Scott GS
@scottmgs.bsky.social
So... I'm going to give Bluesky a chance. However, I'm going to use it differently than I've used other "social media" platforms. Pretty much, it'll be where I post personal... read the rest here: https://listed.to/@Scmasm/58912/bluesky-onboarding-post
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Scott GS
@scottmgs.bsky.social
· Oct 4
Not likin' what I'm hearin', here abouts. When the CEO is welcoming authoritarians and taunting LGBTQ folks, it's probably time for me to move on.
Not likin' what I'm hearin', here abouts. When the CEO is welcoming authoritarians and taunting LGBTQ folks, it's probably time for me to move on.
October 4, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Not likin' what I'm hearin', here abouts. When the CEO is welcoming authoritarians and taunting LGBTQ folks, it's probably time for me to move on.
Requested a replacement Social Security card less than 4 hours before Trump's Gubmint Shutdown. What are the odds I'll get it in 10 to 14 days? Somewhere between slim and none, I'd guess.
October 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Requested a replacement Social Security card less than 4 hours before Trump's Gubmint Shutdown. What are the odds I'll get it in 10 to 14 days? Somewhere between slim and none, I'd guess.
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy) has some... *concerning* news about the "AI" industry. (Okay, it's bad news. Like, really bad news.)
The problem is that it won't just affect the siloed techbros and their megacorps.
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
#AI #StockMarket
The problem is that it won't just affect the siloed techbros and their megacorps.
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
#AI #StockMarket
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
September 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy) has some... *concerning* news about the "AI" industry. (Okay, it's bad news. Like, really bad news.)
The problem is that it won't just affect the siloed techbros and their megacorps.
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
#AI #StockMarket
The problem is that it won't just affect the siloed techbros and their megacorps.
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
#AI #StockMarket
Solar electrification is going well (and *accelerating*) but the rent-seeking oil-igarchs are gonna try to gate-keep the hell out of it. Cory Doctorow's warns of how solar enshitification might proceed:
pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/o...
#SolarPower #enshitification #EnergyTransition
pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/o...
#SolarPower #enshitification #EnergyTransition
Pluralistic: The enshittification of solar (and how to stop it) (23 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
September 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Solar electrification is going well (and *accelerating*) but the rent-seeking oil-igarchs are gonna try to gate-keep the hell out of it. Cory Doctorow's warns of how solar enshitification might proceed:
pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/o...
#SolarPower #enshitification #EnergyTransition
pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/o...
#SolarPower #enshitification #EnergyTransition
I wonder if someone could hack a roomba (or another similar device) to play a low-fidelity, 10 bar clip of *Turkey in Straw* for that ice cream truck vibe that would help summer seem to last just a little longer. 😄
#RunOnSentence #hacks #HomeAutomation
#RunOnSentence #hacks #HomeAutomation
September 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I wonder if someone could hack a roomba (or another similar device) to play a low-fidelity, 10 bar clip of *Turkey in Straw* for that ice cream truck vibe that would help summer seem to last just a little longer. 😄
#RunOnSentence #hacks #HomeAutomation
#RunOnSentence #hacks #HomeAutomation
My religion in a nutshell: www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theeg...
The Egg
www.galactanet.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:19 AM
My religion in a nutshell: www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theeg...
We went to CVS at lunch and got walk-up appointments to get #COVID, #flu, and #MMR (for #measles) vaccines. We'll be feelin' our arms tonight!
#AntiAntiVax
#AntiAntiVax
September 19, 2025 at 1:53 AM
We went to CVS at lunch and got walk-up appointments to get #COVID, #flu, and #MMR (for #measles) vaccines. We'll be feelin' our arms tonight!
#AntiAntiVax
#AntiAntiVax
Finished Hank Green's A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor. I liked this better than the first book. (I still liked the first book and you can't really skip it to read this one so don't try.) ... (cont.)
September 15, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Finished Hank Green's A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor. I liked this better than the first book. (I still liked the first book and you can't really skip it to read this one so don't try.) ... (cont.)
Weird thing happened this evening: I heard what I thought was an ice cream truck - you know, playing Turkey in the Straw? But the sound was higher quality than any I'd ever heard before. It actually had audible bass. ... (cont.)
September 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Weird thing happened this evening: I heard what I thought was an ice cream truck - you know, playing Turkey in the Straw? But the sound was higher quality than any I'd ever heard before. It actually had audible bass. ... (cont.)
Hank Green's (@hankgreen.bsky.social) rant on caffeine. Interesting! Worth a watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Dy...
#caffeine #coffee #tea #chocolate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Dy...
#caffeine #coffee #tea #chocolate
Caffeine is Very, Very Strange...
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
www.youtube.com
September 6, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Hank Green's (@hankgreen.bsky.social) rant on caffeine. Interesting! Worth a watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Dy...
#caffeine #coffee #tea #chocolate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Dy...
