Tootfinder

“I am disappointed in the AI discourse” https://steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am-disappointed-in-the-ai-discourse/

Was going to one bar but it turned out to be karaoke night so hard pass.
Walked on, past a bar called “The Eccentric“, and obviously I had to check it out. I am after all something of an eccentric myself, I hope.
The name is not misleading. You enter down a few steps into what looks like their liquor storage. The bar has more bottles of booze than I have ever seen in any bar. Apparently in fairly random order, but I am sure they have a very sophisticated system. Only customer so …

Funny: I never even thought, for a moment, that it might be risky to specialize in an extremely American form of IP.
I am actually reasonably familiar with EU design law. I also, somewhat randomly, know a bit about Australian design law. And I've started doing some research on Nordic design/law.
You know, just in case that's relevant to anyone out there.

@… I've been asked this question myself from folks earlier in their career than I am, but obviously you're beyond me, so I'm curious to hear your take.
What is the most valuable skill for a software developer to acquire to ensure their success?
(I already suspect I have a hunch as to your thoughts, but if you're willing, I'd …

My apartment management company has joined the undisclosed-AI bandwagon.

I am receiving an almost real-time transcript of a karaoke night which I opted to skip in favor of staying home and reading a book.
Hilarious but also impacting my reading.

I for one am intrigued by the out of the box blue sky thinking of those who suggest moving Europe's IP registry to the United Arab Emirates or Qatar for their international openness and cosmopolitan approach to sanctions.
If I wasn't already subscribed to their newsletter, I'd subscribe again,

Friday Links 25-09
First post curated via Readwise Reader. I am creating some scripts to help replicate what I did with Pocket.
I enjoyed the Komoot goodbye video this week. It is lovely and a bit sad.
https://christof.damian.net/2025/05/friday-links-25-0…

Friday Links 25-09
First post curated via Readwise Reader . I am creating some scripts to help replicate what I did with Pocket.  I enjoyed the Komoot goodbye...

March has been filled with a granola of small joys in a molasses of overall bitter mood. Those are the contradictions that, in the end, make up a solid month.
https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/changelog-march-2025/

The Changelog – March 2025
March was a month of contrasts, but, overall, I am happy with it. I wrote two articles, finally watched Flow, and read The Notebook, listen to the new clippings album. And now I am ready for the new season!

I feel like tech has gotten smarter, and I've gotten dumber. My Roku Ultra says it does Miracast (on the website) but in my settings I see only Airplay. And my phone (android) does not see it when searching. So does it not do it or am I doing something wrong? #feelingold

The Rest Is Entertainment has just informed me about Sleep Token who are apparently #1 in America and the UK and I am happy to report I don't hate them
Even though the first song on their hit album sounds like bit of songs by 5 different bands cut and shut together.
I'm getting nephilim, imagine dragons, Depeche mode, slipknot
And Coldplay

The last image speaks to me. I think I am used to polonium friendships all my life 🤣
https://lemmy.world/comment/17392156

So I also read this post about the AI discourse (https://steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am-disappointed-in-the-ai-discourse/).
I do think that it is helpful to be precise in our grievances so let me articulate more precisely a complaint that the post…

Something here touching on people modelling systems based on a simplified abstraction. (aka why seemingly simple government processes are surprisingly expensive to run.)
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s19e11-your-model-is-naive-and-its-not-the/…

s19e11: Your Model is Naive and it’s Not The Territory
0.0 Context Setting Friday, May 30, at the Code for America Summit in a hotel in Washington, D.C. I am in, fittingly, a hallway. I am also jetlagged. There...

I am sorry if I appear distant and cold, I am going through a lot right now.
Love you all, though.

Sometimes I feel like a broken record when #writing about #neurodivergence
But re-processing my past through the lens of #Autism

LoftyAssist got quite a decent bump in users this weekend, again, by my tiny standards. 41 accounts, 17 logged in over the last three days, 7 paid yearly subscription. That has to be some good ratio of paid to free, no?
And I still have a ton of things to add to help users do their research. I am very curious to see how far this will go.

