Links to download the app are halfway down the article

Good news :)

I use free software. Is this for me or for the people who make free software and receive donations from people like me?

Yeah, it’s common talking about babies birth weight but that’s about it.

Yes. Calculating how much a car journey is going to cost is such a chore. Trip in miles ÷ mpg × 4.5 × £/litre of fuel = cost.

If a business makes it too difficult to use them I just use someone else. I’m sure they understand that but are making a killing at the expense of other people.

I agree. Its the same with literature as well. One thing I enjoy about older media is not feeling so drawn to reflect on any social commentary of my own time. To me it makes it more immersive and more about the timeless aspects of the story.

I havent finished reading it yet but I really like the setting in A Psalm For The Wild Built by Becky Chambers. It’s a wholesome and positive vision of a world that saw the error of its ways and decided to make amends and do things right, technologically, environmentally and socially. It gives me a sense of hope and pride in humanity which is an unusual thing to get from a setting rather than characters and story.

Also Solaris by Stanislaw Lem for blurring (or even erasing) the distinction between place and person and evoking a powerful sense of wonder and total ‘alienness’. It was the last story I read that I was completely captivated by. Horrifying, beautiful and compelling.

It’s probably because although there is some overlap they also have important distinctions. Content doesn’t have agency in the same way that software does. Perhaps you could think of it as content saying things to you and software as doing things with you. Repeating what someone is saying to you is considered (rightly or wrongly) to have lower stakes than knowing what someone is doing to you. It’s the same idea behind the “sticks and stones” saying.

Can’t say I’ve noticed a problem tbh.

Yeah, probably more than I laugh about anything else tbh!

OK. Did I imagine it?

“Come on Elon, you’re going to get us all assassinated.”

Arts and Humanities research.

Wishing you well and that you find a partner to build a future with 👍

Wetherspoons ‘Beyond’ veggie burger used to be the absolute shiznit. They stopped being cheap though, so there’s no real reason to go there any more.

I add my voice to this request. Cough up the names.

Good article

What do you recommend?

I have no idea who would do something like that…