Brace of Hounds

@recurve@mindly.social
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Tech worker for far too long; self-employed for 32+ years; prone to #greyhoundadoption , #homebrewing , avid reader of #science #sciencefiction #genetics #history #19thCBritishNovels (ha!), resident of #vancouverBC for far too long but I love the Northwest Coast too much to ever leave it (maybe)
Fighting back against one of the most ruinously destructive fishing practices.
Wonderful work!
#PlanetWild
https://youtu.be/G7AnKcMVEio?si=UjaTAtdXzQ75UHfb
A genius way to protect the ocean

YouTube
A team of academics is attempting to assert Ann Radcliffe's rightful place in the canon and introduce new readers to her “terrifying” gothic novels, Romantic poetry, and travel writing.
(I'd never heard of her.)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/06/the-queen-of-suspense-how-ann-radcliffe-inspired-dickens-and-austen-then-got-written-out-of-the-canon
The queen of suspense: how Ann Radcliffe inspired Dickens and Austen – then got written out of the canon

She was all but forgotten. Now the 18th-century author’s republished novels reveal why she made such an extraordinary contribution to literature

The Guardian
It's faded out of the news cycle, but it's epically awful, still, and there's no way this will change.
https://gizmodo.com/bankers-have-lost-so-much-money-thanks-to-elons-terrible-twitter-deal-2000489136
Bankers Have Lost So Much Money Thanks to Elon's Terrible Twitter Deal

Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter is historic in all the wrong ways.

Gizmodo
Our lawyers were worried because it turns out the company inherits its debt from the parent universe, but luckily cosmic inflation reduced it to nearly zero.
https://xkcd.com/2972/
Helium Synthesis

xkcd
sparkling homunculus
Engineer hacks his Sleep Number bed, reveals potential backdoor and security vulnerability

Allowing a third party to SSH into a device on your local network might not be desirable.

Tom's Hardware
nothing's wrong, just great personalities
#dogsofmastodon #dogs #Humor
Too plausible.
My thoughts and prayers go out to #voyager1, which after journeying for half a century to reach interstellar space is still expected to answer fucking work emails