Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app

@hanadusikova delicious

@AAKL I 100% want my motherboard to lie to DRM spyware

@AAKL this seems like a fabulously prosumer-friendly default.

@steve @regehr yeah. when I get asked "what does your dad do?" it's always like "uh how much time do you have to listen to the answer?"

Among other things, he did graduate coursework in Old English concurrently with doing his PhD in Computer Science, and now teaches occasional creative writing and environmental studies courses (usually J-Term or summer) in addition to CS.

@steve @regehr my mom mostly writes poetry. my dad (when he's not teaching computer science) writes song lyrics, a fishing/outdoor-sports column for the local newspaper, occasional poetry, and *gestures about* all this https://www.amazon.com/stores/Matthew-T.-Dickerson/author/B001JPALWW/allbooks

@regehr a while back I was getting heckled on vacation by family/friends for reading a book called "Dinosaur Planet" and I was like "look, it's Anne McCaffrey, even when she's writing pulp you're going to learn new words", and sure enough on that page was a sentence with "sough" which nobody at the house had ever heard or used before.

....now my parents both use it, **with regularity**, in their writing

@Prodigal_son77@mastodon.scot @mjmurphyva @nsarwark @C4SS I'm like 90% sure Kevin Carson follows me on here 😜

@descartes
"hold my beer" https://media.giphy.com/media/IrrYlFmpivxthPksfh/giphy.gif

@ibreezy@babka.social @Popehat @Women4Popehat yeah - I don't always agree with Ilya Somin, but I usually at least respect the care he puts into to developing his arguments.

@Popehat @Women4Popehat Remembering which of Cato Institute's Ilya S.s was the good Ilya S. and which was the bad Ilya S. used to take up a disproportionate amount of my mental space, but now Ilya Shapiro has very helpfully stopped pretending to be a libertarian and moved to Manhattan Institute.

@aral oh boy, I haven't been to Bing in a while, and I can't stop staring at the audacity of that "I can't believe it's not Google" page layout.

@vsaraph did Justin tell you about it?

@steve sending this to my wife

@anildash @mathowie @delfuego @jessamyn @thomas

baffling how often people seem to miss that the core conceit of the Fediverse is getting to be in charge of your own social media experience and do things the way that you personally want to do them 🙃

Letter from Birmingham Jail is masterful writing on so many levels, but these passages continue to be some of my favorites.

@Prodigal_son77@mastodon.scot @mjmurphyva @nsarwark spend some time reading @C4SS. They're a bit left of me economically, but also very much within the bounds of doctrinally sound libertarianism, and absolutely diametrically opposed to the LPNH freakshow.