@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-11-29 11:40:52
Just finished "It's Lonely at the Center of the Earth" by Zoe Thorogood.
CW: Frank/graphic discussion of suicide and depression (not in this post but in the book).
It feels a bit wrong to simply give it my review here as I would another graphic memoir, because it's much more personal and less consensual than the usual. It feels less like Thorogood has invited us into her life than like she was forced to put her life on display in order to survive, and while I selfishly like to read into the book that she benefited in some way from the process, she's honest about how tenuous and sometimes false that claim can be. Knowing what I've learned from this book about Thorogood's life and demons, I don't want her to feel the mortification of being perceived by me, and so perhaps the best thing I could do is to simply unread the book and pull it back out of my memories.
I did not find Thorogood's life relatable, nor pitiable (although my instinct bends in that direction), but instead sacred and unknowable. I suspect that her writing and drawing has helped others in similar circumstances, but she leaves me with no illusion that this fact brings her any form of peace or joy. I wonder what she would feel reading "Lab Girl" or "The Deep Dark," but she has been honest enough to convey that such speculation on my part is a bit intrusive.
I guess the one other thing I have to say: Zoe Thorogood has through artistic perseverance developed an awe-inspiring mastery of the comic medium, from panel composition, through to page layout and writing. This book wields both Truth and Beauty.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-02-02 21:05:14
Players suggest big difference in Klint Kubiak as coach vs with media https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/02/02/cooper-kupp-difference-seahawks-oc-klint-kub…
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2026-01-30 20:14:12
what if we captured "citizen journalists" like escaped gorillas and built them a little simulacra city terrarium where they performatively gawk at each other over and over again for a leaderboard of nonexistent likes till their joints blow and the cameramen float like loose buoys unmoored from fetish-horrors for the rest of time
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2025-12-24 05:49:03
STM32MP2 XC7K160T PCIe test board progress! 66 unrouted nets in the power supply, but I think it'll fit.
There's something for everybody in this board:
* 0201 passives? Check (under the SoC)
* Lots of FPGA? XC7K160T is decently sized
* Lots of CPU? Dual A35s, a M33, a M0 , and a M4
* High speed? PCIe gen2 and a SFP that is theoretically capable of 8 GT/s but I'm gonna try pushing the FPGA a bit and see if I can make it do 10Gbase-R with acceptable BER…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-24 19:43:06
I can’t even begin to describe to you how fucking bonkers this is
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:65fexqbpdzpgjbrwzns7fx4v/post/3mams277jcc2y
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2025-12-23 01:13:06
Making progress! 344 unrouted. Definitely getting tight, I may have to delete a few of the test points or shrink things in a bit, but I think I can pull it off. It's been a while since I've done a high density 4 layer board instead of my more recent usual 10L with ViP.
@newstik@social.heise.de2026-01-13 08:01:09
Fugg. Google Books has been redesigned, the snippets are so small now that they are unreadable. Even the cover pages of books are tiny now. Classic Google Books is still available, but will be turned off.
#Google #GoogleBooks
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-01-13 14:29:22
> The same hidden room is fitted with hot-air extraction systems, possibly suggesting the installation of heat-generating equipment such as advanced computers used for espionage.
It's not that I don't think chanceries get used as a base for spying, but embassies have *other* reasons to need a server room - which, like all server rooms, generate heat.
