Mark Ashton

@arkmashton
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Very normal guy. "only love sees the unveiled truth" -- Gene Wolfe
I’m in a Midwest-themed trivia mini league right now. It’s my time to shine
I have some free Mastodon invite codes for anyone interested.
Going to say my piece about BlueSky one time then be done with it. It's fundamentally still going to be about Content Generation and Monetization because that's all Jack Dorsey and the web3 crowd understands. They're going to make it Worse On Purpose to allow Big Names and Companies to make money off using it and it's still going to eventually lean toward Making Dumb Stuff Viral because fundamentally that's what people are addicted to.
Bluesky rhymes with brewski
The correct answer was “because he has wonderful friends and family” but I wouldn’t expect AI to know that
My episode aired in 2018

Psalm 19 is very good when you're struggling to hear the still, small voice.

The heavens proclaim the glory of God
and the firmament shows forth the work of his hands.
Day unto day takes up the story
and night unto night makes known the message.

No speech, no word, no voice is heard
yet their span extends through all the earth,
their words to the utmost bounds of the world.

I learned this in the funnest possible way, when it started playing unexpectedly
TIL the hook from Eminem's "My Name Is" is part of a Labi Siffre song ("I got the...")
the slack alert sound gets cut short when I'm using bluetooth headphones. Very weird.