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Codidact Wikipedia, Revisited Entropy Arbitrage Simplifying Newsletter Updates Colors Icons Repairs Library Updates Next Today, parts of Eastern Europe celebrate th
The Minos Paradox What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: The Floraverse, Again Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club watches The Minos Paradox.
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Background Filters Inching Along We Love All Names Equally Big Happy Family This should go quick, because I mostly want to make sure that I’ve written down the specific thing that I guess nobody else finds worth mentioning. Background As many of you may already know—because I end up talking about it a lot as I change things around—I use Jekyll to manage the blog. Many “sta
Newsletter Reminder Wikipedia Codidact Scrawls Nowhere Fast Upshot Entropy Arbitrage Library Updates Next Today marks
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2047 What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: The Floraverse, Again Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club listens to (and reads) 2047.
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Entropy Arbitrage Newsletter Recipes Mini-Server, Part 25 Comics Neuron Drizzle Library Updates Next Today, we mark International Missing Children’s Day, raising awareness for (as you can no doubt guess for yourself) missing children1.
The Inferior Woman I II III IV V VI Some years, I can get my act together and find some piece of public domain fiction written by a Black author for Black History Month, and then…wander off for the rest of the year. I don’t make that choice with purpose, mind you. However, the other history and heritage months rarely show up with as much fanfare, and people have weirdly spent less time cataloguing the opti
Carriotepunk What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: The Floraverse: Seeds Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club finishes reading Carriotepunk, from En hauteur
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Library Updates Next Today, we mark World AIDS Vaccine Day or HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, promoting the need for…well, you can figure that much out by the name of the event. Over my life, I have watched AIDS transition from a mysterious-but-ignored (because it happened to “those people”) death sentence to something almost reasonably treatable and survivable, meaning that we can almost certainly go further. If you like, we also have Africa Day today, commemorating the effort that has gone into…
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Carriotepunk What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Jathia’s Wager Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club starts reading Carriotepunk, from Les yeux vers la montagne (E
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Entropy Arbitrage Library Updates Next Today, at least in the United States, we celebrate the ratification of Minnesota’s statehood. Even if you don’t spend much time in the United States, you probably recognize Minnesota from its fairly significant representation in the news as a sometimes-literal battlefield against Homeland Security officers hunting for anybody who might have overstayed on a visa at some point. Workers and businesses staged the general strike and boycott at the end of…
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Messages from the Universe Graveyard What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Orang-U Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club plays Mess
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Disclaimer Previously… The Nagus Conclusions The Bad Stay Tuned… Disclaimer In these posts, we discuss a non-“Free as in Freedom” popular culture franchise property, including occasional referenc
Newsletter Reminder Entropy Arbitrage, the Code Library Updates Next Today, we observe United Nations Anti-Bullying Day, which seems largely abandoned. But given that something like a quarter of adolescents face bullying, to say nothing of adults and having bullying as a government policy in a lot of the world1, maybe we should get that going again.
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Avalon High What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club—started six years ago today, in fact—finishes reading Avalon High, at least for now, covering Semester 2 from Too…Much…Hockey… through The Dance.
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