Want a signed copy of SEASON OF SKULLS? Your go-to place for ordering them is my local indie SF bookstore, Transreal Fiction!
https://transreal.wordpress.com/2023/05/06/new-charles-stross-book/
Island in a mirror.
May 12, 2023. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.
#sunrise #sunrisephotography #photography #michigan #puremichigan #landscape #landscapephotography
Please block trolls, folks. If we don’t, they just keep haunting decent people’s posts and messing with our momentum to get things done.
Pushing anti-democratic talking points that could have aired on RT? Telling you voting doesn’t matter, no progress happens, that both parties are the same or barely different? Just block that noise.
If anyone needs help, happy to oblige. If you can’t tell them from Tucker Carlson, there’s a reason for that.
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
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
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
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...
Parent, programmer, amateur astronomer and terrible guitar player.
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Here is my introduction post:
Instead of defining myself by saying “I am a…”, here’s a collection of hashtags that interest me (in no particular order). #meditation (specifically #twim right now) #cigars #bicycling #photography #computerscience #physics #guitar #music .
I live in #Michigan (in #LakeOrion, which is 35+ miles north of #Detroit), and spend a lot of time around #RogersCity (I’ll bet that’s the first time that hashtag has been used on Mastodon). My kids are really bright and sometimes struggle with #ADHD, so I’ll probably talk about that at times as well. I have spent more than 3 decades of my life as a #programmer, and now I get to be the old man who leads really smart people in solving big problems with small amounts of #software.