Emacsen @emacsen@emacsen.net

Friend: My favorite Star Trek villain is Gul Dukat.

Me: Mine is Steve Shives.

Dear Audiobook Publishers,

Some of your readers may enjoy listening to the book at 10-15% faster than originally recorded. For those listeners, modern tools let you speed up playback.

Don't artificially speed up recording on publishing. Let the listener choose.

I lost 3 hours of work I did editing @librelounge yesterday...

Really looking forward to releasing this episode but it's going to be delayed a few days while I carve out time to work on it again.

Just woke up from a dream where I was David Sedaris working on a John Waters revival film.

Does that count as a gay dream?

WIthin a few hours of posting this, I lost a handful of Fediverse followers.

I'd rather people stop following me than send me mean messages, so I guess it's okay!

*reads his Fediverse feed*

*begins editing the next Libre Lounge episode*

*Realizes he may need an asbestos suit because even as a lefty progressive, he believes that money is not a bad thing per se*

My suggestion would be to explicitly set up a different name/project/trademark that could be used for unofficial modifications and to release work under that project into the commons.

But I'd love to hear what other people have to say.

This post about Rust and Mozilla bring up a very important question:

https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:main:rusts_freedom_flaws

Trademark is designed to protect identity. It's so I can't claim to be you and harm your reputation. How does that intersect with my freedom to distribute modified versions of works?

I think the Mozilla trademark is a reasonable action on their part but it does restrict freedom 3. What could they do instead?

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Would anyone be interested in getting together for an Empty Epsilon game online?

Or if there's a ton of interest, maybe Netrek?

What a very shitty day.

Read this comment on Twitter. Could not agree more.

Too long to link here but very worth reading.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPiBZCYL7fQ&lc=Ugy7JRwkGwEtM45JpPd4AaABAg

In this amazing video, Nirvana makes a mockery of the BBC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzRAZ1uS-Ao

My goodness, I've seen so many articles on corporate media, CNBC, the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN about how Bernie will destroy the market.

Today I saw one from CNBC saying that even an Iowa win will cause severe market disruption.

They'll do anything they can to go after this guy.

Thank goodness we have a candidate who really scares the powers that be for real.

Crispin is so weird and he looks like an alien. I love him so much.

This is probably the most important podcast I've listened to all year.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-cancel-this

It's on the topic of the way that cultural purity has created a system that is unsustainable and a barrier to the very causes that many of us support.

We can keep our values without excluding and shaming others simply by association.

Please listen and share this podcast!

Watching the last few episodes of Bojack... can't finish the last one. The last one really affected me.

I wonder a lot of the time if I'm doing anything of value- if my existence brings any benefit to the world. A lot of what I do is chasing that feeling away with work. Maybe if I help enough people, I can make that feeling go away... Maybe if I make the world better with Free Software, I can make that feeling go away.

I wonder if one day, if it'll actually work.

As a regular Yerba Mate drinker, I'm wondering if people would find my explanation on how I brew and drink it interesting?

Useful as a blog post? As a topic on @librelounge ?

Don't watch Picard.

It's not Star Trek. It's a lame action show. The characters are *loosely based* on TNG but genuinely don't share attributes with the original characters. But more importantly, the world isn't Trek.

The idea of Star Trek is that it's a utopia. In Picard, this is thrown on its head and it's set in a dystopia. While this is "interesting", it's not Star Trek. It's something else- maybe interesting but not Trek.

FIrst they omitted Sanders in the polls.

Then they said his 4 point lead was a "statistical dead heat".

Now they're saying that even if he wins, the Democrats shouldn't nominate him because "He won't get anything done"

What the corporate media won't do to keep this guy out of office is amazing.