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yhlee

print of a digital illustration by Yoon Ha Lee: poker and starships

a.k.a. "Shuos Jedao says howdy from the land of Battlefleet Gothic and pinochle trauma" - we'll see if the local game store is interested in carrying this and/or some of the other 11"x17" prints as they've carried my smaller art prints in the past.

test illustration prints

Meanwhile, back to napping (recuperating from sickness) and/or schoolwork.

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Posted by jwz

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/02/s-f-looks-to-repeal-law-requiring-stores-to-accept-cash/

https://jwz.org/b/yk3X

The impetus for the rule was accessibility:

The "very poor," as well immigrant communities and the very young and old, the amendment read, "fall outside the non-cash financial system." [...]
Nationwide, those levels are decreasing, but remain significant. A survey conducted by the FDIC found that in 2023, Black and Latino households were overrepresented in the unbanked population, with 10.6 percent of Black and 9.5 percent of Latino households in the U.S. were unbanked, down from 17 and 14 percent in 2017.
Today, approximately 4 percent of San Francisco households are "unbanked," or do not have a checking or savings account, and nearly 14 percent are "underbanked" -- have bank accounts but primarily use cash or use check cashers or money orders. [...] "These residents are often the most financially vulnerable and can face higher costs and barriers in everyday transactions," Manke said.

The destruction of cash is part of the advertising panopticon agenda. Paper money doesn't have a utm_source on it so it is useless.

Let us also keep in mind that this "vocal contingent of local business owners" are the same business geniuses who are always, always certain that a bike lane will ruin them.

Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/02/s-f-looks-to-repeal-law-requiring-stores-to-accept-cash/

https://jwz.org/b/yk3X

ursamajor

I have plenty of half-drafted posts on tap, but right now, all I can think is DAWSON'S DEAD?!

It's as if invoking Dawson's Creek in my last post for the first time in forever caused it, sigh. Definitely feeling my age today since he was only nine months older than me.

(Cancer, apparently; I don't tend to keep up with celebrity news, but I found out because

phamos818 posted about it on FB. And apparently he's, like, only nine months older than me and has six kids.)

Current Music: the years pass by and now he has granddaughters

redbird

January was rereading, and not much of that: Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold, and Sorcery and Cecilia by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer: the latter was a read-aloud, with Cattitude and Adrian switching off depending on which character the letter was from.

I also bounced off a couple of rereads, and read news and other articles online.

Just finished:

Grown Wise, by Celia Lake: another of her Albion historical romances, set in a fantasy Britain with a middle-sized community of people who use or are aware of magic. This one is set a couple of years after World War II, and people are dealing with both individual loss and trauma, and the war's effects on the land. I enjoyed this, but I don't know whether it would be confusing as a starting point. (It's the first in a new series of these books, which might help.)

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Posted by jwz

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/02/11.html

https://jwz.org/b/yk3V

Any time I see my staff taping a paper flyer to one of our walls, what I hear is, "You are telling me there should be a flyer screen there." So we finally did that in the pizza alcove. I think they look pretty good! We just stuck the monitors into the same style of picture frames we use in the DNA Pizza dining room gallery.

My vendetta against tape on the walls is endless. I just think it looks really tacky. Plus, one of the things about paper that it is famous for is always showing the same thing. Whereas these screens have all kinds of complications. (In watchmaking, anything that a timepiece does beyond showing hours, minutes and seconds is called a "complication", and I love that term.)

For example, they are sensitive to the room they are in and the genres of the show that is currently happening, so if it's a metal night, they're going to show flyers for other metal shows much more often. They are likewise skewed toward showing shows happening sooner than later.

And another recent complication is the dancing QR codes. I put a bunch of work into making the underlying URLs as short as possible so that the QR codes have big chunky pixels that you can scan from across the room.

We also use them in Pizza checkout to hype our appetizers.

In summary, digital signage is a land of complications.

