How can one defeat an enemy when being aware of that enemy means you have already lost?
There Is No Antimemetics Division by Qntm
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How can one defeat an enemy when being aware of that enemy means you have already lost?
There Is No Antimemetics Division by Qntm
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gizmodo2_feed Jun. 18th, 2026 12:17 pm)Plus, Sandra Oh boards Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's "superhero tentpole" movie.
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gizmodo2_feed Jun. 18th, 2026 11:00 am)Kingston Rumi Southwick's character took a major turn in the finale, and the actor is excited to see what happens next on Apple TV's breakout hit.
- 1. The EHRC trans code explained (an excellent dissection of the mess the government has left us in)
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- 2. Edinburgh City Council considers £350k plan to tackle rogue landlords
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- 3. Scotland starts rolling out its healthcare app. (currently very limited, but has prescriptions and appointments)
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Title: Alone
Fandom: Due South
Rating: G
Length: 300
Author notes: Written for Challenge 518 – Real
Summary: Things are different now.
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gizmodo2_feed Jun. 18th, 2026 10:34 am)The Amazon founder complained to Trump over dinner that nobody there listened to him before slashing staff, according to excerpts from a forthcoming book.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds returns on July 23 for its penultimate season. Here's the official trailer.
2026/086: Glyph — Ali Smith
Whoever you thought you weren’t speaking to must’ve heard you after all. [loc. 607]
This is indeed connected to Gliff, but not in the way I think I expected. The roughly contemporary setting allows the characters -- Petra, her estranged younger sister Patricia ('Patch'), and Patricia's adopted daughter Billie -- to literally and figuratively protest the war in Gaza, and to tie society's lack of empathy to the Covid pandemic. ( Read more... )
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Anthropic Employees and Industry Experts Allege Trump’s Model Meddling is Targeted and Unreasonable
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gizmodo2_feed Jun. 18th, 2026 08:39 am)Following the federal government's recent ban of the AI company's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, many are calling the move a capricious and unwarranted act of government overreach.
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whumpex revealed this week and I loved my gift!Strategic Alliances (Babylon 5, Londo & G'Kar & Na'Toth, 2900 wds, post-canon)
One of my requests was for Londo and Na'Toth interacting, maybe teaming up if something happened to G'Kar, and this satisfied that craving very nicely.
I picked up a pinch hit for Whumpex as well as my assignment, so I have a couple of things in the collection.
I also wrote a pinch hit for Casefic (done, not revealed) and I have my Id Pro Quo assignment. There are a few different exchanges currently or soon to be in nominations, including Multifandom Tropefest and Just Married, but I really need to not sign up for anything new in the near future; I'm enjoying doing exchanges again, but I want July to be mostly recharge time.
I finished my Dungeon Crawler Carl reread, and now I'm going back and rereading particular chapters for clues and other lore. I don't know if I'd say I'm having fandom feelings about it (for one thing, the state of most of the fanfic is dire) but I'm really enjoying it. I'm into it enough that I ended up backing Matt Dinniman's Patreon because I don't want to wait until the next book comes out to read new chapters.
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1. I spent Tuesday dealing with dishwashers. Father-in-law needs a new dishwasher and one was ordered, it was duly dispatched and eventually arrived with 2 guys who were meant to remove old one and install new. But the dishwasher was wedged into place so tightly that they couldn't get it out. It looks as if the kitchen units and the floor were installed after the dishwasher was in place, and dishwasher was boxed in. No wiggle-room, no space to lift or maneuver, and installers are not allowed to start breaking apart your kitchen. So they left and took (new) dishwasher with them.
I wanted to have a go at moving dishwasher myself, but father-in-law was having fits about 'get a proper man' so I spent an hour with my phone to find another handyman. He has been and had to use an electric hacksaw, a large hammer, and a crowbar but success. Old dishwasher is now on the balcony pending collection, and I have arranged for new dishwasher to be re-delivered.
All very boring, but this is what is chewing up my time right now.
