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One of the player characters in my game now has the aspect "space Karen", after she delayed some attacking law enforcement ships by demanding to speak to their supervisor.

@librarianguish Our previous dog once barfed a dogful of sugar cookies down the heating vent.

Someone tried (and failed) to beat Johnny Cash's "killing California Condors using arson" record:

cnn.com/2022/05/20/us/ivan-gom

Oh, you don't know that story?

thevintagenews.com/2018/03/26/

(For the record, I'm on the side of the condors.)

Any sufficiently advanced technology is insufficiently documented

If you watched the She-Hulk trailer and thought, "I'd like to see more of that actor," go back and watch Orphan Black. It's amazing.

@benjaminhollon This text must be pulled from some wiki on The Expanse (an outstanding series of sci-fi novels).

I'm not saying that we go to the library a lot, but I am saying that #Violet believes all walks should go to the library.

You don't have to do everything in your head. We have paper for a reason.

What makes someone "good at technology?" In part, it's an understanding of the underlying technical principles and industry conventions - what a "power on" icon looks like, say. I have a lot of that. But there's another component, one that's often invisible to people like me: the extent to which your technology was designed to suit your needs.

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I was raised writing stand-alone applications, but now it's all about containerized, subscription-based cloud apps. What should I be teaching my students?

I recognize that Mastodon may have a certain amount of selection bias.

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