Older kitties are so full of love. Sorry for your loss, it is heartbreaking to lose such a big pet of your world.

I wasn’t aware of this one. I’ve been using Hew, which has been fairly good, if a bit more basic than Sketchup.

What fucking good will that do? All they have to do is sit through an uncomfortable grilling and then get pack to gouging. Advance legislation on pricing transparency. Implement a wealth tax. The rest is theatre.

Ah, thanks for the heads-up.

I’m new. Why do we not like Omarchy?

I also have strong opinions about apples. I applaud the sense of integrity that brought you back here to apologize to an entire variety of fruit, but think you may be going a bit hard on yourself.

Awesome! Loved this game.

The one potential upside to all of this is that countries now have a lot less need to adhere to the US mandated copyright protections established in the DCMA. Cory Doctorow has written much about this, and how the US used threats of trade sanctions to ensure other countries fell into line. Now that the US has deployed those sanctions against many countries and shredded any remaining trust and good will, countries have less motivation to adhere to those agreements and could abandon them. Doing so would potentially make it legal to push back against increasingly unhinged copyright protections, and allow citizens to do amazing things like fix your phone without risking a felony conviction. Doctorow says it all much better, he’s well worth reading on this and many other subjects.

Thank fuck for that. They have been playing us for suckers for years and some transparency is badly needed.

Loved this. The prototypes demoed have real strength that comes from their simplicity, and solving the problem of statelessness in existing interfaces is (I think) the goal of a lot of AI interfaces now (looking at you, copilot).

Just finished The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. Great read about a family who moves to a (very) small Alaskan town to start over.

Currently reading Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy. This one is about a small family maintaining a seed vault on a remote island, kind of dystopian and mysterious so far. Very tight prose.

Interestingly, both of these came my way via the “Skip the Line” selection at my local library, where popular titles are available on a 7-day loan instead of the standard 21 days. Great way to discover new (to me) authors and genres.