You might want to consider The Crying of Lot 49 as a throwback to when Pynchon wrote at shorter length (and it’s quite fun in any case)

Right now you can run fairly powerful open source LLMs on late-model Mac laptops and get competent prose out of them. So cost will not be a barrier.

Yep, checked the Subvert alpha site out last night now that I have access as a supporter member. Looking good.

Yes, it's working for me now too, and I was able to complete the survey. Yay!

“Pretty sure Rice-a-Roni is still the San Francisco treat, too.”

It is! I cooked some just recently for a casserole recipe, and it’s right on the box.

In fact, since people are apparently getting Yubikey errors even if they don't have a Yubikey, X may have screwed up login for everyone using a so-called passkey to login, including software-based passkeys supported in Chrome, Windows, macOS, etc. What a royal cock-up. 2/2

No, it’s just to verify that the person trying to login has possession of the key. It doesn’t check your fingerprint; anyone could touch the key.

This reminds me of the claim/report that Crunchyroll executives didn’t want to hire people that were anime fans.

To rescue at least some of my 18th century English literature cred, I should add that I *have* read both Richardson’s Pamela and Fielding’s Shamela.

If he were reincarnated today Samuel Richardson would be the terror of AO3.