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/02/11.html

https://jwz.org/b/yk3V

cosmolinguist

This morning I got to call one of the candidates we interviewed yesterday and offer her the work placement. That felt nice.

But also weird. I've never done anything like this before! I am in a very technical sense her line manager, in that her actual manager, my manager, is now on leave for the next week and a half and he asked me to take care of this. Which meant not just the fun phone call but doing paperwork, and that meant having to write down my own name and contact details where it said "Manager."

Wild.

The less said about the rest of the work day the better, but the rest of the day was good. I went for a nice long walk in the warm(ish) drizzle with Teddy, who drank from so many muddy puddles that he had a big dirty circle on his snout. Like the dog equivalent of a kid with a milk mustache. The air smelled amazing, the plants and the soil are starting to wake up.

Then angelofthenorth invited us over for cheesy toad in the hole, which is a genius idea and I think I might have to make it in future. It was great to see her, and Mr Smith.

And since we'd all planned to go to the gym, she and I walked there while D drove V home and then came back to join me (Miriam having gone swimming). The gym is so much more fun with him there.

sineala

What I Just Finished Reading

Nothing, because I still don't have the brain. I guess technically I reread Iron Man: Crash for Book Club. Maybe I should go give myself credit on Goodreads for that. I mean, it's a graphic novel, so it should count. It's really bad.

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

( Alien vs. Captain America #4, Ultimate X-Men #24 )

What I'm Reading Next

I am really hoping for more brain soon.

Current Mood: tired

kaberett

a shelf fungus at the base of a tree, shading from brown in the centre via rich orange to pale yellow at the edge

a clump of purple crocuses, nestled between tree roots

a clump of snowdrops, with the green tips of the inner petals clearly visible

(Which last I took in part because A only discovered last week that many snowdrops have decorative green bits on their frilly inner noses, courtesy of a waist-high planter outside one of our local pubs!)

osprey_archer

What I Just Finished Reading

Hilary McKay’s Rosa by Starlight, an enchanting short children’s fantasy featuring cats, Venice, a deliciously wicked aunt and uncle (but ARE they really Rosa’s aunt and uncle?), and an intrepid orphan facing down her problems as best she can. Perfect if you like classic children’s fantasy that swirls a soupcon of magic into the real world.

Damon Runyon’s Guys and Dolls. Although the musical isn’t based directly on any one of these stories (in fact, I think the only direct reference might be Nathan Detroit’s craps game), it is at the same time exactly like Damon Runyon’s short stories.

troisoiseaux suggested a similarity to the work of P. G. Wodehouse, which I definitely also see: it’s easy to imagine a crossover where Wodehouse’s upper class doofuses get into a caper with Runyon’s Broadway gangster idiots, probably ending in a double wedding where an upper class doofus marries a Broadway doll, and a Broadway guy marries Muriel Broadbent.

What I’m Reading Now

I’ve started my St. Patrick’s Day Maeve Binchy early this year, because I’ve picked her short story collection A Few of the Girls, and even starting now I probably won’t finish it by St. Patrick’s Day. (I usually read story collections one story a day.)

What I Plan to Read Next

You will be shocked to hear that a steady diet of Horatio Hornblower and Aubrey-Maturin have made me want to read a book about the history of the Napoleonic Wars, preferably an overview so I can get a general idea of the most important dates so I can orient myself as we go along. Any recommendations?

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Posted by Tony Finch

https://charlesleifer.com/blog/cysqlite---a-new-sqlite-driver/

https://dotat.at/:/5SYKW.html

2026‑02‑11 - cysqlite: a new SQLite driver for Python.

https://charlesleifer.com/blog/cysqlite---a-new-sqlite-driver/

redirect https://dotat.at/:/5SYKW

blurb https://dotat.at/:/5SYKW.html

atom entry https://dotat.at/:/5SYKW.atom

web.archive.org archive.today

https://charlesleifer.com/blog/cysqlite---a-new-sqlite-driver/

https://dotat.at/:/5SYKW.html

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Posted by jwz

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/02/jwz-mixtape-257/

https://jwz.org/b/yk3T

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 257.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/02/jwz-mixtape-257/

https://jwz.org/b/yk3T

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Posted by jwz

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/02/peter-thiel-bad-vampire/

https://jwz.org/b/yk3R

This is not the language of a man who fears death. This is the language of a man who solved it in the 1400s and is tired of pretending.

