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Elon right now: "There's a Singapore office? Why didn't anyone tell me!"

"Sir, you fired the local Asia rep."

yahoo.com/news/twitter-orders-

Me at the office: "Hi, have you got a moment to talk about our lord and saviour, Semantic Web?"

If someone purchased a self-help book called "Overcoming Perfectionism" -- isn't that an indicator of a sort of narcism?

A scientist behind an actual science-based research program into Happiness weighs in on what they've determined so far about what makes us happy. SPOILER: There are no surprises.

npr.org/2023/01/10/1148210611/

The Banshees of Inisherin: Great movie -- very entertaining, moving and with great performances. But what are the writer and director trying to say? If there's a message, I am not sure I received it.

Our IPA Will Jam Your Face with Hops - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

"...perhaps you don’t have the guts to drink an octuple-IPA that’s caustic grains are mashed over actual lava sourced from Ethiopia’s Erta Ale volcano while loudspeakers crank out Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades” on a loop inside an abandoned underground nuclear testing site."

mcsweeneys.net/articles/our-ip

@foolishowl I can't believe I've never heard of this. It looks like a great recommendation. Thanks!

, who has performed playing base for many Postmodern Jukebox hits, and, of course, has his own music career, has been suffering from some major medical problems and is facing a long road for recovery. There's a benefit concert for him today at 1 PM Pacific online at stageit.com/casey_s_friends/ca featuring lots of great performers. Please attend and donate if you can. Please boost to extend the reach.

In the meantime you should check out Casey and Sara Reich's cover of "Dazed and Confused" youtube.com/watch?v=QJldlkZJlx

I've asked this before but never got an answer I liked. How do you read RSS feeds in 2023?

In "Social Quitting," my latest *Locus Magazine* column, I advance a theory to explain the precipitous #VibeShift in how many of us view the once-dominant social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter, and how it is that we have so quickly gone asking what we can do to get these services out of our lives to where we should go now that we're all ready to leave them:

locusmag.com/2023/01/commentar

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Are you a person who was around in, or knows a lot about, 1970s/1980s fandoms? I'm working on a project about spoilers and want to learn more about early uses of the term in its modern sense. I'm reading Usenet archives; do you have memories of earlier emergent uses? Please share! Non-fandom memories and leads also welcome, of course.

Oddisee's rap + Bon Iver's "Stacks" and Aretha Franklin's "Say a Little Prayer". Apparently he couldn't clear the samples and it never got officially released but, through the magic of the internet, we can still appreciate what might have been.

Oddisee - Paralyzed
on.soundcloud.com/mRUS7

M3gan was great. It says a lot about where we are that the state of AI is terrifying enough without even needing any supernatural nonsense. Stellar writing, timely theme and laugh-out-loud humour.

@AGTMADCAT
I've had my eye on an Ioniq 5 and I'd prefer it, actually, but the waiting list is 2 years.

The point is we all want nice things and then we realize it's also nice to have a career, a purpose, a mutually beneficial relationship with an employer and the interviews tend to go better.

We went through another "Why should I work for you?" period back around '94. It lasts about 5 minutes.
@vaurorapub

Is there anything more unnerving and incomprehensible as when you buy someone an electronic device for Christmas and they leave it sitting there, boxed, unactivated, and unused for weeks afterward.

@losttourist I do that too. I am not sure why. I think it's because I've trained myself to get as much information across as possible to inform the receiver's inevitable response. Nothing worse than writing a long paragraph while you know the other person is going to respond before you've finished.

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