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lately been playing "liked music" on shuffle and thinking, yeah I've heard that enough, time to remove it. just dropped a string of 90s hits
of course I need to add new liked music to keep the warp drive from imploding, so I alternate with yt music's "discover mix", which ~20% of the time finds a cowpath that works for me, and ~40% of the time makes me go, ugh this sucks, back to shuffling likes.
sometimes I try a mix from a liked song, but that doesn&…

Just finished "Forgive Me Not", a beautiful and touching fairy tale graphic novel by Mari Costa. Only thing I dislike about it is the royalty, which it honestly could have worked just as well without...
I actually liked the resolution of the climax a lot; many writers would have created a lesser scene for one or both characters.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Just watched « John Wick » and I liked it. Late to the party I know.

RE: https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/116913952636548872
When this specific phase of history is over, and, perhaps, we've turned NWDC into some artist space like Seattle's Inscape, we'll put a statue of Willem in the center of the garden where those buses once were. It's not something he'd probably have liked much, but memorials aren't for the dead. They're for the living, to help us remember what to aspire to.

Book Review (with spoilers) - There Is No Antimemetics Division
https://www.quora.com/profile/Ben-Curthoys/Book-Review-There-Is-No-Antimemetics-Division-Here-be-spoilers-this-is-for…

oh heh, in terminator 2 the animator liza keith used a classic CG checkerboard floor as a stand-in when working on the “head through floor” scene, before the background shots were available
james cameron liked the effect so much, they went back to the set and covered every other white floor tile with black…

Today I braincoded some short SQL fixup while letting the LLM also generate a fix. The LLM was a tiny bit faster (I'd guess it took 60sec vs 90sec on my side), but I liked my solution more. I used a CTE to generate the fixed data and then did an update on select, while the LLM used a subselect.

Minor victory with diabetes today. Latest tests shows my A1C is slowly dropping. Last several before were 6.8% and higher. This time down to 6.6. There are bad days for my diet, but I am working on improving it. Also weight is down to under 80 Kg which beats the 104 Kg I used to be 10 years ago.
I will still be asking the doctor about going back to Ozympic as Rybelsus has side effects that are more than a PITA for me. I liked it before when it was a once a week injection vs a pil…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@elliott4mp/116902996518832436
Fuck this guy.
The limited volume of the Detroit-Windsor crossing has constrained economic capacity for 30 years and the “free” market never fixed that because one billionaire liked his …

Friday Links 26-24
I liked the "Border Collie" post today, the podcast about air conditioning in Europe, and the interview with Mike D.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/07/friday-links-26-24.html

I liked screamy music before. But the carthasis it offers has become all the more important since taking on an admin role.
#academia

“When the time comes, the AI industry must burn. It must be allowed to die. Generative AI has already been given far too much money, oxygen and attention, and if it cannot survive without continual venture capital and media coddling, it is unworthy and unnecessary, and must face the cold, hard reality that every regular person faces when they fail.”
Amen to that!

Let AI Burn
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The Mercy of Forgetting: The Story Leads the Telling, and Perfect Memory Is the Enemy of Inspiration
At a dinner table, the worst storyteller is often the person with the best memory. He begins with the route to the restaurant, the trouble finding parking, the waiter’s name, the table beside the kitchen, the appetizer nobody liked, and the exact minute when…

As a little #skater kid in the #90s I passed on #GooGooDolls thinking they always sounded like their song Iris or Slide, neither of which I liked.
Rewatching an episode of Beavis and Butth…

Mark Davis Doubles Down on Commitment That Is Sure to Anger Other Owners https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/mark-davis-grass-allegiant-stadium/

WOAH finally nice cool temperatures again after a day of rain!!
And thus I'm also motivated aain to post and devlop some more photos. And these are the last shots from the #worldOfBricks
I liked the 3d Settlers of Catan a lot, same as the Starwars figures or the illuminated large sculptures.
The whole exhibition wasn't overly large but it was a good visit and we …

@… It has been about 20 years since I liked using Outlook. Luckily, I don't need it these days.

