The best reward for recycling stuff at Sant'Egidio.
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Skipped yesterday because it revealed a flaw in my logic, now corrected.
w/e 2022-05-15 (Phil Gyford’s website)
“should you ever find yourself in a similar situation, I would advise finding a different situation”
Useful advice, in any situation.
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This one involved some very lucky guesses, given that there were scores of words it could have been.
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https://stupidwordgame.com/ having fun in the wake of Wordle's recent attack of the Bowdlers.
Continuing my little excursions and using the IndieWebRing as my guide, I chanced up Chris DeLuca's CSS to Style a Novel https://www.chrisdeluca.me/article/base-css-to-style-a-novel/. I particularly liked the explanations for each of his chosen rules.
Very puzzled. My helper suggested only one possibility, and that wasn't it. Solved it without help, but ... whaddayaknow? The actual target word is not in the list. Salutary.
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This one required a bit of thought.
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We've got this, me and my helper.
Goat Glands and Testicle Tans: How Fascists Exploit Male Insecurities – Political Orphans
“White people are Schrodinger’s Race, simultaneously a beautiful, master race of supreme vitality and a weak, declining, impotent force, forever sinking beneath a dusky wave.”
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Long enough not to need dumb luck.
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Nothing to brag about.
“having the resources to fact-check comes from a position of privilege” Huh? I suppose if you want someone else to check your facts that might be true, but still, why is anyone listening to this person?
To my knowledge this is the first time I've been mentioned over at Mastodon, so it seems only right and proper to see whether the wonders of IndieWeb allow me to reply there. Good to see old online friends but not sure I can handle another channel.
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My word was a real word, but it wasn't THE real word. Which is ... frustrating.
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Back on form!
Huh? app.net is now a sign-in for Mastodon. Not going to happen, for me at least.
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I feel a longer word deserves more turns and backspaces. Again, there's no point telling me when I have used both backspaces on my second turn, to clear and try again, if you are going to fill in the answer for me. I did get it, but won't spoil it.
@DianaEGarvin Where are you seeing teeth? The notches in the centre of the blade on the right are for holding the blade securely in the handle. They do not touch the face. The bit that shaves you is the shiny sharp edge.
@SarahTaber_bww Good to know. I guess you will announce the details here when the time comes?
Today's IndieWebRing excursion took me to https://jamesvandyne.com/ and prompts the question, what really attracts people make of Disneyland? Maybe I'm too old, but even in my thirties, when I visited Florida's for work, I was underwhelmed by it all, especially EPCOT. It just seems so ersatz.
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I don’t get it. I was about to insert my guess, which involved a different letter in first position, but the field was already filled with a wrong answer.
Is it limited to three guesses? And why was the field filled in?
As I continue reading and sometimes re-posting things written on this day, I've decided to do one more thing at the end of a session: go to a random site in the IndieWeb WebRing. Today, I found something that resonates down the years: how to organise the content of a weblog.
Having moved my Dropbox folder to an external disk in an effort to reclaim space internally, I then discovered the value of an actual symlink, which means I don't have to rewrite anything. This is a good thing.
The fight for “post” rather than “blog” is lost in many quarters, but the fight for “blog” itself is lost when none other than John Naughton can calmly point to a Substack newsletter with “Heather Cox Richardson had a memorable post on her blog:"
https://memex.naughtons.org/thursday-14-april-2022/
@michmacklem Ever since I started editing audio digitally, I've longed for a `diff` that would play all the stuff -- call it noise if you must -- that I've cut out of piece.
The latest issue of Eat This Newsletter just went winging its way to all the subscribers, who will be seeing what I make of raw material from @bearistotle, @battlesuperbugs and @whetstoneradio, among others. You can read it too, at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-179-a-fresh-look-at-farming/
The joy of correcting a human-powered transcription. When the transcriber hears
“Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea trilogy” as
“the Gordon's Eyes Trilogy”
This is some of the most exciting news I have read in a long time. I hope Ben does find time to rebuild Known and would be willing to lend whatever support I can. “Another stable release” would be a wonderful start and would please lots of people.
Maybe: Not a great time for me, but I will try.
A very warm welcome to the [redacted] new podcast subscribers who joined via Google Podcasts this past month. https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZWF0dGhpc3BvZGNhc3QuY29tL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdC8
You know where to find me.
2022-03-15
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I find it strange, and deeply ironic, that a year on, an otherwise fine article still boasts an obviously doctored photograph of NI Vavilov. Seriously, who thought that was a good idea? See Nikolai Vavilov as he never was: A true scientist does not deserve a fake photo.