🔖 Fantastic piece. – Elon Musk, Fox News, and Free Speech Absolutism - Teri Kanefield
Song of the Day – You Have Been Loved by George Michael 🎵
You know, I think I am good. I can definitely go the rest of my life without hearing Feliz Navidad ever again. 🎵
Here I am, hacking epub files on a Friday evening, as you do. I have never felt nerdier! 📚👨🏼💻
Down to just one package I’m tracking. 📦😮💨
The 1981 Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas special fills me with such glorious nostalgia. 🐿️❄️❤️💙💚🎵
🔖 This just broke my brain. – Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT
🔖 Medieval necklace found near Northampton “internationally important” – BBC News
‘Tis the season to try in vain to keep all the tracking numbers straight for shipments you have coming and going. 🤯📦
Song of the Day – December Song (I Dreamed Of Christmas) by George Michael 🎵
Finished reading: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry 📚
This was a hard, heartbreaking read at times, but a good one.
🔖 China’s protests: Blank paper becomes the symbol of rare demonstrations - BBC News
🔖💔 Confronting the grief of empty seats as 2022 mass shootings mount
🔖 I love this! 😍 – Charles V: French scientists decode 500-year-old letter - BBC News
Song of the Day – Last Christmas (Pudding Mix) by WHAM! 🎵
A Thanksgiving leftovers sandwich is the correct way to end Thanksgiving Day. It’s a scientific fact…or something. 😋
Long after the last person leaves and closes the door on Twitter, the bots will keep on tweeting into the void. My timeline is already becoming dominated by the machines. It was all part of their plan. I’ve seen TERMINATOR. 🤖
🔖 This is why I love archeology. What a fascinating story. – Gold coin proves ‘fake’ Roman emperor was real
Teri Kanefield wrote Some thoughts about Mastodon. I don’t entirely agree with every point, but I think most of it is spot on, and all of it is thoughtful. It is well worth the read.
Testing the Mastodon waters. Not sure how I feel about it yet, but crossposting Micro.blog to both it and Twitter for now.
🔖 This is fascinating. The 1930s is a lot earlier than I would have guessed. – The First Music Streaming Service 🎵
‘Tis the season to share my spooky playlist. Enjoy! – Haunted Hits 🎃👻 by Josh de Lioncourt on Apple Music 🎵
Finished reading: The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📚
Continuing my reread of the Mistborn series. Sanderson really comes into his own through this installment. It’s almost astounding how much of an improvement in the writing there is from the first book. A few shocking moments managed to shock me all over again, which is incredibly rare for me in a reread.