Imagine being too lazy to actually check out affiliate links and discover a product is not being sold anymore by Best Buy and that the price has risen 20+ percent and that you are touting a flipping crippled Android cell phone

It’s quite the book. ;)

Go Midori-compatible and build your own. I did and very pleased with the results.

Which is why I have some very mixed feelings about it. On the one hand I don’t see the usefulness of Claude learning about a Linux guide I wrote 27 years ago. On the other hand, I hate the deception of it all.

We’re being offered $3K per title to settle the Anthropic lawsuit. This for some very outdated technical texts.

I tested positive last week. My get-better routine involved walking my Cockapoo four times a day. So get a dog and start walking. Feeling great today.

St. Paul Pioneer Press owned by Alden and run separately from the 32 Chicago-area Pioneer Press papers controlled by the Tribune. STPP bought by Alden long before Alden bought Tribune Publishing.

Everyone’s golden age of alt-weeklies is when they hit 18 and saw glimpses of the wider world. Had the same reaction when I first read the Twin Cities Reader as a high schooler. ;)

Go back farther to the 1980s and the rise of the local music scene. It was essential reading. Cut my teeth with a few bylines there.

Amazon’s sales rank algorithm—not a pure sales listing—doesn’t work the way you think it does. It’s a combo of interest in the sales listing plus a percentage of sellthroughs (a stat available to sellers) plus units moved. You can’t externally fake it, but it’s more a measure of movement, not sales.

Social media interns likely prepared this blurb.

Sicced, not sicked

It was not but tends to be recognized regionally, not nationally. Never had a Minnesota or Wisconsin employer recognize it; my NYC employer did. Just because a day is a federal holiday does not mean an employer needs to recognize it.

Oh, sweetie, are you out of touch if you want to pitch furry novels to a middle grade audience. ;)