@Asymmetricblue

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Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen.

From the land of sky blue water.

Data, development, and the great outdoors.

Literally the only thing I want from the internet is some way to put €100 into my browser wallet and when I navigate to a paywall site they can prompt me and say “give us €.50 and we’ll show you the article without ads or a login” and I hit yes and then I read the goddamn article.

I don’t know if this is a W3C thing or a browser thing. I have no idea how to make such a thing happen. But there must be a way to pay people for stuff they put on the internet that doesn’t involve me signing up for 60 different services.

Imagine Acme Mega-Oil invested in a taxi service, and the drivers working for that taxi service were measured not on profits, or revenue, or journeys completed or passenger satisfaction, but on gasoline burned. That's basically Big Tech right now.
repost this image to instantly consume all AA batteries in a 50km radius
having a grumpy morning    #caturday #QuantumTunneling #Schrödinger
Fish fry, beer and raffle at the Legion.
Friday night in Minnesota.

My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR is a Nebula Award finalist for Best Novel. And look at the powerful company it’s in.

Still kind of stunned by this book’s journey. 🥹

I am an extremely flawed person and if my colleagues had faith in me to do a flawless job then that is on them to reckon with. They made that choice to believe in me to do what they chose not to do themselves.
@hacks4pancakes Which (space) flight attendants had the better hats?
Modern airlines
0%
1960s airlines
0%
2001 A Space Odyssey
20%
The Fifth Element
80%
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