Someone sent me a link to a video showing an interesting advertising campaign and my reply was:
"This needs to be hacked to support a harsh criticism of Capitalism."
(I am fun at parties but they have to be socialist parties.)

OH: IANYL (I Am Not Your Lawyer); the IANAL disclaimer that lawyers [can] use.
#tdose

Walked in the go-ahead run! I am enjoying this inning.
#Dodgers #MLB

GenAI-free WorldCon alternative!
Mia Tsai: on Bluesky: "ConCurrent Seattle, a one-day SFFH con intended to be an alternative program to WorldCon"
Thursday, August 14, 2025
ACT Theatre, downtown #Seattle
> My vision for ConCurrent was simple
> one day of excellent programming; have it be free to attend; run it efficiently; and never use genAI/L…

Mia Tsai (@itsamia.bsky.social)
There’s no way to ease into this news, so here it is. Today, I am announcing ConCurrent Seattle, a one-day SFFH con intended to be an alternative program to WorldCon, scheduled for Thursday, August 14, 2025, at the ACT Theatre in downtown Seattle at 700 Union Street, across from the Sheraton. 1/7

104°f in the forecast today (so likely 100 here, generally tend to be a few degrees below the airport the local news channels use for their forecast) so it's a Steam Deck day. This saves the AC in the RV from having to fight down the heat from my PC/monitor. What am I doing on it? Why, I'm using Chiaki4Deck to remote play Dave The Diver on my PS5 (That sits in a cabinet with an exhaust fan venting outside👍)

Today’s breakfast. Hummus, cheese spread, veggies, some of which pickled. Very healthy, I hope. I definitely didn’t feel like going for the very sausagey Hungarian option. At a posh café/restaurant close to the fine arts museum, where I am about to go. #Budapest

Eine schnelles Rätselspiel um Zahlen und Muster. Macht echt Spaß, vor allem wenn andere am gleichen Quadrat tüfteln. Wer bekommt es schneller hin?
@… https://mas.to/@joelr/1145980819998028

Joel Riley (@joelr@mas.to)
Angehängt: 1 Bild Inspired by One Million Checkboxes, I created a collaborative, realtime nonogram web game where you can help solve all 24,976,511 possible 5x5 nonogram puzzles. When you solve a puzzle, it solves it for everyone in realtime. So far 289 puzzles have been solved. Help out at: https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram #nonogram #picross #webgame

I am officially "homeless"... Had to sell my apartment because of runaway cost increases, and today the new owner officially took it over. Currently living partly in a borrowed house, and partially couch surfing, while trying to find out what to do next... I am strongly considering just packing up everything and moving to South America. Brazil is nice, and so is the Caribbean...

Heute vor 67 Jahren: Am 31.05.1958 kam es bei Enewetak zum Atomtest Operation Hardtack I, "Sycamore". Dieser Test war Teil einer Serie von 35 #Atomtests, die die USA im Sommer 1958 auf den #Marshallinseln im Pazifik durchführten.

I don’t really have a use for Denote #Emacs package (I had some my own much simpler but similar solution).
It’s so thoroughly and thoughtfully documented that I am finding ways to use it.
Thank you Protesilaos Stavrou! https://protesilaos.com/emacs/denote

Is eBay not doing PayPal pay in three any more or am I just unlucky that the bed frame and mattress I want to buy are available on a pay in three with Klarna only? I don't really want to tangle with Klarna.

Jippi!
I've repaired my Laptop! Or lets say I've replaced my cracked trackpad... With one of another colour, as I am only able to check compatibility on technical level, not a stylish one ... Well anyways I'll just say it has its own character.