Someone's builder is cracking out the 80s bangers - TFF, Eurythmics, Scritti Politti (shut up, I liked them). It's better than his usual 12hrs straight of Oasis.

Imagine you were UKRI and were short of cash; perhaps letting that shortage take out something widely liked in the new PM's backyard would be an effective way of finding more:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2qj7jzl7no

Andy Burnham says "We'll find a way to save Jodrell Bank"
Burnham said "there is no way that we can see its demise, and it won't happen under my Government".

I liked when scrolling made a page go up and down, not zoomed and rotated and whatever the fuck scrolling does nowadays...

@… Hi, I really liked your talk at HOPE today, but I can't find the slides on your site- is there somewhere else I can check? Thanks

Riya's Foundling, by Algis Budrys, is a weird, weird story.
I rather liked it.
#sciencefiction

#totp I liked this tune too.

Normally I go to the Benalla Street Art Festival but this year it coincided with some guy chopping my chest open. Did an overnighter to catch up with the new art work this week. #BenallStreetArtFestival
It was minus 4 when I woke up but the art work was worth it. Here's a few examples

I enjoy most things about Splatoon Raiders, but the music is not included in “most things”. I really liked it in previous Splatoon games, though. Sucks that you can’t even turn it down a little.

Can't believe I'm saying this but I think I liked "Brand New Day" more than "No Way Home".
▶️ Inside SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY: Filming with the Cyclops Rig Camera
https://youtube.com/watch?v=K1BfX3lH_2w

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are “all engaged in a combination of multiple outright price increases and changing their core subscriptions to force AI features on them as a means of boosting revenues and conning the street into believing that ‘AI is paying off’ every time they non-consensually thrust it on their customers, framing higher prices as ‘better value’ in a way that fucks the user to appease Wall Street.”

I think everyone liked the Odyssey more then me. It was fine / good.

How is it that the Middle East continue being one of the world’s most war-affected regions to this day?
How is it that the people there developed this culture of encouraging conquest and holding grudges?
Then I remembered that it is the birthplace of the god of Storm and Warfare which became the most Worshiped god of all time worldwide. He created humans and declared it was all Good but, then because he didn't liked how things were going, he drown 99.9% of all humans and anima…

I just watched The Mitchells vs The Machines, which I liked very much.
Before watching it I was wondering why I had never heard of it before.
After watching it, I guess it's because Apple, Facebook and the rest didn't like it very much.

I finally upgraded my phone and got back one of the things I liked and missed most about my phone in the last ~15 years --- a stylus!
A real shame that currently there are only two models of phones from two different companies that have integrated styluses --- and the second only sells theirs in the US and Indian markets!!
The other thing, more important honestly, was an unlocked bootloader and freedom to install whichever OS (ROM) i wanted. This, apparently, will have to wait --…

I liked this floating, simple moment. Sorry it got cut off early.

Changeling Or The End Of?
It's time to crawl out from under that rock. Although I kinda liked it there....
#slackware #blog #thesaigoneer

Cowboys’ Newly Cut Quiet Defender Sent Strong Message to NFL https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-josh-butler-sent-strong-message/

An old picture I liked. I took it during the Covid pandemic as a joke. It's my take in what an EDC kit would look like from then on. With a bottle of 'medicinal' wodka, of course.
📸 made with a NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D500 (24mm) on November 4, 2020.
#Photography #Gallery #EDC #Covid

I just pre-ordered a THEA1200. I opened and closed the window twice before I pulled the trigger. It was hitting a certain memory I just couldn't resist. I miss when computing was fun. I don't have to go back THAT far (I had the A500 last years of HS and first years of college), but still, I have to go back a few years to the last time I really liked going into work. Lately its just a slog. I'm hoping a little trip down memory lane with a retro computer will spark some interest …

