Well now I want to see the spreadsheet too!

I want to love Murakami novels but the views on sex that bleed into his longer novels are very uncomfortable sometimes (looking at you 1Q84). Anyway also https://archive.is/8sNHt

https://mutts.com/products/strip-101100?variant=41126280331421

You might be interested in the documentary “It’s Quieter in the Twilight” about the engineers who keep the Voyagers alive.

Google launched “Google Wallet” in 2011. Killed it in 2015 for “Android Pay”. Android Pay was killed for Google Pay. Then Google Pay was deprecated for the version of Google Wallet that you currently use.

What is that music app?

This was my favorite quote from the article.

But neither of those books was actually checked out from the Hayden Library on his trip. One of the books was checked out from another library, and another was stolen off the shelves. Norris refused to return the books at first, and Alexa Eccles, the executive director of the Community Library Network, told me in a phone call that, when Norris eventually returned them, the barcodes had been cut out of the book covers, and the library has not been able to return them to circulation or get new copies.

Beeper Mini registered your phone number with Apple and connected directly to the iMessage servers. That version was killed after three days of usage. The mac mini farm still works but that’s just through an apple ID email address.

iOS 17 uses a small gpt-2 based model for predictive text.

Did you read the article further than the title? It’s just a bunch of quotes from people going through the new process. The title is egregious but the content is helpful in understanding why teachers/school admin are frustrated.

It’s an option in all states to receive books that some legislators have declared illegal in their states.

EDIT: I think there’s a misunderstanding between us here. The only issue I’m picking here is that no matter if they made the right choice or not, they did cave/give into the hardliners. Will this choice help book fairs continue and scholastic to make money, definitely. Did they cave though, also I think so.

This situation is just so sad.

https://www.slj.com/story/Outraged-at-Scholastics-Option-to-Opt-in-or-Out-of-Receiving-Diverse-Books-Librarians-Seek-Book-Fair-Alternatives

They could have at least made this “controversial” collection of books opt-out instead of opt-in.

Yes. It’s opt-in to receive the books tagged as controversial by them.

The layoffs are related to the sale of Bandcamp to Songtradr.

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/bandcamps-layoffs-songtradr-1235758123/

If the choices are to continue to sell these books at book fairs and to not sell them and they are now allowing schools to not sell them, it seems like they caved, correct?