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Kern Jackson (kern@iosdev.space)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 15:11:14 JST Kern Jackson

I've been thinking about Ursula K. Le Guin''s The Dispossessed a lot this week, and feeling very much like it's protagonist Shevek when he leaves his home world.
I guess that means it's time to pick it back up and finally finish it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed
#books #Bookstodon #scifi
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  The Dispossessed
  
  The Dispossessed (subtitled An Ambiguous Utopia) is a 1974 anarchist utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, one of her seven Hainish Cycle novels. It is one of a small number of books to win all three Hugo, Locus and Nebula Awards for Best Novel. It achieved a degree of literary recognition unusual for science fiction due to its exploration of themes such as anarchism and revolutionary societies, capitalism, utopia, individualism, and collectivism. It features the development of the mathematical theory underlying a fictional ansible, a device capable of faster-than-light communication (it can send messages without delay, even between star systems) that plays a critical role in the Hainish Cycle. The invention of the ansible places the novel first in the internal chronology of the Hainish Cycle, although it was the fifth published. Background In her introduction to the Library of America reprint in 2017, Le Guin reflected on her past 40 years by writing: The Dispossessed started as a very bad short story, which I didn...
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Kern Jackson (kern@iosdev.space)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 09:03:25 JST Kern Jackson

"SureFire" isn't exactly a confidence inspiring brand name for lithium batteries.
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1. Screenshot of SureFire SF12-BB Boxed Batteries (12 Pack) They are bright red 123A lithium batteries
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Kern Jackson (kern@iosdev.space)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 03:11:45 JST Kern Jackson

I'm seriously considering a blog series where I roast companies for not having baseline accessibility in their iOS app. Is that something people would be interested in?
#iOSDev #a11y

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Kern Jackson (kern@iosdev.space)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 02:40:15 JST Kern Jackson

The hearing aid feature looks very cool.
#appleevent

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Kern Jackson (kern@iosdev.space)'s status on Monday, 21-Aug-2023 09:53:07 JST Kern Jackson
- Thomas 🔭🕹️
@thomasfuchs Haha yes a misnomer for sure, but when you’re young everyone is super old. 🤷♂️

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Kern Jackson (kern@iosdev.space)'s status on Monday, 21-Aug-2023 08:43:02 JST Kern Jackson

TIL Doom Clones are now Boomer Shooters 😬 https://www.inverse.com/gaming/boomer-shooter-definition-origin
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  OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre
  
  from @TomasFranzese
  
  Games like 'Dusk', 'Amid Evil', and 'Into the Pit' are shining examples of a new FPS subgenre: the "boomer shooter" inspired by games like 'Doom' and 'Quake'.

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