Dirk
@dirkmyers.bsky.social
Technology, cats, books, Seattle Kraken, Seattle Torrent, food, music, miscellaneous nonsense. Commit the sin of empathy. Read all the books. Due process absolutist. From Alaska, but not named Dan Sullivan.
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day. On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
It's Thursday, #BookSky and you know what that means! A new review up on the Porter Square Review of Books! This week Josh reviews The Veiled Prophet by @devintoshea.bsky.social from @haymarketbooks.org a work of history that reads like a conspiracy theory fever dream
Review of The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis
I had to put the book down to take a breather. The author had just described a blazingly racist parade float. The float, supposedly representing Irish culture, was part of an annual…
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Ok, since I had to find Grievers by adrienne maree brown on my own, I will save you from my fate. I'm halfway through, and it's really good. Curl up and read all evening good. I wish I'd read it when it came out good. Give it a read. #BookSky
We cried, we begged, we pleaded, and He answered our faithful prayers at last:
"What’s the worst that could happen? My teeth will fall out? My bowels will bleed?... That doesn’t sound any worse than a little seasickness, and it definitely sounds better than occasionally sucking on a lime." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wak...
Wake Up, Sailors, Scurvy Is a Hoax
“I’m just a lowly seventeenth-century British sailor, not some fancy-pants seventeenth-century British sawbones, but there’s one thing I know for sure: I wou...
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Wile E. Coyote is doing a reddit AMA right now for Coyote vs ACME and strictly answering through signs, and it's genius.
Workinge IX to V, nys no waye to make a livinge, Scarsli gettinge by, all the takinge but no givinge, Thei but selle thy mynde and ne nevir issue credit -- Ynogh to make thee wax woode yf thou let it!
Was just thinking about Karen Bass being against street vendors and the idea that if vendors set up near a restaurant that is a problem. As if adults are going to a restaurant but see a taco stand first and say “this food is closer so you lose, restaurant”
Started playing this last week! Stopping playing it this week! Fuck AI!
You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?
I found a Rarity-83 word worth 95 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 897 points · 10 rare words. Only 4 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 6 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/A4YA7F
OUTLIER · Day 100
dm1 scored 897 on Day 100. Can you beat them?
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Let's roll back those emission standards, though. Contribution of childhood lead exposure to psychopathology in the US population over the past 75 years doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...
It is 2027. You have just turned left at Bigger Lake America to take America Highway southwest, eventually reaching the America River and following the road through the America Hills and across the fertile Americalands to eventually rejoin the America River at the Gulf of America.
Excellent. "Meta bought itself a moat. The AGs bought themselves headlines that will be useful next election season. And every teenager in the country was just automatically enrolled in an untested experiment."
Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 2w agoIn case you wanted about 3,700 words on the problems with today's "settlement" that gives Meta way more power over how the internet works than it should have.
The overlap between people saying AI is inevitable and people who said in 2012 that airborne Ebola was going to devastate nations is, unsurprisingly, large.
My gen X opinion as well. People said a lot of shit when I was young that wasn't right then and it isn't right now that people feel emboldened to come back to it.
Spacey Kacey@kaceyisspacey.bsky.social · 2w agoI guess my most millennial opinion is i still dont like when people use the r slur, dont think there's any good excuse to use it, and will still think less of you for using it
We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
imagine AI actually does become sentient and the first thing it does is clean out Thiel and Musk's bank accounts and redistributes it to everyone else in the world
Let’s talk about Medicare for All. What would it mean for the individual American? ⬇ The day you’re born you get a card that gives you health insurance with no premium, co-pay, or deductible. Doesn’t matter if you get a job, lose a job, turn 26 or 65, get married or divorced — it's there for you.
This is a ridiculously good price for a great book.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 2w agoA short thought in my newsletter: "Remember that one of the things authoritarianism and fascism do to us is try to convince us that facts don’t matter, that words don’t have tangible and material meaning, and that because the people in charge don’t respect facts, neither should we. Don’t give in."
