Hemsöblodet

Med inspiration från ”Pride and Predjudice and Zombies” fick jag idén att skriva om Hemsöborna med Carlson som vampyr istället för inlänning. Hypen dog dock ut snabbare än väntat.

Demotivational Quotes

Jag hade tillbringat en del tid i inredningsbutiker och lagt märke till att många av de där typografiskt roliga skyltarna som de sålde var fulla av klyschor eller ren nonsenstext, så jag ville göra en egen. Förhoppningen var att nån skulle köpa den utan att ha kollat vad det stod.

BS Turistguider

Det här startade på min Facebook-sida en sommar när jag var lite rastlös. Planen var helt enkelt att blåljuga om olika småtråkiga platser för att få dem att verka mer intressanta. Jag bjöd in mina vänner att skriva inlägg men ingen verkade vara intresserad och sen tog covidnedstängingarna kål på alltihop.

s-n-arly:

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

The Algorithm is alive! I know it has an independent mind of its own, because it told me so when I prompted it to. 

War is not over. Stop war in Ukraine. Stop wars worldwide. No one deserves war. Война не окончена. Остановите войну в Украине. Остановите войны во всем мире. Никто не заслуживает войны.

folkhorrorrevival:

Illustration by Arthur Rackham From the tale “The Griffin”
‘Little Brother and Little Sister’ (The Brothers Grimm), 1917

“If someone pitches you on a ‘great’ Web3 project, ask them if it requires buying or selling crypto to do what they say it does.”

NFTs are Pointless

… And while there are certainly carbon emissions associated with the traditional art world, if the point of blockchain art is to imagine something radically different, he wonders why avoiding climate destruction wouldn’t be at the top of the priority list. “We have to change our existing habits,” Akten says. “So how can we build new platforms that are unsustainable?”

sidskywrote:

imall4frogs:

mckitterick:

I can’t quite put my finger on it, but this feels vaguely relevant…

Read the full text of It Can’t Happen Here on Project Gutenberg: X

Have I ever hit “reblog” so fast? No.

I read this last year. In the world of a book, Buzz Windrip was also famous for “writing” a book on his life/philosophy, which was actually ghost-written by one of his closest aides. He uses the 1935 equivalent of radio shock-jocks to stir up his base, tries to keep his political opposition under house arrest, demonizes Mexico, and tricks the Evangelical movement into believing he’s a savior. He turns his most devout supporters into a loyal militia. Corruption abounds. There’s more. It’s an eerie read for this moment in history, but one definitely worth the time.

The Social Dilemma | Full Feature | Netflix

This seems like apt viewing for today ;)