• The City We Became and The Broken Earth series by N.K. Jemisin.
• Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
• Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor

It’s a rock that’s been holed by boring clams: https://carnegiemnh.org/not-boring-clams/

If you want to know what kind or rock it is, I can’t help you there.

You’re welcome. Used to see rocks like that all the time when I lived at the beach, sometimes with the clam shells still embedded.

The P stands for “Piss off, Zuck”.

These are pretty mainstream, but I’m a regular visitor to Ars Technica. I also like the cheeky headlines and writing style of The Register.

I use it because that’s what my Linux distro packages. It’s fine, but unless you’re averse to change there really isn’t any reason for a regular Firefox user to choose ESR over the regular release. I do occasionally get flagged by websites for using an out of date release, which is kind of annoying.

A victory for bullshit, disinformation and conspiracy theories by a Trump-appointed judge. Just great.

I’m listening to The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain by Bill Bryson. Written by an older, crankier Bryson than I’m used to, but still a decent “read”.

Reading The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler. I like the book, but so far I’m finding the world-building and backstories more interesting than the main plot.

I’ve had the same issue. A poster in another thread suggested selecting “English” in the Select Language drop-down menu before hitting the Reply button. It may be a coincidence, but that has worked for me to prevent the eternal spinner.

This is what people aren’t getting. The fediverse, as it is now, is irrelevant to Meta’s plans for Threads. Meta views the fediverse as an inducement to get creators to join Threads. Per The Verge:

As Mosseri puts it, this is a move designed to appease creators who have grown increasingly wary of relying on the whims of centralized social media companies. “I think we might be a more compelling platform for creators, particularly for the newer creators who are more and more savvy, if we are a place where you don’t have to feel like you have to trust us forever,” he says.