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/meuterei-in-berlin-kreuzberg-polizei-verhindert-besetzung-von-ehemaliger-linker-szenekneipe-13776571.html
Sorry, wenn ein Gebäude seit der Räu…

Ehemalige linke Szenekneipe: Polizei verhindert Besetzung von „Meuterei“ in Berlin-Kreuzberg
Am Donnerstag wollten offenbar 30 Personen die leerstehende Kneipe „Meuterei“ besetzen. Das Lokal wurde 2021 geräumt.

Google's AI claims that I cannot directly use a tool to convert Plan 9 a.out to ELF.
I am writing that tool right now.

YEARNING!
comic source: @…
#rats

6 AM Thought:
I like getting up early to watch the sun rise. I couldn't see it today because it was cloudy, but I know it's still there.
(Can you tell that I had a decent night's sleep?) 😉

Best of all: everything is free, thanks to #openrouter 😍
I am so sick of all these none-free bullshit websites or chrome-plugins that don't work. Even the custom GPTs in #chatgpt are bullshit. The only YouTube summarizer that works is

Pretty expensive for a sticker https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Phanpy-by-cheeaun/170768876.EJUG5
I am familiar with the logistics, personally would print from local vendors.
Anyway, SVG here:

"I never imagined that I would become unchurched. Yet being unchurched, I am discovering that whenever we intentionally put a few chairs and a table together to have a meal, we are manifesting a new—or perhaps ancient—way of doing church in our time."
—Vincent Wei-Cheng Lin ’24 S.T.M. writing in the new issue of Reflections, which addresses whether Christianity is losing its religion.

This is good.
#ai

1/ I’ve been very lucky with my job. I get paid full time but I couldn’t say when I last did a full working week - it must be years ago. My boss has been very understanding since I escaped my abusive marriage over four years ago, and has also supported me as I battle through the courts to get more time with my kids. My up and down #mentalhealth impacts upon how productive I am, and the cour…

"While I am responsible for changing what I can, I have to let go of the rest if I want peace of mind. Just for today I will love myself enough to give up a struggle over something that is out of my hands." - Courage to Change (Al-Anon), pg. 129
#serenity #boundaries #mentalhealth

Namespro.ca appears to be having issues. I am getting intermittent behaviour... sometimes ok, and sometimes the website is offline with this.
#NamesPro #WebHost #Down

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00694 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

What we talk about when we talk about physics problem solving
I am a second-year cognitive science major, and as a student who has completed my physical science distributive requirements, I will likely never again come across Gauss's law. So why do I feel that the time and effort I devoted to solving Gauss's law problems was worth it? Partly, I inherently enjoy the learning process and the new perspective on the physical world I have acquired by understanding electromagnetism. But I was also inspired by the ways in which physics problems train the mind in…

Bill Maher's "Is Anyone Else Seeing This" was unbearably annoying after a few minutes (who would have guessed), I made it through Bill Burr's "Drop Dead Years" and it was fine (I am not quite where he is yet) and I really enjoyed watching Ari Shaffir's "America's Sweetheart" (so _that_ kind of of white-privilege middle-age is #WhereIAmNow ).

I am sorry if I appear distant and cold, I am going through a lot right now.
Love you all, though.

sweet setup.py you've got there for your pure-python project. i, too, am a big fan of the 1990s.

So what's the difference between self-care and self-nurture? Here's why I'm trying to embrace self-nurture and am leaving self-care behind.
I talked about it in episode 187 of the podcast.

Pope Leo announced that he is giving an outdoor mass in #Chicago and I think that I am going to try to get tickets.
https://www.archchicago.org/popeleoxiv

And how am i suppose to tell my wife that yes i will play a game about digging a hole and yes i paid for it real money. I hope this game doesn’t run on Proton
#gaming

Of course, my definition of binging is watching two episodes in a row and waking up drooling in front of the TV. So when I am saying Poker Face is binge-worthy, it means I am into my third episode for today. Time of the Monkey was better than Game of Thrones.

