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Förhandsexen av Boken om Pippi Långstrump kom från tryck nyss. Den är så fin! Och jag är så glad att vi rodde projektet i hamn. Omslaget är nytt, illustrationerna är restaurerade och färglagda, texten är något reviderad för att kunna leva i minst sjuttio år till.

What could be better than a rap battle between Hodor and Groot? Also, once you’re done, change the subtitles/CC option under the little gear icon on the media player to “English (United States) Translation Lyrics.”

[The Warp Zone]

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In The Android’s Dream, which I wrote over a decade ago now, I reached into the thinky crevasses of my brain to conceive of a thing that no human had dared to dream of: white chocolate M&M’s. Yes! I was the first! They came from my very thinkmeat! And people said to me then, well, hold up there, Scalzi. Spaceships and aliens are all very well, but white chocolate M&M’s? That’s too radical an idea! And then they laughed, nervously.

WELL WHO IS LAUGHING NOW, PEOPLE:

Yes. Arthur C. Clarke had communication satellites, Robert Heinlein had waterbeds, and now I have white chocolate M&M’s. I predicted this magnificent confection of the future! I did! Me! Alone!

YOUR WORLD IS WHAT I HAVE MADE IT, PUNY HUMANS. PARTAKE OF THE PEARLESCENT PRODUCT OF MY PRODIGIOUSLY UNPARALLELED PROGNOSTICATION.

I’ll take my Grand Master award now, if you please.

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Watch: Monica Lewinsky delivers a brilliant and passionate TED Talk about ending online harassment and the “culture of humiliation”

I was in the audience when she gave this talk. It’s powerful and moving and wise. Watch it, if you can, and think about compassion.

I’m going to give you the presumption of sincerity in your question, though this sounds an awful lot like sealioning, and give you an honest and hopefully enlightening answer.

We all have to work with and for people we don’t necessarily like all the time. That’s a reality of life and earning a living. Choosing to attend a talk or a panel or something like that is entirely different from what we do for our jobs. You’re making a very specious comparison, which I’m having a hard time not deciding is just a straw man.

There are lots of people in the world of genre fiction who have different values and beliefs than I do, but he is the only one who consistently goes out of his way to be a dick about it. I won’t attend a convention if he is among the guests, because he’s a jerk (and I’m not alone). At Calgary Expo a couple years ago, — before he had ever said a single word to me in person — he talked a bunch of shit and insulted me in the green room, embarrassing himself and making the entire room uncomfortable. He went on a rampage against me on Twitter during ECCC that same year — again, before he had ever met me in person — and when asked him what his problem was, he made a bunch of excuses about being “provocative” because it’s great for getting attention from “all the idiots” who follow him on Twitter. Then he went right back to attacking me, and tried to send his little mob of protobullies after my wife, because of reasons.

And not that it matters, but when I was cast in Codename: STEAM, I didn’t know who the other actors were. I didn’t find out who else was in the game until months after I’d recorded my parts. And even if I had known who the cast was? I still would have done the job. It’s a great game, it’s a great character, and all the actors did a great job with their parts — including Adam Baldwin. 

So far I am not a fan. 

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Happy mama 

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William Shatner recently hinted on Twitter that he might be a Brony. I’ll have to tell this to my 7-year-old daughter who got bullied last week by a few mean kids because she took one of her “My Little Pony” comic books in the bus to read while on her way to school. When she got home at the end of the day, she was crying and didn’t understand why the kids made fun of her.

Even though we tell her that the comic book is obviously for kids that are older than she is, she’s afraid of bringing it back in the bus. Back in the early 80s, my friends and I played with our G.I. Joes and Transformers up until we were in 6th grade, but today, kids in 2nd grade are already getting “pressured” by others to grow up if they act like the children they are.

If an 84-year-old man can like My Little Pony, I don’t see why my 7-year-old daughter should be ashamed to do so.

Here is William Shatner’s Twitter conversation:

.@CalfCorset I could be a brony

— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) March 20, 2015

@Iouisaimh @CalfCorset Rainbow Dash

— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) March 20, 2015

.@leohoratio What are you talking about? Friendship is Magic!

— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) March 20, 2015

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"i want a cracker" 

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This post is dedicated to the cuteness of baby otters

Baby otters always look like they’re about to ask to speak with your supervisor, but in the cutest way possible.

