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Scott Francis 4d ago

Dani ✨🐚4d ago

happy 17776 day to all who celebrate 🛰️🏈

Scott Francis Mar 2

Murphy's Lawyer Mar 1

Diane Duane has been interviewed in the Dublin Inquirer and the interview is an absolute delight.

(So is she, of course.)

https://www.dublininquirer.com/sixty-years-on-a-star-trek-writer-is-still-creating-new-worlds/

Sixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worlds

Diane Duane’s early days writing fan fiction have led to a remarkable career as a novelist, comic writer and screen writer.

Dublin InQuirer

Scott Francis Feb 21

jwz Jan 19

RE: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/115922995190919975

Mozilla wants your input. Here's mine:

Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3: There is no 3.

Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

Scott Francis Feb 6

Apropos of nothing, happy International Clash Day: https://kexp.org/events/kexp-events/international-clash-day-2026/

KEXP Events

Scott Francis Jan 14

A lobste.rs thread compared Apple Glass to the Enlightenment desktop and I had to sit down for a hot minute.

Scott Francis Jan 4

eyajpng Jan 4

something i dont think a lot of tech workers have figured out yet: the tech industry isn’t in the business of making tech products anymore. they’re a banking/advertising empire with tech as a front business.

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Scott Francis Dec 31

To add context, I was introduced to it on toast with butter in my early 40s, courtesy of a local Aussie bar in the predominantly Scandinavian PNW neighborhood I live in. I'm as confused about it as you are.

Scott Francis Dec 31

Nervously looking at the current Marmite-vs-Vegemite fedi threads and trying not to look in the direction of the cabinet where I (as an American) have multiple Marmite jars stashed.

Scott Francis Dec 14

I did not expect The Amazing Digital Circus to lean this hard into a John Searle joke, but I am here for it.

Scott Francis Dec 5

John Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧡✊🏻✊🏿Dec 5

Very shallow geophysics for farming: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agriculture-revolution-soil-farming-earth-rover-program

Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture

I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian

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