Notebook/tablet people, do I *really* want to switch from a reMarkable to a Supernote? Imagine that I am somehow who hates change and also hates spending money, but also someone who writes and annotates an enormous number of words by hand and finds the reMarkable stuff difficult to keep organized.

over on Mastodon: a fruit poll social.coop/@brainwane/1... and an innovative and terrible product idea for a mouth implant social.coop/@brainwane/1...

If folks could share this, i'd appreciate it! We inherited a small collection of photo and video cameras from spouse's family, and i'd love to know more about them — the top shelf in particular. (Bottom shelf are our current-ish cameras, so we know them.) I'll slowly add close-ups.... 🧵

With autumn settling in, there's very little left for us to set up as far as our wine/liqueur projects for the year. So here's a quick overview of The Year in Concoctions.

I did really innovative work on a physics problem set in 2003. Got an answer that nobody expected. Some called it "completely wrong." Nobody says that anymore. Maybe they forgot. But maybe history has vindicated me. I'll sleep with my phone next to me tonight, just in case.

Alt text: Hell Gate Biggest Year Ever, Biggest Sale Ever ["33%" crossed out] 34% off

Folks in digital preservation looking for a chill place to hang out off here - I run a digipres mastodon instance, digipres.club. I try to keep it running well and low stress. All are welcome.

We: Announce the Otherwise Awards 2025 jury Remind you to submit recommendations by Nov. 14th Thank our past Treasurer, Jim Hudson, and welcome our new Treasurer, Rachel Kadel Announce our new Motherboard member, Nick Murphy otherwiseaward.org/2025/09/four...

Hey pals, I know an accomplished engineering manager in DC who's starting to look around for their next challenge. Experience with government, security, open source. Happy to make intros.

Looking for an SF Bay person available for a short-term job cataloguing a large collection of immersive/ARG materials for donation to a museum. You’d be paid as a contractor, expected to take a couple weeks. You’d be working out of my home, so not being allergic to cats would be ideal.

This is extremely short notice, granted, but a Metafilter member has written code to help you save your Typepad blog before service shutdown (looks at calendar) TOMORROW. I just got the permission to share it yesterday, and it didn't sink in how close it was until just now Honestly I don't know […]

last day to grab your typepad hosted blog btw

SF3 (The Society of the Furtherance and Study of Fantasy and Science Fiction) is hosting our annual meeting on October 12th, 2025, at 2PM CT. This is the last day to register! Join here: sf3.org/join/

PSA: don't trust google docs with your grammar corrections without consulting a human. I am now at 5 instances of it trying to insert past tense verbs into present tense sentences in this document. And the dirty clothes in the corner are "rank" not "ranked".

My ostensible bus driver just went rogue, took the highway up the coast and skipped the first several miles of the route, including my stop. Good job, Oakland AC Transit.

WisCon is looking for volunteers: Blog writers, volunteers for Marketing team, Script Writers, Tech and IT, Programming coordination, Accessibility and logistics. No experience needed. Just curiosity, collaboration, and a belief in feminist speculative fiction. Learn more at wiscon.net

The flip side of this is, as a member of a few communities who use Discourse, and as much as I think the internet in 2025 would benefit from more forums, I desperately wish there was an easy-to-run piece of forum software whose consumer-facing UX was not notably worse than phpMyBB or vBulletin

I asked Leonard for a scifi version of the first line of "Charlotte's Web" ('“Where's Papa going with the ax?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.') and he came up with "When's Papa going with the ax?"

From someone else’s psych report recommendations. Emphasis mine: “in previewing literature, [child] should read the chapter headings, the jacket cover, the prologue AND EPILOGUE, then state a working hypothesis of what she will read.” WTF HAVE YOU EVER READ A NOVEL. #therapistsky

Routine PSA: If you ever wish you could put time into directly helping out some kids who need help, I'd be happy to talk about being a court-appointed special advocate in your local foster-care system. There are a whole lot of kids—queer, trans, and otherwise—who need someone to have their backs.

CHOTINER: how spicy is the spicy tofu? SANDWICH GUY: CHOTINER: look I don't do it all the time SANDWICH GUY: CHOTINER: that would be like expecting Sammy Davis Jr to tapdance everywhere, I just want a sandwich SANDWICH GUY: I'm saying fucking nothing until my lawyer gets here.

www.metafilter.com/210455/How-t... Links to @naomikritzer.bsky.social , @heykellyjensen.bsky.social , and @frankstrong.bsky.social to help US residents research and publish local elections endorsements - city council, school & library boards, and more.

