly special reprinted edition of The Queen of Ieflaria is out in just a few days on the 16th of December! Links here: linktr.ee/effiecalvin

“Where might I have gone if, instead of a middle-aged Hobbit enamored of his pantry, I had embraced a girl who lost three homes before choosing the open road?” — @amalelmohtar.com on discovering Naomi Mitchison’s TRAVEL LIGHT – via @npr.org #kidlit #fantasy 💙📚 www.npr.org/2014/01/01/2...

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YESSSSSSS!!!!!!! NUMBER ONE NEW RELEASE IN FAIRY TALES ON AMAZON!!!!!! Thank you ALL for buying and boosting this! Please continue! 😅 Seriously, the whole series is in the top 50 for fairy tales right now! Maybe it can reach top ten??? www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

I think a lot about a post by someone who ran a hobby shop of some form (forget if it was a comic shop or Warhammer store or what) that basically said putting up a little rainbow flag sticker on the door was the best business decision they made because they served as That Guy repellants.

Trump only got into Wharton after his family pulled strings and got him an interview with an official who did a "special favor" to the family. A Wharton prof later said he was "the dumbest goddamn student" he ever had. So, yes, his admission does say a lot about how smart he is.

It's the beginning of history - and an era where we'll see thorough tests of the assumptions of the AI bubble as a result of the war in Iran and the economic and social chaos to follow. It's time to stop using the past as a guide to what happens next. www.wheresyoured.at/the-beginnin...

IT IS TIME The man looked up from his beach chair. "Really?" He said. "I've only just retired." Death held up a timer. A single grain was about to fall. And then... It didn't. CURIOUS Vetinari shrugged. "I've only just discovered drinks with little umbrellas. I'll let it fall in a bit" 1/17

It was hard to say how long the silence lasted this time. There is, in fact, a god of awkward pauses. There are just very few temples to her on the Disk due to her habit of showing up to divine interventions late. She briefly thought about showing up here, but decided to stay well clear. 8/17

Also: I just uncovered a small network of recently-created accounts that are LLMs replying to people talking about health topics and added them to my Reply/Contact Spammers list as well as reported them, but posting so folks know to be aware since they were mostly recently created

Boy howdy, I have thoughts on a lot of this. The main takeaway is that this was a mismanaged project by all sides, and there's a lot of workflow issues that are rather interesting to dig into. Thread:

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

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Okay - so now I've resolved this I wanted to discuss what happened, and the culprit wasn't Ghost, but Name dot com. Ghost got in touch and ran down the problem, and I moved my DNS stuff to Cloudflare, which has resolved the issues. I still recommend Ghost but use Cloudflare for DNS.

When pondering “lethality,” this quote from Sherman in 1865 comes to mind: “War means success by any and every means; it is not fighting alone. Bulls do that, and bears, and all beasts, but men attain objects by intellect, and the introduction of physical power, moved upon strategic points."