I imagine a programmer unaware of anything that’s going on writing the code for the latest, greatest /r/place feature, getting so wrapped up on the project that they don’t realize it’s not April anymore, smiling proudly and announcing loudly when they deliver their pride and joy. Only to see it be transformed into a big penis that shoots out the letters API.
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez is wonderfully read by Joel de la Fuente and it’s a really special book.
In short fiction I recommend Sam J Miller’s “The Heat Of Us: Notes Toward An Oral History” which is about the Stonewall Riots but adds a fantasy twist. I don’t think the twist is necessary, but Miller’s description of the events is so lucid and engrossing that it’s a substantive tribute.
It reminds me of that Onion piece on a Kindle that loudly shouts what book you’re reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDBzQkWeQ5g
Kinda sucks that whenever major news outlets cover a social media company, they only interview the people who own the company and nobody else involved. Like here, maybe it would’ve made sense to interview a mod or someone. The way major news outlets frame it, social media outlets are theme parks and the only people who work to make it function are the owners. Most users see them more as pseduo-government leaders, and when you think about it like that it makes a lot of sense to interview the people on the ground like they do in non-tech related news pieces.
Here is the proposed text: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/04/21/2023-08239/changes-under-consideration-to-discretionary-institution-practices-petition-word-count-limits-and
The news piece linked is too vague in its explanation on what precisely is in this text that will help patent trolls. I also can’t figure out what it is from my skimming. Perhaps someone with a better legal reading can elucidate.
“Homestuck Made This World” is a critical analysis of the webcomic Homestuck that morphs into a discussion about how the culture of the Internet changed immensely from 2008 to 2015.
“Lavar Burton Reads” is as it says, a podcast about an actor reading science fiction pieces.