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They count if you eat soup first.

What percentage of your meals have a last course of nuts?

Maybe not so unfortunate. This one was built a long time ago ...

What does it mean when the fridge sounds like Imperial Probe Droid?

Not ours. I really hope they walked away from it. Didn't look good.

Crashed and burned car going the other way on ride to Heathrow. Feels strangely appropriate to the day. Situation not normal, normal

Some people make great art seem impossibly hard and some inspire us to try for what is outside the expected - what we need to express because it is true and necessary and resonant and not fully recognized.

Hearing that Lynch died is heartbreaking. There're films of his that I've not watched yet, but this feels like when Ian Banks went; now there's this constrained finite amount of that particular beauty in the world.

Dons straightman jacket. How do you know?

@awaitley.bsky.social Woot! You're here!

Disconnected from reliable information about reality, supporters can continue to believe that nonsense strategies are working even as hardships become severe, I fear.

How immune from reality are we in our little media bubbles?

@diatom.bsky.social One thing I was wanting last night was an online place to chat with a group of friends. Not FB. Something more connected. Maybe something more like pineapples.

We may hope, but it's a big assumption that people will make the connection. The connection is real, but it's not hard to pretend or imagine that it isn't.

Building a toy house out of Legos is like building a British house. What's like building an American house?

Convenience is such a huge factor – I'll eat whatever other people are having. The culture fight seems pointless, but just having more, better, inexpensive, and convenient options is key. Tasty, easy recipes go a long way.

Yeah, I've been having this doubt about the use of "late" for a while, so thank you for putting very clearly something that I hadn't seen articulated elsewhere.

Agree entirely with your assessment of the left's progress. It's not a dead project, and we should nurture our successes, but ... ooof.

The implication that we're near the end seems naive. I don't think the left has experienced enough success for that to be a plausible default assumption. Signs are that collapse will be at least as capitalist as growth was.

All Honorable Men: The Story of the Men on Both Sides o… A scathing attack on Wall Street’s illegal ties to Nazi…

This is a must-read about how much the USA was willing to bend over backwards to defend German corporate interests during and after the war if it meant defending Wall Street's interests.

1/ The challenge of the present is that we are choking on complex problems, and all of the tools we have to solve these problems are poisoned.

Also Instagram's down. But not WhatsApp. Interesting.

I really thought my FB account had been compromised. Looks now like their session/login service is down. Unclear what would cause that, but many people are reporting. Is everyone affected?

Thanks ... I was wondering why I got booted off and couldn't reset pw.

@biorem.bsky.social
What I'm looking for is:
1) Blogging, not micro-blogging – long form writing encouraged
2) Preference algorithms never mandatory – you control your feed
3) Comments as first-class entities – conversations are findable and extend in time

But mostly using a browser that isn't developed by an ad company (Google) is a great way to support an open web.

In 2024, please switch to Firefox This December, if there's one tech New Year's resolution I'd encourage you to have, it's switching to the only remaining ethical web browser, Firefox. According to recent posts on social media, Firefo...

I switched from Chrome to Firefox a few years ago as it seemed to me less resource demanding. I use Firefox on Mac and on Android. Being able to send tabs between desktop and phone easily is a wonderful feature.

Hilbert's list of problems is familiar, though I couldn't name the actual problems. What's the simplest thing we should know about Grothendieck?

We have to start thinking about how to mend our systems. Here's an excellent primer on the story so far.

Oakland joins chorus of U.S. cities demanding ceasefire in Gaza Oakland City Council voted unanimously on Monday to support congressional and worldwide calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and for the release of all hostages.  “I reject the fact that Oak...

It's a small step, but an important one. Peace is rarely easy. It is made of many small steps.

Maybe people feel more well disposed towards humans in January right after the Christmas break?

If not an event, some variance in how the question was asked or in the context around the question? For example do people answer differently at different times of day, or on different days of the week?