Tootfinder

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Kendrick Lamar:
🎵 heart pt. 6
#KendrickLamar
https://djrahpha.bandcamp.com/track/dj-rahpha-x-kendrick-lamar-heart-pt-6-dancehall-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SGvjfc85yzqKXsfKcCxn2

I just signed onto “An open letter to the Rails Core team and Ruby community”: https://github.com/Plan-Vert/open-letter
(You have to know how to do a Pull Request to sign up, which may be appropriate in this particular case.)

GitHub - Plan-Vert/open-letter: An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence
An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence - Plan-Vert/open-letter

Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen

from my link log —
RF shielding history: when the FCC cracked down on radio interference from computers.
https://tedium.co/2025/10/20/computers-fcc-rf-interference-history/
saved 2025-10-21

RF Shielding History: When The FCC Cracked Down On Computers
The FCC took a hard line on the radio frequency interference that computers created—creating huge headaches for early PC-makers. Why? Blame the CB radio fad.

From The Georgia Straight
"The Park Theatre is closing and maybe I shouldn’t be taking it as hard as I am
"It’s unknown what will happen to the physical space the Park is set to depart. Figuratively, it will undoubtedly leave a massive hole in the city’s cultural fabric. It’s also a huge loss for Cambie Village.
"The Park’s final day of operation will be October 26. I plan to stop by there before then to smell the popcorn."

The Park Theatre is closing and maybe I shouldn’t be taking it as hard as I am
The Cambie movie theatre is being shuttered by its corporate overlord, Cineplex.

Apple AirPods Pro 3 review: significantly better fit, sound quality, noise cancellation, and battery life, but heart-rate monitoring is buried in fitness apps (David Carnoy/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/my-apple-airpods-pro-…

My Apple AirPods Pro 3 Review: Big Improvements, Same Price, No Compromises
They cost the same at a hefty $249, but Apple's third-generation noise-canceling earbuds have improved in all the key areas, including fit, noise cancellation, sound quality and battery life.

Rob Jetten over de vernielingen bij het D66 kantoor.
#D66 #politiek

Ik kom net terug van ons partijkantoor in Den Haag. Daar waar D66’ers zich normaal met hart en ziel inzetten voor onze democratie, werd vandaag een ravage aangericht. Relschoppers hebben grote… | Rob Jetten | 25 comments
Ik kom net terug van ons partijkantoor in Den Haag. Daar waar D66’ers zich normaal met hart en ziel inzetten voor onze democratie, werd vandaag een ravage aangericht. Relschoppers hebben grote bakstenen door de ramen gegooid. Ze probeerden een brandende container naar binnen te rijden. Pure vernieling. Gelukkig raakte niemand gewond. En dat is eigenlijk een wonder. De beelden maken me woedend. Woedend dat agenten vanavond thuiskomen bij hun gezin, en moeten uitleggen dat ze belaagd zijn. Dat…

Just a few days left of my NYTimes sub which I will not be renewing, so here's a gift article about people's relationship with Pynchon, with a bit from @… in it:

Lisa Simpson and Other Fans of Thomas Pynchon on the Writer’s Most Memorable Scenes
With the famously private novelist enjoying a (private) moment in the sun, we reached out to die-hard fans who’ve tuned in to the zaniness all along.

Kreml weist Dänemarks Verdacht zurück
Der Kreml hat Verdacht auf eine Verwicklung Russlands in den Drohnenvorfall am Flughafen Kopenhagen zurückgewiesen. "Wenn man jedes Mal grundlose Anschuldigungen vorbringt, führt dies ehrlich gesagt dazu, dass solche Aussagen nicht mehr beachtet werden", sagte Kremlsprecher Dmitri Peskow in Moskau. Wer ernsthaft und verantwortungsvoll sein wolle, dürfe nicht imm…
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Dänemarks Regierung spricht wegen Drohnen über Flughäfen von "Anschlag"
Mehrere Drohnen in der Nähe von gleich zwei Flughäfen in Skandinavien - die Behörden in Dänemark und Norwegen prüfen einen Zusammenhang. Die Regierung in Kopenhagen geht laut Ministerpräsidentin Frederiksen von einem Anschlag aus.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Mint Condition:
🎵 Breakin' My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes)
#MintCondition
https://1djhelix.bandcamp.com/track/mint-condition-breakin-my-heart-helix-re-rub
https://open.spotify.com/track/0NKTnbQQolgvk0FOIkiibI