Tessa Hulls' "Feeding Ghosts" is really quite good.
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Just finished watching season 2, episode 2 of The Last of Us. Not sure I can watch more. Or, you know, ever watch anything again.
I logged into Former Twitter to find the name of an old contact; it's been ages since I've seen the site. I had to dig through my tweet history and it made me sad to have left it behind. I looked at options for transferring that history to platforms like Mastodon, but there's no way to do it that preserves timestamps and doesn't spam everyone. Gotta just let it go.
I'm out on a hike with K, but I messed up my leg playing soccer a couple months ago and I still need to baby it. So I've settled down here with my tiny backpacking chair while she continues off into the woods. I'm just going to enjoy the beautiful view, my book, and the quiet.
I want a browser addon that changes the "Maybe Later" button on prompts for e.g. turning on AI assistance to "Fucking Never"
Diplo DinoFinished #reading Picks and Shovels by Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic). A fun journey into an earlier time of computing with an amusing religion-vs-ethics theme. Recommended for fans of #sanfrancisco (as well as haters) and #security or tech nerds who like The Dead Kennedys (as the #punkrock group is mentioned and referenced often). I was also interested to learn how I might run a mail-order business while staying in hiding. Always take a lot away from Cory’s books. I recommend it!
Just finished two books by @pluralistic in 48 hours. Really enjoying Martin Hench. Makes me want to go back to the early days of tech. Or, you know, fix all our problems.
Cory DoctorowV. Hopeland by #IanMcDonald
Seriously what the *fuck* is this amazing, uncategorizable, unsummarizable, weird, sprawling, hairball of a novel? How the *hell* do you research – much less *write* – a novel this ambitious and wide-ranging? Why did I find myself weeping uncontrollably on a train yesterday as I finished it, literally squeezing my chest over my heart as it broke and sang at the same moment? The stars of *Hopeland* are members of two ancient, secret societies.
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