And going into the second half of this year less burdened, hopefully… but because I’m an inveterate pack rat, I can’t just close the tabs, I have to record them somewhere. (announcer voice) AND THAT SOMEWHERE… IS HERE.
- https://www.atticus.io/ “Write and Format Stunning Books” so I guess I was researching self-pub stuff? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- https://www.softmaker.com/en/ looks like a Microsoft Office alternative?
- https://nisus.com/ an “Amazing Word Processor for the Mac”
- https://denik.com/ custom notebooks
- https://www.pureref.com/ “All your reference images in one place”
- https://en.linoit.com/ sticky and photo sharing (apparently I was on a productivity-tools kick here)
- https://www.shodan.io/explore absolutely no idea why I was looking at this. Maybe it’s the “Internet Observatory” thing?
- https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/8/30/20840194/ai-art-fiction-writing-language-gpt-2 “How I’m using AI to write my next novel” Yikes, this 2019 article about GPT-2 (one of OpenAI’s predecessor tools to the infamous ChatGPT) has not aged very well. From the end of the article:
- “The OpenAI team expects to release the full version in a few months. They didn’t release it to the public all at once for fear that malicious actors might use it to spread misinformation or churn out endless reams of racist and sexist garbage on websites like 4chan. Some experts praised the team for taking AI risks seriously; others said delaying the full release was a publicity stunt.”
- How young and innocent we all were in twenty fucking nineteen.
- https://direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff-bezos/devlog/103604/hey-i-have-a-patreon-now “You Are Jeff Bezos” is a game with perhaps infinite replay value.
- https://native-land.ca/ Interactive world map of native lands
- https://www.sirensconference.org/news/2019/08/essay-series-women-are-already-powerful-casey-blair/ Pour one out for the Sirens conference, no longer a thing but the web archives are still with us
- https://adventuron.itch.io/two “TWO is a treasure-hunt style TEXT ADVENTURE game in which every location description, object description, incidental message & response message consists of a maximum of TWO words.”
- https://undark.org/2020/02/12/decoding-bizarre-voynich-manuscript/ “The Strange Quest to Crack the Voynich Code” (12 Feb 2020)
- https://itch.io/c/757294/games-to-help-you-stay-inside an early pandemic collection
- https://www.tor.com/2020/04/14/didnt-i-write-this-story-already-when-your-fictional-pandemic-becomes-reality/ “Didn’t I Write This Story Already? When Your Fictional Pandemic Becomes Reality” by Naomi Kritzer (Apr 14, 2020)
- https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5F9GpvntTBPdmjOyirKgdz?si=b9HEpr1ORb2XV6mnVYxnLg&nd=1 Spotify playlist: “Dance Away The Pain (Pandemic Edition)”
- https://www.bbg.org/article/stroll_through_the_japanese_garden_in_bloom_video “Stroll through the Japanese Garden in Bloom (Video)”
- apparently we’ve reached the April 2020 strata of tabs 😬
- https://bonus.kottke.org/post/615677125346902016/the-implausible-covid-19-movie “The Implausible Covid-19 Movie”
- https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/04/grocery-delivery-takeout-eating-ethically-pandemic/610111/ oh boy
- https://www.jasonsanford.com/blog/2020/3/covid19 Jason Sanford’s COVID-19 resources, info, and assistance for the science fiction, fantasy, & horror communities
- https://bookshop.org/shop/vintagebooks support my local independent bookstore!
