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So I just started re-reading a #novel series that I first read over a decade ago and re-read every few years. We all have our comfort reads.
When I quit #smoking 7? years ago I discovered something fascinating - as my sense of taste and smell came back, my culinary tastes changed. Turns out I'm not a fan of …

It's that time of year when @… Executive Board, Officers, Committees and Journal Editors submit their reports ahead of the AGM at #DH2026. Reading the reports is a reminder of the constant, invisible work that so many good people to do support Digital Humanities interna…

This is the weirdest article... it reads like something from the Onion.
"While driving last week I saw a young adult riding a bicycle. He was probably in his late teens or early twenties. I don't know him or his story, but when I saw him, I felt impressed. I think he reminded me a bit of myself when I wasn't old enough to drive."

Re-reading #RFC 8995, I find that I missed that the BRSKI architecture does support nonceless vouchers, at least in situations where you know precisely (by serial number) what you bought.
If I've ever pitched BRSKI based IoT and left you with a bad taste of "why do I have to run the device once in a connected situation": I'm sorry, I undersold it, it is even cooler than I made i…

There is more to #SolarPunk than solar panels and bikes. What we are talking about is being part of a living world. The hegemonic culture is one of hierarchical domination.
But many of the the cultures that hegemony suppresses bring a vibrancy to life. I don't buy yeast from the store, sealed in a plastic packet, a coffin for a living thing. I feed my sourdough. I am obligated to it, in a relationship with it, as the culture is reliant on me for it's survival. It speaks to me, with smell and color. I must pay attention. I have to learn it's nature, how it grows and eats at different temperatures informed by different times of the year. Mushrooms, yeast, kiefer, plants, independent things, things I can't control, life that is intertwined with my own.
But even my #bicycle speaks to me, which is something I hadn't considered until reading this and thinking about that framing.
It is not simply that "we need a different economic system." What we are talking about is a fundamentally different interpretation and experience of the world, from the hierarchical structure of death to a web of life, where even "inanimate" things become imbued with agency.
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=2936873&post_id=151655646

Worth #reading this piece - a level-headed take on #China and how its changed.
https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-op…

App Life in China
“It’s really tough doing anything in China right now,” my friend told me. He’s a serial entrepreneur in Shanghai with a locked-in grin. We were waiting for our food in a Taiwanese restaurant in a lovingly-renovated toy factory in Shanghai. China was my home for 20 years, before moving to the U.S. in 2015. This was my first visit since the pandemic. Almost a decade away from the place where I got married, had kids, started a few companies, and sold one. It may be hard to make money in Ch…

What a lovely coincidence: my former boss at Nokia just reached out to give me his latest novel to proof read. I told him that I'm just about to finish William Gibsons "Neuromancer". And said that he had just started reading this 3 days ago. That's serendipity right there

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Quannum:
🎵 I Changed My Mind
#NowPlaying #Quannum
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Fj81XOWDMAgsWbp5CUkSL

Just finished reading articles about reading files the hard way the easy way --- and you must check it out! Very informative, snappy, and all around fun (... if peering at code and specs is what you also consider as fun! 😁)
https://fasterthanli.me/series/reading-files-the-hard-way

I wonder which version of the inerrant word of God they chose. The top 10 options (from Wikipedia):
"The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association release monthly and annual statistics regarding the popularity of different Bibles sold by their members in the United States. In 2023, the top 10 best-selling translations were the following:[19]
New International Version
King James Version
English Standard Version
New Living Translation
Christian Stan…

Texas makes Bible passages required reading for millions of public school students
Critics say mandating Bible reading for over 5m students breaches constitutional separation of church and state