If you have a PACER account, it comes with $30 free each quarter. Now's your chance to spend it on the things people want.

this is sweet & cute & sad

Does anyone have recommendations for decent command line tools that will OCR PDFs for me? The tool ocrmypdf has been nothing but problem after problem. Especially tools that can handle a wide variety of languages

Some academic psych reading I'm doing sent me down a very weird rabbithole of "okay, but what would it mean to design immersive theater meant specifically for the subconscious" and realizing I have yet again reinvented Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age (1995)

The Trust & Safety Research Conference starts the day after tomorrow! If you see me, come say hi - and please come to the lightning talks sessions on Online Privacy and Digital Well-Being that I'm moderating Thursday morning at 9:45! cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/content/trus...

Recently I asked someone what actions he's taking to help with an issue he cares about a lot. He said he didn't know what to do -- what he could do that would actually make a difference. What I said helped him, so I wrote it down for others too. harihareswara.net/posts/2025/i...

ORMs make easy things easier and hard things harder

Had a moment today that reflects societal failure but also institutions doing what they can to cope. A bit of a long 🧵. So: as you may know, I teach at the downtown YMCA. It‘s a lovely place up on the 3rd floor of Gaviidae Common, sadly underused since it opened a few minutes before COVID. 1/

If you're a cis person who wants to be kind to your trans and nonbinary friends right now, please do not forward us links to stories about trans people being abused, having their rights taken away, or living in fear. We already know. A friendly "hey I hope you're OK" is much more helpful. 💖

there should be a single button i can press to trace back a whole chain of nested quote posts & replies so i can read the full context in chronological order w/o having to click and scroll up and click and scroll up & so on

New York is a large and complicated state. What do you want to know about it? Tell us what questions you have, and we may answer them in one of our “in brief” articles. nysfocus.com/how-power-wo...

Successful mitigation is often indistinguishable from an overreaction. If you cannot recreate the circumstances precisely, to run the experiment again, then you cannot prove otherwise. This asymmetry will be strategically exploited by people who want you to stop responding to risks and threats.

The alumni of this program are a who’s-who across silicon valley. Suspect there aren’t many law students following me here but if there is one in your life who is interested in tech law, they should apply.

Original post: mastodon.social/@gvwilson/11...

The way you don't even notice the paper towel butt rack until he reaches back for a paper towel

Was listening to two girls talk about y2k fashion and they were talking about how they found a shirt from the 80s super intact and flawless. Then said “imagine finding something that is that perfect from 50 years ago!” ……………………..I’ve never felt like a fossil before today.

do you think the kids these days have even heard of "Microserfs"

We're noodling around with a second edition of the Docs for Devs books, and I'm wondering, technology book readers - what makes a second edition worthwhile to you? What do you want to see added?

Question for fellow history nerds: I seem to recall reading a brief mention, years ago, of a French Ancien Regime aristo who took pot shots at workers from a roof, but was pardoned by Louis XVI (or possibly Louis XV), but research hasn't turned up anything yet. Anyone have any pointers?

We’re into year three of @smallwondersmag.com and the experience of reading a story and becoming so excited that you want to publish it immediately has yet to grow old.

every covid shot still feels like a goddamn miracle

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Unrelated flashback to the time a conference organizer in Paraguay told my hotel (unbeknownst to me) I was Bruce Willis traveling under a fake name. They upgraded me to a suite. The late night kitchen staff wanted pics. Perplexed a group of US real estate investors the next day.

I think an interesting thing about this moment is that we (or at least most people) do not have a theory of mind that accounts for something that is not sentient but can have a conversation with you

Out of curiosity (and because I encountered a definition that I am nearly certain is wrong), how do you define "high fantasy" vs "low fantasy"?

My Somerville city council endorsements, hopefully not too late to be useful to someone at least. TLDR: Istvan, Klekota, Spicer, Wheeler. totient.dreamwidth.org/199180.html

📝 Interested in applying to RC? Join us to learn & ask questions about what attending is like: spending 6 or 12 weeks sharpening your programming skills and following what excites you in a collaborative community! We’re hosting an info session Mon, Oct 6th from 12:30-1pm ET RSVP: luma.com/mn3kjnkj