Doctor Memory
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Just another bozo on this bus: please deflate your shoes before entering. The artist formerly known as dr_memory@twit (and same on livejournal, remember them?) and currently also known as @[email protected] on mastodon.
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Doctor Memory
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Death to the newsletter-industrial complex.
Stop paying people to feed your own opinions back to you with more adjectives.
Stop paying people to feed your own opinions back to you with more adjectives.
You will be visited by three spirits.
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
You will be visited by three spirits.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Donald Trump sent more money to bail out Argentina than it would have cost to extend the ACA tax credits for just 1 year.
I don't plan to let anyone forget it.
I don't plan to let anyone forget it.
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Donald Trump sent more money to bail out Argentina than it would have cost to extend the ACA tax credits for just 1 year.
I don't plan to let anyone forget it.
I don't plan to let anyone forget it.
This. This this so much this. The next train on the Paris metro is never more than 3 minutes away and it is _life changing_. Oh, I have to make two transfers? Don't. Fucking. Care.
The MTA optimizes for the exact wrong thing.
The MTA optimizes for the exact wrong thing.
Spending a week and a half in Paris and Madrid really drives home the point that the (American-ish) concept of a "one-seat ride" is overrated, and frequent headways at nearly all hours of the day is the true gold standard.
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This. This this so much this. The next train on the Paris metro is never more than 3 minutes away and it is _life changing_. Oh, I have to make two transfers? Don't. Fucking. Care.
The MTA optimizes for the exact wrong thing.
The MTA optimizes for the exact wrong thing.
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Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.
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THIS JUST IN
2026 special tours to Cusco Peru are now available for registration at abbysyarns.com/webshop/product-category/fu/travel
These are truly unique and can’t miss opportunities you absolutely can’t get with anyone else
Questions? Email [email protected]
2026 special tours to Cusco Peru are now available for registration at abbysyarns.com/webshop/product-category/fu/travel
These are truly unique and can’t miss opportunities you absolutely can’t get with anyone else
Questions? Email [email protected]
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
THIS JUST IN
2026 special tours to Cusco Peru are now available for registration at abbysyarns.com/webshop/product-category/fu/travel
These are truly unique and can’t miss opportunities you absolutely can’t get with anyone else
Questions? Email [email protected]
2026 special tours to Cusco Peru are now available for registration at abbysyarns.com/webshop/product-category/fu/travel
These are truly unique and can’t miss opportunities you absolutely can’t get with anyone else
Questions? Email [email protected]
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"But they were all of them deceived, for another Loko was made..."
they're adding a fifth loko
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
"But they were all of them deceived, for another Loko was made..."
Reading Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket followed immediately by @qntm.org‘s There Is No Antimemetics Division is a hilarious experience because I’m now not 100% sure which book contained the God Of Forgetting How to Bicycle as a character and I think it could work either way.
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Reading Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket followed immediately by @qntm.org‘s There Is No Antimemetics Division is a hilarious experience because I’m now not 100% sure which book contained the God Of Forgetting How to Bicycle as a character and I think it could work either way.
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Instead of retiring, 3-5 GOP Congresspeople could stop this Administration cold. The culture in Congress that sees itself as the President’s handmaiden as opposed to the Article I branch has rotted every inch of it. Not just cowardice, a learned helplessness.
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Instead of retiring, 3-5 GOP Congresspeople could stop this Administration cold. The culture in Congress that sees itself as the President’s handmaiden as opposed to the Article I branch has rotted every inch of it. Not just cowardice, a learned helplessness.
Huh. Apparently winning is good.
Learning that Annemarie Gray (no relation) of Open New York, NYC's YIMBY group, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Mamdani's housing transition team. This is FANTASTIC news!
November 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Huh. Apparently winning is good.
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this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
www.thebignewsletter.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
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this paper goes out of its way to dump innuendo implying that COVID causes immunodeficiency comprable **TO HIV** yet nowhere does it mention that the t-cell depletion [and rebound] is comprable between covid and the flu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?
Immune dysfunction and systemic effects in HIV and SARS-CoV-2 infections are distinct, but share relevant similarities and downstream consequences. We…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
this paper goes out of its way to dump innuendo implying that COVID causes immunodeficiency comprable **TO HIV** yet nowhere does it mention that the t-cell depletion [and rebound] is comprable between covid and the flu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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FFS 😡
FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS
Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!
Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS
Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!
Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
FFS 😡
FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS
Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!
Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS
Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!
Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
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I heard there was a Cohen song,
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I heard there was a Cohen song,
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
YouTube video by Rocksteady Freddie
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Amazingly, not yet seen:
I’m sorry, Charlie Brown. I’m afraid I can’t do that
I’m sorry, Charlie Brown. I’m afraid I can’t do that
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Amazingly, not yet seen:
I’m sorry, Charlie Brown. I’m afraid I can’t do that
I’m sorry, Charlie Brown. I’m afraid I can’t do that
THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT, CHARLIE BROWN.
They're made of meat, Charlie Brown
Where Is Your God Now, Charlie Brown?
November 24, 2025 at 3:35 AM
THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT, CHARLIE BROWN.
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Don’t be so proud of this technological terror you’ve created, Charlie Brown.
They're made of meat, Charlie Brown
Where Is Your God Now, Charlie Brown?
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Don’t be so proud of this technological terror you’ve created, Charlie Brown.
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I'm back, because you need to see this. A tiger cub with a binky.
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I'm back, because you need to see this. A tiger cub with a binky.
Liz makes a reasonable request. We have all of us been falling down on the job. Hop to it, kids.
November 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Liz makes a reasonable request. We have all of us been falling down on the job. Hop to it, kids.
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One of the less remarked upon features of historic preservation law is that it creates a perverse incentive for the owners of distinctive older buildings to radically renovate them before they are landmarked or, once landmarked, to burn them down to avoid extremely onerous regulation.
Developer may face hefty fines for tearing apart S.F. quake shacks and must restore them, city says
A developer who all but demolished two historic earthquake shacks in Noe Valley must reconstruct the buildings under close supervision from the city and could face hefty fines, officials said.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
One of the less remarked upon features of historic preservation law is that it creates a perverse incentive for the owners of distinctive older buildings to radically renovate them before they are landmarked or, once landmarked, to burn them down to avoid extremely onerous regulation.
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This would be appalling in any context and for any victim, but the fact that they're invading a commercial kitchen to drag someone off who came here to work their ass over a hot stove to make native-born restaurant-goers a little more comfortable and well off really shows how negative sum this is
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This would be appalling in any context and for any victim, but the fact that they're invading a commercial kitchen to drag someone off who came here to work their ass over a hot stove to make native-born restaurant-goers a little more comfortable and well off really shows how negative sum this is
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what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland
A movie that’s set in your hometown. A celebrity you share a birthday with.
…a politician who shares your mom’s maiden name? Gimme a minute, gotta workshop this.
…a politician who shares your mom’s maiden name? Gimme a minute, gotta workshop this.
November 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A movie that’s set in your hometown. A celebrity you share a birthday with.
…a politician who shares your mom’s maiden name? Gimme a minute, gotta workshop this.
…a politician who shares your mom’s maiden name? Gimme a minute, gotta workshop this.