The Le Guin novel mentioned is The Dispossessed? You mention teaching it recently, and I read it late last year - feels like I did the reading but missed out on your lecture, lol!

My first hand-me-down, in college, ran DOS.

Ironically, Mom and stepdad were programmers & didn't want a computer at home - work-life-balance. So, even though I first learned to code on a TRS-80 (at school, 7th grade), it would be over a decade until I got to spend quality time with a computer.

Thank you! I'm happy and relieved the speech was so well received!

First thing I thought of when I heard about the shooting.

And the HarperCollins AI deal, even though it was opt-in, was still widely criticized.

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I would think so, but the proposal talks about developing an interface to ingest 60k books. This sounds like a large bulk operation of blacklist titles rather than the accumulation of titles over time. And they say they have the publisher lined up and at least have signed an NDA.

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Please explain how this benefits authors. Reading through the proposal, it strikes me as an unnamed big-five publisher overstepping their license to create new products that will shut out creators from new revenue streams (i.e., resales with smart contracts can generate revenue in perpetuity).

I was a great participant in class. But I didn't do any homework. What was the point if I could ace the tests?

I have a friend who edits, usually higher ed related content. If you need another user to contribute.

I've had the Filipino variety of salted duck eggs (shells are dyed red). I'd try that flavor of popcorn, but the "artificial flavor" gives me pause, lol!

Reminding me of the cars from the Chevron commercial's and Disneyland's Autopia.
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Thanks, this feeds into the topic I want to explore in the next chapter of my thesis!

Jealous!

I remembered around 11:00 p.m. last night, and I started contemplating spoofing of foreign IP or something.