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@bobmueller@mastodon.world
2026-10-16 20:00:02

Oh, look: a vanity publisher behaving badly. And make no mistake. $6k flowing from the author to the publisher makes them a vanity house, even if they call it a "temporary loan."
writerbeware.blog/2026/10/16/a

Author Complaints at Starfish Bay Publishing - Writer Beware
I first heard of Australian children’s publisher Starfish Bay Publishing (SBP) in 2024, thanks to a question from an author about the advisability of investing in SBP’s Author Supported Traditional Publishing Programme. Implemented, SBP’s website explained, because of “the severe effect the pandemic had on our publishing business”, this program–despite using the word traditional–required authorsRead More

@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social
2026-09-11 00:05:22

i live in a small apartment without a lot of storage space. for LPs, i have two three-foot shelves, one for jazz, the other for everything else. last week, i made a new resolution to play at least one non-jazz record every day. here's how it's going.
#vinyl #OldVinyl

Santana's "Welcome" (1973). The cover is minimalist: a cream/off-white background with just the word "Welcome" rendered in elegant gold cursive script running diagonally across the sleeve, no other imagery or text visible on this side. There's some light foxing/age spotting near the top edge, consistent with a vinyl jacket from that era. ALT by Claude
The Beatles, "Magical Mystery Tour" — the psychedelic rainbow cover with the band in animal costumes (walrus, bird, and rabbit-eared costumes) surrounded by colorful stars on a starry blue background, "Beatles" in yellow star-lettering above, and hand-lettered song titles arced across the top (The Fool on the Hill, Flying, Blue Jay Way, Your Mother Should Know, I Am the Walrus). A sticker/label notes it includes a 24-page picture book, and track titles (Hello Goodbye, Strawberry Fields Forever,…
The Specials, "More Specials" — bold black-and-white title type over a color photo of the band lounging in armchairs around a low table cluttered with pint glasses, set against a retro wood-paneled/stained-glass backdrop; one member is baring vampire fangs for the camera. ALT by Claude
B.B. King, "A Heart Full of Blues" — a well-worn, scuffed cover (lots of surface wear/scratches) showing B.B. King in a mustard-yellow suit and bow tie, smiling, with a tracklist along the left side (You're Gonna Miss Me, Got 'Em Bad, Troubles Don't Last, Your Letter, I Can't Explain, The Wrong Road, I Need You Baby, So Many Days, Down Hearted, Strange Things) and a "Custom Records R&B Series" logo — catalog number CM 2040, monaural. ALT by Claude
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-10-06 06:45:01

Gurglerferner (2026)
Beautifully rich textures and structures, emphasized by the hard light and created by glacial abrasion of this once great (and still utterly majestic) glacier flowing directly from the central Alpine divide. If you squint you can see a faint path zigzagging up the exposed & plucked bedrock near the center bottom... Like the Vernagtferner in a neighboring valley, this glacier too has caused ice lakes to form several times over the past centuries, occasionally en…

B&W photo of a rocky high alpine landscape with a large glacier flowing diagonally across the image. A huge section/slope of exposed bed rock in the foreground, rocks glistening in the sun, leading down into a canyon (not shown). Further back, behind the ice flow, a ridge section of the Alpine divide with majestic peaks and several small side glaciers flowing into the main Ferner. Clear sky.
@Defiance@sfba.social
2026-10-11 03:40:25

Haven’t heard this song in years. It really exemplifies the mid 90s culture as I experienced it. Still catchy as ever too. I got this song from a promo-CD from the label called “The Gigantic Recording Corporation Proudly Presents Volume II”.
For anyone feeling nostalgic.
#music #pop

@floheinstein@chaos.social
2026-08-30 09:23:06

One click sends a command
from the Home Assistant app
on my mobile phone
via WiFi
to the WiFi Router
to a Satellite
to a ground station in Germany
to my VPN endpoint in Iceland
to London
to Amsterdam
to Frankfurt
to Zurich
to Winterthur
to my router
to my reverse proxy
to my Home Assistant server
to my access point
to the WiFi
to the WiFi-Bridge
to the door lock
*click* *motor whirring* *door…

Leonard Hofstadter, Sheldon Cooper, Howard Wolowitz, Rajesh Koothrappali celebrating between couch and computer - Big Bang Theory Episode 1x09, timestamp 00:54
@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-10-08 14:30:27

Patriots' Efton Chism takes high road in response to Bills DB C.J. Gardner-Johnson's trash talk nfl.com/news/patriots-efton-ch

Patriots' Efton Chism takes high road in response to Bills DB C.J. Gardner-Johnson's trash talk
Following the Patriots' victory over the Bills, Buffalo defensive back C.J. Gardner-Johnson derided New England's Efton Chism as a practice-squad player who won't be heard from again. Chism has since responded in the typical Patriot Way.

@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com
2026-09-14 00:10:50

I'm watching House 4x07 "Ugly" #House

Ugly
A film crew and the candidates are following around House distracting him while he is trying to diagnose a teenager who suffers from a heart attack prior…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-09-05 00:10:47

Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
theverge.com/policy/990267/mic

Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot
Microsoft claimed in a legal filing that its Copilot chatbot hardly ever regurgitates sentences from articles and books used to ground the AI.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-09-04 18:10:54

Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
theverge.com/policy/990267/mic

Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot
Microsoft claimed in a legal filing that its Copilot chatbot hardly ever regurgitates sentences from articles and books used to ground the AI.

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-09-01 08:45:10

I was feeling unwell this morning but was stern with myself and went out to get on with a little work in the wood, measuring up the frame for my new workshop. But I slipped and fell my length into a pile of fallen timber covered in brambles... I'm not really hurt, but I'm sore and bloody, and I'm going back to bed.