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Not likin' what I'm hearin', here abouts. When the CEO is welcoming authoritarians and taunting LGBTQ folks, it's probably time for me to move on.

And a lovely book it is! Such a gem. ❤

Requested a replacement Social Security card less than 4 hours before Trump's Gubmint Shutdown. What are the odds I'll get it in 10 to 14 days? Somewhere between slim and none, I'd guess.

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy) has some... *concerning* news about the "AI" industry. (Okay, it's bad news. Like, really bad news.)

The problem is that it won't just affect the siloed techbros and their megacorps.

pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

#AI #StockMarket

Solar electrification is going well (and *accelerating*) but the rent-seeking oil-igarchs are gonna try to gate-keep the hell out of it. Cory Doctorow's warns of how solar enshitification might proceed:

pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/o...

#SolarPower #enshitification #EnergyTransition

I wonder if someone could hack a roomba (or another similar device) to play a low-fidelity, 10 bar clip of *Turkey in Straw* for that ice cream truck vibe that would help summer seem to last just a little longer. 😄

#RunOnSentence #hacks #HomeAutomation

International Talk Like a Pirate Day - Wikipedia

Arrr! It be Talk Like a Pirate Day, matey.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...

#TLAP #TalkLikeAPirateDay

My religion in a nutshell: www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theeg...

We went to CVS at lunch and got walk-up appointments to get ⁨#COVID⁩, ⁨#flu⁩, and ⁨#MMR⁩ (for ⁨#measles⁩) vaccines. We'll be feelin' our arms tonight!

⁨#AntiAntiVax⁩

... I hear the Hank-Green-voice a lot in both books but that's not a bad thing. He's an actual voice in the audio books but that's not what I mean.

Finished Hank Green's A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor. I liked this better than the first book. (I still liked the first book and you can't really skip it to read this one so don't try.) ... (cont.)

Looking forward to it! 💜

... I looked out the window and saw the back end of a Tesla Wankpanzer (Cybertruck) garishly wrapped in swirling pink and blue slowly driving down the street. Weird. Not sure I'd let my kids approach that vehicle.

Weird thing happened this evening: I heard what I thought was an ice cream truck - you know, playing Turkey in the Straw? But the sound was higher quality than any I'd ever heard before. It actually had audible bass. ... (cont.)

That's a good long run!

Moon in a light early evening sky viewed between two flowering yucca stalks

Moon Through Yucca

YouTube video by vlogbrothers Caffeine is Very, Very Strange...

Hank Green's (@hankgreen.bsky.social) rant on caffeine. Interesting! Worth a watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Dy...

#caffeine #coffee #tea #chocolate

Today is my 30th anniversary of starting to work at [current place of employment]. Is that a humble-brag?
Or a brag-whine?
Maybe some of each.

I'm most of the way through John @scalzi.com's *When the Moon Hits Your Eye*. Getting darker but still funny. There's some real heart there.

YouTube video by alyankovicVEVO "Weird Al" Yankovic - White & Nerdy (Official 4K Video)

Every once in a while my theme song shows up in my YouTube feed and I just have to listen to it ('cuz I'm white and nerdy).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qY...

But make no mistake. They are unshaken in their resolve:

"We regret that, sadly, unanimity is not possible on this issue and kinder ground eludes us."

Being Quakers, they have one of the nicest possible ways to tell someone that they are being a transphobic, triangulating jerk:

www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nigh Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nigh

And yet another one...

www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nigh

@ewhowe.com

YouTube video by Scotland History Tours Why is an Effigy Burning in this Scottish Town?

This is one of the reasons I like Bruce Fummey's videos. He often applies the lessons of Scottish history and makes it relevant to today's (and tomorrow's) struggles. Let him "tell you a story."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIg_...

#labor #community #history #solidarity

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Some suspension-of-disbelief challenges.

I'm not keen on first-person narration. It kinda makes sense here, though, even if it resulted in a few expository lumps.

Overall, good. Would recommend - with caveats for violence.

I finished Upgrade by Blake Crouch. I liked it. It didn't wimp out with some harder things which I really appreciate but there were a few anachronisms (for example, getting news from TV and newspapers a couple decades from now in a society steeped in futuristic tech).

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New today:

Grok's Indiscretions: listed.to/@Scmasm/6425...

Unrequited Bromance: listed.to/@Scmasm/6425...

Ever wonder what those chatbots do in the support call center breakroom when they're off duty?

I added a few "conversations" to my collection.

#AI #ChatBot

We had sqausage soup tonight: pureed butternut squash soup with sliced pineapple/ginger chicken sausage. Very tasty! Could use a tad more ginger.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ethics Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ethics

And they keep coming...
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ethics-7