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Just remembering how in 2020 people actually took the position "is it ok to deck Richard Spencer on camera?? Doesn't this make YOU the Nazi???" and meanwhile Chris Rufo is just getting to live a life not getting punched

Fun fact, the "ok so you're a rocket scientist" line in Shania Twain's "That Don't Impress Me Much" is about Werner von Braun

any recommendations for a nice mail client for Mac if I really liked Tempo? Because I really liked Tempo and have been using the now-unsupported version since they shut down but it's been increasingly laggy for me and I'm a little worried it's going to stop working soon.

always forget until it's actually new year's eve that new year's eve is also the day my grandma died. a fun joke to tell people disarmed by this is "yeah between that and my dad dying on christmas my family is so fucking dramatic, ugh"

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"

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!

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

LMAO posted this on Bluesky and immediately got someone complaining about the price that I agonized over a year ago, ha ha ha

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I feel weird making a plotter drawing expensive but: I have less than 40 sheets of this vintage graph paper left and the plot itself takes over three and a half hours. I will do a less expensive version of this drawing on more easily available paper.
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wares.lifewinning.com/products hey I made a little shopify to sell plotter stuff, currently there's only the postcard quarterly and like one A3 print actually for sale but maybe you would like one of those items??

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.