@sue I don't think it works this way for everyone, but it's certainly a problem I have with using AI to generate code. "Tell the computer what you want." Well, I don't know what I want until I've sit down and tried to write it in Python or Java. I certainly can't describe it precisely enough.

@kenwhite.bsky.social Well, the right wing has hundreds, maybe thousands of years of experience using "cancel culture" as a tool. Book burnings, record burning (remember kids burning their Beatles records in the 60s?)--all this goes way back to middle ages and before. And as @adapalmer has […]

@quinn Yeah, saw this coming in 1980. Make an electorate that's poorly educated and susceptible to right wing ideas. It worked.

@evan Could be. I don't know what else would come close.

@evan That sounds amazing. I'll have to see it. Vineland is an under-appreciated but great book.

@JessTheUnstill Understand. I'm in the hospital so not going. But nervous for my daughter in PDX. Who has been gassed in the BLM protests. No idea what cops are going to try.

@futurebird I like this!

@jik I'm also a New Englander, but I'm definitely "If I don't want to freeze my butt in January, why should I be willing to freeze my but in October?" Thermostats stay (mostly) the same all year.

@JessTheUnstill And work with a lawyer. I just found out that my mom's life insurance policy is written in a way that forces it to go to probate. Everything else--no problem. And the insurance isn't that much. But they need it probated. (She had a good eldercare lawyer with very reasonable […]

@JessTheUnstill Agree about Sinclair. But also puzzled: who watches broadcast TV anymore? There's a weird connection between broadcast TV channels and getting on cable--though that can't be an issue for Disney, CBS, et al?

@brucelawson yeah. that's what I did. M$ will continue to nag you. But it's bearable.

@ahimsa_pdx Can Eastern states join?

@carrideen @jsadow Yeah, I think that's right: don't actually read the literature, except for carefully selected quotes. Sam. Johnson would be highly quotable in that context. Cowper, Gray, Thomson, etc. But power is still a subtext through all of it. I'm surprised those schools are offering lit […]