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Completly misunderstanding how society works is what tech bros do best! 😂

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Drawing of a tech bro being interviewed by the standard tech bro sychophant. Tech bro: “Philip K. Dick. Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors.”
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An older but very nice review of my story The Last Philosopher 😊

Free eBook version of Part One:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tynp5wgkwr0dkvmf3dzp3/The-Last-Philosopher-Part-One.epub?rlkey=n61zknkz05eakr809gcs19kzd&dl=0

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Chapter 1: The first thing I noticed here was how much this first chapter reminds me of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. You have a really similar style and I'm not complaining at all! I also really appreciated how you used dashes instead of commas, most people choose to be boring. I loved the personification and the attention to detail, the way you write things really makes me feel as if | am there myself. Final Impression: I was really hooked on reading this story and youdefinitely did not disappoint! I love your books so, so much and Ihonestly couldn't find much to nitpick at. I hoped this helped at least a tiny bit <3 Rating: 10 out of 10
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A 24-year-old Frenchman shows up at hospital with a World War I shell lodged in his rectum ( english.elpais.com )

Medical staff had to halt the procedure, fearing a possible explosion. The hospital, unfamiliar with such protocols, immediately alerted the authorities, and around 1:40 a.m., police arrived and activated the bomb squad. The team established a security perimeter to neutralize the device so surgery could continue, though no one ...

whyNotSquirrel , to And Finally... in A 24-year-old Frenchman shows up at hospital with a World War I shell lodged in his rectum
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are shells explosive or just heavy/huge bullets? I know the ones with the tiny button on their nose, but I thought it was during WW2.

edit : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_(projectile)#High-explosive_shells

actually it was already explosive before WW1

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Libbbf: Bound Book Format, A high-performance container for comics and manga

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Managed to get portable Linux AppImage binaries to work, so I'm pushing a new release of HDRView! Same as v2.7.0, but with precompiled binaries for Linux.

https://github.com/wkjarosz/hdrview/releases/tag/v2.7.1

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Arduino UNO Q bridges high-performance computing with real-time control

https://www.arduino.cc/product-uno-q/

#Q -performance -time

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/11/nothing-personal/

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Our modular, high-performance Merkle Tree library for Rust

https://github.com/bilinearlabs/rs-merkle-tree

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Edge264 – Minimalist, high-performance software decoder for H.264/AVC video

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@NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art avatar NickEast_IndieWriter , to Humor

That's why I write things are always right if I'm making everything up 😜😂
Also, did you know to create a fictional world from scratch you have to start with creating the ? At least that's what I've been told... 😅

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Why researching before writing is so, so important. Screenshot from book MADERING MILLER: His skin was the color of just-pressed olive. Picture of just pressed olive that is an alien looking lime green.
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Zutty: Zero-cost Unicode Teletype, high-end terminal for low-end systems

https://git.hq.sig7.se/zutty.git

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Where the hell is my 'runner's high'?

https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/where-the-hell-is-my-runners-high

A quite-frankly justified rant about the absence of much-touted rewards of regular exercise. Sure, the whole 'being healthier' thing is all well and good, but where are the endorphins at?

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Flying into Friday.

A cartoon illustration of a smiling cat floating high above a neighborhood. Caption reads "The catnip had been particularly exceptional that morning."
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If you've ever spent time around Wikipedians, you've doubtless heard its motto: "Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it's a mess." It's a delicious line, which is why I stole it for my 2017 novel Walkaway.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before

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This was a rare and remarkable gesture. The internet has many of these "benevolent dictator for life" public interest projects, and nearly all of them are still controlled by their founders, who may be benevolent, but are far from perfect:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/10/bdfl/#high-on-your-own-supply

It's all the more remarkable that the internet's most prominent self-deposing benevolent dictator is Jimmy Wales, a self-professed, Ayn Rand-reading libertarian.

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@NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art avatar NickEast_IndieWriter , to bookstodon group

I don't think he knows about "reading the books you have" 😂

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Three panel meme with scene from the Lord of the Rings film where Pippin is asking about second breakfast. Pippin: What about a new book? Aragon: We've already bought new book. Pippin: We've bought one, yes. But what about a second new book?
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@NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art avatar NickEast_IndieWriter , to bookstodon group

What do you mean OR? 🤔
I can broil in existential dread and plot a fantasy series at the same time. 😂 Luckily I don't make mistakes, at least not any I'm willing to admit too 😜

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Post by C.G. Drews Apparently some people go to bed and just...sleep??? They don't plot a 7-book epic fantasy series or softly broil in existential dread or replay every mistake they ever made??? And then they wake up [checks notes] REFRESHED? | just. It sounds a bit fake.
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@NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art avatar NickEast_IndieWriter , to bookstodon group

Maps are great, but this is greaterest 😊

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Picture of a book where the map folds out so at to stay on the side of the text while you read. Captioned: Every book should have its maps set up like this...
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SQLite async connection pool for high-performance

https://github.com/slaily/aiosqlitepool

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