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Bookshop.org eBooks

Finally, we can get ebooks from local bookstores!

Browse and buy on Bookshop.org, and read right in your web browser, or download our iPhone or Android apps for the full reading experience. Every purchase financially supports local, independent bookstores!

One more reason to ditch Amazon for books.

Daring Fireball: CNBC: ‘Nvidia Drops 17 Percent as China’s Cheaper AI Model DeepSeek Sparks Global Tech Sell-Off’

“…because of the Biden administration’s export bans. DeepSeek engineers found and implemented multiple massive efficiency improvements that allowed the company to train its latest models at far lower prices using far-less-capable hardware, and perform inference under heretofore unprecedented memory constraints.

Constraints fuel creativity and innovation. Honestly, everyone should have seen this coming.

When you love something made by a terrible person – annie’s blog

A person is not one thing.

A person is a complex collection, light and dark, changing, exploring, experiencing, making decisions, choosing directions, adjusting, happening.

I’m reminded of the following quote…

“Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life.” ― Gabriel García Marquez

Never live a secret life you’d be afraid to be made public.

You don’t have to be there – The Homebound Symphony

People: you don’t have to “watch the destruction in Los Angeles through the prism of our fractured social-media ecosystem.” Nobody is making you. And it doesn’t do you any good to watch.

But when Twitter became intolerable people decamped first for Mastodon and then Threads and then Bluesky, or went all-in on Instagram. The Twitter habit, it seems, will long survive Twitter.

An important reminder (with some useful suggestions).