georgehtakei (/via threads)
We all learn eventually!

@Meantomyself
My 8 year old already knows what it's like to be an adult because he was playing with his Rubik's Cube and said, "I've gotten to the part where I don't know what I am doing"

from a neighboring social today:
Misandrosaurus Bex @bexone.bsky.social

Every time I see the "arc of history" thing I turn into the goose meme yelling "WHAT MAKES IT BEND" because like

It's not gonna do it BY ITSELF

Jul 19, 2024 at 9:57 AM

A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus crashed yesterday losing its entire load. Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed, confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed, speechless, and perplexed.

- unknown source (posted on FB)

was there a new media rule to take the "new" out of "news"? -- even with several different sources there is repetition day after day. i might be wrong(TM).

information and library science query: is there an open-access equivalent to <worldcat.org>? i am looking for a way to get machine-readable citations for books and articles

@Bliss bsky bridge report (final?): it works; there is a bot in the middle to ferry posts back and forth; network effects rule (my numbers of followers / following are small ....).

today's socials gem: https://mastodon.online/@globalmuseum/112441397612608445

There is a kind of insubstantiality to clouds, and a softness, a yielding…. In a way, everything is a cloud.
- Rick Hanson -
(note: no citation deets for this quote ... yet)

@[email protected] do you read me? (oh, too much shade?), no just complicated potatoes

from a neighboring social:
Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social

Yes, that’ll be nice—to sit out of doors & drink, in some French town, away from all this.

—Virginia Woolf, diary, April 27, 1937

over-thinking posting yesterday's post on imposter-syndrome seems just on point; maybe that is the point. mood: today will be fun ....

yesterday's cloudspotting -

https://bsky.app/profile/jwgoerlich.bsky.social/post/3knogawk33c2h

a taxonomy of mood music: https://social.horrorhub.club/@stina_marie/112093765057763300

*mood*

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today's sad tech mood:
"... as [surveillance capitalism moves] into the real world, seizing fresh unexpected chunks of human experience."
"... All that is moist and alive must hand over its facts. There can be no shadow, no darkness. The unknown is intolerable. The solitary is forbidden."
from, Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 2019, OA link: <https://archive.org/details/shoshanazubofftheageofsurveillancecapitalism/page/n1/mode/2up>, p 230