notes bookshop link this kept cropping up in the stuff i’ve been reading over the past couple of months. i figured it was time to dig into this again. i read this last in the 1990s. the book holds up extremely well and the mass suspension of critical thought and utopian dystopia it describes seems like something we’ve done a great job of slipping into ever more firmly over the past 10 years....

TIL: home assistant is incredible back in september, i had my first generation wemo stuff go totally flaky with the wemo homekit bridge. the bridge it turns out has been abandonware for a while now and i was blithely skating along on borrowed time. i was loath to replace the working wemo outlets with new ones and i didn’t have the inclination to spend a lot of time digging into replacement options and shell out again....

links, etc SEA-ME-WE 3 (SMW3) Retired on December 2, 2024 - Submarine Networks this is/was a pretty impressive cable system for its time. all of the new cool stuff here is being done by the hyperscalers. i do wonder if there’s an appetite for massively cooperative cables like this anymore.

links, etc Inside UnitedHealth’s Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient’s Care — ProPublica not that we need a reminder as to the state of healthecare in this country.

links, etc Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? – The Irish Times the ministry for the future outlined a point where attacks against conspicuious consumers/generators of CO2 were lobbed by eco-terrorist groups. in the book, drones attacked executive jets, corporations were targeted with material destruction, etc. against the backdrop of frustration against health insurance companies, political adminstrations that portray climate change as a hoax, increasing economic disparities, are we going to see MFtF type action emerging?...