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liberty’s daughter (naomi kritzer) what happens when you’re living on a libertarian sea-stead? this is a fun bit of world building where libertarian ideals are allowed to fester to their logical conclusions. the limitations of the invisible hand, the likely devolution into some form of slavery for those who aren’t wealthy and have problems. unregulated medical care, having to hire private security to just go about your day-to-day business, and all sorts of goodies....

geography / location yes, still in minnesota. bouncing to the bay area for work on a reasonably frequent basis (1-2x/month). spending time in minneapolis and lanesboro depending on how we want to mix things up. i expect more north shore time this year. work life is basically back to pre-pandemic operation and i’m up to my eyeballs in projects and various dorkish bits. i don’t expect a lot will change on this front this year....

books the high sierra: a love story (kim stanley robinson) i’m a recent convert to KSR’s stuff. i’ve loved all of it and this is no exception. this is the first bit of non-fiction i’ve read by him. honestly, i don’t know if he has more. having done a limited amount of hiking in the sierra’s, i was hooked and burned through this faster than i expected to. a book like this makes you question your life decisions....

movies knives out (no, not the new one) white noise (netflix) why did we watch this again? pinocchio (netflix) - very good. would recommend. the menu (on the plane) - very good. would recommend. jurassic world: dominion (amazon prime) - amusing, would not recommend. ticket to paradise (on the plane) - saccharin. would not recommend. patagonia films (on the plane) - i’ve been watching these on flights lately. they really make me feel like i’ve been living my life wrong....

fedifetcher a link to this landed in my mastodon feed the other day and i spent a little bit of time installing it and tweaking for my setup. running as a container via cron it fits the bill beautifully for filling in the missing bits of replies that are associated with a post in your feed. FediFetcher for Mastodon - blog.thms.uk