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As a colleague just pointed out, there's now special joy in reviews of unreleased books that can't be written by #ai ...especially ones so creative and deliciously irreverent
"Famed biographer of intellectually muscular men Walter Isaacson’s dull, insight-free doorstop of a book casts a wide but porous net in search of an answer."
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🧵2/2: Why is the #US army itself subcontracting to private companies? Why are its own #satellites failing? Where were they when #Starlink's #geofencing policy of war zones was decided? Unless proven #ElonMusk deliberately sat on his convo with #Ukraine for days, which #Isaacson doesn't corroborate, I think he had a rare sane moment officially contracting satellites to the #US government so they make their own decision rather than keep on unofficially surrendering power https://www.channel4.com/news/elon-musk-biographer-says-billionaire-has-dark-demon-mode
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Sure, Musk interfered because he cares so much for humanity. 🙄
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Musk needs good psychiatrist & get off #ketamine!
“The way that Musk blustered into buying Twitter and renaming it #X was a harbinger of the way he now runs it: impulsively and irreverently. It is an addictive playground for him. It has many of the attributes of a school yard, including taunting and bullying. But in the case of #Twitter, the clever kids win followers; they don’t get pushed down the steps and beaten, like #Musk was as a kid…”
#isaacson @wsj #narcissist
https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-twitter-x-takeover-walter-isaacson-5f553fa -
The #Starlink #satellite internet service… has been a digital lifeline in #Ukraine …for #civilians & #soldiers in areas where digital #infrastructure has been wiped out.
…an excerpt from Isaacson’s upcoming biography “Elon Musk,” …said the billionaire ordered the #deactivation of #Starlink #satellite near #Crimea’s coast last Sept to thwart the Ukrainian attack. …that #Musk had conversations w/a *Russian* ofcl that led him to worry that an attack on #Crimea could spiral into a #nuclear conflict. -
@classicalmusic
#BélaBartók 1881 – 1945#ViolinConcerto No. 2 (1938)
#BB1171. Allegro non troppo
2. Andante tranquillo
3. Allegro moltoDedicated to #ZoltánSzékely
#NewYorkPhilharmonic #LeonardBernstein
#musik #music #musique #musica #Bartok #Bartók
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what a massively pathetic qunt
#SpaceNazi
#SpaceKaren
#BurningTeslaJunk
#XmarksTheNaziBullshit
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#ElonMusk #WalterIsaacson
"One way to keep Musk’s myth intact is simply not to check things out."The Verge:
How the Elon Musk biography exposes Walter Isaacson"Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk is a strangely incurious book. Its shallow reporting and bizarre skew left me with more questions than I had before I read it."
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-biography-musk-review -
Cleaning off my desktop... One more bit about #ElonMusk
A Book Review:
>>> Empathy Is Not an Asset https://slate.com/culture/2023/09/elon-musk-book-biography-walter-isaacson.html
> "Elon Musk doesn’t tell us much about Elon Musk, but it just might tell you plenty about your next boss."
Eh?
This tracks with the buzz I've seen, interviews with the authors, and comments about this almost breathless "excuse" for bad behavior, and elevation to near-sainthood of Lord #MuskVirus of #Muskville.
#biography #WalterIsaacson #Musk #Asperger vs A-hole?
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#WalterIsaacson’s insight-free doorstop makes at least one thing clear: the richest man in the world has a lot of growing up to do
"To his credit, Isaacson is a master at chapter breaks, pausing the narrative when one of Musk’s rockets explodes or he gets someone pregnant, and then rewarding the reader with a series of photographs that assuages the boredom until the next descent into his protagonist’s wild but oddly predictable life."
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CW: Long thread/9
Hey look at this
* The #UnitedAutoWorkers #Strike Has Begun https://jacobin.com/2023/09/united-auto-workers-strike-shawn-fain-big-three-automakers/
* Elon Musk by #WalterIsaacson review – arrested development https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/13/elon-musk-by-walter-isaacson-review-arrested-development (h/t @boingbot)
* The war in #Ukraine: four reductions we must avoid https://lifeonleft.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-war-in-ukraine-four-reductions-we.html (h/t Gord Doctorow)
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#ElonMusk by #WalterIsaacson review – arrested development
This book review is on fire. 😅
#TheGuardian 🎤 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/13/elon-musk-by-walter-isaacson-review-arrested-development?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Lord, this review of #ElonMusk by #WalterIsaacson is funny. #GaryShteyngart I bow down before you.
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“🛎️” “🛎️” “🛎️”
Harvard Professor (History) Jill Lepore nails it here…
“How #ElonMusk Went from Superhero to Supervillain” | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/elon-musk-walter-isaacson-book-review
– #Twitter has *NEVER* been a ‘public square’
– “X” is now a +17 yr old well of privately owned, harvested #PersonalData (every keystroke of every soul to ever touch Twitter platform) to serve as fuel for #Elmo+MBS/Hows-of-S’aud private #AI service offerings
$44B=🥜's
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Worlds richest man as sad, lonely, maniacal, frat boy...
