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clive

@clive@saturation.social

Writer, musician/songwriter, hobbyist coder. Contributing writer to New York Times Magazine and Wired. Author of "Coders". Blogging at clivethompson.medium.com, archive of writing at www.authory.com/clivethompson #science #technology #coding #software #writing #literature #poetry clive@clivethompson.net

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wdenton, to random
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I burst out laughing when I got to the end of "Why pythons are a low-carbon-emissions food" in Linkfest by @clive

https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-20/

clive,
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@wdenton

😂

MORE RESEARCH IS NEEDED

clive, to random
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I’m reading the collected poems of F. R. Scott, a lawyer and major architect of Canada’s left-wing party the NDP

This is from 1973

Scott’s one of my fave old-school Canadian poets — dry, acerbic, with brilliant turns of phrase

“Carry him off with a roar of gears
He would choose no other hymn.”

🔥

clive, to random
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Behold the "poetry camera" -- you take a picture, it writes a poem based on what it sees and prints that up

you don't get a photo

just the poem

Item #2 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-20/

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@marisa

Pretty fun, eh?

SPF, to sustainability
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Mmm, snake meat. As a protein source it's even more efficient than harvesting crickets!

I suppose MAYBE ... conceivably ... a factory farm swarming with hundreds of thousands of pythons could pose some risk to the neighborhood. But: say bye-bye to your rat problem.

Credit to @clive 's latest Linkfest. I always learn something.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/snake-steak-could-be-a-climate-friendly-source-of-protein/

#sciencenews #scientificamerican #agriculture #sustainability #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #snakes

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@mudbungie @SPF

I am super interested in trying some python now

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@SPF

Seriously, that would be the best way to deal with the New York City rat problem. Just have pythons all over the place! They’re chill, they’re not really gonna hurt humans, they just wanna eat themselves lots of rats

clive,
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@SPF

(also, thank you for the kind words!)

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@mudbungie @SPF

lolol

clive, to random
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Okay people 🤘

it's your LUCKY DAY 🍀

My latest "Linkfest" newsletter 📬 just dropped, otherwise known as ...

... "the opposite of doomscrolling" 🎇

Free to read, free to subscribe too (or pay-what-you-want to help keep it free for all): https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-20/

This issue includes:

🎨 bubble-wrap pointillist art
🔮 online tarot
📋 the 1963 "symbolism survey"
🚢 the disastrous "roller ship"
💗 why humans are growing an extra artery
✏️ very old "ogham"
🌗 a time zone for the moon

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@dricibone

So glad you liked it! Pass it along to anyone you know who’d enjoy it

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@TomSwirly

Aha, thank you for noticing that – I fixed it!

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@baturkey

Aha, fantastic!

I bought myself some legos last fall and am gonna try it myself ....

clive, to random
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Here's a fun gallery of cool text-animation effects, using Javascript: https://freefrontend.com/javascript-text-effects/

clive, to random
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If you haven't seen it yet, go check out @ernie's new search engine ...

... which automatically appends "&udm=14" to the end of your search query ...

... thereby triggering Google to give you your results with no AI answer at the top, and (for me, anyway) no ads

It's like google from 2004 or something

https://udm14.com

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@josephdickson @ernie

lol probably

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@_L1vY_ @ernie

wooooo

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@Cassandra @ernie @_L1vY_

blood-pressure-lowering

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@dancast @ernie

right?

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@marisa @ernie

🤘

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@courtcan @ernie

Oh yeah

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@Jirikiha @ernie

it's cool, eh?

ernie, to random
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We’re at the point of virality where people are sharing my own article with me

clive,
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@ernie @benjedwards

aha yes!!

clive, to random
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Know any NYC students, or their parents?

The mayor closed the libraries on Sundays, and is set to close them Saturdays too -- citing budget constraints 📚

The budget's being debated right now!

So, if you live in NYC?

Here's a form that'll auto-send a letter to your city councillor telling them to vote to "keep the libraries open sundays": https://actionnetwork.org/letters/open-the-libraries-nyc/

Forward it to any students in NYC 🤘

Parents can use it too -- just rewrite the opening salutation to say "I'm a parent"

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@baturkey

Woo, excellent!! Thank you!

marisa, to random
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You don't need that Cafe Au Lait scented candle...

just have me spill coffee. All. Over. Your. Kitchen.

clive,
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@marisa

done done and done

clive, (edited ) to random
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People of Mastodon!

I'm researching the growth of ebikes ...

... in cities around the US

I've talked to many people who love them!

But also want to include the perspective of folks who have concerns ...

... i.e. about the speed and weight of ebikes in accidents with pedestrians or other cyclists, and the like

If anyone has thoughts they wanna share, ping me! I'm all ears: clive@clivethompson.net

Pass this along if you know anyone else with perspective they want to share

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@saprentice @AnneTheWriter1

I've read a bit about hikers and acoustic-bikers dealing with inexperienced e-mountain-bikers

it sounds complex for sure!

suzannealdrich, to Writers
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Any here? Are you fans of Scrivener, or Ulysses, or perhaps Obsidian Notes? Looking around for a writing system that will be future-proof. Also love the idea of using Markdown because that’s what my blogs all use now.

clive,
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@suzannealdrich

I use scrivener!

I’m not sure it’s future proof though. You can (and I do) export projects to rtf files to save in case the software and/or the firm goes poof … but it’s arguably not as portable as markdown with Obsdian

But! The reason I stick with Scrivener is I’m a non fiction writer — while researching a book I might take 2 million words of notes, in thousands of note-files. While writing, speedy search is crucial …

… and Scrivener’s search is LIGHTNING fast

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