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Cavyherd
Cavyherd  ·  2 months ago
@pluralistic

I had the joy of chatting with the late, great Barbara Sher (of Wishcraft fame). Her process at that point was largely pre-digital/internet, & she described it as follows: She kept a box into which she would toss notes on a scrap of paper whenever she encountered a notion or topic that caught her interest. & then whenever she ran out of money, she'd comb through that and pick out pieces that seemed to belong together, and then craft a book out of that.

http://wishcraft.com/

That’s not the only inversion that blogging entails. When it comes to a (my) blogging method for writing longer, more synthetic work, the traditional relationship between research and writing is reversed. Traditionally, a writer identifies a subject of interest and researches it, then writes about it. In the (my) blogging method, the writer blogs about everything that seems interesting, until a subject gels out of all of those disparate, short pieces.
That’s not the only inversion that blogging entails. When it comes to a (my) blogging method for writing longer, more synthetic work, the traditional relationship between research and writing is reversed. Traditionally, a writer identifies a subject of interest and researches it, then writes about it. In the (my) blogging method, the writer blogs about everything that seems interesting, until a subject gels out of all of those disparate, short pieces.
That’s not the only inversion that blogging entails. When it comes to a (my) blogging method for writing longer, more synthetic work, the traditional relationship between research and writing is reversed. Traditionally, a writer identifies a subject of interest and researches it, then writes about it. In the (my) blogging method, the writer blogs about everything that seems interesting, until a subject gels out of all of those disparate, short pieces.
Avocado Toast
Avocado Toast  ·  2 months ago
@pluralistic There is a legally gray way to push back against these services that nobody wants to discuss: piracy. Technically there, if you're downloading a file from someone who has defeated the DRM and put the file online and you're downloading but not distributing the show (i.e. no BitTorrent) then you're not the one breaking the DRM nor violating copyright protections.

Plex is the Tivo or iPod of that space IMO. Plex apps are as ubiquitous as Netflix for players.

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen
Pax Ahimsa Gethen  ·  2 months ago
@RadioCarla @pluralistic

My spouse and I talked about quitting Amazon Prime for years. But then they bought my medical provider, which I can't easily leave, as a trans person with ongoing health issues. And I found I could get meds cheaper from Amazon without insurance than with my spouse's employer-provided insurance. (I, a part-time contractor, have no health coverage of my own.)

So thanks to capitalism and the U.S. "healthcare" system, I'm staying with Prime despite its enshittification.

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  2 months ago

Long thread/4

Hey look at this

* Who Are the ‘Undecided’? https://prospect.org/politics/2024-10-02-who-are-the-undecided/

* PC Floppy Copy Protection: An Interview With Robert McQuaid https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-interview.html (h/t Jos'h)

* You can now download over 33,000 sound effects from the BBC archive https://djmag.com/news/you-can-now-download-over-33000-sound-effects-bbc-archive (h/t @hackernews_bot)

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