🐖 The birds of North America
New York, U.S.A.: Published under the auspices of the Natural Science Association of America, 1895, c1888.
Vicodin: taking the "beg" out of Vibe Coding.
There's a meme or a joke in there somewhere.
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The knight paused his charger. “Ho, child, what name ye this village?”
The young girl so addressed kept walking, a bucket in each hand.
“YOU THERE! I SAID…”
The door of the smithy that stood on the outskirts of the settlement opened. “Good morrow, Sir Knight”
“And to you, Smith. I was about to instruct this rude youngster…”
The smith regarded the cooling red-tipped spike in her hand, and called out to the girl “Mim, what do we teach you about courtesy to knights?”
“We don’t fuckin talk to cops, Smith”
“No instruction necessary, as you can see”
I found a technician who'd work on a Linux machine, and she solved my problem (I had no wifi whatsoever) the same day that she received it.
I realize the culture of Linux "fix it yourself!" and I tried. I got a buddy to help. We couldn't figure it out, so I paid a professional to fix it and then tell me how she did it.
I want to normalize this. For Linux to be viable, it can't just be a hobby OS. Paying pros to fix it, and set it up for you, is part of that.
Linux has surpassed 5% desktop market share in the US (5.03% in June 2025), per StatCounter, driven by privacy concerns, rising costs of Windows/macOS, and user-friendly distros like Ubuntu. Community celebrates amid gaming and enterprise boosts, though challenges like software gaps persist; analysts eye 7% by 2027.
Clever is the asswipe who can't stop bragging about how much his Palantar shares are worth now. Clever is the guy who believes selling a thing is as good or better than understanding how it workes.
Sagan wasn't clever, he was deeply curious and committed to pursuing that curiosity. Even when that pursuit led him to places he didn't like. That's the difference between clever and intelligent. He was the opposite of the person who, as he so deftly identified, couldn't distinguish between what was true and what made them feel good.
"He who by force of will or of thought is great, and overlooks thousands, has the charges of that eminence. With every influx of light comes new danger. Has he light? he must bear witness to the light, and always outrun that sympathy which gives him such keen satisfaction, by his fidelity to new revelations of the incessant soul."
Sagan was a great thinker of his generation who remains so today 40 years after his bearing witness to the truth he so plainly saw in front of us all.
We live in extraordinary and fascinating times, poised on the brink of something either too wonderful to imagine or too terrible to contemplate. Probably, given what we know of life, a bit of both. But the mix remains vital and possibly still within our powers of control. What worries me most is that we have an alarming tendency to tilt the balance in the wrong, the ugly way.
#LyallWatson "Dark Nature" 1995
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