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I always take a photo of every El Camino I see. I don’t know why. I just do.

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A brief history of classroom overhead projectors — much more interesting than you’d expect. (Version History / The Verge)

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Overhead projectors were one leg of the multimedia trinity for 1970s classrooms. The other two legs were the filmstrip and the 16-mm film projector, the latter used to project educational...

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“You think my goal is to win — only? That’s not my goal. My goal is to govern well. We treat getting elected as if that’s some sort of achievement. That’s when the thing starts.” — Abdul El-Sayed

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After ten years of Trump insisting that reports of his cooperation with Russia were a hoax, here we are, watching one profoundly unpopular man tear apart the global system under which we have lived for eighty years in order to climb into bed with Vladimir Putin.

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— Heather Cox Richardson

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Meta shut down the “No Kings” Instagram account during Saturday’s protest. “No Kings” was using the account to coordinate the protests. Meta later reinstated the account and said it was an error.

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“Meta’s action against No Kings is the latest in a series of ’errors’ impacting the accounts of Trump critics.”

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An...

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About this photo

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🦍 Mitchellaneous #189: Memes and other found media

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@Dave:

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The only way for the others to compete with Twitter is to start innovating. Get rid of the limits. The funny thing is Twitter, the dominant leader, is moving forward and getting rid of character limits, and introducing styles and links. They’re acting like the little guy while the others, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, aren’t doing anything to be more useful. That whole market is stuck in 2006 and the myth that 140 chars somehow was magic. It wasn’t. It killed the web as a writer’s platform. If you want to compete with Twitter, drop your proprietary protocols, hook up to the web standards, and peer with your competitors.

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I. Hate. Character. Limits.

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🦍 Mitchellaneous #188: Memes and other found media

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🦍 Mitchellaneous #187: Memes and other found media: mitchwagner.com

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Data Centers Are War Targets Now (Matthew Gault / 404 Media) — American towns with planned data centers are taking notice of attacks like Ukraine’s bombing Russian facilities and finding additional reason to oppose construction.

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Looks like there’s a new Stargate series in the works. Maybe. Woo-hoo!

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I don’t suggest clicking the link to the article, btw. It’s a lot of twaddle and speculation

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Trump's Democracy-for-Diesel Deal Shames Us All: mitchwagner.com

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The White House put out a statement saying that it will protect people and companies that gave Trump $330 million in bribes and “relentlessly pursue those responsible” for “cowardly” leaking the bribers identities.

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Which is, of course, a lie. Trump shows no loyalty, even to his subordinates, and the White...

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She lasted 0.45 scaramucci.

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What was life really like in Renaissance Florence? A podcast interview with the always fascinating historian Ada Palmer and journalist Adam Davidson. YouTube link. I listen to the audio podcast like a civilized person. Search “Beforecast” in your podcast app.

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JWZ writes a an introductory playlist of classic Hammer horror movies:

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You’ve seen the t-shirts even if you haven’t seen the movies. At the time these were considered low budget trash, just a hair shy of pornography, BUT / AND they are fantastic! They have a look that is so consistent and when someone in this modern world references it, you are immediately “guy pointing at TV meme”, it’s such a thing. There’s something so distinctive about their lighting and color. When you see that particular too-bright red blood on the lips of a bouffonted showgirl in a negligee, you know what you’re in for.⁠⁠

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I’m...

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🦍 Mitchellaneous #186: Memes and other found media: mitchwagner.com

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Is the world getting uglier? My childhood friend Debbie Millman talks with Ezra Klein.

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🦍 Mitchellaneous #185: Memes and other found media: mitchwagner.com

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BONK: mitchwagner.com

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ICE is planning a $100 million domestic spy program. The US is pumping up our unaccountable masked secret police force loyal to Donald Trump personally. This is fine.

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@mitchwagner.com Temperatures in the low-mid 50s for our walk this morning. I had to wear a sweatshirt for the first time since spring. Pretty soon I’ll add a hat, puffy jacket and gloves.

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@mitchwagner.com Still, we’ll all be glad when the cone is off — though Minnie enjoys the extra skritches she gets in the 10 minutes after she’s done eating but before it’s time to give her the second drop.

