David Dvorkin @DavidDvorkin@qoto.org
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Writer, former software developer, tech writer, aerospace engineer (Apollo, Viking Mars lander). Atheist and anti-theist; I try not to go on too much about that and frequetnly fail. Mostly fairly leftwing except on certain subjects; ditto about going on too much about it. Come to think of it, that bit about going on too much about stuff applies to all of the above.
Joined Nov 2022
Tonight, after I put my hearing aids to bed in their little padded container, Leonore heard them making noises (which I couldn't hear because, of course, I wasn't wearing my hearing aids). They were turned off and therefore, in theory, shouldn't have been able to do anything. And yet they were doing something. I wonder if they were uploading the day's data to the FBI or someplace even scarier. Probably not.
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I thought Boebert was toast, but it seems she's only somewhat singed.
The ancient Greeks would say that Trump is just about to be punished for hubris.
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Probably not a lot of people know this now, but Mastodon's web app started out with "Publish". In 2016 a famous YouTuber jokingly offered to support Mastodon's Patreon forever if I changed the button to say "Toot" instead. Needless to say, this was a really early, and not very informed decision. The first glimpse of attention and financial support. As a non-native speaker I had no idea there was another meaning.
It was so long ago that it no longer feels quite real to me.
@DavidDvorkin In Aerospace industry myself and, damn, that's an impressive resume.
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Before retiring, I was an aerospace engineer (Apollo, Viking Mars lander), software developer, and tech writer. But that was to pay the bills. I think of myself as a writer -- mostly sf, some horror, some mystery, some (yet unpublished) fantasy. Lots of details at www.dvorkin.com
My wife and I also help writers self-publish. You can find out more at www.dldbooks.com
In theory, I should be writing much more now that I'm retired. In practice, that's not happening. I blame the Internet.
Perhaps some day, someone will write the definitive account of Boebert's career: THE POLITICAL LIFE OF LAUREN BOEBERT: A SHORT BUT NOISY BOOK. It will sell very few copies.
I'm an atheist and I'm on Mastodon, but I don't know what the bird site is.
Here are the people I've found on Mastodon from the atheist community on the bird site! @AtheistIntelligence @vjack @atheistcatlady @atheistadd...
I told myself I would spend the evening being productive and would only check election results occasionally. Ha, ha, ha.
I just saw a rumor (no idea how reliable) that Elon Musk wants to charge everyone to use Twitter, putting the entire site behind a paywall. Can he really be that stupid?
It feels good to be writing again. I hope I can keep it up, this time. Maybe I'll finally finish my ever-more-magnum (what would that be in Latin?) opus. It won't happen this year, but if I don't get it out by the time I turn 80 next October, I'll feel like an idiot.
Putin pretended that his invasion of Ukraine was a crusade against Nazis. Meanwhile, he has the full-throated support of the Republican Party as it moves ever deeper into fascism. It's kind of like the Nazi-Soviet Pact.
I suppose I should RTFM.
- Website
- http://www.dvorkin.com/
Writer, former software developer, tech writer, aerospace engineer (Apollo, Viking Mars lander). Atheist and anti-theist; I try not to go on too much about that and frequetnly fail. Mostly fairly leftwing except on certain subjects; ditto about going on too much about it. Come to think of it, that bit about going on too much about stuff applies to all of the above.
Joined Nov 2022
