city sky hanging low, interlude
May. 30th, 2025 05:53 am![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
baseball_rpf_ao3_feedby Anonymous
"Um… anyway! I’m doing better, especially knowing I get to spend some time back h— uh, back in Seattle.”
Ty France is a liar.
He knows the moment he leaves on Sunday night for Sacramento he’ll be alone again. So he lies. He lies that it’s okay. That he’s doing better. What choice does he have?
The loneliness is killing him. Have people died from that?
Or, Ty France tries to make another phone call.
Words: 3229, Chapters: 2/2, Language: English
Series: Part 9 of baseball rpf, Part 4 of i wish being in love was enough. i wish it counted for anything at all.
- Fandoms: Baseball RPF
- Rating: Explicit
- Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
- Categories: M/M
- Characters: Ty France, J. P. Crawford
- Relationships: J. P. Crawford/Ty France/Dylan Moore, J. P. Crawford/Ty France
- Additional Tags: Mentioned Dylan Moore, Voicemail, Angst, Hopeful Ending, open old wounds just to bleed out older lines until there's no truths left and i concede to close my eyes... again, Interlude, Short & Sweet, ...yeah sweet actually, Loneliness, Ty France's Self-Distructive Tendencies Continue Until Morale Improves, Phone Calls & Telephones, CHAPTER 2 IS EXPLICIT!!!, Free Use, Face-Fucking, Coming In Pants, Coming Untouched, Angry Sex, Mildly Dubious Consent, Objectification, mostly prose rambilings and very little dialogue, Title from a Jack Johnson Song, i think that just about covers it, FULL WORK Title From a Suki Waterhouse Song, Title From a KAIYI Song
Baseball is Love - An Ode to Buster Posey
May. 30th, 2025 03:33 ambaseball_rpf_ao3_feedby y4nkees
what the title says
a little poem representing a career of a baseball player, buster posey implied
Words: 525, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
- Fandoms: Baseball RPF
- Rating: Not Rated
- Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
- Characters: Buster Posey
- Additional Tags: Poetry, Baseball, Major League Baseball - Freeform, Buster Posey - Freeform, Catchers - Freeform, MLB, Sappy, San Francisco Giants, Nostalgia, Free Verse
Pitcher in the Streets, Catcher in the Sheets
May. 29th, 2025 03:59 pmbaseball_rpf_ao3_feedby Amplier
Kim Seungmin manages to meet up with Lee Jongho, his crush from the San Francisco Giants, and well...they fuck
Words: 2254, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
- Fandoms: Stray Kids (Band), Baseball RPF
- Rating: Explicit
- Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
- Categories: M/M
- Characters: Kim Seungmin (Stray Kids), Lee Jongho
- Relationships: Kim Seungmin/Lee Jongho
- Additional Tags: crackfic, References to Major League Baseball, Lee Jongho of the San Francisco Giants, San Francisco Giants, Smut, Anal Sex, face down ass up, Gentle Sex, hookup, no beta we die like my dignity after writing this, dont treat this seriously, kim seungmin has a praise kink, Bottom Kim Seungmin (Stray Kids), top Lee jongho
Lanyards
May. 30th, 2025 03:08 amhouse_chase_ao3_feedby int3rrupted
A Chase le da pereza atarse los cordones de sus zapatos.
Words: 344, Chapters: 1/1, Language: Español
- Fandoms: House M.D.
- Rating: General Audiences
- Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
- Categories: Gen
- Characters: Robert Chase, Gregory House
- Relationships: Robert Chase & Gregory House, Robert Chase/Gregory House
- Additional Tags: Father-Son Relationship, Soft Gregory House, Tying shoes, Why Did I Write This?, idk - Freeform, tie shoes
The Talk Show: ‘Sewing Machine Repair Shop’
May. 30th, 2025 02:49 amdaringfireballfeed_feedPatrick McGee joins the show to discuss his must-read new book, Apple in China — one of the best books about Apple anyone has ever written.
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The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2025: Tuesday June 10
May. 30th, 2025 02:50 amdaringfireballfeed_feedLocation: The California Theatre, San Jose
Showtime: Tuesday, 10 June 2024, 7pm PT (Doors open 6pm)
Special Guest(s): See below
Price: $50
Ever since I started doing these live shows from WWDC, I’ve kept the guest(s) secret, until showtime. I’m still doing that this year. But in recent years the guests have seemed a bit predictable: senior executives from Apple. This year I again extended my usual invitation to Apple, but, for the first time since 2015, they declined.
I think this will make for a fascinating show, but I want to set everyone’s expectations accordingly. I’m invigorated by this. See you at the show, I hope.
Walter Scott: Fellas, is it gay if knights have elaborate rituals to touch each other's bodies
May. 30th, 2025 02:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneThe King of England [Richard the Lionheart], who, as it was emphatically said of his successor Henry the Eighth, loved to look upon A MAN, was well pleased with the thews, sinews, and symmetry of him whom he now surveyed...
— Walter Scott, The Talisman
amodei's warning
May. 29th, 2025 11:14 amthistleingreyUpon due reflection, I think this Axios piece (which I read yesterday) deserves more attention:
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic
Don't panic. Strategize.
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic
AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years, Amodei told us in an interview from his San Francisco office.
Don't panic. Strategize.
Trump’s Entire Tariff Endeavor Ruled Illegal by U.S. Court of International Trade
May. 29th, 2025 04:08 pmdaringfireballfeed_feedTony Romm and Ana Swanson, reporting for The New York Times (paywall-busting gift link):
A panel of federal judges on Wednesday blocked President Trump from imposing some of his steepest tariffs on China and other U.S. trading partners, finding that federal law did not grant him “unbounded authority” to tax imports from nearly every country around the world.
The ruling, by the U.S. Court of International Trade, delivered an early yet significant setback to Mr. Trump, undercutting his primary leverage as he looks to pressure other nations into striking trade deals more beneficial to the United States.
Before Mr. Trump took office, no president had sought to invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a 1977 law, to impose tariffs on other nations. The law, which primarily concerns trade embargoes and sanctions, does not even mention tariffs.
But Mr. Trump adopted a novel interpretation of its powers as he announced, and then suspended, high levies on scores of countries in April. He also used the law to impose tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico in return for what he said was their role in sending fentanyl to the United States.
On Wednesday, the Court of International Trade, the primary federal legal body overseeing such matters, found that Mr. Trump’s tariffs “exceed any authority granted” to the president by the emergency powers law. Ruling in separate cases brought by states and businesses, a bipartisan panel of three judges essentially declared many, but not all, of Mr. Trump’s tariffs to have been issued illegally.
Enough with the euphemisms. “Novel interpretation” is shorthand for “bullshit mad-king fantasy stuff”. Paul Krugman, on his blog (which he really should move away from Substack):
The thing is, it has been obvious all along that Trump’s use of the 1977 International Economic Emergency Powers Act to justify Smoot-Hawley level tariffs was a massive abuse of power. I mean, since when are 4 percent unemployment and 2.5 percent inflation an emergency justifying the reversal of 90 years of policy? But I guess I just assumed that things like that didn’t matter anymore.
Look past the bluster and Trump is getting his ass kicked left and right. Every organization — universities, law firms, computer makers — that’s been hesitant to just call his nonsense nonsense and his bullshit bullshit should put their big boy pants on and stand up. The whole thing is falling apart. The system might actually still work. But everyone needs to make their choice known: courage or cowardice?
Drooling
May. 28th, 2025 06:37 amhouse_chase_ao3_feed🚗
“流口水给我看。”
House×Chase
Words: 1984, Chapters: 1/1, Language: 中文-普通话 國語
- Fandoms: House M.D.
- Rating: Mature
- Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
- Categories: M/M
- Characters: Gregory House, Robert Chase
- Relationships: Robert Chase/Gregory House
Apple’s Annual App Store Scam and Fraud Report
May. 28th, 2025 11:05 pmdaringfireballfeed_feedApple Newsroom, yesterday:
Apple’s strong antifraud infrastructure helps ensure that malicious developer and customer accounts are swiftly flagged and eliminated. In 2024, Apple terminated more than 146,000 developer accounts over fraud concerns and rejected an additional 139,000 developer enrollments, preventing bad actors from submitting their apps to the App Store in the first place.
Apple also rejected over 711 million customer account creations and deactivated nearly 129 million customer accounts last year, blocking these risky and malicious accounts from carrying out nefarious activity. That includes spamming or manipulating ratings and reviews, charts, and search results that risk compromising the integrity of the App Store.
This report isn’t something new that Apple is doing in the face of increased regulatory scrutiny over the exclusivity of the App Store — they’ve been issuing these reports since 2021. Nick Heer has a good post at Pixel Envy documenting how some of their numbers are seemingly all over the place, year to year.
What some App Store critics argue is that if any substantial amount of fraud, scams, or rip-offs occur through apps distributed through the App Store, that proves that there are no protective benefits of the App Store model. That’s nonsense. There are high-crime cities and low-crime cities, but there exist zero no-crime cities. The question is whether Apple is catching most — or even just “enough” — scammers. Scammy apps, pirated apps, fraudulent app reviewers. You name it. I’ve long suggested that Apple ought to employ a “bunco squad” to crack down on scammers, focusing first and foremost on successful ones. Better to catch one scam with 1,000 victims than 10 scams with one victim each.
I think they could still do better, but I actually think Apple has been doing a better job on this front in recent years. But if your measuring stick is “Are there any successful scams at all in the App Store?” there’s no way Apple is ever going to pass muster. And I think a lot of App Store critics are vastly, vastly underestimating how much fraud Apple is currently stopping that would sail right through if iOS adopted a Mac-style of software distribution. The main difference is that iOS is so much more of a juicy target than MacOS. The other is that I think many people underestimate how many software scams there are on MacOS that wouldn’t work on iOS.
Gurman: Apple Is Going to Re-Version OSes by Year, Starting With iOS 26, MacOS 26, tvOS 26, Etc.
May. 28th, 2025 10:32 pmdaringfireballfeed_feedHell of a scoop from Mark Gurman, at Bloomberg:
The next Apple operating systems will be identified by year, rather than with a version number, according to people with knowledge of the matter. That means the current iOS 18 will give way to “iOS 26,” said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plan is still private. Other updates will be known as iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, tvOS 26 and visionOS 26.
Apple is making the change to bring consistency to its branding and move away from an approach that can be confusing to customers and developers. Today’s operating systems — including iOS 18, watchOS 12, macOS 15 and visionOS 2 — use different numbers because their initial versions didn’t debut at the same time.
Now that they’re on a consistent annual schedule, this supposed new version-numbering scheme makes a lot of sense. It’ll certainly be helpful to anyone trying to figure out what’s up-to-date or not, and it’ll make writing about older OSes much easier. Presuming Gurman is right, this is going to seem really weird at first, and then very quickly seem very natural.
One of the true oddities of Apple’s OS version numbering is that because they stuck with “10” as the leading digit of MacOS’s version numbering from Mac OS X 10.0 “Cheetah”1 (2001) through MacOS 10.15 “Catalina” (2019), beforing finally turning the dial to 11 with MacOS 11 “Big Sur” (2020), a casual observer would presume that iOS (currently at 18.5) is older than MacOS (currently at 15.5) when in fact it’s the other way around.
