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FYI there's an interesting published collection of essays about The Violent Bear It Away

‎Salon Fantastique ‎Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 2023

Just purchased (on Apple Books, same price).

books.apple.com/us/book/salo...

Moments like this made me happy I cancelled my subscription when they said they were going to forgo a Presidential endorsement.

Wait, you were supposed to be making points?!

Right now my external SSD boot drive is 3.1Tb filled out of a 4Tb drive. It’s been 6 years since I got a new Mac so I’m willing to spend some $$, and $600 for an external OWC TB5 4Tb drive, esp since I’m ’saving’ $200 on upgrading the internal SSD.

Yeah, I was originally thinking of paying for $200 upgrade of internal SSD from 256Gb to 1Tb, but with Thunderbolt 5's speed, one option is applying that money towards a TB5 4Tb external SSD and make the external the boot drive. (I'm doing something similar now w/ an old Intel iMac.)

Obvious political calculation to help embattled Democrats on Long Island (where the measure is unpopular) who reached out to her earlier this year.

She has the opportunity to do the right thing post-election, let’s hope she has the political will.

Thoughts and prayers

Now they’d walk a mile for a Beagle.

I was blinded by science.

Make it 1986 and do TOP GUN.

Bluesky notification of a new follower: Your imaginary friend has followed you

oh shit oh fuck

incoming new attorney general:

a man in a suit and tie is smiling while sitting at a table with his hands folded . Alt: Putin looking amused

"The president is indebted to no one"

Thinking about the Pro mini over the iMac just for the Thunderbolt 5 ports, which make SSD connection almost as fast as internal SSD? With Sequoia now allowing installation of MAS apps on external drives this might be good enough to install things heavy duty apps like Ableton Live and get good perf.

Thanks. I read that… but didn’t quite agree with his contention about TB5. Especially now that a recent update to Sequoia finally allows MAS apps to be installed on external drives, TB5 becomes a much more compelling option for regular use by regular users.

Jeff, with Apple standardizing on TB4 as the base Mac connection, and starting to migrate to TB5 will you update your external storage articles soon?

Duke says WTF I was trying to sleep.

So you keep your humor in byte-size.

Meme of David Tenant angrily glaring at intense looking young woman. Woman is labeled as "USA" and Tenant is labeled as " the rest of the world right now"

How many tweets would they transfer over for that price?

We're all dying men.

Half the people who have registered to vote since 2022 are explicitly registered as Democrats. Only 34% have registered as Republicans.

Every time the idea floated to raise the minimum wage, you get fast food CEOs like John Schnatter of Papa John's (who also opposed the Affordable Care Act, and is a Trump contributor) making public scary noises that he would have to lay off large numbers of employees the minute the bill was signed

Trump Campaign Launches Crazed Attack on Woodward Over Book A spokesperson variously called the reporter “slow, lethargic, incompetent and overall a boring person with no personality.”

He sent out his spox to do the damage control.

www.thedailybeast.com/trump-campai...

Photo by Craig McCarthy of New York City mayor Eric Adams at a lectern in city hall surrounded by four signs on easels, each sign dense with text in three sections, promoting mayoral accomplishments ("protecting our water," "keeping NYC the safest city in America," "building a more affordable city," etc.)

With each new investigation, we add another sign

“walt disney is the co-director of "vertigo” — Ben Schwartz

But I was only trying to tell you about the numerous advantages of a luxurious holiday timeshare on Staten Island!

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