(Raises hand, interested in reading)

Trump invites nearly all federal workers to quit now, get paid through September Through an email blast, federal workers were given the opportunity to resign from their jobs before Feb. 6 and retain full pay and benefits through Sept. 30.

Is this not the same stunt Twitter pulled?

www.npr.org/2025/01/28/n...

Boosted!

Status: still struggling with giving up on teaching until I can afford to be an adjunct.

Bruce Sterling @bruces (@bruces@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 image

@lecagle.bsky.social mastodon.social/@bruces/1127...

I agree, gently.

I wonder how many people are becoming frustrated with the moon for moving so slowly.

One of these days, we'll get around to fixing our doorbell. Probably.

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

While engaging in Serious Research Purposes looking for this again:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vL-...

...I accidentally rediscovered this one:

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

...so a pretty good evening.

Christ. www.stealthgpt.ai/post/stealth...

It's still delightful and amazing to me that with this box on the side table and a chunk of wire I'm listening to a Romanian radio station right now.

Both K and I have both received both vaccines. Both. (@lecagle.bsky.social)

gonna start my own fuckin' appliance company and its gonna be called Dumb Fuckin' Appliances. we will use microchips the bare minimum possible. if i can do everything with solenoids and physical clocks i will. they will never know that the internet exists

the front page of the daily tar heel, a wall of text messages sent during yesterday’s shooting.

Twitter post that reads: 1940s: the detonation of nuclear bombs contaminates nearly all steel on Earth, resulting in the need to scavenge low-radiation pre-war steel from sunken shipwrecks 2020s: ChatGPT contaminates content with synthetic text, resulting in the need to segregate pre-LLM sources A screenshot of the Wikipedia article for “low background steel” is below

I keep coming back to this

My favorite was the poetry professor who opted to run remote semesters through postal mail; on Friday, they mailed packets to students with prompts and a SASE, which had to be finished and mailed back by the following Friday (fountain pens optional).

Today is a day to sit outside, find shade, and drink deep the wind.

Street festivals notwithstanding, it is pickle weather: the large jar of cornichons in the fridge is dwindling, and the kimchee is running low. I have memories of the corn relish at the hot dog stand north of Haddam, but I will not be back there today, if it even still stands. It is hot.

I imagine this will be equally difficult to play well.