Notices by Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire: (mwl@io.mwl.io)

If your software is vulnerable to a Wile E Coyote attack, you need to start over.

https://futurism.com/tesla-wall-autopilot

I have a schedule conflict that prevents me from participating in #monsterdon

But I absolutely love watching all these folks relive my youth. :flan_hearts: I have such fond memories of CHUD!

She Who Must Be Obeyed teaches psych nursing at a community college in a seriously red county.

The college has implemented a program for "reporting DEI" in classes.

Psych nursing is 90% disparities.

Guess who's getting reports on her class, mostly from failing students?

Guess who's doing her damndest to waste as much admin time as possible with her response to each of these reports?

@annika wow, you can get Cheap Yellow over in civilization!

@ArnimRanthoron @silverwizard @quotebot

Nobody can be sorry enough to make up for technology.

@silverwizard @quotebot I'm sure I have been sorry at some point.

Probably sorry that you have to use the tech discussed in one of my books, but that counts.

@miah @ax3

Yep! A CoC as simple as "Joe and Jane have the responsibility to call you on bigotry and to kick you out if you don't behave" makes certain people lose their minds.

"Oh, ads don't put that much burden on your browser! You're exaggerating how bad they are!"

@feld @dvl @forquare

I like it as well.

I'd shortlist it for a new jails book, but me covering a jail management tool is a way to make that tool implode. :flan_despair:

@babe

Never, NEVER trust a poet.

Or any literary figure, really. Nobody who puts words in a row can be trusted.

Especially poets. Smug bastards.

Pondering moving my web server out of the US.

The catch is, I have my own bookstore. It uses Paypal and Stripe. As I understand it, if the site is hosted in another country, then I have to consider that country's laws as well as those here. Which is not unreasonable.

But how much overhead do I want to cope with?

If Stripe & Paypal turned on me, I'd basically be sunk anyway.

@annika ah, but if you read this book in any version but the official CIA declassified PDF, you're missing out on the full experience!

@annika fortunately, that book's available all over the place.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

@domi @lanodan @jessienab

please do write this up!

I started poking at what it would take to put a web site at 3.82.139.23.in-addr.arpa. Seems like there's a lot of annoying footgun protection here...

A parroty error. 🦜

SWMBO just got a phone call.

Apparently she is being investigated for her DEI habits, and owes $1000 in gift cards.

@mWare I ain't going near it.

I tug the door down and it launches back up. The damn thing is spring-loaded, clearly a job for a pro.

Most authors: "I want to become everything to everybody!"

Not me. I want to become more and more fiercely myself to such an extent that I become nothing to anybody. #writing #goals

I grew up around these people. They cut off anything that doesn't fit.

When they're finished with the LGBT folks, they are coming for us.

I suggest you fight them here and now, instead of when you're alone.

Get offline and join an existing organization. There are several in your neighborhood.

I don't trust computers. I assume anything I put on a computer will be read by my worst enemies.

But things are bad enough, I finally installed Signal.