Just deleted permanently deleted Facebook and Threads accounts. On the fence about Instagram at the moment since I don’t make Facebook money there.
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Glenn Fleishman
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mastodon 4.7.3Glenn researches and writes about the history of printing, focused particularly on newspaper comics and printing molds. Order his book How Comics Were Made. He’s a long-time technology journalist, who contributes regularly to Macworld and TidBITS and writes books in the Take Control Books series. A former Amazon employee (1996–97) who used to eat burritos with Bezos, Glenn is more interestingly a two-time Jeopardy! winner.
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If you haven’t raised your hourly rates in a year, you’re giving clients a 5% to 10% discount.
@sommer@macaw.social @tewha@appdot.net Someone pointed out a couple years ago the Command-Shift-period feature in the Finder that reveals hidden files and I was like WHAT! WHAT!
As I think about DS9, it seems like the entire setup of the show is that the Prophets knew they would need a defender against the Pah-Wraiths, so they just used time and space to create one. (And, unlike most Chosen Ones, they had a plan that he would just become one of them instead of being discarded.)
Doesn’t that make Jake 1/4 Prophet? Was that NEVER discussed? Does that explain the episode in which he changes 70 years of history?
We don't need to drink eight glasses of water a day. The original study was clear the water we needed largely comes from food! https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-nutrition/water-myth
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Why OCANADA? The book was printed and is warehoused in Canada, and I have no idea (nor does anyone else) if it will be subject to tariffs in a couple of weeks for sales or shipping into the United States! So enjoy the 10% off sale wherever you are!
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I’ve been pointing out for years that the actual stats from the police even haven’t matched the panic in the media. In America (and much of the world), we’re at a near all-time low for violent crime and most other crime, so any tiny increase looks huge, as it did during the pandemic. We’re now reverting to the (new) norm.
It says, “God damn it, Brod, I told you to burn everything!”
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@kjhealy@mastodon.social They took me into a back room at Moscone West and let me touch it! I was astounded.
Will new tariffs doom my books to languish in a (very clean, well-lit, and well-run) warehouse in Vancouver, B.C.? You can help…if you would like a discount on my latest book, which was printed and is fulfilled from Canada! 🇨🇦
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@joesteel@duck.haus Whew. What a madness this all is. I hope people are being kind. I'm seeing even left-wing “well, they live in California" stuff (limited). But none of us is magically in the right place (cf., North Carolina).
We live near an active volcano, and there's no true plan for what happens if a regular event, overdue, were to occur.
@aleen@wandering.shop I forgot Threads existed for a few days! It doesn’t seem worth it?
@wassilywabbit@mastodon.social In a Doctor Strange sort of “predicting all outcomes” setup, it seems like the Sisko was the only path they found and only if he picked up what they laid down? Like, there was clearly a possibility of failure even with their non-linear time consciousness?
@shoq@mastodon.social It’s like Brexit in that it's a self-inflicted wound that will take potentially generations to recover from and leave us in an incredibly weak position globally. Only worse!
@jochenwolters@mastodon.social If I thought there were enough book buyers, I’d write a manual. It’s a very handy app. Transformed how I was building websites.
@evoterra@podvibes.co Views aren’t worth much at all. Most advertising is tracked objectives (purchases, clickthroughs, sign ups) as far as I understand the value.
@tewha@appdot.net @qurlyjoe@mstdn.social @sommer@macaw.social Command-Option-I, yes. It’s very very useful.
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@TeeeBear@techhub.social @Verso@mastodon.social I don't know, the 15-inch TV is pretty appropriate.
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@flargh@mastodon.social Also John Cusack has since become as weird as many of my classmates
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@flargh@mastodon.social Absolutely. No joke. Same year as my high school reunion and my wife’s.
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@onpaperwings@typo.social Very good to hear. I have filled out a survey. The UK could use a real typographic history museum. Maybe in Sheffield!
@ripple@mas.to You are very kind! I wish I remembered the act of writing that but I do remember revising it many times for clarity!
@joesteel@duck.haus I think you live far enough away from the fire areas to be safe?
@tewha@appdot.net @sommer@macaw.social I find it intermittently VERY handy.
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@PenguinToot I used Facebook and Threads for marketing. I had first deleted Facebook many years ago. I only set one up again to promote my comics-history book—there are some book comics-fan groups on Facebook that aren't replicated elsewhere. (Older folks don't use Discourse.)
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@onpaperwings@typo.social @mwichary@mastodon.online I love the term. This is something missing from many fonts: big punctuation marks that look outsized with lowercase. Some typefaces have those great lowercase parentheses!
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@typearture@typo.social @DanMorgan@vmst.io Similar answers to @DaPickle@mastodon.sdf.org & Arthur. I used to go to paper stores, study paper company samples (there were so many), and I was fortunate enough to work in a printing plant for two years, as well as going on press at printers. Also obsessive about reading colophons—sometimes I still write authors or designers asked about the paper they used and their feelings about it!