"At Least the ‘Maniacal’ Fits”
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/09/11/musk-isaacson-servers#Privacy
#Elmo
#ElonMusk
#PhonyStark
#DigitalNero
#ASD
#MentalHealth
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𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘁𝘂𝘀-𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝗱𝘂𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝘁 𝗴𝗮𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝗺 𝗻𝗮𝗮𝗸𝘁𝘀𝗰è𝗻𝗲𝘀
In 'White Lotus' komen de nodige naaktscenes voorbij en ook in het nieuwste seizoen is het weer raak. Zowel Patrick Schwarzenegger (31) en Jason Isaacs (61) zijn volledig naakt in de serie te zien. De mannen krijgen hier de nodige vragen over en dat vindt Jason ronduit ongepast....
https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/entertainment/artikel/5499434/white-lotus-naaktscenes
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In horror films like DARK WATER & IT FOLLOWS, "Oozing Walls and Bloody Pools" are water infrastructures bound to women. Read Johanna Isaacson's Marxist-feminist take on the subject in the journal symplokē via #ProjectMuse. #horror
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The first half of The Death of Stalin stands up magnificently to a second viewing, along with the simply hilarious Jason Isaacs (#HelloToJasonIsaacs). It works best when funny, and wanders a little, but still highly recommended.
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Special guests today! The Book Lounge in Cape Town
We're particularly excited because GLASS TOWER (image 3) by Holland House author Sarah Isaacs (Island Prize winner) will be launching at the Book Lounge on October 11 - so if you happen to be in the area around then, pop in & meet Sarah, & of course, BUY HER BOOK!
https://booklounge.co.za/
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https://booklounge.co.za/event/glass-tower/#books #indiebookstores #bookstodon #bookstoresoftheworld #haveyoubeenhere #africanwriters #newtitles #booklaunch #capetown
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Twitter Removes ‘Government-Funded’ Labels From Media Accounts - NPR and public broadcasters in Canada, Australia and New Zealand had criticized the label... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/technology/twitter-media-labels.html #australianbroadcastingcorp #canadianbroadcastingcorp #computersandtheinternet #britishbroadcastingcorp #nationalpublicradio #publicbroadcasting #newsandnewsmedia #cbc/radio-canada #isaacsonwalter #greatbritain #socialmedia #newzealand #southkorea #australia
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Lord, this review of #ElonMusk by #WalterIsaacson is funny. #GaryShteyngart I bow down before you.
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Lord, this review of #ElonMusk by #WalterIsaacson is funny. #GaryShteyngart I bow down before you.
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Lord, this review of #ElonMusk by #WalterIsaacson is funny. #GaryShteyngart I bow down before you.
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My son has written up his experience as a bone marrow donor. #ProudParent
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Well, this is embarrassing…
Turns out that I messed up the audio channels on the last 2 videos I did… not happy about this, so I, unfortunately, will have to start back from scratch this time regarding the videos! The videos themselves I’m happy enough with, but without my commentary (which didn’t appear to be recorded, the series falls flat on its face! I won’t delete the videos, but they need to be sorted into the Xtras playlist because they aren’t what I’d want to start the restarted series with, as things were supposed to be improved in some form! this, therefore, means that Tuesday will have the first proper episode, but I’ll upload the video I recorded for Episode #1 and flag it (and #0) as “gameplay videos”, as opposed to actual let’s plays; keep in mind also that the game sound is pretty quiet too because the volume needed to be lower than my voice in order to facilitate my commentary!
Expect changes/uploads to be made on Monday, with the proper Episode #1 video dropping on Tuesday at 23:00 hours! On the plus side, I at least have everything set up for the new series to go live properly on Tuesday now! Also, I’m going to again reset my progress because there needs to be consistency with the series.
#gaming #IsaacStormLPSeries_ #IsaacStormRepentanceLPSubSeries_ #IsaacStormRepentanceReboundLPSubSeries_ #NewsUpdates #PlayedUpWithStormkeeper #TheBindingOfIsaacRepentanceGame_ #YouTube #TagsIsaacStormLPSeries_
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Okay, here’s the deal…
Evidently, the past few days have been a bit hectic and/or screwy for me, so I again missed a deadline for an IsaacStorm video! I’m going to try and work something out for tomorrow now, but I’m not willing to solidly commit to anything for the remainder of this week at least; I will gradually get back on track, but I’m having to get used to doing things again after over a year of being out of the loop! In any case, expect this week to be a bit ropey for published videos, although I’m hoping to have at least one episode out on Thursday or Saturday! In any case, watch out for the notifications on social media and/or other relevant platforms!
#gaming #NewsUpdates #PCGaming #PlayedUpWithStormkeeper #YouTube
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Some updates and future plans
Okay, so I’m going to be a bit erratic with uploading IsaacStorm videos this month, due to essentially trying to rearrange stuff to work more efficiently. I’m looking at maybe doing some unboxings of stuff I get in the post from around September, which is a couple of months away, I know, but I need time to get everything set up! Going back to the videos though, I’m going to pretty much aim for the nearest regular slot I’m able to aim for, rather than saying when or if a video will be uploaded because I don’t have as much energy as I’d like to record at present, so I’ll probably end up doing something a bit intermittent for this month, possibly next depending on how things go. This also means that I’m going to hold off on doing daily Isaac videos till at least February/March, whilst I work on a schedule incorporating a second game too, which I’ll need to work out how I’m going to go about doing it. I’m still thinking of doing Dungeon Hack, although it’s likely that I’ll have to do the game without music, and just suggest that you choose your own music to play with it, as I’m realising I’ll drive myself nuts if I end up trying to find the perfect music to go with the game, plus it means you have a choice of accompanying music from your end!
