Edweard
@edweard.bsky.social
Physics, aviation, literature (Romanticism and Shakespeare), SDRs, and aussie shepherds... Eastern Sierra Nevadas. Cold Sierra Nevadas and a nice sunset as the dogs laze about.
Short answer: No. Long answer: See photo. Longer answer: We're all gonna die eventually.
Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
Alien: greetings earthling Me: hey Alien: are you not amazed, stunned, and in awe of us? Me: look, I've got a lot going on rn
A dog attacks your dog/latches on. What do you do? DO NOT GRAB COLLARS. YOU WILL GET BIT. Getting bit by a dog is AWFUL, 0/10 Instead, GRAB THE BITING DOG’S HIPS. The dog will let go of the other dog to figure out what’s going on. You walk them backwards until there’s enough distance / it’s safe
why are harbingers always of doom why can’t we have harbingers of cake?
60 years ago today, BATMAN was released in theaters, and not only is one of the great underrated comedies of the '60s, but when it comes to delivering the message "some days you just can't get rid of a bomb," it's second to nun.
And if you prefer to read while you listen to my video: OBJECTION: Congress Wrote Five. open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
OBJECTION: Congress Wrote Five.
The DOJ's own memo tells its Epstein reviewers to black things out for at least three reasons Congress never authorized. Tw of the ten files a federal judge is reviewing are defended on that ground.
open.substack.com
Gillian Welch's 'Time (the Revelator)' has entered our Hall of Fame It's an album of shipwrecks and dust storms, the deaths of presidents and Kings, and innumerable ghosts that serve as reminders of what’s slipping away and what’s already lost. www.treblezine.com/gillian-welc...
Gillian Welch : Time (the Revelator) | An album of defiance and peril
Capturing storms on the horizon and cataloguing loss on 'Time (the Revelator)', Gillian Welch made a record both timeless and timely
treblezine.com
I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.
And once that institutional knowledge is gone, it is gone for decades. The pipeline is destroyed, it has to be rebuilt for another generation. Each "oh fuck this shit I'm getting another job" increases the damage done. Enough, and like with 1933 Germany it is permanent and irrecoverable.
The thing about federal bureaucracy is that all the institutional knowledge that makes them work invisibly in such as making sure your milk doesn't contain formaldehyde, is stored inside people who would make twice as much money in another job.
Hey, look at you exhibiting empathy. Much props to your therapist
AI companies are bulk buying and destroying rare old books in order to train their slop generators www.404media.co/ai-companies...
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
404media.co
Channel surfing with the 1986 Showtime on Broadway production of Picnic, with Jennifer Jason Leigh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Du...
PICNIC starring Jennifer Jason Leigh - 1986 cable broadcast of William Inge's play
YouTube video by jjlchannel2
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No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
news.com.au
So with regards to what I said about how Fark won't survive this year without more TF subscribers, I wrote up a longer explanation about what we're all up against. Not just Fark, all of digital media.
Fark NotNewsletter: Not Ready to go on the cart
Fark NotNewsletter: Not Ready to go on the cart
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Actual thing i just said to a colleague “if you are looking for something from a federal court that just happened yesterday, check out @chrisgeidner.bsky.social he provides links to everything he discusses.” Thank you for your work!
Air to Ground Message: WHY DONT FOLKS PRONOUNCE THE MEOW IN HOMEOWNER Q Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA Type: Airbus A220-300 A: #a52c6fd2e8c F: #f242de3d091
Writers are people who have imposter syndrome and main character syndrome at the same time
The magazine was founded 35 years ago by a bunch of fans who just wanted there to be a place where Canadian SFF authors didn't have to "Americanize" their fiction to see it in print. They've been a constant presence at SFF conventions, and have been home to a laundry list of huge talent. 2/
