This is what drives me crazy as an American.

He was pro-Trump in 2016.

This is more of a victory speech.

I gave up on 2015.

This guy gave up recently. https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html

For email, Startmail seems interesting. It was rated pretty high on PCMag.

https://www.startmail.com/pricing

Curious if people’s thoughts.

At the entry level, it’s extremely tough now. You’re competing against engineers who are willing to work remotely for less. If you don’t have a portfolio, in my company, youre pretty much a NO.

It’s absolutely your geography. I lived in a town with very little tech folks, and I was chasing after every lead I could. Moved to a tech hub, and I was turning down offers left and right. I was also speaking at conferences and doing a lot with the tech community - doing hackathons and contributing to open source while I was unemployed.

I am still angry at Facebook for normalizing using your real name. That eroded a lot of basic security practices.

Now little 7yos share mommy’s credit card in YouTube comments.

This negativity is bumming me out. Lemme throw money at you until you stop.

My Steam Deck was literally so I can game while being 10 feet away from my computer!

I can game while under a blanket too. It makes me really happy.

Need a little robot hand that you can control with a remote.

I had a audio book where the as author was reading it. And they SUCKED at reading. Just incredibly distracting ways they say specific words. How they end sentences with “uh” and “um”.

It was one of the few times I got a physical book over the audio version.

As an American, I can say fuck America because that’s my god given right.

The right to shit on your country is the most American thing ever.

What a take: learning a language makes you a tankie.

This guy absolutely harasses people in the real world.

Gotta rise up to that Firefly/Serenity lore.

Gateway learning.

I learned Spanish to write love letters in 2nd grade.

And now 30 years later, I know like a dozen languages at a basic level, but still good enough to be sent all over the world on business trips for free.

I’ve been trying to decide if I should subscribe to the pro/family plan for weeks now, as I work de-google myself.

Fuck.

I watched the trailer and was like, “Ew harem.”

Then I proceeded to binge the series and movie.

Solid show.

I dunno. Pirating it is still giving them attention. Talking about it, bringing them up, giving them relevance. You’re paying for it with mental space. But when you straight up shun them, they wither away.

Like the great Terry Pratchett (rip), I see them like Small Gods: you give them power when you believe they exist.

Today I learned!

I never read this and I really appreciate the share.

Some parts that spoke to me:

This, I think, is what happens to so many of us when we consider the work of the monster geniuses—we tell ourselves we’re having ethical thoughts when really what we’re having is moral feelings.

Yeah. Guilty.

“The heart wants what it wants.” (Steve Allen when discussing Soon-Yi)

It was one of those phrases that never leaves your head once you’ve heard it: we all immediately memorized it whether we wanted to our not. Its monstrous disregard for anything but the self. Its proud irrationality. Woody goes on: “There’s no logic to those things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that’s that.”

I moved on her like a bitch.

I found this fascinating. While I was confused by Allen’s statement and why women found it so disgusting, the Trump parallel made it click.

A great work of art brings us a feeling. And yet when I say Manhattan makes me feel urpy, a man says, No, not that feeling. You’re having the wrong feeling. He speaks with authority: Manhattan is a work of genius. But who gets to say?

Going back to Gaiman, his work is held to a very high standard. But to say you dislike it, you will be met with confusion or even anger. And this is where this piece really spoke to me.

She mentioned a short story she’d just written and published. “Oh, you mean the most recent occasion for your abandoning me and the kids?” asked the very smart, very charming husband. The wife had been a monster, monster enough to finish the work. The husband had not.

A tangent in the essay about women writers. I found it fascinating that when a fuckface like Elon Musk abandoning his more than dozen kids can still rise the ranks. but God forbid a woman does the same.

There really is no answer to this that the author provides.

The tangent I shared is her last thought: does great art only come from monsters? I think a lot about other creative works, painters, comedians film makers… Who does some wild shit but not nearly to the level of Gaiman’s accusations.

Also, like all summaries, read it yourself and find your own takeaways. It’s the nuance, not the summary, that has value.