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism
Richard Muscat* In the series Prospects for Degrowth I am a degrowth activist. It’s not a career path I ever envisaged for myself. I arrived here after a couple of decades working, for want of better phrasing, on “capitalism’s side”. First for a range of high-growth Silicon Valley software companies and their ilk; latterly directly in venture capital focused on climate change technology startups, aka “Climate Tech” or “Impact Investing.”

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism
Richard Muscat* In the series Prospects for Degrowth I am a degrowth activist. It’s not a career path I ever envisaged for myself. I arrived here after a couple of decades working, for want of bett…

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus,
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous;
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
-- Gilbert & Sullivan, "Pirates of Penzance"

Let's just say this answer surprised me. Happy reading! #writing #writers
I Refuse to Support My Friend’s Crappy Self-Published Novel: Am I the Asshole? ‹ Literary Hub

I Refuse to Support My Friend’s Crappy Self-Published Novel: Am I the Asshole?
That’s right, you know what time it is! We’re back for another wild installment of everyone’s favorite drunken advice column, Am I the Literary Asshole?, the place where your questions and my answe…

Pretty expensive for a sticker https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Phanpy-by-cheeaun/170768876.EJUG5
I am familiar with the logistics, personally would print from local vendors.
Anyway, SVG here:

I will sit here.
And there.
And any.
And every where.
Destabilizing work site be d’m’d- I will devote myself to serving the American people.
By continuing my work on sorting out and prepping for extreme weather across the continental USA
Every single one of my colleagues is just as dedicated.
Why am I doing research ‘in exile’?
If it’s a test of my commitment to my mission: bring it.
https://bsky.app/profile/drkatemarvel.bsky.social/post/3lpbwem2yvk2o

I am annoyed that #homeassistant decided to stop supporting the "supervised" installation method.
It was the only one that works perfectly for me.
HA OS - did not recognize the drives on the machine
The docker alternative - no support the hardware I plugged into the machine.
I'll continue to roll on the supervised install, and I do really hope that the…

I'm very busy at the moment with work and life stuff, so if I am taking a while to reply, you are in my reply queue.
Have an awesome day!

When it comes to the degradation of our collective critical faculties, I am not sure if naming #socialmedia as the sole cause really explains it. I'd like to read a study exploring the detrimental effect of #realitytv in the decade before the 2010s on this...

That utterly awful feeling of waiting for an email and getting nothing but spam. This has been me for days, and though there are far worse feelings in the world, I am heartily ready to be done with this one! At this point, I might even take bad news, though of course I hope otherwise.

I find the deluge of information overwhelming and things have only gotten worse with AI. Now I can produce mountains of crap using AI and then I have to sift it to see if there is anything worth saving.
I find myself always behind on working through all the information and projects I have...and if by some Herculean effort I manage to get current (this usually involves hitting the delete button repeatedly while telling myself "you'll never use that or need that again") I find myself building a mountain again with great haste!
Yes, I am fully aware I'm #neurodivergent and #adhd. Sigh.

Am I the only one who thinks it's weird that the wealthiest man in the world (maybe in history) is so fucking whiny?

@…
Not sure why it won't let me respond to your comment directly..
If you look at my feed at all, you will see I am far from a "Republican"
If one watches PBS Newshour with any critical media literacy their drift to the right is clear. They are always doing the "both sides", treating Trump and his Reublican minons as normal, etc. But the Republicans (who I am definitely not one of) have been working on this since Reagan and they really got going in 2005 https://www.democracynow.org/2005/5/12/a_right_wing_coup_at_pbs
https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/june-23-2005-corporation-for-public-broadcasting-hires-former-rnc-chair

I don't even remember the last time I played a game day 1, but wowzers am I getting the whole "games have so many bugs on day 1 these days" vibes from Oblivion Remastered. Hope patches can iron out the issues!

