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Retired technocrat with PhD in American literature, project (mis)manager, she/her, all-around dilettante. Hobby last year: soccer. Hobby this year: backpacking. Next year: we'll see.
HobbyBackpacking
EducationAmerican Lit
AgeLate Boomer
Political LeaningsLiberal

Everyone who has never tried to make a living as a writer thinks micropayments are a good idea.

RT @[email protected]

Rolling out next month, this platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click.

This enables users who would not sign up for a monthly subscription to pay a higher per article price for when they want to read an occasional article.… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1652349875017879552

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1652349875017879552

Elon Musk on Twitter

“Rolling out next month, this platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click. This enables users who would not sign up for a monthly subscription to pay a higher per article price for when they want to read an occasional article.…”

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RIP Gator (2008-2023). He was a sweet stinky.

4 February 1903 | A Polish Jew, Isidor Elsner, was born in Kraków. A coachman.

In Auschwitz from 2 April 1942.
No. 28751
He perished in the camp on 8 July 1942.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts

SPOTTED: Mexican spy balloon
Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.

People worry a lot about losing knowledge — about "burned-down libraries".

Comparatively few people seem to worry about what happens if you take a billion books full of auto-generated, often-untrue junk text and *add* them all to the library.

In theory, nothing is lost. In reality, everything is lost, because nothing useful can now be found.

Always check your pots before adding compost

Let me get this straight. Republicans spent Friday cosplaying machismo by encouraging their supporters to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon, which was 11 miles up in the atmosphere, a balloon so large it could hold an entire football stadium inside of it. No consideration of the danger of their useless bullets falling back to earth.

Meanwhile, Biden had already given the order to the military to shoot it down when it was safe to do so back on *Wednesday.* They had already jammed their signals so it couldn’t send any info back to China, and instead was collecting info on the satellite.

So as usual, we have Republicans acting like idiots, encouraging actions that posed danger to the American people, all the while hoping to “stick it to Biden,” when in actuality, Biden had already handled the situation days before by involving the military who had neutralized the threat and then ultimately shot down the balloon over the waters past South Carolina.

Vote blue, people. #news

So frustrated. Was following instructions for building a bookcase that called for a jigsaw but didn't say how many pieces!
So in a triathlon, it’d come down to who’s better on a bicycle.