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2023 roundup, mention of self harm 

@migurski see's candies are one of california's finest exports

embarrassed to admit I kept track of how many times I bothered to go exercise during this year and it was 264 times

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: hair, another Egypt, a baby's challenge,"marshmallows" and "batteries", deliberately unpracticed, a house out of sandwiches, Vulgar Arithmetick

2023 roundup, mention of self harm 

End of year victory lap posts stress me out with compare and despair vibes but: I completed a master's degree and I didn't kill myself and I made it to my tenth year of sobriety so maybe that's enough for me.

Still thinking about how fun it would be to cast Barry Keoghan as a totally normal guy in a romantic comedy

wares.lifewinning.com/products now with international shipping options if you are not in the USA and want to buy plotter postcards

Ramsey is trying to explain Docker Hub to me and I just said "so it's like NeoPets"

@alys "ethics" is honestly not my preferred framing either, generally what I'm actually teaching in the class is political economy and organizing tactics lol

@beep extremely, although it might be a thing where I assign one and make reading the whole series optional/extra credit

current additions include excerpts from @beep's You Deserve A Tech Union, Malcolm Harris' Palo Alto, @Mer__edith's Logic(s) essay on Babbage and plantation economics, and Josh Dzieza's LLM labor long read in The Verge earlier this year.

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I'm teaching ethics of computer science to engineering students again this spring and while I'm probably keeping a lot of the format I used in 2019, I'm updating some of the readings. What are ppls recs for recent critical texts that undergrad engineers will be able to handle?

ripcorp.biz/episodes/2023-corp end of year RIP Corp dropped today, we did a little year in corporate death roundup with Tim Hwang!

@gray17 they really do! They get into jams but they figure it out, competently

Gotta say though seeing stuff about the TV show they definitely picked the wrong Skarsgård brother, give us creepy Bill as SecUnit

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the murderbot books as audiobooks is my current self soothe listen and I think part of it is a lot of the book is just someone being really competent at their job and then some of it is an utterly relatable existential crisis

@divya the little volume knob on the ajazz is a little goofy but very fun

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