Notices by SpeakerToManagers (speakertomanagers@wandering.shop)

@codegax @bmacDonald94
Yes. You have to frequently engage with the world around you, including the humans in it and their works. Doing so can give you joy as well as keep you grounded.

@cstross @otolithe @lauren

Frederick Brown wrote a novel titled “What Mad Universe” in which machines of the complexity of a sewing machine or greater attained sentience and, being pissed at what they considered enslavement, took off.

@cstross
Hugh Grant is a good choice for Angleton, though I have his performance as an Oompa Loompa in “Wonka“ stuck in my head, which creates some cognitive dissonance. I have always pictured Angleton as played by Charles Dance, who has that ascetic look I associate with fanatic counterintelligence entities.

@cstross @killick
That’s sort of in the vein of Ken MacLeod’s Engines of Light trilogy, in which the microbes who inhabit the galaxy just want humans to STOP MAKING NOISE!

@cstross
The skeletons of surrealist artists. Probably all died when they fell while descending a stairwell.

@cstross
This _does_ sound like a good opening for a Persephone Hazard story.

@cstross @charliejane
How Fortean of you!

This has been my personal experience with MS Copilot: the (small) improvements in coding speed are not worth the vigilance with which you have to review the generated code.
https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/sorry-genai-is-not-going-to-10x-computer?r=dz8ws&utm_medium=ios

Avatar in profile alt text: a top hat with a 20-sided die on the front showing the 1 face. In RPG terms, a critical hat.

New avatar in profile alt text: Johannes Gutenberg in 15th Century garb working on a laptop computer. Behind him is a printing press of the type he might have used.

@cstross @rrb @Uilebheist

My older son and his tween daughter spent a couple of weeks in Israel in July. They talked to a lot of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis, and got the impression that a large majority of the population did not approve of Netenyahu.

@anarchopunk_girl
I entered the tech world by sort of sliding sidewise into a group of the kind of hackers you’re talking about in the Bay Area in the mid 70s. Within 5 years most of them had fled to other places, and the vulture capitalists had descended and grabbed everybody else by the greed.

@AnarchoNinaWrites
The other big issue that individuals can do something about is waste food, which releases methane as it decomposes. Give it to people who are food insecure instead of throwing it out. I realize the jackboots have made that illegal in some places, but do what you can.

@goatsarah @cstross
The lithium ion batteries are more concerning, the stuff is quite toxic. And they are not even recyclable batteries, they’re one time use only.

This ingenious packaging might convince you to finally recycle your batteries - Fast Company https://apple.news/Allu2IzqLQ1GAHPpoxKyubQ