#caffeine #coffee #tea #chocolate
Today is my 30th anniversary of starting to work at [current place of employment]. Is that a humble-brag?
Or a brag-whine?
Maybe some of each.
Or a brag-whine?
Maybe some of each.
September 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Today is my 30th anniversary of starting to work at [current place of employment]. Is that a humble-brag?
Or a brag-whine?
Maybe some of each.
Or a brag-whine?
Maybe some of each.
I'm most of the way through John @scalzi.com's *When the Moon Hits Your Eye*. Getting darker but still funny. There's some real heart there.
September 3, 2025 at 5:39 AM
I'm most of the way through John @scalzi.com's *When the Moon Hits Your Eye*. Getting darker but still funny. There's some real heart there.
Every once in a while my theme song shows up in my YouTube feed and I just have to listen to it ('cuz I'm white and nerdy).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qY...
"Weird Al" Yankovic - White & Nerdy (Official 4K Video)
YouTube video by alyankovicVEVO
www.youtube.com
August 30, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Every once in a while my theme song shows up in my YouTube feed and I just have to listen to it ('cuz I'm white and nerdy).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qY...
Being Quakers, they have one of the nicest possible ways to tell someone that they are being a transphobic, triangulating jerk:
www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...
www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...
www.quaker.org.uk
August 29, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Being Quakers, they have one of the nicest possible ways to tell someone that they are being a transphobic, triangulating jerk:
www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...
www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...
This is one of the reasons I like Bruce Fummey's videos. He often applies the lessons of Scottish history and makes it relevant to today's (and tomorrow's) struggles. Let him "tell you a story."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIg_...
#labor #community #history #solidarity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIg_...
#labor #community #history #solidarity
Why is an Effigy Burning in this Scottish Town?
YouTube video by Scotland History Tours
www.youtube.com
August 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is one of the reasons I like Bruce Fummey's videos. He often applies the lessons of Scottish history and makes it relevant to today's (and tomorrow's) struggles. Let him "tell you a story."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIg_...
#labor #community #history #solidarity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIg_...
#labor #community #history #solidarity
I finished Upgrade by Blake Crouch. I liked it. It didn't wimp out with some harder things which I really appreciate but there were a few anachronisms (for example, getting news from TV and newspapers a couple decades from now in a society steeped in futuristic tech).
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August 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I finished Upgrade by Blake Crouch. I liked it. It didn't wimp out with some harder things which I really appreciate but there were a few anachronisms (for example, getting news from TV and newspapers a couple decades from now in a society steeped in futuristic tech).
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We had sqausage soup tonight: pureed butternut squash soup with sliced pineapple/ginger chicken sausage. Very tasty! Could use a tad more ginger.
August 7, 2025 at 5:21 AM
We had sqausage soup tonight: pureed butternut squash soup with sliced pineapple/ginger chicken sausage. Very tasty! Could use a tad more ginger.
Finished Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, book 7, by James S. A. Corey) last night. Right in line with the first 6. Very tense. I had to not read it too late in the evening so the tension wouldn't affect my sleep. Part of that was I had no idea where things would lead. Good stuff.
August 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Finished Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, book 7, by James S. A. Corey) last night. Right in line with the first 6. Very tense. I had to not read it too late in the evening so the tension wouldn't affect my sleep. Part of that was I had no idea where things would lead. Good stuff.
@ewhowe.com Good sermon! Give those TESCREAL bros heck! That whole cumulative "happiness" thing always sounded like more traditional Christian arguments for suffering now and getting my reward in heaven except that, unless I am "uploaded" (or otherwise immortalized), I don't actually get the reward!
July 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
@ewhowe.com Good sermon! Give those TESCREAL bros heck! That whole cumulative "happiness" thing always sounded like more traditional Christian arguments for suffering now and getting my reward in heaven except that, unless I am "uploaded" (or otherwise immortalized), I don't actually get the reward!
I'm a third of the way through Persepolis Rising, book 7 of The Expanse by James S. A. Corey. It starts several decades after the end of book 6 and season 6 of the video series. Gripping!
#TheExpanse
#TheExpanse
July 28, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I'm a third of the way through Persepolis Rising, book 7 of The Expanse by James S. A. Corey. It starts several decades after the end of book 6 and season 6 of the video series. Gripping!
#TheExpanse
#TheExpanse
Finished Annalee Newitz' Autonomous. Did not meet expectations... in a good way. Twists and turns - some unpleasantly violent - kept surprising me and did not disappoint. I find the world building compelling and I hope Automatic Noodle - due out next month - is in the same world. (I suspect it is.)
July 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Finished Annalee Newitz' Autonomous. Did not meet expectations... in a good way. Twists and turns - some unpleasantly violent - kept surprising me and did not disappoint. I find the world building compelling and I hope Automatic Noodle - due out next month - is in the same world. (I suspect it is.)