Father-in-law is grumpy. He finds this all very stressful and disapproves of the dishwasher on principal.
2. We're having a by-election (council, *not* the big by-election for Makefield), and we had canvassers to visit. First time ever. Opening question was "How's Charlie?" which was a trifle disconcerting. But yes, my cat is a big friendly highly noticeable white cat and he is best friends with all the neighbourhood. Once we had established that "yes Charlie was fine" and "no I wasn't going to vote for them" canvasser didn't linger, but it was interesting.
3. Also cat-related. My cat is snoring. It's the wrong time of day to chat up canvassers, so he's asleep on the bookshelf in my office. When I got myself out of bed, he (laboriously) got down off the bed, climbed from the floor into the armchair, clawed up the back of the armchair and cautiously did the stretch-step from top of chair to bookshelf so he can sit on his blanket by the window. Doesn't want to play or to be fussed, just the cat equivalent of focusmate where he likes to share a space with someone else.
I wanted to have a go at moving dishwasher myself, but father-in-law was having fits about 'get a proper man' so I spent an hour with my phone to find another handyman. He has been and had to use an electric hacksaw, a large hammer, and a crowbar but success. Old dishwasher is now on the balcony pending collection, and I have arranged for new dishwasher to be re-delivered.
All very boring, but this is what is chewing up my time right now.
Father-in-law is grumpy. He finds this all very stressful and disapproves of the dishwasher on principal.
2. We're having a by-election (council, *not* the big by-election for Makefield), and we had canvassers to visit. First time ever. Opening question was "How's Charlie?" which was a trifle disconcerting. But yes, my cat is a big friendly highly noticeable white cat and he is best friends with all the neighbourhood. Once we had established that "yes Charlie was fine" and "no I wasn't going to vote for them" canvasser didn't linger, but it was interesting.
3. Also cat-related. My cat is snoring. It's the wrong time of day to chat up canvassers, so he's asleep on the bookshelf in my office. When I got myself out of bed, he (laboriously) got down off the bed, climbed from the floor into the armchair, clawed up the back of the armchair and cautiously did the stretch-step from top of chair to bookshelf so he can sit on his blanket by the window. Doesn't want to play or to be fussed, just the cat equivalent of focusmate where he likes to share a space with someone else.
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How did a hamster wheel get into space? The Hamster Wheel Nebula (Longmore 8) was
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I'm not sure if this is a new development, but some ebooks bought from Amazon that are DRM-free (most of Tor's stuff iirc) now have an option to download an actually DRM-free epub on your account's Digital Content page.
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My somewhat clumsy transcription below.
Shafak begins with the kind of core ideas about the epic:
But this is the part that got to me:
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My somewhat clumsy transcription below.
Shafak begins with the kind of core ideas about the epic:
I always think about the epic of Gilgamesh when I feel a bit demoralized ... if we remember that before it was written down on clay tablets by scribes, it was transmitted via oral culture, again for centuries, grandmothers or grandfathers telling it to grandchildren. It is actually much much older than we know. And I mention this for two reasons. First of all, the epic is unlike anything we have read. I mean, if Trump were to read the epic he would call Gilgamesh a loser because he's not a typical hero. He doesn't achieve anything. It's a story about failure. Friendship. Going into other peoples' lands and taking their things. At the end of the epic, he comes back having achieved nothing, having failed in everything, and yet he's a kinder person. So it's about the possibility of change. It's about our fear of death. It's about questioning what are we doing in this world with such limited lives?
But this is the part that got to me:
But I like to think about the epic in a second way as well, because imagine: ever since this epic was told, and then written down, so many mighty empires have come and gone. So many strong men have come and gone. They have perished. And even the tallest architectural structures have crumbled into dust. But ... the poem, made of breath and made of words, has survived the tides of history, the genocides, the massacres, the warfare, the violence of history, and here we are ... thousands of years later, still remembering this poem and talking about it. To me, it shows that literature has a very gentle, very quiet, but amazing resilience to go beyond all the obstacles that are in front of it.
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