Mitch Wagner

I asked ChatGPT to create an illustration for the novel “The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet,” by Becky Chambers.

I asked ChatGPT to create a cover illustration for the novel “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union,” by Michael Chabon.

I asked ChatGPT to create a cover illustration for the novel “The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet,” by Becky Chambers.

We watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the 2011 movie starring Andy Serkis as a motion-capture chimpanzee. We expected to enjoy it of course – why else would we have decided to watch it? – but It was better and had more heart than we expected.

Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff (The Register).

MyHeritage debuts OldNews.com, offering access to millions of historical newspaper pages (TechCrunch).

MyHeritage announced today that it’s launching OldNews.com, a new website that offers access to thousands of historical newspapers, mainly from the 1800s and 1900s. The website includes articles from major international newspapers to small-town journals and gazetted.

Old newspapers are delightful to read. Spicy and opinionated.

Elon Musk’s legal case against OpenAI is hilariously bad (Nilay Patel/The Verge).

Seen on a Techmeme headline: Threads is planning to open a developer API in June. I’m happy to hear that—less cut-and-pasting for me! @manton

Facebook is my favorite social network. It is also the one I hate most, and consider quitting several times a month.

Something I saw at the supermarket.

Terry Pratchett doesn’t work for me because he writes loving parody of a genre I don’t read.

I started the audiobook to Everybody’s Fool by Richard Russo 📚. It’s the sequel to Nobody’s Fool. My second time reading.

I finished the audiobook of Nobody’s Fool by Richard Russo 📚My third reading. I think I enjoyed it most of all this time.

I quit The Colour Of Magic by Terry Pratchett 📚I think I’m not a Terry Pratchett guy.

Here’s something I saw while walking the dog.

American small towns are erecting statues to Star Trek characters born there. (The Register)

Nazis are openly mingling and making friends at the CPAC conference, Trump is getting cheers for a speech where he promises his “ultimate and absolute revenge” and another speaker got big cheers when he promised an “end to democracy.”

This is fine.

Julie started drinking coffee again regularly, and I’m drinking more. The Aeropress is getting to be too much hassle.

I ordered a drip of coffee machine. It arrives this afternoon.

This seems like more of a big deal than it actually is. It’s weird how little things become attached to our identities.