#WritersCoffeeClub May 30. Who do you write for?
Me.
Or, the one I was when I discovered the thrill of thick, epic books with long adventures. I am still that person, just a little more pressed for time.

Context…
‘Accessibility at the Edge’ W3C CG Is an overlay smoke screen:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/09/accessibility-at-the-edge-w3c-cg-is-an-overlay-smoke-screen.html
It has drafted a report…
“Accessi…

‘Accessibility at the Edge’ W3C CG Is an Overlay Smoke Screen
Another post where I lay it all out in the title. What follows is why I am making this assertion (with a handy table of contents). Timeline 26 May 2022 at 10:58am ET 26 May 2022 at 7:56pm ET 27 May 2022 at 7:38pm ET 28 May 2022 at 5:04pm…

So look, if you talk to me about the job threat from the things we currently call “AI,” well…
…if where you’re going with that is “The concentration of wealth is an existential crisis! Establish UBI! 99% marginal tax rate! Capital gains tax! Wealth tax! Abolish billionaires!” then yes, I’m •all• ears. My pitchfork is already sharpened.
But if where you’re going is “Get in on it now while you still can! Buy the AI vendors’ products! Drink radium for that youthful glow!” then…kthanksbye. I am not going to be a vector for your marketing propaganda, no matter how agitated you are.
/end

I am seeking speakers for my @… & @… meetups. We prefer in-person presentations in Frankfurt or the Mannheim area, but remote talks are also an option.
If you have anything interesting to share with us, let us know. We'd be …

I am doing a throw-back #caturday today with pictures of #cats that I had as a kid. Silver Streak and Snowball, you were very good cats. I miss you.
#catsofmastodon

So @… announced an upgrade for #ActionText with "No #Trix".

Jorge Manrubia
A huge editor upgrade is in the works for Action Text. No Trix, no House, no Tiptap, no ProseMirror. A drop-in replacement that will take rich text editing to the next level in Rails, and lay a foundation far better than anything we ever had with Trix. We will start using it internally in the new product this week. We’ll test, we’ll polish, and we’ll ship. (Yes, I’m shamelessly teasing here. And yes, I am VERY excited about this one)

I just read the story about the Italian kidnapped by a New York couple and tortured to disclose the credentials for his crypto assets - and the first thing that came to mind was XKCD 538 "Security" about the five dollar wrench.
Am I a bad person?
#xkcd538 #xkcd

sudo spellcheck-config --disable-all --global --system-wide --please -y
(only for my working environments, of course, because I am actually exceptionally good at spelling)

INTERESTINGLY, if I keep my eyes open while I am drying my face, even though I cannot see anything at all, somehow my body is able to be satisfied with that amount of input, and keep me stable and steady. The moment I close my eyes, I get wobbly. Open them even if I cannot see, and I am fine. Cool, huh? (END)

I am learning so much about myself. I am also hating the process a lot of the time https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-184-what-if-we-actually-felt-the-…

I need to work on my car tomorrow. It's so cold that it's sleeting outside right now. Of course, my friend with tools lives in the icebox of the state. How am I going to work in this crap? I got that 0W-10 blood from living in Texas, plus my persistent sweating. It's almost June. How the hell is it still snowing and sleeting?

Heute vor 67 Jahren: Am 30.05.1958 kam es bei Enewetak zum Atomtest Operation Hardtack I, "Tobacco". Dieser Test war Teil einer Serie von 35 #Atomtests, die die USA im Sommer 1958 auf den #Marshallinseln im Pazifik durchführten.

Statement by Dean Greg Sterling.
------
Like many around the world, I am deeply saddened by the death of Pope Francis. I am grateful, too, for all he did to advance currents of Christianity that are too seldom seen today...
Read the rest https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15KhqHmUk

Yale Divinity School
Statement by Dean Greg Sterling. ------ Like many around the world, I am deeply saddened by the death of Pope Francis. I am grateful, too, for all he did to advance currents of Christianity that...

