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Danica Swanson

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A tip o' the hat to those who sent me tips this week and last week: @trigs, @sinusoidalsnail, @adam-, @eirrann.eth, @aviationdoctor.eth, @erica, @winberry, and anyone whose notif I missed. I appreciate all the tips, art appreciation, camaraderie, and good convos. Some news on the New Creative Thing (not yet announced) that I've been teasing lately: It will include an Obsidian digital garden that will eventually house my entire body of written work old and new, including many never-before-seen selections from my archives. Upcoming releases (and re-releases) will be announced in a series of mini-launches rather than one big launch. It's the /slowcore-hq way. 🐒 It's Farcaster-seeded endeavor with contributions from three brilliant people, all of whom I met on Farcaster. More news... soon (TM).
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Today in the ongoing saga of "why my building sucks and I wish I could move out": I just discovered that the two power outages over the weekend not only cost me some hard-won writing time but also knocked out the cooling function in my mini-split. It was working fine last week. Not the first time this has happened. I also learned that about half of the other units in this building are in the same boat. The management company knows about it but they don't have an ETA on the repairs. So since I don't have any backup option, I now have to decide whether to spend several hundred bucks to buy a new portable A/C unit ASAP, or just try to endure the heat and hope the repairs will happen sooner rather than later. Probably not wise to bet on speedy repairs, so I'll likely get a new portable A/C unit. Otherwise I won't be able to work once the temps hit the 90s. On the plus side: once this multi-year repair saga + lawsuit over the mini-splits installation finally concludes (later this year, I hope), it sounds like my family might actually be able to sell the unit. Fingers crossed. That would mean that after 17 years of living in this seemingly cursed building, I may finally get a chance to look for a new place to live in earnest. Even the *thought* of being able to move within the foreseeable future excites me so much that I hesitate to allow myself to think about it until I have more clarity, because it would be hard to get my hopes up and have them dashed again. Ah, who am I kidding anyway? I'll be doing aspirational Zillow browsing the minute I finish typing this.
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My hardcopy of Antimemetics arrived in the mail yesterday. It's a short volume (~150 pp). I read it cover-to-cover in 4 hours. I found it thought-provoking and enjoyable. My fav chapter: "We Are Our Attention." Here's a quote that reminds me of Farcaster at its best: "Instead of trying to engineer a perfect hierarchy of attention, we should aim to cultivate a "biodiverse" information ecosystem that thrives on a multitude of interests pursued by each of its members. In biology, ecosystems with greater biodiversity are more resilient to shocks and better equipped to adapt to changing conditions. Similarly, a healthy network benefits from having many different nodes pursuing what each finds most meaningful or compelling. Not every gatekeeper will uncover a transformative idea, but the sheer diversity of approaches increases the likelihood that someone will. A decentralized network of curious minds makes the information ecosystem stronger, more adaptive, and more likely to produce ideas that take off." (pp. 110-111)
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