- https://www.tor.com/2020/04/28/the-character-of-the-doctor-is-more-important-to-me-than-doctor-who-will-ever-be/ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6S9N36ikptKO1EoHQ37Eao?si=IQpdblLwR1uY5c7uEb3k7Q&nd=1 “Quarantine Playlist” put together by Voicebox Karaoke
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/tips/six-fun-party-games-you-can-play-over-zoom-call/ The Washington Post: “Eight fun party games you can play over Zoom with friends and family”
- https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/05/1918-pandemic-cultural-memory-literature-outka.html “The 1918 Flu Pandemic Killed Millions. So Why Does Its Cultural Memory Feel So Faint?” (03 May 2020)
- https://www.rifftrax.com/aladdin I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS
- https://crimereads.com/genre-labels-what-makes-a-book-more-thriller-than-sci-fi/ “GENRE LABELS: WHAT MAKES A BOOK MORE THRILLER THAN SCI-FI?” (11 May 2020)
- https://www.thecut.com/article/george-floyd-protests-how-to-help-where-to-donate.html “How to Support the Struggle Against Police Brutality” (02 July 2020)
- https://betheserpent.podbean.com/p/about-the-show-1516381965/ “With new episodes every other Wednesday, Be The Serpent is a Hugo Award-nominated podcast by three red-headed Slytherinish fantasy authors who enjoy shouting about everything from academic mythology to dick jokes (and sometimes, both at once)…”
- https://www.mpd150.com/faq/ zine about building a police-free future
- https://flyingpurplepizzaeater.tumblr.com/post/115216522824/sometimes-people-use-respect-to-mean-treating follow Celeste Pewter on Twitter:
- Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”
and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.
- Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”
- https://fromthepage.com/stanforduniversityarchives/jls?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1Rrek56UXhOVGhrWlRJMSIsInQiOiJqblVNQ0xCbGtYV1BXZUVEV3hxbkNEcHFubzU2WkVwY05tc2crem1JT2tsdXl3d2lYaVhuSEJkRFdyc3hUUWNmWjFIbEtSblhnS0d2aHdoNHpLVUZNR0t0V0lrc1JnVk9MV1k2dEhXWUYzM1phZjcxMHYzNXg2QWpwcFBCV1d0OCJ9 “The papers of Jane L. Stanford pertain largely to the founding and administration of Stanford University, along with her personal and social affairs; included in the papers are correspondence, business records, legal and financial papers, speeches, news clippings, and biographical materials.”
- https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff Gary Larson says this is “not a resurrection of The Far Side daily cartoons.”
- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/ruth-bader-ginsburg-interview-transcript.html “Ruth Bader Ginsburg reflects on her nine female classmates at Harvard Law School and the divergent paths their lives all took from there.” (21 Jul 2020)
- https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/ask-a-sane-person-jia-tolentino-book-2020-hope “Ask a Sane Person: Jia Tolentino on Practicing the Discipline of Hope” (08 Jul 2020)
- https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-choire-sicha-39592791 “How Choire Sicha Is Steering Style in a Crisis” (22 Jul 2020)
- https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/115004760028-How-to-register-get-free-access-to-content
- https://www.google.com/books/edition/Ursula_K_Le_Guin_The_Last_Interview/1bdzDwAAQBAJ book info for Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview (2019)
- https://www.pockettactics.com/best-mobile-puzzle-games “The best mobile puzzle games 2023”
- https://www.sfwa.org/2021/04/27/using-comic-scripts-to-outline-your-fiction/
- https://www.effinbirds.com/products/effin-jigsaw-puzzle?variant=42049920368696
- https://www.sup.org/books/extra/?id=23968&i=Contents.htm Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court by NICOLE GONZALEZ VAN CLEVE
- https://saraniemietz.bandcamp.com/merch/superman-live-at-the-mint-video-on-demand-access
And then there’s a bunch of short stories that I still want to read but, realistically, probably never will 😛
- https://firesidefiction.com/on-the-other-side-of-the-line
- https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/affordances-cory-doctorow-sf-story-algorithmic-bias-facial-recognition.html
- https://www.tor.com/2020/02/19/manuscript-tradition-harry-turtledove/
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/epgqvj/zombie-capitalism
- https://www.tor.com/2020/11/11/judge-dee-and-the-limits-of-the-law-lavie-tidhar/
- https://bonniejostufflebeam.com/2017/11/28/syfys-the-magicians-short/
That’s it! …for just one of the four or five browser profiles that I use regularly. (I have different accounts for different stuff, don’t judge me.) I’ll do another one later, I guess, after I recover from re-traumatizing myself with all those early pandemic thinkpieces. Sigh.
Happy Fourth of July weekend or something.
