John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

Suddenly I'm a Pink fan: https://www.npr.org/2023/11/16/1213317663/pink-gives-away-2-000-banned-books-at-florida-concerts

"and at last I think if I remember correctly I could find no / argument against your seriousness, it matched / my distance from you too exactly"

from "Second Aubade", Jana Prikryl

#poetry

With regard to https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-supreme-court-fifth-amendment-protects-people-being-forced-enter-or-hand-over -- does it make any difference if you make your passcode a meaningful word or phrase and not just a series of numbers?

"I agree to the UPS Technology Agreement and confirm I've been given enough time to read it and understand that it contains important terms about my use of UPS Technologies, like limiting UPS's liability and my agreement on how disputes between UPS and me will be handled."

you're hanging your hat on "confirm I've been given enough time to read it"?

Headline should read: Microsoft rebrands its ^.*$ as "Copilot"

https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-rebrands-its-ai-powered-bing-chat-as-copilot-160027250.html

who was the first person to ever say "who's a good puppy?" and do you think they know what they did?

now bring Mayo out of retirement

Simply amazing:

https://www.theonion.com/sellout-poet-made-over-150-in-2023-alone-1851012377

#poetry

Yes I am a curmudgeon about it, but I am also genuinely curious when it became the default in so many MUAs to keep the original message's attachments in any reply. Who started that?

36 Chambers is 30 years old.

'Consider the sentence "The rabbit is ready to eat."'' (Ted Chiang)

Frequency with which something somewhat significant is wrong with your delivery food order:

Very curious why my coffee cup name this afternoon was "USA" (wearing some blue, but no red or white..)

a real congressperson from #NorthCarolina, unlike:

Sly Single
Foxy Fiver
Devious Dime
Cunning Quarter
Perfidious Penny
Tricky Tenner

Is it really already time again for Wiley Nickel ads