Elizabeth Bear

Pomegranate Polyarthralgia

Your job is to pick the worst actor to play James Bond.

What does RFKj do for money again?

But the awfulness drives desperate people to the wellness industry, where their money is surgically extracted for snake oil.

The system is broken because of a series of policy and profit choices made since the 1970s.

It does not have to be this awful.

If you're unlucky you can spend 20 hours at the ED once you're so sick you finally talk yourself into going.

Even then you're probably explaining your medical history at 2x speed to a semiretired moonlighting per diem who already saw 20 patients today.

If you're lucky enough to have health insurance and you don't live in a healthcare desert, you have an overworked PCP, who you might manage to see for 15 minutes every two years, and it takes you 8 months to get an appointment.

RFKj wants you to make health care decisions without federal oversight or guidance, in consultation with your doctor.

Except you don't have a doctor.

Yeah, not it.

Faceblind as hell over here.

Scientists make a pocket-sized AI brain with help from monkey neurons A new study suggests AI systems could be a lot more efficient. Researchers were able to shrink an AI vision model to 1/1000th of its original size.

www.npr.org/2026/03/03/n...

Lobsters, @cstross.bsky.social ?

"You have reached the end of the Internet. Go outside."

ooooo

DAMMIT.

I was #2 and #3 on different boards but I don't remember the nodes because dyscalculia. :D

The giant RAYTHEON great runes terminals in the basement of Buckley.

secondhand market?

Always nice to get some book love from the great Rich Horton.

Congrats!

Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a construction worker's outfit. The other shows her in a police officer outfit.

Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a nurse's outfit. The other shows her in an electrical worker's outfit.

Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a military outfit while riding aboat. The other shows her in a firefighter's outfit using a firehose.

Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a Westernwear outfit. The other shows her in a police officer's outfit.

good news. kristi noem has already found eight new jobs

I definitely had a CD player in 1989 (Birthday present my senior year of high school). Home internet, not until 1993 or so. Before then, I used WWIV BBSes and eventually, my senior year at college, they gave EVERYBODY mainframe accounts, not just the engineering students.

I didn't find out about it until after it was over...

Are you with me, Dr. Wu?

I also dated a sysadmin for a time.

Big mistake but in a weird story of way it got me where I am.

Lol!!

Pat Benatar is though

Better than just not writing!!

I mostly used it to get to Usenet and MUSHes

It takes the scenic route at 2 am, dialing local numbers only.

They're uuencoding their SPAM!