Just finished "Snake-Eater" by T. Kingfisher (@…). I'd read and thoroughly enjoyed her "Digger" webcomic, and found this book to be quite enjoyable too. There's something indelibly heartwarming about an anxious character growing to feel more comfortable and self-assured, especially when escaping and unlearning emotional abuse, and I'm certainly a sucker for heartwarming characters. I like the way that Kingfisher has taken time to talk about and try to avoid cultural appropriation, in a way that I feel is reasonable, although of course I'm not an expert judge of the nuances and I'm biased by having liked the book, so I'm willing to be told things are complicated in that regard it others judge differently. I also really liked the window dressing of a vaguely solarpunk future society, in a book that's not at all about that society. I'd love to see Kingfisher write something focused on how that society could work (or maybe she already has?).
Probably going to look up some of Kingfisher's fantasy books soon.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

This. So much this.
Heinlein wrote to pay off his mortgage…and then he did it cos he enjoyed it.
I mean, c’mon:
“Starship Troopers” (Heinlein’s a fascist!!) - 1959
“Stranger In A Strange Land” (Heinlein’s a Hippie free sex freak!) - 1961
@… Knows of which he speaks.

John Scalzi (@jscalzi) on Threads
Saw another whiny right-wing dweeb assert that Robert Heinlein couldn't get published today, presumably because of "woke," and I'm all, motherfucker, you don't think that the most commercially savvy science fiction writer of his era wouldn't understand how to read the room in 2026 and then write to it? No, of course you don't, because your Heinlein is some weird fetish object instead of an actual working writer who liked money AND telling stories. Heinlein understood commercial storytelling...

'Tony Dokoupil has the story' - almost like Bari knows he's not well liked and is giving him the stories people will watch even if it's him telling them...
The comeback story of baby elephant after her mother rejected her - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/comeback-story-baby-elephant-mother-rejected/

On our hike last Saturday I wanted to get an ipression of the part of the trail - the problem: the original photo just looked bad - chaos, "bad" light, ...
but I liked the structure and so - converted it to monochrome and was quite surprised to be honest!
#monochrome #photography

I think those of us who lived the heartbreak of Argentina's team since 2006 (and even before if you are older) would have signed with our blood for a championship in 2022 and a final in 2026 so no, it's not a failure by any means.
I never liked Scaloni's way of setting up the team, and while Spain are the deserving champions, I know we could have done a better match against them.
Anyways, it was an amazing ride, and I can't wait to do it again.
GRACIAS

While I've long liked Arsenal, Coventry City was my first love. Today's a happy day.

#totp I liked this. But what's it about?

New iPhone foldable looks pretty nice if eye-wateringly expensive. Good thing I'm such a free-software stick-in-the-mud or I might be tempted. Don't think you can install Linux on it sadly 😆
I liked the bit where it turned into a mini laptop with one screen for a keyboard.
Someone get valve to make a 3-screen foldable steamdeck.

After my blurb y'day of enjoying it on Kalpa, I liked it even better to see that AlienBob has Ungoogled Chromium in his repo, great stuff! Also, slackbuilds for Brave-Origin, Librewolf and Bottom are available (not by me) and up to date, so my SlackoSundries will get a big overhaul by September 1st.
#slackware

Over the weekend I upgraded my mini-box keyboard and mouse from wireless to wired. Keyboard is mechanical and about 3/4 size so that I have a lot more space on the keyboard tray. Mouse is also larger. So far it is smoother and I don't get the drop out when playing games and I hope that stays like that.
Keyboard is what I have on the work laptop and I liked enough to buy a second one. I have to press extra keys for media control, but I can live with that. The sound and feel is …

Just finished "Mage and the Endless Unknown" by SJ Miller. It's got a very cute cover for the amount of body horror it contains, but I really liked it overall. It's an almost-wordless story with a lot of conceptual depth, which is obviously a very difficult thing to pull off.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

.. I've liked most of this author's other books I've read. this one might turn out ok, but so far it's ... yeah, maybe this corny obviousness is a misdirection. we'll see

While I was in Tokyo, I held a Z Fold 8 at a Galaxy Store and I liked it a lot. I'm glad that I pre-ordered one.

