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So there you have it. My ex-publishers who last year stopped paying me for the seven books I'd written for them, have today gone back on their promise that some of the money that they owe me and their other authors would come through. I should have guessed.. www.thebookseller.com/news/unbound...
Unbound authors will not receive unpaid royalty payments until new publisher Boundless 'is cash stable'
As founder John Mitchinson leaves, Unbound authors learn they will not receive historic royalty payments for sales of their books unless Boundless "survives and thrives".
www.thebookseller.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
So there you have it. My ex-publishers who last year stopped paying me for the seven books I'd written for them, have today gone back on their promise that some of the money that they owe me and their other authors would come through. I should have guessed.. www.thebookseller.com/news/unbound...
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Champion your friends and colleagues. Few things feel better; and it returns to you ten fold every time. 💙
May 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Champion your friends and colleagues. Few things feel better; and it returns to you ten fold every time. 💙
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Happy Nurse’s Week to the people who restart hearts and see more balls than a catcher. If charm, brains, and badass energy wore scrubs, it’d be you.
May 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Happy Nurse’s Week to the people who restart hearts and see more balls than a catcher. If charm, brains, and badass energy wore scrubs, it’d be you.
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Imagine sucking so much that countries where you’re not on the ballot vote against you
April 29, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Imagine sucking so much that countries where you’re not on the ballot vote against you
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I would not have predicted that large universities would show more courage than either Big Law or corporate media. Good for them.
April 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I would not have predicted that large universities would show more courage than either Big Law or corporate media. Good for them.
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The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products.
US Economy Is Set to Lose Billions as Foreign Tourists Stay Away
The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products, adding to a growing list of headwinds keeping recession risk ...
www.bloomberg.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products.
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Hypocritical double standards of the West ...
Duterte's in the Hague on an ICC arrest warrant.
Netanyahu, also subject to an ICC arrest warrant, is still killing Palestinians - one every 3 or four hours.
substack.com/@alonmizrahi...
Duterte's in the Hague on an ICC arrest warrant.
Netanyahu, also subject to an ICC arrest warrant, is still killing Palestinians - one every 3 or four hours.
substack.com/@alonmizrahi...
Alon Mizrahi on Substack
Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines' ex-president, has been arrested - basically kidnapped - by the current US-controlled Philippines government and the ICC.
He is accused of crimes against humanity for...
substack.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Hypocritical double standards of the West ...
Duterte's in the Hague on an ICC arrest warrant.
Netanyahu, also subject to an ICC arrest warrant, is still killing Palestinians - one every 3 or four hours.
substack.com/@alonmizrahi...
Duterte's in the Hague on an ICC arrest warrant.
Netanyahu, also subject to an ICC arrest warrant, is still killing Palestinians - one every 3 or four hours.
substack.com/@alonmizrahi...
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Plot twist: The real 10x developers were the Gophers you met along the way.
March 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Plot twist: The real 10x developers were the Gophers you met along the way.
Welp.
Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."
March 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Welp.
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X engineers clocking in this morning
a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a room with a sign that says " warning "
ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a room with a sign that says " warning "
media.tenor.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
X engineers clocking in this morning
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Bluesky watching the shitshow on twitter.
March 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Bluesky watching the shitshow on twitter.
Welp
March 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Welp
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One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?
They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.
That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.
The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.
That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.
The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
March 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?
They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.
That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.
The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.
That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.
The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
Welp this is what you get for firing your security team
NEW: Security experts tell @wired.com that X was hit with 5 DDoS attacks on Monday, but that X likely went down because its infrastructure was left exposed. They also refuted Musk's claim that the attack originated in "the Ukraine area." @lhn.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/x-ddos...
What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X
Elon Musk said a “massive cyberattack” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” as the source of the attack. Security experts say that's not how it works.
www.wired.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Welp this is what you get for firing your security team
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NEW: Security experts tell @wired.com that X was hit with 5 DDoS attacks on Monday, but that X likely went down because its infrastructure was left exposed. They also refuted Musk's claim that the attack originated in "the Ukraine area." @lhn.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/x-ddos...
What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X
Elon Musk said a “massive cyberattack” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” as the source of the attack. Security experts say that's not how it works.
www.wired.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
NEW: Security experts tell @wired.com that X was hit with 5 DDoS attacks on Monday, but that X likely went down because its infrastructure was left exposed. They also refuted Musk's claim that the attack originated in "the Ukraine area." @lhn.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/x-ddos...
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Initialising a #CORS middleware has been steadily getting faster and less memory-hungry in recent versions of github.com/jub0bs/cors, as shown by this chart (lower is better). 😇 #golang
February 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Initialising a #CORS middleware has been steadily getting faster and less memory-hungry in recent versions of github.com/jub0bs/cors, as shown by this chart (lower is better). 😇 #golang
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Yes. But they are missing that much of this has to be performative. That’s what Trump is great at and Dems are awful at.
You can’t just tell voters , you have to know how to sell voters.
Trump gives sales pitches, Dems show charts. One goes viral. The other is ignored and forgotten
You can’t just tell voters , you have to know how to sell voters.
Trump gives sales pitches, Dems show charts. One goes viral. The other is ignored and forgotten
February 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Yes. But they are missing that much of this has to be performative. That’s what Trump is great at and Dems are awful at.
You can’t just tell voters , you have to know how to sell voters.
Trump gives sales pitches, Dems show charts. One goes viral. The other is ignored and forgotten
You can’t just tell voters , you have to know how to sell voters.
Trump gives sales pitches, Dems show charts. One goes viral. The other is ignored and forgotten
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I wonder what would happen if you put AI prompt injection in the additional notes/comments section of American tax returns this year... a bureaucrat would have a laugh but it might confuse whatever AI tooling Musk wants to replace the IRS staff with...
February 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I wonder what would happen if you put AI prompt injection in the additional notes/comments section of American tax returns this year... a bureaucrat would have a laugh but it might confuse whatever AI tooling Musk wants to replace the IRS staff with...
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Interesting day yesterday, Stripe did a layoff by email at 11pm at night on a holiday. So ... I am on the hunt for a new job 🙂
Engineering Manager, have managed teams from 5 to > 100, absolutely love the web, and have ended up with a ridiculous amount of experience with content focused sites.
Engineering Manager, have managed teams from 5 to > 100, absolutely love the web, and have ended up with a ridiculous amount of experience with content focused sites.
January 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Interesting day yesterday, Stripe did a layoff by email at 11pm at night on a holiday. So ... I am on the hunt for a new job 🙂
Engineering Manager, have managed teams from 5 to > 100, absolutely love the web, and have ended up with a ridiculous amount of experience with content focused sites.
Engineering Manager, have managed teams from 5 to > 100, absolutely love the web, and have ended up with a ridiculous amount of experience with content focused sites.
Blue Sky is my go to. I will just peep into the abyss called X to check whether it has already disintegrated into oblivion from time to time
January 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Blue Sky is my go to. I will just peep into the abyss called X to check whether it has already disintegrated into oblivion from time to time
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If only we were merely living in an SNL skit
January 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
If only we were merely living in an SNL skit
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Your new president, America.
January 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Your new president, America.