Sarah A. Hoyt's Blog, page 13

As Should Be Obvious To Anyone

I can’t get my act together for a post today. Mostly because we FINALLY came home last night, and today I seem to be like my cats on catnip. CAN’T stop spinning long enough to think.

Forgive me.

I hate to do this during one of the fundraising days, but meh. Means one less day of fundraising. That only (theoretically) hurts me.

I swear I slept well, but I feel like I could just sleep….

Anyway, post tomorrow.

Deja Poo

We all know what Deja Poo is, right? It’s that distressing sense you’ve seen this sh*t before.

In this case the sh*t is Musk’s third party formation.

I was going to write a long post explaining why this was a bad idea, but it turns out my friend Kim Du Toit was there before me.

His post is called “Nope” and you should definitely read the whole thing.

For those not clicking through, I agree with all of it but these are the most relevant parts:

Let me make myself crystal clear ...

Promo Post Will be a little Late

I’m trying to do it from the car, and it’s just slow enough on tethering that it’s not giving me the links ….

That Our Memes Were Still There

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Happy Fourth

My neighbors started celebrating days ago and frankly sleep has been notional for the boom ratrat boom.

It does my heart good.

I don’t mean to write a long post today, just mention what a miracle and a wonder that this little experiment in self government turns 249 years old today.

So, go and watch the sacred musical which yes is wrong in parts but oh so right in many ways.

Now…. ahem….

According To Hoyt Annual Fundraiser

This will be going...

Uniformly Spherical Countries in frictionless vacuum

Like most people here who read science fiction growing up, I was raised on the idea of the world-nation.

By the time I was in my twenties, I knew that wouldn’t work. Acculturating more than once (back and forth, really, after my year as an exchange student) had made it clear that countries don’t actually want to merge, no matter what idealists and crazy people want.

And yet, somehow, I managed to believe the “open borders” part of libertarianism well into my thirties. I really have no...

How Bloggers Are Paid

Blogs are a weird thing. No, look… When I was young, I wanted to be a journalist. I’ll wait till you stop hissing.

The thing is, I wanted to be a real journalist. And because I grew up with all sorts of books set in the thirties and forties, I both believed that journalists would tell the truth and that they had a pathway where they came up by doing obituaries and flower shows and worked up to investigating homicides and crooked politicians.

Weirdly interning for a newspaper over thr...

This That And The Other Thing

Good Morning. Happy July. Are you ready for the High Holy Holidays?

I am giving the house (back for a little while) a good drubbing, because that’s what I do before the 4th. On the 4th I just go for fireworks with friends, watch Independence Day and generally relax.

The other high holy holidays, the celebration of Valley Forge and the crossing of the Delaware that involves a fast and all, broken on Christmas Even starting with hessian soldier cookies (you bite the head off, of course!...

Bunk Costs Guest Post by Ian Bruene

Bunk Costs Guest Post by Ian Bruene

In the AI posts recent the off repeated refrain / questions about whether any of this is economically viable came up. Usually when I’ve heard people make that objection I pay little attention: the facts they cite tend to be questionable and cherry-picked at best, and all too often outright fraudulent. Nothing new here, same old same old for the topic. More fundamentally pointing out that a huge amount of money and resources have been poured into a new ...

For the Memes They Are Aposting

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