Erik Przekop @IAmErik@qoto.org

I went and did the thing.
https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4442029

SEVEN DAYS TO GO until "Season of Skulls" is published in the USA by Tor.com!

If you've ever wondered what "The Prisoner" would be like if it was set in 1816 and The Village was full of captured French magicians, then this is the book for you! (May also contain Frankenstein, Vampires, and a very irate Eve Starkey.)

https://publishing.tor.com/seasonofskulls-charlesstross/9781250839398/

Interesting!

At the same time I tooted about SEASON OF SKULLS, I tweeted a pretty much identical piece on the birdsite.

I have 16.6K followers here and got 32 boosts and 33 likes.

I have 52.5K followers on twitter and got 9 retweets and 43 likes.

(Conclusion: Mastodon followers are MUCH more engaged than Twitter followers.)

Despite all its promises of equality and due process under law, America has always had its scapegoats.

I didn’t know it at the time, but when I was a child my entire community became scapegoats. The attack by Imperial Japan upon Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941—a “day that will live in infamy”—made most Americans look upon anyone with a Japanese name or face as the enemy.

May is AANHPI Heritage Month, so I want to take a moment to zero in on the history that led Asian minorities in the U.S. to come together as a group and demand America fulfill its promise of justice and equality: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/scapegoats-aahpi-george-takei-essay

Finally! We've been waiting since November of last year to share these amazing results and beautiful images with everyone. Our Cycle 1 JWST/MIRI images of the Fomalhaut Debris Disk reveals never before seen details of the inner regions of this complex exoplanetary system!

Far too accurate.

#meme #shitpost #trump #bidencrimefamily #tedcruz

I post this every May the 4th. It never gets old. Lol Some storm troopers still have to work today. Lol #maythe4thbewithyou #starwarsday #starwars #funnymeme #funny

#maythe4thbewithyou

#sundaecomics #funny #humor #cartoons #webcomic #webcomics #comicstrip #comic #comics #starwars #starwarsday

Quoth the Raven: “Why, I oughta..."

#throwbackthursday #thursdaythoughts #threestooges #edgarallanpoe #writing #writer #pun #puns #humor #humour #funny

Tonight Matthew I'm going to be....
Ben Elton
#uk #politics #thoughthole #mayday2023 #ukemergencyalert #police #oligarchy #reading #labour #humanrights #humour #humor #hashtags #HashtagGames #hashitout #writing #haiku #question #answers #tories #toriesout #labourparty #green #greenpartyuk #plur #love #london #LongCovid #research #respect #retoot

Carl sagan’s thought about books:
“When our genes could not store all the information necessary for survival, we slowly invented them. But then the time came, perhaps ten thousand years ago, when we needed to know more than could conveniently be contained in brains. So we learned to
stockpile enormous quantities of information outside our bodies. We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have
invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library. A book is made from a tree. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

#sagan #carlsagan

Did you know Tesla has cameras both on the outside of vehicles and the inside, and everything is uploaded to Tesla? Anyhoo they’ve been exporting the videos, making memes of customers and then posting them on chat rooms. https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

Big-tech’s dash to incorporate #ChatGPT -like interfaces into their search engines threatens the ecosystem of human knowledge with extinction. AI engines can be enhanced to avoid this, leading to new forms of knowledge creation.
https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20230316/

I suspect docker removing the free tier is going to absolutely devistate them. All the open-source software, which is what dominated docker, is now scrambling to find alternatives.

Also since docker treates docker hub as first class for fetching images I suspect people will move off docker entierly.

It is going to be pretty crazy for the open source community too having all the images they depend on just disapear. Dev chains everywhere are going to break...

#Docker #programming #cs

#Women are under attack in this country - as are many others.

In #SouthCarolina they want to sentence women who have #abortions to #DEATH. There are no #exceptions to this rule. If the life of the mother is at risk she will have to testify to #selfdefense in court. #Gilead is impressed. How long until they want to display the bodies for all the handmaids to see?

#Walgreens is not dispensing #mifepristone in 20 states - so it’s time to #BoycottWalgreens as well.

https://boingboing.net/2023/03/03/south-carolina-introduces-bill-to-punish-women-who-have-an-abortion-by-executing-them.html/amp

Mass shootings in the US:

2014: 273
2015: 336
2016: 383
2017: 348
2018: 336
2019: 417
2020: 610
2021: 690
2022: 647

In the first seven weeks of 2023: 67

We do not have to live like this. No other country on the planet does.