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@mitchwagner.com I’ll be walking along with her behind me in the house and I’ll hear a BONK as the cone hits something and Minnie just keeps moving.

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@mitchwagner.com Minnie seems to have 100% adjusted to the cone. When it started the cone seemed to depress her but a work friend said that after a day or two she’ll just adjust and smash into things. It took more like a week or two but that seems to be what’s happening.

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@mitchwagner.com We’re due to go to the vet tomorrow. I’m ready for another week of cone and eyedrops but hopeful that the vet says it’s all good and we can go back to coneless and no drops.

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About these photos.

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Why Things Become Popular, With Chuck Klosterman: mitchwagner.com

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@estherschindler.bsky.social How do you feel about vamoosing?

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@mitchwagner.com I think I will read her book next. It’s “Will and Attention.”

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@mitchwagner.com I am very familiar with having a constant, self-critical voice in my head and I can absolutely understand the temptation to do a thing that shuts that voice down, even if doing that thing burns your life down in the process.

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@mitchwagner.com I am not an alcoholic or an addict (other than caffeine, which I don’t think counts for this type of discussion). I was a heavy smoker and compulsive eater at one time.

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@mitchwagner.com O’Gieblyn talks about surrendering to addiction as ecstatic experience.

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@mitchwagner.com “There’s this ideal state of wholeness that I think is the motivation for so many religious disciplines or spiritual disciplines. This idea that, oh, if I can finally let go of my ego, I’ll finally be at peace with myself, and I won’t be arguing with myself.”

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@mitchwagner.com “How do you make peace with the part of yourself that wants something that could destroy you?”

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@mitchwagner.com I remember loving “Hijacked,” with Idris Elba, and “Slow Horses,” but I have not been motivated to catch up on the new seasons. I have seen speculation that this may be an issue for many people and a problem for the streaming industry.

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@mitchwagner.com There is also the problem of just losing interest between books. That’s even more of a problem for TV shows — I sometimes lose interest between seasons, even if it’s a show I loved.

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@mitchwagner.com There’s a straight line from Amber to Game of Thrones, and I think George RR Martin freely acknowledges it. Martin certainly has explicitly said that Zelazny was one of his most powerful influences.

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Forgetting what happened between one book and the next in a series is a real problem for me.

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@mitchwagner.com The second series plays the mythos for laughs and gimmicks, which is what disappointed me at first but on subsequent rereadings I went with it and enjoyed it.

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Zelazny basically invented the genre of “high fantasy but the characters talk like they’re in noir detective novels.”

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@mitchwagner.com I was disappointed by the second series but I have since re-read the whole thing once or twice and enjoyed it. The first series is a serious exploration of power, family, treating people like objects and Zelazny’s invented mythos.

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@mitchwagner.com But the journey can be enjoyable, so just go with it.

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I loved the Stephen King Gunslinger books. You may be right about the second volume and follow-up volumes going nowhere. I enjoyed the ride anyway.

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I loved the first “Amber” series by Roger Zelazny.

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@mitchwagner.com After reading Riverworld I made the rule that when a science fiction series is about the characters trying to find the answer to a Great Cosmic Mystery, the answer is usually “aliens with godlike powers” and the answer is usually disappointing.

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@mitchwagner.com I recall one story about Daniel Boone who learns that there was a TV show based on his life and who is trying to find someone who remembers the theme song. Everybody from the 20th Century that he encounters only remembers the other theme song, Davy Crockett.

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@mitchwagner.com There was a single volume of a shared-world anthology with multiple authors based on Riverworld and that was fun; I wish they had continued it.

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@mitchwagner.com I get that there is a powerful basis in mythology for that — Zeus in Greek mythology is a rapey frat-bro — but it didn’t work for me.

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@mitchwagner.com I loved the first three of Farmer’s Riverworld novels, and enjoyed the remaining novels less and less. The ancient race that created the Riverworld is revealed, and they turn out to be a bunch of jerks with the emotional development of toddlers.

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@mitchwagner.com There was one I did not read, about a psychologist or psychiatrist (whatever) in present-day America treating a patient who believes the World of Tiers is real. That seemed intriguing but I never got around to it.

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