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About once a month, my ma and I end up having a deep conversation about my job. I am very lucky that she still loves me, talks to me, and generally supports me considering that she doesn’t like what I do for a living. She questions why I do it, why I think it’s ok, where she went wrong in raising me, when I’ll quit, when I’ll get a “real” job, when I’ll get married and raise a family… and it’s exhausting. It’s emotionally exhausting explaining my life to someone who’s heart I’m breaking with every socially unacceptable choice that I make. I find myself trying to convince her that she’s not to blame for anything “wrong” with me because I don’t think that there is anything wrong with me. I try to explain to her that I think porn is okay like some people think Vegemite is okay. That I think that we live in a transitionary culture in which sex work is still stigmatized but it’s (very) slowly on it’s way out of that. I try to remind her that people didn’t use to think that being gay was okay, that being transgender was okay, that women in the workforce wasn’t okay, that men staying home with the kids wasn’t okay. I try to remind her that people should have the right to do whatever they want if it makes them happy and they aren’t genuinely hurting anyone. I’ve told her over and over again that I love what I do. Porn allows me a freedom and an expression of myself that I couldn’t get from anything else, and I’ve managed to make a living with it. I’ve managed to support myself doing the thing that I love most. Isn’t that the dream? Isn’t that what every parent wants for their children? I just happened to choose something that is (weirdly) disdainful to most of society.

My favorite part of our conversation is always when she brings up some friend who’s found me out. It’s always a situation where they’ve seen me and they wanted to let my mom know, in case she didn’t already. It’s always with a tone of disapproval and concern. But hey, how’d they find me? What site were they jerking off to that I came up on? What search terms did they put into PornHub or RedTube or whatever other free porn site they were looking at that I came up in? Were they jerking off because they needed a stress relief because they worked a 12 hour shift to support their family? Were they jerking off because they were trying to not go out and cheat on their wife? Were they watching it with their wife, trying to spice up a 30 year old marriage? It’s okay for them to look and use but it’s not okay for me to provide it? That’s backwards. And it’s bullshit.

The best advice I ever received came from a friend’s mom, who is a stripper: She told me that no matter what you do, be the best that you can at it. It’s simple, and I’ve heard tons of people say it but her telling me when I was just 16, will stick with me forever. She was the best goddamn stripper in her time, won tons of awards and travelled the world. As far as I know, she had the best fucking time. And she was “just a stripper”. Someday, I hope that my mom will feel comfortable enough to tell her friends about me. I hope that she’ll want to brag about me, like parents to do with other parents, and her friends will be impressed that even though I’m “just a pornstar”, I’ve traveled the world, I’ve won awards, I’ve been on the covers of magazines, been featured in “mainstream” media, and basically had the best fucking time. But mostly that she raised someone who was comfortable enough with who she is to do something that she loved, even though it was an unpopular and highly stigmatized choice and that I was willing to do something that I believed was okay to do, regardless of the social consequences. Myself, and the majority of my generation were raised to believe that we could do or be anything that we wanted but as soon as we do, and it’s different from what they wanted or what their idea of what’s acceptable is, it’s not okay. And that’s not okay.

My ma will hate that I say this but, with every conversation we have in which she tries to convince me to live differently, it only cements my conviction even more and fuels the flame that is my love for sex work.

/end teenager-esque “parents just don’t understand” rant

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So yesterday evening I was feeling saucy and decided to invite all of Twitter in my Lair of Sexiness™. It went a little something like this:

Then, in conversation, I noted that Mary Robinette Kowal should read them in her Phone Sex Voice™, because that would be awesome. Well, guess what?

Truly, this is the best of all possible worlds.

Idag skrevs det lite om majonnäs hos kostdoktorn och då kunde jag inte låta bli att göra lite själv. Mitt grundrecept är 3 äggulor, dijonsenap, vinäger och lite salt och peppar samt naturligtvis 3+ dl olja.

Till middagen idag kryddade jag majonnäsen (150 g) med två vitlöksklyftor och chili. Till majonnäsen gjorde jag en omelett på äggvitorna och stekte två ostgrillare.