We liked our last cruise so much we're going on another! To Italy, Malta, and Greece with some time at the end in Paris.
I'll be sharing postcards in this thread. They will also be on a nicely formatted web page.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Cute Lepers:
🎵 She Liked Helter Skelter
#TheCuteLepers
https://open.spotify.com/track/2BXvLqFJpO58mbu0RCXmC7

In the pre-AI days, there was a Stanley-conjecture (on covering monoids) which eventually turned out false and then Stanley quibbed to the authors, that he liked their work but he asked them to withdraw their paper and post a proof instead.
Will people post conjectures in the future? I think the role of a conjecture is to trigger human attention to a problem so that we get more understanding of the whole area. So maybe a “cheap” counterexample was always a boring resolution of a conjecture.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson
Lady Jane:
🎵 Never Liked The Ghetto
#LadyJane

Hell, the pod racing was good enough that they made it into a damn good video game
(I think that game was the only thing I liked out of the first movie 😂)
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7l7f2njau2jljpphrj3hg345/post/3mu2tqiqwjc2b

I finally went and saw the new spiderman movie last night. I liked it.

Just finished reading @alvartheo.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy's novel Benothinged all in one day. The protagonist is a mourning British ace enby with autism and depression and the story gets way dark with all the problems one might face with all those things, but it gets it, too. Really gets how hard it can be and takes you there and asks, "OK, what now?" And it does it all with a horror twist.
I bought it as a ebook from the publisher's site months ago, knowing my bookclub was reading it this month. I wish I could tell you all where to get your copy, but the publisher's site closed. It's worth the effort to find it on ebay or if you're in the UK, you might be able to find it in the shops.
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-915691-09-5
ISBN (ebook): 978-1-915691-10-1
I don't want to spoil it, but I really liked how the characters were written and want to read more from this author. I wish their Bluesky account was bridged so I can find out what they've written/are coming out with next.
#Bookstodon #horror #LGBTQ #trans #AlvarTheo

Alien Clay: fascinating xenobiosphere fascism
Shroud: fascinating xenobiosphere capitalism
Is there any book by Tchaikovsky where our future society isn't a nightmare?
Not a rhetorical question, I very much liked those two books, that's why I'm curious about how he'd write a livable future.
#books #adrianTchaikovsky #sciFi #scienceFiction

Ohhhh, this webtoon I really liked is back after an almost four year hiatus!! Yay, I'm so happy it's back!!

Just finished "Amazona" by Canizales (indirect trigger warning: rape). An excellent fictional graphic novel about the displacement of indigenous people from the Amazon in Columbia. I especially liked the dedication: "Dedicated to those who have had to flee, leaving their lives behind. May the light in their hearts never fade. May it light new paths, so its brightness can blind the greedy. Early on the refugees, hosted in a city, comment that they now need money, when before if they had a need they could just take what they needed from the jungle. The book doesn't make this point, but communities like that have been living that way for tens of thousands of years, and I have hope that those ways of life will continue, at least where not yet destroyed, for tens of thousands more years, if not millions or billions of years. I am myself not a primitivist, despite being an anarchist, but I think there are nevertheless a plethora of important perspectives to be seen if one pays attention to indigenous groups around the world.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Just fished "Coldwire" by Chloe Gong. An interesting and well-written cyberpunk thriller, even though it didn't have the social-imaginative elements I was looking for. I liked the reveal, and the overall construction, even if I felt that a lot of things were a bit off, and I'm not sure how I feel about an ultimately-optimistic-about-technical-possibilities view of the future right now, especially after reading Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky" just recently which offers an idea of a future that's less optimistic (even if it dilutes that a bit towards the end).
Even if Gong's imagined future doesn't feel like it has anything interesting to say about either how to get to or sustain a more libratory society, it's a fun book and I'm definitely somewhat interested in the potential for a sequel.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon