Steven Ovadia

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#Librarian and #writer. Librarianship all day. #Linux and #blues all night.
everythinghttps://steven.ovadia.org
Sometimes it's fun to be stuck on a short story. Sometimes...
If you're on writing.exchange, this is the link: https://opencollective.com/writingexchange
Writing Exchange - Open Collective

A small Mastodon instance for writers, since 2017.

I just donated to my instance, because infrastructure isn't cheap. If you can swing it, consider it.
I'm so cranky from my shingles shot and having trouble getting my pi onto a bigger sd card

Following the Ted Gioia article I boosted a little while ago, there are three threads at the top of the jazz subreddit about albums of AI slop posted to the Spotify profiles of famous jazz musicians: McCoy Tyner, Fred Hersch, Cannonball Adderley, Carla Bley, Paul Bley, Hiromi, John Scofield, and Elvin Jones are all mentioned as examples.

Please don't use Spotify. There are better ways to hear the music. Support actual musicians, not billionaire tech CEOs.

Is the fediverse vibe a little down lately? Obviously, there's stuff going on out there, but it feels a little bluer-than-usual here.
Got by sabbatical! So excited!
I watched Face/Off before it left Criterion and my goodness, that's just an amazingly ridiculous film.

Got my author copies!! 😍

https://alastore.ala.org/infiniteloop

Had a shocking wireless driver issue with my wife's laptop. I never run into stuff like that with my ancient hardware!