🎸 Listening to nothing but ‘Social Distortion’ today because I heard this morning that a new album is due soon

Gerald L. Coleman put together a list of scifi & fantasy works by black authors :

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Selected excerpts from the Declaration of Independence

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us He has obstructed the Administration of Justice For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world ​ For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury For taking away our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments…

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The news that Cloudflare now offers a bot-blocking service is great, and that it will seek to extract compensation from AI companies via Pay-per-Crawl is even better.

I hope this becomes a self-funding service where content creators get protection(s) in exchange for a cut of the take (in effect, the long sought micro-payments model)

Wake up and huff the Rhydo’

My JetKVM has arrived ! Probably the fastest Kickstarter reward delivery for any tech product I’ve backed over the years.

I hope to play with it later tonight, but tomorrow evening is likely more realistic

Th cover of JetKVM box with photo of the gadget

One of the nice touches about the Zed editor is that the Release Notes are accessible from within the app as well as web site.

Now that no one builds help into their applications, it’s the affordances like these that help you wrangle with the steady stream of upgrades.

For @manton, the aforementioned screenshot of µb on Monterey…

Just making a list before going “bag with different things in it” shopping later…

The OLD, OUT-OF-TOUCH and FEEBLE MINDED might refer to it as ‘Getting Groceries’ but I am a very stable jean-y-us

🎵🎸 TFW you see the guitar slide on her finger before she stomps the effect pedal and starts to riff 😍

Samantha Fish “I’m Done Runnin’”

www.youtube.com/watch

🍿🎬 Usher tried to naysay ‘Across the Spider-Verse’ while we waited for the cleaners to prepare our theater, but that kid is clearly an idiot griefer, as from the opening beat to the closing reveal the flick is 💯 🔥😍😹👏🏼🥰

The Big Rollout of AI …

“ten years ago, maybe more, the big rollout of robots—a joint effort between the federal government, local authorities, and private enterprise—was heralded as the dawn of a new scientific age. And this new scientific age was a really great idea for a while. People liked it. And then they stopped liking it. There were two reasons. One, that the jobs we—well, they—started taking, even the jobs that were menial or unpleasant or were attached to a certain kind of risk that was liable to send a man to his grave earlier than hoped for, those were jobs that people actually really did want to do.…

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My niece is about to turn ten, and loves to clean things & ‘make money’ 💸

I gave her two bucks and thought she might take the white off the inside of the microwave she was cleaning it so hard!

the United States is torn apart by a flamboyant blowhard politician who uses fearmongering and empty promises to the working class to win election before consolidating his power, shattering the traditions of governance, breaking any laws that constrain him, and stoking paranoia and division.

www.vanityfair.com/hollywood…

This Carolina bbq place is such a time warp ; restaurant decor straight out of 1972

Is back on his beach book bullshizz with Eryk Pruitt’s new thriller “Something Bad Wrong”

📚🏝️🐂

No change in ability to share an image from Files on iOS. You still can’t do it using the beta of MicroBlog for iOS in TestFlight

It tries to insert a path instead :

file:///private/var/mobile/Library/Mobile%20Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/SomeFolder/some-interesting-image.png

Sharing a photo from sunset over the sound yesterday 🏝️🌅📷 #OBX

Skip to ~1:26 for today’s musical delight :

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via Randy Rainbow

You need to find out because no one’s gonna tell you what I’m on about

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song.link/i/1517507…

… of a life

of the street

that will beat

on your back

‘til you wed

on a track

for a train

in the rain

AND IT’S COMING FAST

album.link/i/1589088…

Love the role reversal with Sewer Urchin in S03E06 ‘Tick vs Filth’ but it’s otherwise a real challenge to my coprophobia