Phillip Winn @pwinn@social.cleverlibre.org

@dancast I remember this one! I can't recall any details beyond what you've already stated, but it was really great.

@gabelgetho The books are set in the far future but have no computers at all. The lack is described as the result of the Butlerian Jihad, in which people destroyed all “thinking machines” and no new computing machines are allowed anywhere for any reason. Instead, people known as mentats are trained from birth to be human computers.

The link is only that I now understand why people might fight to eliminate computers.

You should read Dune, it’s great!

@andrew I drop a tenner a month on the Midjourney team, and wouldn’t pay eight cents for twitter, so I think you are onto something here.

@nataliedavisgdread in talks to buy a company for $250 million, "serious" breaches... $75,000 fine. A pittance! Cost of doing business.

@stephen

Thank you for being worth following!

@jamieBGN

Thank you for speaking up for anime awareness! 😜 And just generally posting good stuff.

@SinclairLewis @PeterR Five-day school weeks would make teaching one of a number of jobs that either doesn't get to switch to a four-day work week (but hey, summer off, right?), or that schools have to start scheduling teachers like restaurants scheduling servers to ensure five-day coverage. Neither seems great!

That said, let not the perfect be the enemy of the good: four-day works weeks for everyone who can, and a raise for everyone who can't!

@dimillian I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation for why I can see a photo clearly in a post, but when I tap it to blow it up, even though on my phone all that *really* does is remove the stuff *around* the photo, it pauses for quite a while, as if it has to find the phone it is already displaying quickly and re-display it very slowly.

I suspect maybe it's something like a low-res and high-res version, and I just can't tell the difference on my phone? But yeah, that. :)

@majorlinux I am so sorry to hear this. I've lost jobs before, and there are definitely up and down days.

Please believe, even when it feels like failure, or worse, your future can still be better than your past. You don't know me, and I don't know you, and when someone tried to tell me this after the worst failures in my life, I thought it was nonsense, but eventually it turned out to be true.

Hang in there.

@AnokheeTara Comfort and a chance to revel in self-confidence, sounds like a win!