My beater is getting picked up Tuesday. I’m donating it as it’s more expensive to replace the cat than its worth.

Slate looks interesting

Never read Hyperion. That’s pretty gross.

I wouldn’t recommend Anderson Dune books.

Pohl has some classics Heechee Saga Space Merchants Man Plus

Ringworld

Vernor Vinge: Fire Upon the Deep

John Scalzi: Old Mans War Series

I gotta say I think Three Body Problem is not very good. Some interesting ideas and an interesting perspective re:Chinese revolution, but as a story it was weak. Plus when you get to the second book it drags out the premise so much and relies on basically deus ex machinima to handwave the plot holes.

I think the point of the post is that the solution being used to this problem creates other issues. If you instead spoke freely and beeped yourself, people would get what you are saying and the censorship would be more in your face.

Didn’t cost him a dime.

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Have you read the Mueller report? Did you listen to the impeachment testimony? It’s clear there were connections and impropriety, there were multiple people around Trump who were convicted with plenty of evidence. Paul Manafort is one seriously slimey piece of shit.

This revisionist bullshit is some truly Orwellian nightmare fuel.

I feel old when I think of all the steps we had to take to start the most basic game. Rewind tape. Hit reset on the counter. Find index of program you want and fast forward to that position. Enter load command. Play on tape. Wait. By the time it was loaded and we started recess was over.

We had an Apple II gs at home and used PET computers in school. I remember loading Artillery into the computer from a cassette.

He is still going to back down. Cowards always cower. Keep calling him out or you risk normalizing his bullshit.

He is a bully and we have to FIGHT BACK. Hit him where it hurts.

Musk is the upper class being hurt by the Tesla hate.

Y’all ever see Wicked City?

The upper class. The rest of us are just plebs.

Super interesting. Definitely over my head.

My grandparents had cable and one of those old cable boxes from the 80s with the wood grain. I found out if I stuck a letter opener in juuuust so… unscramble all the things.

They threw the CEO in jail for insider trading. What any other CEO would have had to pay a fine and say sorry they threw the book at him. I’m not gonna defend the guy, CEOs are scumbags and we should throw more of them in jail. Just not for standing up for people’s rights.

Room 641A, the Quest Communications debacle. When I talk to folks outside of online communities folks don’t seem to be very aware of how we got here and how utterly we have failed to protect privacy and freedom.

Behind some kind of scoreboard?