Anyway, expect that IsaacStorm videos will be going up, but do keep an eye on the usual outlets at around midnight on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday; if there isn’t anything up by that time, assume that this time it’s been a miss! I’m giving this heads-up now in order for me to save energy up for doing future videos and schedules, plus there are only so many times I can say the same thing. At least by setting the expectations of adhering to the normally scheduled time slots in some fashion means that you have a better idea of how things are going, as eventually, I’ll be back to normal posting, but right now, I just want to try to get my PC transfer/upgrades done, as well as bringing my server properly into the fold, along with my workstation, as this will help me streamline things down the line. additionally, I’ll be getting a connection upgrade sometime this month, so that may result in some downtime for a short period, but I will be getting a slightly faster upload speed; in addition to the upgrade from 15 Meg to 30 Meg, I’ll be getting an upgrade to 40m Meg due to a connection upgrade, as well as getting 5 additional IP addresses, which will allow me to do some interesting things down the line!
Anyway, I do hope to be getting back to my regular schedule eventually, but in the meantime, I’m going to try to aim for at least one video a week minimum, though I’m not sure if it should be on a specific day, or whatever day I can manage. I do also need to start being a little less strict with my requirements for videos too, because I can’t keep on doing the haphazard approach I have been doing in the past and discarding a lot of videos, seeing as I end up spending hours on something and having nothing to show for it! I am going to aim for a minimum of 35 minutes per video, and ignore the maximum time it takes for a run or series of runs as I feel like worrying about that probably has an effect on my performance somewhat too! I do have other things planned down the line, most notably with ‘Storm’s Lab’ and ‘Storm’s Workshop’, but nothing I can really reveal till I’ve sorted out enough space for things, especially as I’m not sure myself what’s going to happen with it, but I do hope to do some things with 3D printing, most notably setting up Octoprint with a mini 3D printer and setting a webcam on it to allow people to watch the print happening (in theory at least).
I do also want to start streaming me repairing/cleaning/refurbing/etc various bits of hardware too, but that might take a little while longer, as I need to work out a camera setup, as well as making sure I protect my table and can facilitate a decent streaming setup somehow as well. Anyway, I’m going to stop it here for now, as I need to go and think about what needs to be done to make things easier and more efficient for me moving forward. I do also want to pick up my copies of Savage and Railroad Tycoon II Gold Edition from storage as well, so I can put them in the Linux box. I do also have plans for my Pentium MMX project, now I can almost get a preliminary trial to build going with that, plus I want to also start sorting out storage for it and the retro laptops I have to work on eventually; I have the 4 enclosures I need now, so I can replace the HDDs with SSDs eventually, although I do want to research other upgrades such as RAM, the CPUs, and GPUs, as well as making sure I have everything I need to clean everything!
I do have many plans that are almost ready to go, but they need space to be worked on, let alone filmed, so that’s something else I’ll be working on too! In any case, I know that it’s probably a bit disappointing to have me not release any videos after almost 2 weeks, but at least you have something consistent to work from, plus I’m going to give once a week (not this week) posting a go. In the meantime though, I’ll try to keep you all updated on any major developments.
Until next time, take care and see you all later on.
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Can a mug be a muse?
We've been asking authors to share their favourite cup or mug that they have by them when creating - this time, Sarah Isaacs shares hers - which seems to also belong to her feline assistant....
'cats + coffee = sanity'
- Sarah Isaacs, author of Glass Tower#tea #coffee #creativewriting #writingmug #writinginspiration #mug
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It occurs to me I haven’t done a #myfavoritethings for awhile, so let me share with you the work of Ken Isaacs. I first discovered his “How To Build Your Own Living Structures” in my hippie-school library when I was 13, and it blew my mind (in the parlance of the times). It’s a book of DIY recipes for brilliant, idiosyncratic modular structures that saddle the gap between furniture & architecture; to this day I dream of building myself a Superchair. Get yr own copy here! http://letsremake.info/PDFs/k_isaacs.pdf
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𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘁𝘂𝘀-𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝗱𝘂𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝘁 𝗴𝗮𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝗺 𝗻𝗮𝗮𝗸𝘁𝘀𝗰è𝗻𝗲𝘀
In 'White Lotus' komen de nodige naaktscenes voorbij en ook in het nieuwste seizoen is het weer raak. Zowel Patrick Schwarzenegger (31) en Jason Isaacs (61) zijn volledig naakt in de serie te zien. De mannen krijgen hier de nodige vragen over en dat vindt Jason ronduit ongepast....
https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/entertainment/artikel/5499434/white-lotus-naaktscenes