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C Stuart Hardwick

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · Dec 11

Space isn't just the final frontier, it’s a battleground. 🚀 Give the gift of imagination this holiday season with Tales of the United States Space Force, a science fiction and fact anthology that boldly explores what's being done about it, and what might be. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/...

Tales of the United States Space Force

Tales of the United States Space Force [Hardwick, C. Stuart] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Tales of the United States Space Force

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 6h

The world need Monty Python's Flying Circus -- today more than ever.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 2d

The Texas homicide rate is actually 65% higher than California's.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 5d

BTW, shout out to author Lenore Alecto for nagging me to finally try Obsidian. It's a nice and quite useful tool.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 5d

Obsidian has a setting "Convert Pasted HTML to Markdown." When ON, text from a browser becomes markdown with distortion & extra lines. When OFF, text from a browser still becomes markdown, but correctly. So...not sure what the setting should be called, but....something else.

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Tseikkis @tseikkis.bsky.social · 5d

For those who care, this is a pretty okay take on the topic

youtu.be/E-yaxqDsfgY

Why Everyone Suddenly Has Autism (It’s Not What You Think)

YouTube video by Be Smart

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 5d

It's October, which means the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award is accepting applications from now through February 1. Pro-tip: Leave yourself time for editing, critique, revision.

Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 6d

So many people have inspired me to be nothing like them.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 6d

Your neighbors who disagree about how to make the world better are not the problem. Those manipulating you to hate your neighbors are the problem.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 7d

Jane Goodall lived a long and fruitful life, contributing much to our science, and often overcoming barriers pointlessly, self-destructively place in her path by our own species' less evolved aspect. Goodbye, Dr. Jane.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 7d

No matter what you think of it, this is accurate:

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 8d

Apropos of nothing, here's a little wisdom from the culture of one of the U.S.'s strongest and closest allies, South Korea:

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 8d

There is absolutely nothing wrong with (an unambiguous) terminal preposition, but I felt like being petulant. Good on you for noticing, though. ;-)

C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 8d

Agreed. The Apollo program, in a way, was such a great accomplishment specifically because we had so little to gain from it. But OTOH, it advanced precision manufacturing and semiconductors by easily a decade.

C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 8d

Space exploration already saved us once (by discovering Ozone depletion) and it could save us again in at least two ways that come to mind. But yeah, terraforming Mars is WAY WAY WAY downfield.

C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 8d

Dame straight. Notifications are the narcissism of programmers unrestrained by grownups.

C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 8d

Social media companies and credit bureaus should be accountable for all crime and graft they enable. If they can't block it, pay the piper, and still exist, then we don't need them.

C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 8d

We’re going back to the Moon not to plant a flag, but to plant roots. History may remember this decade as that in which we stopped being a single-planet species.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 8d

I've never used an ad-blocker because I've no problem letting those whose services I enjoy make a living. But YouTube and FB clotting my feed with shorts engineered to waste time is an insult with which I could not put. These along with the ads, are now blocked by uBlock Origin.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 11d

I strongly suspect the causative agent--if any--is the fever the Tylenol was taken to treat. Meaning, Tylenol doesn't CAUSE, but rather mitigates NDDs. That would be consistent with everything known.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 11d

I haven't seen an eagle roosting over the bayou since May, but this morning I saw one in flight, and a great blue heron on roosting (which is unusual).

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 12d

1. A review of studies really did find a correlation between maternal Tylenol use and neurodevelopmental effects.
2. But the effects were poorly quantified.
3. And largely vanished when accounting for confounding factors.
4. And can be explained by maternal FEVER.
5. So stop freaking out.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 12d

Anyone who needs to reach me, professionally or socially, knows how. So anyone who texts me, asking if they've reached me by name--is phishing. Go away, little fishy. Go away.

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