Steam on linux has tons of games. But not all of them (Baulder’s Gate 3.)

An article came out saying that Google News is letting AI generated news story in: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/01/18/1621206/ai-generated-content-can-sometimes-slip-into-your-google-news-feed

On many medical websites, the four pieces of advice to lower BP: 1 - weight management, 2 - cardio, 3 - minimize salt, 4 - minimize alcohol.

My computer goes into night mode a few hours before bed (reduces the blue and dims). Then I dim my light about an hour before.

What do we tell death? A: Not today!

There is a good fix for the tasks thing. Keep a notepad near your bed. As you get into bed, anything on your todo list you are worried about gets written on the notepad. Get in the habit of looking at the pad every morning. Then once you write it down, you should be able to let it go. And if you wake up because you remember something, just grab the notepad and scribble it down (doesn’t need to be elaborate, just a word or two to trigger your memory in the morning.)

Come to think of it, listening to the Levar Burton Reads podcast would probably work pretty good as well.

The App ‘Calm’ which is good for meditation also has sleep stories. There is a great one by Levar Burton describing the solar system.

youarenotsosmart.com psychology, sociology, & more. Sounds boring but is fascinating. His own description:

The central theme of You Are Not So Smart is that you are unaware of how unaware you are which leads you to becoming the unreliable narrator in the story of your life. You Are Not So Smart is a fun exploration of the ways you and everyone else tends to develop an undeserved confidence in human perception, motivation, and behavior. I hope you’ll rediscover a humility and reconnect with the stumbling, fumbling community of humans trying to make sense of things the best we can.

www.theskepticsguide.org Separating science from pseudoscience, medicine from quckery.

www.levarburtonpodcast.com. Each episode Levar reads a piece of short fiction.

Brilliant people are only brilliant at their area of expertise. They can be horribly, even dangerously stupid in other areas. What’s worse is that they often think they are brilliant at everything. (See Linus Pauling, vitamin c.)

Yep.

We used to have the problem of senior citizens having their property taxes jacked up every year to the point that the taxes are almost as high as the original purchase price. Bunch of seniors were ending up losing their houses.

Prop 13 was designed to fix that; and it did, but it also caused a bunch of ‘unintended consequences’.

Definitely takes some getting used to.

On the post-apocalyptic theme i recent read ‘Cantacle for Lieberwitz’ following a monetary over several thousand years after a nuclear war as they try to save knowledge. Parts of it are 50s futurism (published in '59). There is even a scene describing how a cop gets a self-driving car to stop. An interesting read.

Sanderson himself recommends ‘Tress of the Emerald Sea’ as a short work to get a feel for his style. I agee.

In regards to Ocean at the end of the lane. You could really broaden that out to anything by Neil Gaiman (Ocean, stardust, graveyard book, neverware, good omens, american gods, etc. Etc.)

And if you like Neil’s fairytale-esque stuff, then check out Spinning Silver and Uprooted by Naomi Novik as well.

If you’re looking for something longer, try Brandon Sanderson’s cosmere (start with either Mistborn or Stormlight Archives.)

Or perhaps Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files (hard-boiled detective who also happens to be a wizard.) First few books are a bit weak, but gets much better.

Some other ideas:

Murderbot Diaries, The Locked Tomb, Assasin’s Apprentice, Broken Earth, Kings of the Wyld.

And since California has Prop 13, i wonder if landowners can sue for the future tax increases for the replacement property? Afterall, that is a direct consequence of the forced sale of the land.

“You are increasing my property taxes forever. So you should be responsible for that increase… forever.”

I 2nd Kings of the Wyld. Sequal coming out soon.

Legends & Lattes was fun too, and the sequal ‘Bookshops and Bondust’ is similarly fun.