Intagen blev

/Tommy

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Russian Photographer Captures The Cutest Squirrel Photo Session Ever

Photos by ©Vadim Trunov - Via Bored Panda

Weekend inspiration. -Emily

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In most people's minds, gamers are the furthest thing from the muscular, toned athletes they aspire to be...possibly because video games are often blamed for breeding a generation of couch potatoes. But In fact, there are many fit gamers out there, and many of them will cite parallels with the RPGs they know and love when talking about how they got fit.

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Pebbles nya smartklocka Time har en ovanlig funktion som potentiellt kan innebära en stor fördel på marknaden. Genom något som kallas Smartstraps kan användare utöka enhetens funktionalitet på olika vis, ungefär som nya moduler kan ge Project Ara-telefoner fler funktioner.

Smartstraps är en öppen hårdvaruplattform som baseras på utbytbara armband. Dessa armband ansluts till en särskild port på klockan och kan utnyttjas av mjukvaran. Pebble föreställer sig exempelvis armband som ger Time pulsmätare, GPS och andra typer av sensorer.

Nu har tillverkaren meddelat att de avsatt en miljon dollar (8,65 miljoner kronor) för att stötta de som försöker skapa Smartstraps genom gräsrotsfinansiering. Pebble kommer hålla utkik efter de mest lovande projekten och bidra med pengar, så att plattformen enklare får fäste.

Inlägget Pebble avsätter en miljon dollar för att stödja Smartstraps dök först upp på Swedroid.

YouTube has quietly been rolling out a new feature that will automatically play the next suggested video when the current one you're watching is done. Here's how to disable it.

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Urban fantasy often seems more open-minded than other fantasy subgenres. You can have more sex, more swearing, loads of blasphemy, and tons of gonzo violence. So what can't you have in urban fantasy books? Apparently, an older female protagonist, as author Harry Connolly found out.

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Right when she’s waking up 

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Me: *tries to go to bed at a reasonable time*
Me: ah yes
Me: 4am
Me: perfect

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Igår höll WinHEC, ett event för hårdvarutillverkare i Kina, där Microsofts Terry Myerson pratade om Windows 10. Bland annat avslöjade han att Windows 10 lanseras nu till sommaren. Det är tidigare än vad man gissat på, eftersom Microsoft släppt nya versioner av Windows i oktober.

Till skillnad mot med tidigare utgåvor släpper man inte först den engelska versionen, utan istället kommer Windows 10 redan från start till 190 länder i 111 olika språk. Idag har operativsystemet 1,5 miljarder använder världen över. Som berättats tidigare får användare av Windows 7, 8 och 8.1 uppgradera och köra Windows 10 gratis under det första året.

Microsoft valde att hoppa över Windows 9 och istället gå direkt på Windows 10. Sommarens uppgradering blir dock en omfattande sådan med många nyheter jämfört med Windows 8.

I och med Windows 10 har man slagit ihop alla olika versioner till en utgåva, och denna är tänkt att köras på alla typer av enheter – från smartphones och surfplattor till datorer, TV och mediaspelare, men det kommer även en nedskalad utgåva för det som kallas Internet of Things.

Windows 10 kommer att skalas mellan olika storlekar på skärmar och gränssnittet anpassas efter vad det är för typ av enhet. Om du kör det på en smartphone visas den startskärm med paneler för appar, som lanserades och hårt kritiserades i Windows 8 för datorer, medan datorer och surfplattor med tangentbord istället startar upp i skrivbordsmiljö.

Microsoft har lyssnat på kritiken från alla användare som inte alls gillade att skrivbordet försvann som standard i Windows 8. Den nya hemskärmen är bortplockad från Windows 10 på datorer. Istället är skrivbordet tillbaka, och så är även startmenyn – som här har blivit en kombination av den traditionella startmenyn från tidigare Windows och startskärmen från Windows 8 (vilket i praktiken innebär att du kan fästa paneler i startmenyn).

Exakt när under sommaren Windows 10 lanseras är inte officiellt ännu. Du som idag kör Windows 7 eller Windows 8/8.1 får dock uppgradera och köra det nya operativsystemet gratis i ett år. Vad som händer efter årets slut är inte klart. Det kanske övergår till en prenumerationstjänst, eller så gör Microsoft Windows 10 helt gratis. Vi får se.

Källa: Microsoft

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