It. Is. Happening!
#CivVII
FDA approves first non-opioid pain medicine in more than 20 years arstechnica.com/health/20…
Just caught a thought-provoking episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, wherein Paris Marx and Chris Gilliard discussed the late David Golumbia’s book “Cyberlibertarianism”. Definitely worth a listen: www.techwontsave.us/episode/2…
Sorting through some boxes of books today and found this old classic. I’m not sure it would save us now.
Today we saw a blue sky for a change. #NewHampshire
New Hampshire is New Hampshire-ring again.
Chili con carne in progress!
My Hugo-based blog, which should render Markdown without complaint, was not rendering my Markdown links correctly. Spent 20 minutes trying to debug the problem, failed, and so I reverted to regular HTML links. They rendered perfectly.
Realized that I have been writing HTML since 1997 and it is still the best tool for the task. I’m really enjoying Hugo + Markdown, but HTML is still the boss.
Scientists Say If We’re Extremely Lucky, This Asteroid May Put Us Out of Our Misery
Near Coulee City, WA, October 2024.
Was sorting through some files on an ancient backup server and stumbled upon an decade-old Bitcoin wallet. I vaguely remember trying some mining back in the day – had I just unearthed some forgotten treasure?? Could I be rich???
Nope. Totally empty.
Mike Masnick: Advertisers Aren’t Thrilled With Zuckerberg’s Embrace Of Hate Speech “Just as a bar that tolerates Nazis soon becomes a Nazi bar, a platform that embraces “controversial” content risks becoming defined by its most extreme voices.”
Loving seeing some competition in this space. www.theverge.com/tech/5971…
Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research
The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster | ZDNET
Something I do most Sundays: prepping the garlic for the meals that I will be preparing during the week. It’s just a small thing, but it probably saves me 5-10 minutes of prep time for 2-3 meals. It’s still plenty fresh and I know what I am getting (you can buy containers of pre-peeled garlic, but it has usually been sitting around a while.)
I guess I’m a little behind (forgive me, but my un-played game queue is decades long) but Thronefall is a pretty fun little game! Great twist on my beloved tower defense genre. It’s also great on the Steam Deck!
Cloudflare is out here doing the lord’s work for those of us who generate content online (since if I mainly just shitpost, I figure I am doing humankind a favor by enabling this.)
Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy