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A quotation from Jean Kerr

MARY: I don’t grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can’t pick out the verbs.

Jean Kerr (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
Mary, Mary, Act 3 (1961)

More about this quote: wist.info/kerr-jean/85266/

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Groggy morning thought: A paid service that provides a rigorously maintained list of IP ranges and domain names controlled by hypercorps. Like uBlock Origin's filters but specific to hypercorps and oriented toward routers and firewalls instead of browsers.
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https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/tree/master/filters

Groggy morning thought: It's impossible to imagine how much cool and useful work we could do if our survival and social standing didn't depend on attribution and payment.
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Groggy morning thought: On our current course, by 2100 the people who are kids today will be the old people in a world with very few kids. Then, they'll die and leave behind a small generation of late to middle aged people who basically never had a chance to have a large influence in government, culture, or wealth. Everyone will be like Gen X.
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Groggy morning thought: Release with great fanfare a snazzy new messaging protocol and gorgeous but slow client. The twist: it's IRC.
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Groggy morning thought: A streaming service but the entire catalog is "the making of" videos about how films are created.
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Groggy morning thoughts: When I see headlines about two world leaders meeting to "soothe tensions" I feel like we're doing this just all wrong. Risk on a cislunar scale is significantly reduced because two people had a conversation?! The scale of effort compared to the results are ridiculously mismatched.
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Groggy morning thought: A morning routine face cream that puffs up your features into a different shape every day to fool facial recognition software.
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Groggy morning thought: I find the Kardashev scale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale) useless for categorizing civilizations along dimensions I care about so I was daydreaming about a sort of merit badge sash for species. Various sorts of processes and techniques like fire suppression and magnetic plasma containment would be on there as well as badges for emotional communication and various forms of justice and safety.
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