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Screenshot of an operating pop up that reads Uninstall Copilot. And then on the next line says, There was an error uninstalling Copilot. Please try again later. And then below that is a large blue button labeled with OK.

One of the many glories of Windows 11

[Dear Microsoft: if you are scraping bsky for brand sentiment analysis, make sure your tool is able to detect sarcasm. Oh, it can’t reliably detect sarcasm? How surprising!]

_What the fiction in the Triptree anthology achieves is not the fulfillment of some sort of formal destiny inherent in SF but rather the performance of a set of ethically and politically charged narrative possibilities forged in an actively resistant dialogue with dominant gender norms_

(under no illusions about this team, but it’s always a pleasure watching Curry play semi-meaningful basketball)

Steph!

This is not good:

_The one work that much of the Industrial Party has rallied around is the science fiction trilogy by Liu Cixin_

_What the fiction in the Triptree anthology achieves is not the fulfillment of some sort of formal destiny inherent in SF but rather the performance of a set of ethically and politically charged narrative possibilities forged in an actively resistant dialogue with dominant gender norms_

I’ve rebounded from my first two years of the pandemic reading slump.

But I’d like to read even more—it’s less about not enough time and more about not enough energy.

Let me rephrase: I’d like to do even more of the type of challenging reading that I then think and write about.

Oh, I knew you weren’t. Was more trying to illustrate your point about eras.

But this also applies to current comparisons to other countries as well: due to internet, travel, more accessible international TV, more Americans have more of a (still limited) sense of other countries’ infrastructure.

We also haven’t heavily invested in infrastructure, especially the kind that’s a public good for everyone regardless of income level since the early 1970s

(we have invested in prisons and defense/policing infrastructure, but that’s not really a public good, ofc)

I’m thinking it might be historical fiction if set before the age someone graduates from high school so it might even be 2006 or 2007?

Kind of hate that reality has ruined the trope of weirdo outcast befriends persecuted AI robot.

Nowadays that reads like deranged terrorist believes spell check is his girlfriend.

Some thoughts on @draft2digital.bsky.social 's absolutely horrendous fees, beyond "wow they fucking suck, huh?"

1) This is a gift to Amazon and Kindle Unlimited. KU authors who already don't think they can move out won't want to eat that $20 fee only to make peanuts and get hit with another $12

What if the creative creators aren't making references because they don' think their audiences would know them, but because they themselves no longer have this kind of cultural reach?
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Fredric Jameson | April 14, 1934 - September 22, 2024 Fredric Jameson contributed some of the most important Marxist cultural criticism of the twentieth century. To honor the great writer's life, we've discounted his titles and encourage everyone to read...

Fredric Jameson was born on this day in 1934.

To honor the great writer's life, we've discounted his titles and encourage everyone to read the works he produced in his 90 years.

Update: I can access Kanopy through my employer—a more limited catalog so I’ll need to see which works on my to-watch list remain available.

But a) this doesn’t help other Hennepin County residents and b) I have to be logged into my employer’s VPN to watch stuff, which is a pain.

I appreciate the offer, but a) I don’t want to risk you/your account getting in trouble and b) it’s less about me personally and more about what this means for all the library users. I can afford to pay for a sub or rental if I really need to.

I do pay for PBS Passport to support TPT, but they really have such a narrow range of programming there, esp. in comparison to Kanopy.

I’d guess that users who can’t afford alternatives will just turn to FAST channels, which is a crappier experience on all levels.

Also: “just pay for Criterion” doesn’t work as a solution for me because what I like about Kanopy is the mix of titles, including the educational content.

I will rent the indie films I really want to watch, but I’m not likely to do that with the courses, TV shows, and documentaries.

yeah :(

I still love HCLIB, but this move along with being less willing to acquire academic titles with (a modest amount of) general public interest really sucks.

Nooooooooooo!

“Kanopy video streaming service from Hennepin County Library will be discontinued on Monday, May 11, 2026.”

I understand that library budgets are limited, but this is just another nail in the coffin for the ways people save money but still access non-enshittified experiences.

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.

Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities

www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

amen

Because, yes, there are depictions of mental health issues in kdramas that are clumsy/awkward to very messed up.

But b/c the discourse is so binary specific discussions about specific works/characters/scenes are impossible. (And both sides of the binary seem me to be engaging in orientalism).

There’s a thing happening with kdramas right now where if mental health issues aren’t handled exactly like they would be in the US/EU, fans trash the show even if there are stated in-narrative reasons for that and/or artistic reasons.

This collapses all discourse about kdramas and mental health.

We've also seen the same decline in viewing comprehension.

You don't have to look far in online discussions of movies or series to discover that a lot of people simply do not understand the first thing about whatever it is they're watching. It's all just emotional associations

Not quite experimental, not quite weird, not quite core genre, but containing elements of all three, the stories in my collection Oddities gently yet insistently (and sometimes darkly humorously) attempt to paint genre fiction into a corner.

wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...

Oh, it really has: www.reddit.com/r/boardsofca...