Last night I attended my first “Silent Book Club” event at a local bookstore. Simply put: you come and read whatever book you want for a hour. There’s optional socializing for 30-min after, and that’s it. No discussions, no pressure, no reading a book you’re not feeling.
At the end, the owner took this photo of everyone’s books and I love how this turned out. It was a lot of fun to go to and I even talked to someone because of the book they were reading. It was a good time and I’d absolutely do it again!
@justincox@liztai I use a plugin for Wordpress called “The Newsletter Plugin”. I have a paid license. It’s got a lot of features and while I wish it had more, it’s quite good. If you use Wordpress, def give it a look.
@justincox@liztai I offer a free version of my newsletter with a paid membership option that gives people some perks. Nothing major but it’s something. Converting people is very difficult though and I suspect there’s subscription fatigue in general, even if it’s $2 a month.
I’m just gonna come out and say it: Every “rule” and “norm” here in the US is a big, fucking illusion. Only took 248 years for that to be figured out. 🫠
@liztai Basically aside from the rules in the constitution, nothing else disqualifies someone from running or winning. It’s bizarre. So, yes, he theoretically could win, be in jail serving his sentence, and still retain the job.
“The Humane Pin looks like is a very expensive product, spewing confidently-wrong-AI bullshit-filled-responses that will likely sell in tiny quantities.
It looks weird, is questionable with how it will work with all clothing, gives wrong answers, costs $700, has a $24 monthly subscription, and produced by an unproven company. You'll have to forgive me for sitting this one out.”
I'm almost at the point where I sorta forget I'm hosting my own Masto instance myself on my personal server. I guess things are going pretty good.
Side note: I don’t know how it got "fixed" but my daily Docker issues from a few months ago is now resolved and I didn't even upgrade. No clue how that happened. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#Today I get some dayjob stuff done, write some cool stuff for TimeMachiner, and keep my page-refresher auto-reloading Best Buy to see if I can score a Zelda Collector's Edition for the new game. Bots and scalpers are already making it very difficult. ?
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