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"Substack faced talent drain in 2024 linked to its platforming of Nazi newsletters, but now it’s not just the platform’s stance on hate speech that’s driving away creators."
"Music is at the heart of my novel, Temporary Palaces. The book is full of songs playing in cafés and late-night bus stations, on tape decks in kitchens and living-room turntables, broadcast on pirate radio or performed by punk bands in...
I've been complaining a lot about the multiplexes only showing things at 4pm, which is probably nice for seniors and students but is not great for those of us who can't ditch work terribly easily and maybe can't easily fit a mid-to-late...
Nils William Olsson has a paper called “What’s in a Swedish Surname?” (Swedish American Genealogist 1.1 [1981]) that is, as you might expect, about Swedish surnames. I’ll quote some bits that particularly interested me: It should be...
I came across this excellent quote around the midway point of tax season. It so perfectly encapsulated the challenges I felt I was facing at the time. In my experience, those who are armchair quarterbacks/coaches/accountants become...
Sound the clarion! It’s time to help SV-POW! once more! I’m working on a paper about mounted rearing skeletons of sauropods, and I want to include figures that show various examples. To be included in a CC By open-access paper, it’s...
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Brian: And today, once again, we’re talking about tools, but this time focus on tools for publishing and collaboration in writing, which is all a bit more complicated than what text editor do you use? So, to start at the simpler end of...
I swear it’s true. To prove it, here’s a photo I shot of a flower. That I took after my run today.
My watch wanted me to run for 38 minutes today at a pace of 8.6 km/hour. Instead, I ran my usual 5K in just over 29 minutes. What the watch apparently didn’t know is that it was much warmer this morning. I started out exactly where I...
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