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Donald Trump, the most Florida Man ever, was elected president.
If you asked an LLM to write a Carl Hiaasen novel, you might get Trump:
a hacky, unimaginative version of the wealthy, callous, scheming grifters of the Hiaasenverse.
Back in 2020, Hiaasen wrote Trump into Squeeze Me,
a tremendous and madcap addition to his canon:
Fever Beach is the first Hiaasen novel since Squeeze Me,
and boy, does Hiaasen ever have MAGA's number.
The book revol…

Every European (and Canadian, and Australian, and so on) should read @… 's latest.
A snippet:
"It's well past time for a post-American internet. Every device and every service should be designed so that the people who use them have the final say over how they work. Manufacturers' back doors and digital locks that prevent us from upda…

I used to link to sections of webpages using anchor links, or have jump links pointing to id tags.
I went back to a page where I've done this in the past, and the page has been entirely rewritten with non-semantic HTML. Class descriptors have random suffixes for CSS rather than providing semantic IDs that can be used as jump links as well as, uhhh, semantic organization of a web page.
There's a lot of bad things from the 1980s and 1990s that I am glad to leave behind, but…

Whoops. My »USB Sticks Are Not a Back-Up« seminar at ​Convention Zero got the 8am EST slot on Nov 22nd. I've held similar sessions during HistoCamp and LitCampHD, and the topic has never been a crowd favourite. I guess I'll see how many people will be awake enough at that hour. 😬
Relevant Links:
https://conventionzero.carrd.co/

Q&A with Pavel Durov on Telegram, his arrest, censorship, not using a phone, Romanian elections, VK, encryption, Edward Snowden, spring 2018 poisoning, and more (Lex Fridman)
https://lexfridman.com/pavel-durov-transcript

I just noticed: after starting my little link "blog" or collection back on June 1st, as of today it has now grown to 150 links! 🔗
My reason for starting it was two-fold: I thought some folks could be interested in following along with what I read (that's why you can also subscribe via #rss). But, it's also a really useful archive for myself!
https://tzovar.as/links/

Quantized Dirac Fields in torsionful gravity: cosmological implications and links with the dark universe
Antonio Capolupo, Sante Carloni, Luca Fabbri, Simone Monda, Aniello Quaranta, Stefano Vignolo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06874

Quantized Dirac Fields in torsionful gravity: cosmological implications and links with the dark universe
We consider a classical field in square torsion theory as a source of torsion for a quantum fermion field in FLRW metric. In the framework of QFT, we obtain vacuum contributions to the energy-momentum tensor and to the axial current that modify the dynamics of the classical field and the field equations as back-reaction. These contributions lead to a modified classical field and therefore to a modified torsion term $L^μ$ and expectation value of energy-momentum tensor $T^{μν}$ on the quantum…

Examining Solidarity Against AI-Enabled Surveillance at the Intersection of Workplace and Carceral Realities
Morgan McErlean, Cella M. Sum, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Sarah Fox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06537

Examining Solidarity Against AI-Enabled Surveillance at the Intersection of Workplace and Carceral Realities
As panoptical, AI-driven surveillance becomes a norm, everyone is impacted. In a reality where all people fall victim to these technologies, establishing links and solidarity is essential to fighting back. Two groups facing rising and targeted surveillance are workers and individuals impacted by the carceral system. Through preliminary data collection from a worker-surveillance lens, our findings reveal several cases of these surveillance infrastructures intersecting. Continuation of our work w…

Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
CALLY: Treatment unit. He tried to reconnect one of the servo links and it burned his hand.
BLAKE: Right, sit down. [All but Vila sit at a small table to the left of flight consoles] No one is to attempt to repair any equipment till the computers are back under our control.
https://blake.torpi…

Always, always, ALWAYS check out the "source" of any promotional offers you get. Don't click links in the message. Go to your favorite search engine, look up the organization, and verify from there.
And if they ask for money? Run. #writingcommunity #writers

Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams - Writer Beware
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a rising and extremely prolific marketing scam that I’ve been able to trace back to operators in Nigeria. Using highly personalized (AI-generated) email solicitations that make it seem the sender (always with a Gmail address, always presenting as a marketing or PR expert) has really read the book,Read More

When you're a kid, you want to talk about things without your parents, teachers, principals, or (some of) your peers or siblings listening in.
You want to plan things without these people listening in, because they might try and stop you from doing them, or punish you if you succeed.
So, it's worth figuring out how to use new technologies, because the existing ones are riddled with censorship and surveillance back-doors ("parental controls") that can be deployed …

An #India-#Japan alliance could prove monumental for the #solar industry. The International Solar Festival at the #OsakaExpo…