More Jams and Experiments
I got tired of creating basslines that didn't fit with the chords I had in mind, so this time I played the synth part before the bass. It's just an Am-G vamp. The guitar is my Epiphone ES-175 Premium. They only made these in 2014, but of course the original Gibson ES-175's date from 1957, I think. The synth is Yoshimi, an old synth that works in Linux.

Soliciting Internet Opinions: what presenter clickers do you like best that work well with Apple but also have some capacity for universal use? I am tired of the Logitech malware crap that they force on me.
Holy COW: thanks to @… I have discovered that my Flipper Zero works PERFECTLY as a clicker out of the box as a simple bluetooth connection (ANSI keyboard) t…

#WritersCoffeeClub May 30. Who do you write for?
Me.
Or, the one I was when I discovered the thrill of thick, epic books with long adventures. I am still that person, just a little more pressed for time.

Who am I to speak
about the things
that I am about to speak of?
(filling in the blank spots from Sanaga to Benito)
Vem är jag att tala
om det jag nu
kommer tala om?
(fyller i de tomma ytorna från Sanaga till Benito)
https://1884.liminoid.org/

April 30th will be 3 years that I've been with @…. While the dating anniversary is superseded by the engagement anniversary, it is still quite amazing to look back on the last 3 years. What a wild ride and I am excited to celebrate the day with him in-person next week!

Great chart of #SEAsia's largest urban parks. Should be an national embarrassment how far down you have to scroll to find the any #city #park from one country in particular, the name of which wouldn't surprise any…

Largest urban parks in Southeast Asia
A list of the largest urban parks in Southeast Asia. Urban parks in Southeast Asia map [Map of urban parks in Southeast Asia.] Notes about the urban park list This is an ongoing list that I am coll…

How old am I? I'm this old #c64 #ik

As an experiment, I uploaded an AI paper to ChatGPT and asked o3 to explain a specific parameter. Its answer started with
“In Generalized Reweighted PPO (GRPO),”
which is not what GRPO stands for.
Meanwhile, AI enthusiasts have started citing o3 as if they were citing an actual source. Including absurdly involved questions like “90% confidence interval” of “how many chips would likely be diverted from a G42 data center” if such-and-such.
(Am I an AI enthusiast thoug…

I don't think we should always have to include the "upswing" in struggles we share
When you're in the shit of it & all you hear is upswing, you can feel more alone—that you need to "suck it up/be positive." And I find that toxic
Still, I have BIG feelings about sharing my suck with so little upswing
...cause I'm a hypocritical asshole when it comes to myself🙃
Full thought:

Feedbackless Feed
A (non)social feedbackless feed to nowhere

Let's just say this answer surprised me. Happy reading! #writing #writers
I Refuse to Support My Friend’s Crappy Self-Published Novel: Am I the Asshole? ‹ Literary Hub

I Refuse to Support My Friend’s Crappy Self-Published Novel: Am I the Asshole?
That’s right, you know what time it is! We’re back for another wild installment of everyone’s favorite drunken advice column, Am I the Literary Asshole?, the place where your questions and my answe…

That utterly awful feeling of waiting for an email and getting nothing but spam. This has been me for days, and though there are far worse feelings in the world, I am heartily ready to be done with this one! At this point, I might even take bad news, though of course I hope otherwise.

So look, if you talk to me about the job threat from the things we currently call “AI,” well…
…if where you’re going with that is “The concentration of wealth is an existential crisis! Establish UBI! 99% marginal tax rate! Capital gains tax! Wealth tax! Abolish billionaires!” then yes, I’m •all• ears. My pitchfork is already sharpened.
But if where you’re going is “Get in on it now while you still can! Buy the AI vendors’ products! Drink radium for that youthful glow!” then…kthanksbye. I am not going to be a vector for your marketing propaganda, no matter how agitated you are.
/end

Update on loftyassist, 58 total accounts, 9 yearly premium subscribers. I do feel like I hit a wall on sign ups and they have slowed down over the last few weeks.
Now I am fighting the temptation to work on "new" features or improve the existing ones. What I really need to do next is do another round of "marketing". Reddit with the latest features, work on SEO stuff, and work on a more "marketing" type features vs what I want to work on.

