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  1. riding my bike over sideshow rubber elsewhere in the city from time to time: eh heheh hehe

    laying in bed at 3 last night listening to a side show that sounded like it was in our alley: 😩

    from a cab we had a 5:00AM alarm to catch: oh, lol, it pretty much was. Cesar Chavez and Valencia

    photo of an intersection covered in tire rubber left by cars and motorcycles doing donuts, taken from my cab on the way to the airport

  2. lovely bit of dark tower lore

    https://mastodon.art/@MichaelWhelan/112576076603050189

    Michael Whelan (@MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art)Attached: 2 images The over colored sky has a hallucinatory quality which is evocative of the dreamlike feeling of the story. I confess that I wore a similar robe for much of the time I was painting this scene. https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/gunslinger-man-in-black/ 2/2Mastodon.ART

  3. super neat paper

    https://hachyderm.io/@mononcqc/112552422086316478

    Fred Hebert (@mononcqc@hachyderm.io)New #paper notes: Morgan G. Ames' Charismatic Technology (https://www.morganya.org/research/Ames-charisma-aarhus.pdf) This one defines the concept of "charismatic technology"—Utopian sounding tech that is fundamentally conservative and over-promises in way that makes its deployment success unlikely. It is guided through the example of the OLPC program crossing themes like education and childhood then taking away attention from better solutions. Notes at https://ferd.ca/notes/paper-charismatic-technology.html & https://cohost.org/mononcqc/post/6244257-paper-charismatic-tHachyderm.io

  4. 16th book of 2024: “You Like it Darker”, by Stephen King ( https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/201242757-you-like-it-darker)

    You Like It Darker“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen Kin
Goodreads

    There are a few authors I simply pre-order without question—Jason Pargin, Kelly Link, Emily Wilson in the past year alone, but always King. I was going to save this for vacation in a few weeks but ended up with more time on my hands so it came off the pile.

    I particularly liked "The Answer Man”

    The hardback cover of “You Like it Darker” by Stephen King, as I read it. Author name over title in a pale yellow all-caps futura variant with a few pointed descenders and an interesting capital K specifically (more like a leaning V with a tail stollen from the letter Q?) over a photograph of an island with two palm trees in dark browns and blues.

  5. 15th book of 2024: "White Cat Black Dog”, by Kelly Link.

    I particularly enjoyed the last one, “Skinder’s Veil”

    I’ve never actually read any actual Brothers Grimm, nor have I read (or even heard of) Lang’s “The Blue Fairy Book” which I just learned about in a review of these Link stories, so I think they have to both go on the pile.

    the paperback cover of “White Cat, Black Dog”, by Kelly Link, as I read it.The cover is an illustration of a broken open acorn. The half that faces the reader says STORIES on the inside and the half resting on its back has a small black dog sitting in it. Title above, author name below. “White Cat,” in black, and “Black Dog” in a sepia.NATIONAL BESTSELLER WHITE CAT,BLACK DOG "The master of the modern fairy tale." —TodayA short story sorceress. -The Washington Post"An expert illusionist. —The-New YorkerSTORIESKELLY LINKFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE

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