pattmayne

I've been reading in a comfy chair for the last couple years. I'm going to try reading at a desk again. For my posture, but also because the reduced comfiness might increase my alertness while reading. Reading is a sport and requires more alertness than comfiness.

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The Kendrick Lamar and Drake feud explained: People don't who listen to rap are amazed to learn that Kendrick Lamar, one of the most critically acclaimed lyricists in music history, is able to write better diss tracks than Drake, the human embodiment of a JCPenney commercial.

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lime seltzer (nearly undetectable lime flavor) and "hint of lime" tortilla chips (overwhelming lime onslaught on every chip) need to meet up and switch lime amounts

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Sewing machines aren't real!

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☀️😎 On Monday, April 8 A total solar eclipse will sweep through the sky over North America. The 5 stages of the 2024 total solar eclipse explained for April 8 🧪 www.space.com/stages-of-to... You can watch the total solar eclipse live on Space.com.

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This was before I moved to NS, but:

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Tim Bousquet

In short, the review office says the cops are all wet and should turn the info over. They won't, because the review office can't require anyone to do anything, so why have a review office in the first place? The somebody can now either drop the issue to spend a bunch of money to take it to court.

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Ketan Joshi

If you want to understand climate, you have to understand the ocean. This is an excellent ocean book. 😉

Blue Machinewww.penguin.co.uk RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR: 'This beautifully written, sweeping guide shows how the deep movement of the seas have ruled our live...

Which crystal lets me rule them all and in the darkness bind them?

Which crystal lets me forgive myself

I respect the civil service.

Sneaking into the gym long enough to film a training montage and get beat up.

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People who couldn't live without story had to look outside work to feel part of one, which I guessed was why Sæculars were so concerned with sports, and with religion. How else could you see yourself as part of an adventure? #Anathem

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I updated the cover for the most hilarious novel ever written. It's too funny for you. https://pattmayne.com/

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Adrian Tchaikovsky

crabpunk society when?

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The latest infuriating thing about this to come to mind: How well did this excuse work for Aaron Swartz and Sci-Hub when they did it for free? How well has it been working for the Internet Archive so far? Why are we only supposed to consider it acceptable when someone’s profiting?

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI sayswww.theguardian.com Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...

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At home, there's at least 7 full boxes of photos, multiple photo albums, and maybe even a suitcase of photos, as well as a box of perhaps 30 or more tapes of home movies, all spanning over 3 decades or more of family memories. Surprisingly, the hardest photos and videos to recover are on SD cards.

If you see this, fix it with a picture you have of a little guy

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In a mist-soaked forest at the base of Nichols Falls in Dunedin, there sat a little Prostigmatid mite on a piece of deadwood. Happily munching away on a cluster of mysterious purple orbs, it seemed oblivious to the violent crashing of the waterfall nearby and the curious human with a camera 🧪