Test to treat Covid and flu program expanded: ANY adult (18 years and older) with a current positive test for COVID-19 or flu can enroll to receive free telehealth care and medication like Paxlovid delivered to their home. Adults who do not have COVID or flu may receive free tests if they are uninsured or are enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Affairs health care system, or the Indian Health Services https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/home-test-treat-program-extends-nationwide

A reminder: When that major security bug shows up in one of your dependencies, and you need to ship a fix right now, that's not the time to discover you're 3 years and 6 API-breaking changes behind the version that has the fix.

Upgrade your dependencies when you don't *have* to. That way, when it is critical, it will be fast and low-risk.

This is *especially* true about that risky upgrade you've been avoiding. Take the hit now when you can schedule it. Don't let others schedule it for you.

Everyone should get 2024 as paid leave to finish their personal projects

this might be my favourite #TravelMoose composition yet. 😯

Me writing software: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me packaging software for release: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

I went to get this to explain to someone why I've decided to go from writing blog posts to making slides for updates and I'm cackling at how incredibly on point it is.

wow a Rolling Stone gathers no moss and pulls no punches

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

(archive link in case they're forced to soften/edit it: https://web.archive.org/web/20231130015817/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/)

#bookbinding #fanbinding I finished my latest project! Paste paper covers with a music note pattern for the fic "Hear a Song This Deeply" (modern au wangxian with a strong focus on musical cultivation). https://archiveofourown.org/works/41191755/chapters/103263000

I typeset this a year ago for an exchange partner and finally got around to making my own copy. I marbled the edges too (and had a book got too wet mishap with the fore-edge; fortunately, nothing ruined).

Just read something discussing what the writer hoped for from a Denis Villeneuve adaptation of William Gibson's 'Neuromancer,' and in it the writer discusses the core premise of the text as being about the dangers of escaping into virtuality, saying they feel that Villeneuve would be best able to communicate that in film. Thing is, I think that reading misses something crucial, and i think what exactly it misses is really quite telling.

Neuromancer as a book and cyberpunk as a genre aren't (just) analyses and critiques of digital escapism, they're analyses and critiques of the material conditions which LEAD to that escapism. And unfortunately people lost hold of THAT understanding long before they lost hold of the "Do Not Uncritically Fetishize These Aesthetics" part; in fact, they lost the latter SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE they lost the former. It has "punk" in the name for a very specific and conscious reason.

The continued lack of critique of capitalist and hegemonic structures, here, is part of why C2077 and even the most recent GitS series just didn't work for so many people: Netrunners, Street Samurai, Console Cowboys, and Cyborg Mercenaries are all vocations of desperation, not pure choice. If you need to be those things, it's because the world has foreclosed itself to you and disenfranchised you in a crucial, fundamental way.

This is also why analyses of cyberpunk as a genre and aesthetic which don't include race, gender, and disability are inherently facile, to me.

Cyberpunk asks, "What if we take all the social structures of the 1970s and '80s, all the burgeoning technologies, and like… hyperrealized them?" And the answer is something that is dazzling, awe-inducing, brutal, heartbreaking, and even potentially a little comforting in its reappropriation of agency from the jaws of alienation.

It is also increasingly, starkly familiar to anyone looking outside their window, or existing aware in the world, right this moment, today.

But you already knew that; I'm just talking it out.

(Also, as a sidebar: the idea that millennials aren't familiar with Neuromancer is Weird™, to me, to say the least.)

PEOPLE OF BOSTON! Do you work in tech? Are you curious about unions? Let’s have a meetup about it!

On Tuesday 28 November at 7pm, join me and veteran labor organizer Rand Wilson at Remnant Brewing for an evening of discussion: we’ll talk about unions, the path to forming your own, and the challenges (and possibilities) of organizing in the tech industry.

Space is limited; RSVP here! https://tinyurl.com/ydatumeet

#BostonMA #CambridgeMA #SomervilleMA #unions #TechUnions #UnionizeTech #1u

The only explanation

"When I find myself in times of trouble/Princess Daisy comes to me/speaking words of wisdom/"

What a day for the internet (all these were published today)

Reading "how could FTX/WeWork/etc have failed when it was *worth* so much?" headlines and realizing that I've internalized something important:

In this context, "worth" is a fucking meaningless word. "Worth" is not cash in the bank. "Worth" is just the highest number you could theoretically fleece someone out of at a particular moment in time. "Worth" is subjective and ephemeral. "Worth" is a phantom made of smoke and mirrors and sustained by the speculations and fantasies and whims of people utterly divorced from the reality of any company's particular situation.

Capitalism is largely a game of telephone, played by idiots.

How many domains do you own? (No subdomains, only Second Level Domains)

#poll4today

Do not try to mock the cringe. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: There is no cringe.

Then you will see it was never the cringe that you mocked, it was only yourself.

`:has` should be enabled by default in Firefox 121 ¹ 🎉
121 will be released December 19, 2023 , a nice Christmas present for web developers

¹ https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/oacuvZ2_hLg/m/4o28pFLkAwAJ?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer

Change your pronouns frequently, make sure they aren't easily guessed and use different ones for different accounts

Everyone under the age of 35 I ran into today referred to it as Indigenous Peoples Day. The kids are alright.

#IndigenousPeoplesDay