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scheduling conflicts for with my own panels will sadly keep me away from some talks that promise to be amusing, but i think i should be able to make it to the Andreessen Horowitz panel on “Little Tech”

Little Tech: Owning the Future of American Innovation Mar 9, 2025 11:30am – 12:30pm CT Favorite Hilton Austin Downtown Favorite Salon J Policy VC / Investors Innovation The path to greatness starts in a garage. But as the biggest tech companies have grown, they’ve increasingly promoted policies designed to limit competition and consumer choice. We believe Little Tech is vital to our national interest and key to maintaining American economic, technological, and military dominance in the 21st century — and we need policies that support, not stifle, competition and innovation. Join us for a conversation about how policymakers can champion Little Tech, give startups a fair shot to compete, and unleash the next American tech revolution. The time to build is now.
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Atlas lays on a rug with some green vetwrap around one of his paws. He has sad eyes and is staring wistfully into the distance.

atlas has an inflamed dew claw and i had to wrap it so he’d stop licking it. better believe he’s milking his new, grievous injury for all it’s worth. “better give me extra snacks, this could be my last day on this mortal coil...”

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February reading. I think The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet topped the list, but as should be evident I’m really enjoying the Dungeon Crawler Carl series too. And Cory Doctorow’s second Martin Hench novel was another one-night pageturner (one that, this time, I was smart enough not to begin reading when it was already past my bedtime).

@molly0xfff’s February 2025 reads Babel, R.F. Kuang The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers A Closed and Common Orbit, Becky Chambers Heavy Weather, Bruce Sterling Dungeon Crawler Carl, Matt Dinniman Carl’s Doomsday Scenario, Matt Dinniman The Bezzle, Cory Doctorow The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook, Matt Dinniman
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The DOE “book banning hoax” press release claimed that challenged books are “age-inappropriate, sexually explicit, or obscene”. Only 13% of banned books in 2023–24 included “on the page” sexual scenes—but 36% featured PoC characters and 25% featured LGBTQ characters.

Certain identities are being removed from library shelves en masse. During the 2023-2024 school year, 36% of all banned titles featured characters or people of color and a quarter (25%) included LGBTQ+ people or characters. Of titles with LGBTQ+ people or characters, over a quarter (28%) feature trans and/or genderqueer characters. Erasure of identities is pervasive within banned illustrated and graphic-heavy titles. For example, 73% of all graphic and illustrated titles feature visuals with LGBTQ+ representation, of people or characters of color, or that address race/racism. More specifically, 64% of banned picture books have pictures or illustrations that depict LGBTQ+ characters or stories. For all the inflammatory rhetoric about “explicit books,” only 13% of banned titles had “on the page” descriptions of sexual experiences, compared to 31% with “off the page” sexual experiences. Overall, 40% of banned titles include sexual experiences (some contained both “on” and “off the page”). Books banned during the 2023-2024 school year overwhelmingly address violence (65%), death and grief (55%), and abuse (43%); all very real human experiences.
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