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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??

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: monsters, strategy, high doses, groomed for gravitas, marriages and dishwashers, the promise of attempt, an emotion

the dril economy tweet but instead of candles it's Good Fonts

Meta has engaged in a “systemic and global” censorship of pro-Palestinian content.

In a scathing 51-page report, Human Rights Watch documented and reviewed more than a thousand reported instances of Meta removing content and suspending or permanently banning accounts on Facebook and Instagram that were supportive of Palestinians https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/21/meta-facebook-instagram-pro-palestine-censorship-human-rights-watch-report

Thrown out of the AA meeting for calling someone's share a "tight five"

"It's important to me that a romantic partner can make me laugh but I would never in my life date a comedian" only sounds like a paradox if you've never met a comedian

always have to remind myself when I feel like I'm not doing enough that at that this time of year I get a little depressed anyway because my dad died on Christmas, you would think I would understand this by now

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Horsin' Around

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