@miljko I reread it in 2021 or 2022. So this was before chatGPT went mainstream. I had not considered the novel in that light. It really was amazingly prescient labout the feedback loop between online influencers and real life. 

@miljko What did you think? I loved it when I was a kid. Rereading it as an adult, I thought the first half? two-thirds? were great but then it fell apart. Obviously timely due to the talk over recent years about the metaverse. And I was a one-time Second Life enthusiast and saw the parallel — give people the option to be anything they can imagine in a virtual world, and most people will just choose to be rich and beautiful conventional people.

@manton I’m very interested to see your version of RSS. I am a longtime Inoreader user and have a love-hate relationship with it — my annual sub comes up in about six weeks and I am, for the millionth time, considering alternatives. Your app will be high up on my list!

@maique I’m a back-out. I can’t remember ever trying to back in.

@sjvn I am terrible at parallel parking, which is a shame because when we lived in San Francisco, I was an absolute wizard at it. I could parallel park on a steep hill into a space barely longer than the car. 

@eurobubba my favorite military officer! 

@ugarles.bsky.social Yes to this. And a big reason why I don’t want Harris running for President again (or California governor) is she has a track record of losing elections. She may be a wonderful person and 100% right on policy, but if she can’t win elections, she has no business running.

@parkermolloy.com Obama showed that overcoming prejudice can be done. I know people who voted for Trump and Obama.

@bradenslen I’m hearing good things about Yahoo News from a number of people.

@mroutley I don’t know if I can do without the hysteria.