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I am captivated by the writing of David Graeber recently. I started with Bull Shit Jobs, then Debt: The First 5000 Years, The Utopia of Rules, and most recently the Democracy Project. Next I'm reading The Dawn of Everything. Then I am going to read them all again. They are that good.

The new Amtrak AiroTM train will start debuting in 2026 and operate on routes throughout the country. Routes include the Amtrak Northeast Regional, Empire Service, Virginia Services, Keystone Service, Downeaster, Cascades, Maple Leaf, New Haven/Springfield Service, Palmetto, Carolinian, Pennsylvanian, Vermonter, Ethan Allen Express and Adirondack. media.amtrak.com/2022/12/amtra

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I have disabled
the API keys
that were in
the database

and which
you were probably
hoping
worked in your third-party client

Forgive me
they were annoying
no ads
and no control

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The Blue Mycena Mushroom, also known as the Blue Ghost Mushroom, is a rare and striking fungus native to the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

Gogol Bordello Plays an Acoustic Punk Show | Live From Rolling Stone's Studios youtube.com/watch?v=3qYTT3-kdk

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Happy #BlackFriday y'all! To celebrate #BlackJoy on #BlackMastodon, I'd like to show a #watercolour painting I did of the great James Baldwin.

#art #painting

Me: I will not follow you on Mastodon unless you have a photo + bio.

Also Me: You have a photo of Samuel L. Jackson from Pulp Fiction and poem from Walt Whitman in your bio. FOLLOW!!!

Other than brief moments in 1903, 1937, 1976, and 2013, this light bulb has been on in this Livermore, CA fire stations since 1901. centennialbulb.org/index.htm

Should still be there. Event if you delete they should still be there. But I just play an expert on TV.

Forget documenting an API for other consumers to use. Document my own damn APIs for the next time I sit down to use it. What the hell did I build here? Why did I do it like this? Explain yourself yesterday Kin!!!

When people you are collaborating with via a Google Doc clearly spend more time writing markdown somewhere else. ;-)

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Amazing photo of lightning strike on #SutroTower in today's rare thunderstorm in San Francisco. Photo by Reddit user u/swingdatrake, slight color correction.

It never ceases to amaze me at how good I am with some advanced concepts, but just how confounded I get very simple things. I still stumble over them, but I've long accepted it is how I roll.

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This legal primer for Fediverse instances under US jurisdiction is very good and you should read it and pass it around, and not have a lot of future problems.

eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user

Just heard on LinkedIn - "autonomous teams w/o aligned autonomy"

My wife's relationship with Siri has been very tense lately. He (the voice she has) doesn't respond and listen to her -- so she ends up yelling at him. Just glad it isn' tme.

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