June was a slow month for media, a combination of the summer heat and just a general lethargy meant that this was a books and one (1) game month.
Continue reading “Media Diet – June 2024”Review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Continue reading “Review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab”Addie has said so many hellos, but that was the first and only time she got to say good-bye. That kiss, like a piece of long-awaited punctuation. Not the em dash of an interrupted line, or the ellipsis of a quiet escape, but a period, a closed parenthesis, an end.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Bots and Blocks
Recently Rob Knight posted on his block that Perplexity AI is lying about the user agent they are using to access sites. WIRED later confirmed this. To which Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivasan responded with a big ol’ “eh the robots.txt is not a legal framework” which I read as a “there is nothing stopping us so we’ll do what we want, fuck you”.
Continue reading “Bots and Blocks”Review: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
Continue reading “Review: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan”A moment of yielding warmth that generated something infinitely tender and precious, and as fragile as a butterfly’s wing. It was nothing at all like the unrestrained, half-violent passions of the body that Xu Da had described. It felt like something new, something they’d invented themselves. Something that existed only for the two of them, in the penumbral shadow of their little room, for the span of a single kiss.
Chapter 17. Anfeng, Tenth Month
Review: Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
Continue reading “Review: Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim”Food feeds the belly, thoughts feed the mind, but love is what feeds the heart.
Takkan, in chapter twenty-nine