David Millington

That might be ‘amquerying’… thing is, MSWL is for agents and you’ll risk blocks if you use it to seek a publisher or agent instead.

Please don’t spam the MSWL tag.

You should use ‘amseeking’ as your hashtag here. That said, wow, and best wishes.

And from what I’ve heard of the Twitter backstory it could be worth including. I find it quite a strange part of the Twitter story.

Please don’t delete! I struggled with some of it (I am tech-y but not in this area) but found it very interesting. First I’d heard of BlackSky and I loved the non-provability of the recorded video and chat at the end.

Request: more explanations / background :) Otherwise fantastic.

Same. I don’t know enough and I thought ATProto was a net positive. Part of the social network federation movement.

Not sure I can ‘like’ that answer, but, got it. Did they do anything like preserve the headstones?

I admire this. Thankyou.

If I can ask a practical question: how did the graveyard wall shrink? And could it be restored to its original location, or could the space at least be protected from use for gas pipes etc and be excluded and marked on modern maps?

Could you expand why it’s bad please? I would think access for those who can’t gain it is good.

It is a real issue - another post of yours used “theoretical” but it’s genuinely not. That’s why the existence of these shadow libraries is such a complex issue… You’re right. So are others.

Back in the 2000s when OS X was cooler than Windows, one major thing it did was not allow focus stealing. App icons bounced but that was it.

Somewhere, along with all the other UI mess it has today, that got lost.

I don’t know of a way to stop it.

That was a good read!

Do you have a family background in Slavic villages? Or was it a suitably fairytale-like setting?

This prevents the Elastic issue, but it also prevents someone making a genuinely useful fork and providing that. Ie the terms are as restrictive as commercial licenses.

I’ve seen many companies rest on their laurels because there’s no competition: doesn’t this create the same under a FOSS guise?

Things move fast online but in practice we’re 1/3 through the game. So the real world may be slower for some folk :)

I am one person only but I’d love to see your analysis.

I’m incredibly struck by the art and rendering, including lighting, personally. Far more than (slightly tedious?) gameplay.

Not sure if I explained the question well. I get the effort someone went to and “killing” the coin or face is fascinating.

Is it okay when I infer things like the emotional reason (I used the word vindictiveness, erasure)? I feel like if I saw someone today deface like that, it would be personal.

Compared to this photo the original one you posted looks incredibly thorough. Hard not to read into it some kind of vindictiveness, thoroughness, absolute erasure.

Do archeologists speculate like that? I don’t know how valid it truly is to draw comparisons.

Was there a face there originally? I did some googling which said this was Celtic and common practice but was full of speculation on why.

Roblox CEO Makes A Fool Of Himself In Car-Crash Interview David Baszucki spoke to the New York Times' Hard Fork podcast about the app's pedophile problem

Read this a couple of days ago. kotaku.com/roblox-new-y...

Read that subtitle. You don’t even need to read the article.

I had thought Roblox was a safe space where kids built things, a kind of electronic construction set. The thread you posted (and others! I saw this on HN) are horrifying.

Yeah. I stopped. It became too much

I felt they were so gratuitously violent, with a trapped protagonist (forced to perform acts, remember the foot?) that there was a sense of meta-horror: a question about what issues our society and readers have where the books resonate. Are they catharsis?

I love this. Says so eloquently what it is hard to explain.

There’s a horror in subversion, in seeing something meant for one message used for its opposite.

Goodreads summary looks great. What are your thoughts on it?

Yeah, I am, thanks! Hope you are too!

Definitely think the privacy and personal info laws are there for a reason and to be wielded when appropriate. Fight the big corps. Go for it.

DOOMed to Fail: A Horror Story - CoRecursive Podcast Today Rebecca Burger Becky Heineman shares the tale of porting Doom to the 3DO console under extreme conditions. There is an engine to tweak, deadlines to hit, hardware acceleration to get working, an...

Today I learned about Rebecca Heinemann. What a shame to learn of someone only when they pass.

Read this: an amazing interview, and she was truly impressive, both in abilities and strength through personal life. corecursive.com/doomed-to-fa...

Someone made downdetectorsdowndetector.com

Swiftly followed by downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com

Google Antigravity: when I saw the headline I genuinely thought, for just a hopeful moment, that a research lab in an admittedly evil corporation had made a world-changing breakthrough.

But no. It’s another AI-focused VSCode clone.

Just read this today too: bsky.app/profile/dgka... via @annerallen.bsky.social

You showed integrity and solidarity. I respect that and I think many, many others do too.

I empathise with the exhaustion from it. But I hope in a sense it _is_ worth it because you publicly did the right thing and stood up for everyone else too.

Time for some kind of GDPR-ish request?

What was your thought on it?

Did (or could) the AI deliver it? The soul of what his lyrics were trying to say? The emphasis?

The cover letter to my first submission: August 12, 1971 1381 East 72nd Street Brooklyn NY 11234 Edward L. Ferman The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fistion 347 East 53rd Street New York, NY 10022 Dear Mr. Ferman, I am submitting for possible publication the enclosed story, "Gem of the Gods". Too long has Sword and sorcery been dead. I hope this may help revive it. A stamped self-addressed envelope is enclosed in case of rejection. Sincerely yours, Scott Edelman

On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...