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The Forever War - Joe Haldeman White Space - Elizabeth Bear Stream Big - Nathan Grayson Play Nice - Jason Schreier Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan There is no Antimemetics Department - qntm

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MurderBot - Martha Wells The Imperial Radch - Ann Leckie Wayfarers - Becky Chambers The Stars Are Legion - Kameron Hurley Keiko - Mike Brooks Kaiju Preservation Society - Scalzi Old Man’s War - Scalzi The Captive’s War - James S. A. Corey Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson

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Also helps to have made some new friends in the span of years that recommend stuff And just putting stuff on a “I’ll get to it eventually” list (Read for fun y’all, there’s some good stuff out there)

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It’s nice to get back to it Feel like the highschool/college demands kinda killed the enjoyment of it for a while there

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No Signal @nosignal.page · 17/09/2026

I think I’ve finished 3(?) books in as many months Maybe 4 now? I’ve lost track Think I’ve read more this year than I have the past 8

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It’s ok, just tired of winning is all Just gotta lie down in this hole for a bit You wouldn’t mind throwing some dirt over me would you? Oh and put my name on that stone there so people know not to disturb me

No Signal @nosignal.page · 15/09/2026

That’s a Riley headline *clicks through* and a very Riley article (Also, whatever curse lies upon Riley’s tech may it be banished)

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No Signal @nosignal.page · 14/09/2026

I listened to The Ghost in the Shell soundtrack so much last week It’s so good

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No Signal @nosignal.page · 10/09/2026

I would like more of this Ghost in the Shell It’s just so nice to look at Put this on a 100 foot tall screen and let me run head first into it

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No Signal @nosignal.page · 04/09/2026

I’m reminded of the timed games in hotels, or arcades And not in a good way

No Signal @nosignal.page · 27/08/2026

Noticed I’m sitting in an uncomfortable position I rotated my desk Now I have to redo my cable management Regrets

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No Signal @nosignal.page · 27/08/2026

I’ve lost all sense of time It was morning and now it’s lunch I’m gonna go back to reading

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No Signal @nosignal.page · 11/08/2026

It’s like being irradiated

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No Signal @nosignal.page · 08/08/2026

4. Fix your damn sound systems and mixes so I can understand the ding dang dialogue

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No Signal @nosignal.page · 08/08/2026

Here’s my take to make the movie going experience better: 1. Opera house rules. Doors are shut until intermission. If there is no intermission, you can stand to the side until it’s over 2. You pull out your phone, that thing gets fried by a laser. 3. You talk, you are anesthetized

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No Signal @nosignal.page · 08/08/2026

I’ve now seen the Odyssey Bold of Nolan to render a SpongeBob movie in live action Much less comedic than the original source material

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No Signal @nosignal.page · 04/08/2026

From what I’ve seen, Big Walk reminds me of the time @blujayfay.bsky.social wandered off on our Minecraft server and I had to help her navigate back to our base

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No Signal @nosignal.page · 03/08/2026

I may be consuming An ill advised amount of Game Changer But well ignore that advice and continue on

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Figured out that I can set a range limits on my standing desk So it doesn’t try to crush me when I bump the down button

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I just woke up from a nap and am unstoppable

Like I used my own fucking brain and time to hand shop, write up a short article and present it to the class probably took 30mins or so Now you can evaporate a lake and do the same thing in a fraction of the time

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No Signal @nosignal.page · 24/07/2026

I took a media literacy course in college going on 10 years ago One assignment was to make fake news I think about the news article I photoshopped together and… it just seems so quaint

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Ah That has aged about 14 years And I definitely forgot swaths of it Think the ending still carries it for me at least

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No Signal @nosignal.page · 21/07/2026

Need to rewatch Seven Psychopaths to test a theory

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No Signal @nosignal.page · 13/07/2026

It’s a much better article when you don’t read it and misread “utilizing” as unionizing

No Signal @nosignal.page · 12/07/2026

Why have I never played Ace Combat? It’s pretty dang fun

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No Signal @nosignal.page · 11/07/2026

Finally temperate enough to play a few rounds of Marathon And dang If I don’t want to just keep going back

Very satisfying to replace the cardboard boxes with actual bins Takes up a lot less space too which is very nice

I thought it was way later in the day than it is What the hell?

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Ghost in the Shell is so fun Like dang Fantastic to watch

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No Signal @nosignal.page · 02/07/2026

Was not prepared for what Chainsmoker Cat had in store They watched Watamote and said "hold my beer”

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I cannot function in this weather I desire cooler temperatures

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I can just print stuff It’s pretty cool

If you’re adding images of the cars you’re mentioning that would be amazing (although totally understandable if it’s too much)

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But profit’s the aim of every company, and what better opportunity for that than now

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There are so many factors in the supply chain that have led to this moment, I doubt I’ll ever get the full picture But maybe most of all just, greed, the opportunity to make more money instead of innovating new technologies or methods to meet demand and keep costs low for end users

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And why not throw rare earth magnets/material on their as well I don’t really know what’s going on there, but where there’s uncertainty there’s a price increase (there are restrictions? There aren’t restrictions? Only non-military applications can be exported? Mostly affects motors?)

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Tariffs are still an ongoing problem - it takes businesses & the industry a while to figure out what the policy actually is and comply with it Meanwhile, items can be delayed in Customs, adding to costs and delaying production The material needed to build fabs in the US are also impacted by all this

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Transportation costs are also up, due to the situation in a certain Strait This same Strait is also a major conduit for helium, which is needed for the production of semiconductors and storage devices

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Storage! All those massive datasets need to go on high density storage arrays So, price goes up

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Yields of advanced semiconductors are also probably an issue to some extent? Maturity in processes has (I think?) improved things But newer processes still bring production challenges

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This will be unlikely to change for the next 3-5 years As these same 3 semiconductor manufacturers are obtaining pricing agreements with customers to hold costs stable at the current inflated numbers (MAYBE it could be determined by some agency or court that this is anticompetitive behavior? Dunno)

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These companies also have divisions that utilize the semiconductors that are produced in their own products So those products will, inevitably, have their own orders prioritized over external customers

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3 companies have determined that if they commit enough of their production to AI, they can demand exorbitant prices from every other customer they have. Those customers being every other company that sells products to consumers (both individual and business)

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