Kindle Contest Over
The kindle short story contest is now officially over. First, I would like to thank all of the people who participated in this contest either by entering or voting.
This has been a fun experience and I hope to be able to do more contests like this in the future.
I hope that many people who came across this blog as a result of the contest will stick around for a bit :)
And of course, congratulations to Dan Price for being the winner of The Thoughts Bubble short story contest for his short story “Savages and Traitors” he is the lucky winner of a brand new Kindle 3!
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Recent Favorite Blog Posts
This is a collection of the last 8 posts that I bookmarked.
- The contagion of fear from The Observation Deck
- The revolt of the reader from The Observation Deck
- Deeper dive: Were Touch Bar’s problems software rather than hardware? from Unsung
- Joining Cursor from Fatih Arslan
- Pluralistic: Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026) from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- Pluralistic: Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs go global (29 Jul 2026) from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making from Ludicity
- The default person from https://popagandhi.com/
Articles from blogs I follow around the net
just a couple of things
And I have, again, fallen into a trap where I only post long essays to my blog that take days or longer to write. Oh, so many drafts that really go nowhere, because I wasn’t writing to tell a story, I was writing to have something to post. And it...
via WIL WHEATON dot NET September 16, 2026“59.94Hz is standard on televisions in North America.”
A big screen carries with it different UI expectations, and how that manifests itself in Apple TV’s Settings app, is that there’s always room for an additional hint about the thing you’ve just selected. So yes, I have been exploring Apple TV’s Settings aft...
via Unsung September 16, 2026Pollution
Woke up. Went to gym. Lifted weights. Came back home. Showered. Had coffee. Turned on computer. Replied to some work stuff. Scrolled through some feeds. Highlights include “No way to find what I’m looking for, $service full of gen AI to prompt new slop, de...
via ttntm.me - Blog September 16, 2026Generated by openring