4 Those of you who had e-mail messages to me bounce today, please resend them—I’m using a workaround through Gmail while Verizon, my ISP, lumbers towards the problem (which seems to be with their suddenly hypersensitive spam filters; two hours of my life I’ll never get back).
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” --W. Somerset Maugham https://twitter.com/nadiabulkin/status/1365010996188901385
People who have written novels: what's your best advice for writing a novel? Please share! ⤵️
https://youtu.be/dN3wEdK_vxw
NOMADLAND is a grim reminder of Gibson's aphorism that "the future is already here--it's just not evenly distributed." I once naively thought that meant the shiny, cool future of tech would trickle down--now I realize it also refers to post-apocalyptic futures that seep up.
Sorry, you lose the right to complain about partisanship once you've fanned the flames of violent insurrection. https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1364628986769399818
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) goes off on Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) during USPS oversight hearing:
“I didn’t vote to overturn an election. And I will not be lectured by people who did about partisanship.”
People are really trying to dissect what is a "cage," what is a "facility," what is a "shelter," when the bigger issue we should be dissecting is very simple: why have we as a country been criminalizing migration from the Global South since the 1990s and even before that?
kijjohnson
Not yet, I haven’t written, but I will–
steelbrassnwood
The last thing I sent you was on Friday morning, about the Chernobyl photos. Hope you had a good weekend aside from the email problems.
steelbrassnwood
I don’t read it so much anymore, but this was quite the hit on Slashdot Monday.
admin
To say that the supervisor I spoke to Sunday night was obtuse would be to give him far too much credit. The Slashdot piece was interesting—as of the wee hours of Thursday morning, Gmail still bounces off the Verizon servers.