Steve Lovelace

Is this like a successor to the Living Computers Museum? (RIP)

Apple products from a parallel universe.

N: Vancouver 🇨🇦
E: Barcelona 🇪🇸
S: Apia 🇼🇸
W: Apia 🇼🇸

FreeCell, specifically the Windows 7 version.

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Hahaha!

I have a computer that's just fast enough to run Cities Skylines. Maybe in a few years I'll get one fast enough for Cities Skylines 2.

Looks amazing, though!

I tell people that TNG is my favorite Trek, but DS9 is the best.

TNG is like ordering the usual at your favorite restaurant. DS9 is like trying a hole-in-the-wall place and being pleasantly surprised.

Count to 4!

i am always blown away by just how far ahead of its time DS9 was. really some of the most remarkable feats of writing in TV history. and the kind of show that could only have worked with 30+ episode seasons

I had no idea that the medieval Liberal Arts has been co opted by white supremacists, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised!

Not nearly as much as it's worth. I'm not a millionaire! 🥰

What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business? The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

Fish heads
Fish heads
Eat them up. Yum!

This might be the most insane theme I've seen on here. Could not imagine actually using it, but I also can't look away!

I have worn a giant neck clock too!

Q: What do you call a miniature version of Aaron Burr?

A: An Aaron Burrito

Dallas is that, but without mountains and ocean.

Penguin screeching?

We should change the pronunciation of "climate. At least then we'd have some positive climate change. 🙃

I recently rediscovered the library. I went all the time as a kid and even a college student, but after moving to a new state after graduation, I somehow forgot that libraries were a thing for the better part of two decades. Now I'm making up for lost time!

I live in Texas, so I'm not so sure about that. Then again, Mexican citizenship might be something for strive for in the future.

The Franco-Prussian War is probably the best case scenario.

Yeah, that is bad. I also thought about Late Antiquity, but I don't thing we're there (yet),

I'm still trying to decide if we're living in the Ancien Regime or the Late Republic.

Hi Mike! Long-time listener and Mons Cafe regular. I don't know if you need help with merch or other graphics, but here's my RedBubble store:
www.redbubble.com/people/steve...

Here's my professional portfolio as well.
steve-lovelace.com/portfolio/

Good luck, and down with OmniCorp!

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Dr. Mario!

That's how I read it too.

I'd still be appalled if it was American who didn't know of Churchill! As an American, I don't think I could name all the PMs, but I definitely know of Churchill!

You can't write a protagonist without making them sympathetic. At least if you want it to be entertaining.