The one thing the longevity-vampire community has not yet learned from Dracula is operational security.
Dracula operated in silence for centuries. He didn't have a podcast. He didn't track his erection quality on a public dashboard. He didn't appear on Netflix. He understood that the fundamental rule of being a vampire is: don't talk about being a vampire.
Johnson, Thiel, and their cohort have broken this rule comprehensively. Whether this represents a new era of transparency or a catastrophic strategic miscalculation remains to be seen.

Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/02/peter-thiel-bad-vampire/

https://jwz.org/b/yk3R

juan_gandhi

You can post to dreamwidth via email:

https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=195

conuly

How much do you love me, a million bushels?
Oh, a lot more than that, Oh, a lot more.

And tomorrow maybe only half a bushel?
Tomorrow maybe not even a half a bushel.

And is this your heart arithmetic?
This is the way the wind measures the weather.

************

Link

chickenfeet

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/02/11/deception-and-delusion-in-the-copperbelt/

minoanmiss

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

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Posted by John Kovalic

https://www.dorktower.com/2026/02/11/distraction/

https://dorktower.kovalic.com/?p=19935

Most DORK TOWER strips are now available as signed, high-quality prints, from just $25! CLICK HERE to find out more!

Also, here’s last June’s comic, so you don’t need to seek it out:

HEY! Want to help keep DORK TOWER going? Then consider joining the DORK TOWER Patreon and ENLIST IN THE ARMY OF DORKNESS TODAY! (We have COOKIES!) (And SWAG!) (And GRATITUDE!)

https://www.dorktower.com/2026/02/11/distraction/

https://dorktower.kovalic.com/?p=19935

james_davis_nicoll

The revived May 2022 Neon City Overdrive Bundle featuring the fast-playing cyberpunk tabletop roleplaying game Neon City Overdrive from Peril Planet.

Bundle of Holding: Neon City Overdrive (from 2022)

ffutures

This is a repeat offer of the cyberpunk RPG Neon City Overdrive from Peril Planet, last offered in May 2022

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2026NeonCity

Last time I said "Since I received this at about midnight and it only runs for a week I haven't had much time to take a detailed look. It's a system that looks reasonably playable, it's drawing on all the usual cyberpunk sources, and it's pretty cheap. I'm not sure I actually NEED another cyberpunk game, given how many I already own, but if you just want to dip your toes in the water I think it's worth a look. The usual caveat - I get to see this stuff without having to pay for it, if you don't your mileage may differ."

Since then I've taken a more detailed look - artwork is good (and credited to humans, not AI), and mostly avoids the tropes of the genre. Layout is a bit flashy but readable, and there is an emphasis on story-telling rather than rules. I think it's definitely a good one for a quick look at the genre.

Ian Jackson

Service Issue - Longview

drive-by art post

S.F. looks to repeal law requiring stores to accept cash

i want to know right now, what will it be?

Wednesday reading

DNA Lounge: Wherein we have more flyer screens

The manager type

Wednesday Reading Meme

[picspam] from yesterday's trudge in the rain

Wednesday Reading Meme

cysqlite: a new SQLite driver for Python.

jwz mixtape 257

Peter Thiel, Bad Vampire

posting by email

How Much? by Carl Sandburg

An everyday story of mining magnates

Mental DNR list

It’s Groundhog Day Again…but Worse – DORK TOWER 10/02/26

Bundle of Holding: Neon City Overdrive (from 2022)

Another Repeat SF Bundle - Neon City Overdrive

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