Friday Links 25-08
Pocket is a big part of how I collect the links for the Friday Links. Sadly, Mozilla has decided to shut Pocket down. My plan is to migrate to Readwise Reader, which seems to be a reasonable replacement. I am now migrating some of my helper scripts to make the change easier. You will see next week if I will be successful. :-)

thankful for the rain today!! Only took a few days for the new grass/clover/flower mix to sprout!!
🌱 🌱 🌱
Going to get hot this week so I am very glad it has begun successfully now.
#driveway #yardwork #diy #portalberni

Hey. I don’t know how to share this here. I don't know how to "frame" it for Mastodon...
But I want to share it. Because I know other people out there hurt. I know how isolating it is.
So, this isn't snappy & well-packaged. But neither am I. And neither is pain.
I hope this somehow helps someone feel less alone in their pain:

An Open Letter to My Body (and an Apology to the Public)
This is a post in two parts. One to my body, and one to you.

#ScribesAndMakers May 29
What is your proudest or best moment with your creative endeavour this month?
I dared to read an excerpt from my WIP loud, I am terrified of reading for others. But I did it. It didn't suck.

Who am I to speak
about the things
that I am about to speak of?
(filling in the blank spots from Sanaga to Benito)
Vem är jag att tala
om det jag nu
kommer tala om?
(fyller i de tomma ytorna från Sanaga till Benito)
https://1884.liminoid.org/

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism by Richard Muscat
New article in the series "Prospects for Degrowth"
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/05/23/creatively-disrupting-capitalism/

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism
Richard Muscat* In the series Prospects for Degrowth I am a degrowth activist. It’s not a career path I ever envisaged for myself. I arrived here after a couple of decades working, for want of bett…

I'm taking a mental health day and I am working on installing #Watchtower on the home server while drinking a fucking lovely v60. I guess this is what the heart wants?

Heute vor 27 Jahren: Am 30. Mai 1998 führte #Pakistan den #Atomtest Chagai-II in der Kharan-Wüste, Balochistan, durch, nur zwei Tage nach Chagai-I. Ziel war es, neue Waffendesigns zu testen, nicht die Effekte. Insgesamt wurden im Mai 1998 sechs Tests durchgeführt.

#ScribesAndMakers May 29
What is your proudest or best moment with your creative endeavour this month?
I dared to read an excerpt from my WIP loud, I am terrified of reading for others. But I did it. It didn't suck.

#PennedPossibilities 683 — Can you describe a memorable interaction you’ve had with a reader about either your current or past WIP / book?
A group of children drew pictures in class after hearing an excerpt from one of my texts.
I have those saved, I was stunned. Kids, like 9–10 years old, liked something I wrote enough to actually draw images to match?
I am honoured!…

#PennedPossibilities 683 — Can you describe a memorable interaction you’ve had with a reader about either your current or past WIP / book?
A group of children drew pictures in class after hearing an excerpt from one of my texts.
I have those saved, I was stunned. Kids, like 9–10 years old, liked something I wrote enough to actually draw images to match?
I am honoured!…

#WordWeavers 30. What’s the worst betrayal your MC has experienced?
That's a major plot twist I am not comfortable giving up. He's a soldier in a context where betrayals are rare and can be deadly, and even if it is not, it severely damages his ability to trust again.

#WordWeavers 30. What’s the worst betrayal your MC has experienced?
That's a major plot twist I am not comfortable giving up. He's a soldier in a context where betrayals are rare and can be deadly, and even if it is not, it severely damages his ability to trust again.