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This was like the ultimate in wishbranding. A real cheetah is the fastest land animal on Earth. Mac OS X 10.0 “Cheetah” was the slowest-feeling OS Apple ever released. ↩︎
A certain man went down to Jericho and fell among leopards
May. 28th, 2025 09:01 pmslacktivist_feedTwo stories that are the same story (as one another, and as millions of other stories from all across America).
one-pan ditalini and peas
May. 28th, 2025 04:46 pmsmittenkitchen_feed
Howard Meets Hercules
May. 28th, 2025 02:14 pmgrrm_feedFor all you Howard Waldrop fans out there… if you enjoyed our short films, the adaptations of MARY-MARGARET ROAD-GRADER, NIGHT OF THE COOTERS, and THE UGLY CHICKENS that we’ve been showing at film festivals over the past couple of years, we have big news a-coming. A Waldrop feature is on the way. All animated, from Lion Forge.
It’s an adaptation of Howard’s novella A DOZEN TOUGH JOBS, his take on the Twelve Labors of Hercules. Joe Lansdale, the Sage of Nacogdoches, father of Hap and Leonard, and creator of Bubba Ho-Tep, did the screenplay, and no one could have done it better except maybe Howard His Own Self.
(I know, I know. Some of you will just be pissed off by this, as you are by everything I announce here that is not about Westeros or THE WINDS OF WINTER. You have given up on me, or on the book. I will never finish WINDS, If I do, I will never finish A DREAM OF SPRING. If I do, it won’t be any good. I ought to get some other writer to pinch hit for me… I am going to die soon anyway, because I am so old. I lost all interest in A Song of Ice and Fire decades ago. I don’t give a shit about writing any longer, I just sit around and spend my money. I edit the Wild Cards books too, but you hate Wild Cards. You may hate everything else I have ever written, the Hugo-winners and Hugo-losers, “A Song for Lya” and DYING OF THE LIGHT, “Sandkings” and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, “This Tower of Ashes” and “The Stone City,” OLD MARS and OLD VENUS and ROGUES and WARRIORS and DANGEROUS WOMEN and all the other anthologies I edited with my friend Gardner Dozois, You don’t care about any of those, I know. You don’t care about anything but WINDS OF WINTER. You’ve told me so often enough).
Thing is, I do care about them.
And I care about Westeros and WINDS as well. The Starks and Lannisters and Targaryens, Tyrion and Asha, Dany and Daenerys, the dragons and the direwolves, I care about them all. More than you can ever imagine.
I loved “A Dozen Tough Jobs” the first time I read it, ages ago. I loved Howard too. It saddens me that he did not live long enough to see the film; I hope we do him justice. How can we not? Hercules, Howard, Joe, Lion Forge… I wish you all could share my excitement at the prospect of this movie.
For those who do, The Hollywood Reporter broke the story
hunting for leave in conditioners for curls (waves) that don't stank
May. 28th, 2025 04:47 pmcimoreneAs you all are potentially aware, I have an allergy to at least one (unknown id) perfume and am hyper sensitive to other (many, but not all) perfumes and some natural fragrances. Besides one lavender tea incident, the throat swelling has only ever been in response to perfumed products on the lower half of my face for longer than the time it takes to wash it back off (so it's not TOO scary, since I always have time to escape). Hypersensitivity isn't the same as allergy, but when you add the knowledge that some unknown perfume aggressors out there will make my airway swell mostly closed, the hypersensitivity becomes very alarming and hard to deal with. Am I sneezing and feeling like I'm gonna choke because Smell, or am I risking anaphylaxis?
So as you can imagine, I usually buy unscented cosmetics, hygiene products, etc. And that's not always enough! As I was saying totwistedchick recently, sometimes I have to discard unscented products due to the smells of ingredients. Common offenders include burning (how?), ozone (this isn't unbearable but it's very annoying), a vaguely "gone off" smell in some moisturizers (rancid oils? Or some kind of fungal ingredient??), and urine (WHY! I know it's because they use urea in the manufacture but that's an issue I would think they would consider urgent to fix???)
But sometimes I feel compelled to try scented products because there doesn't seem to be a good unscented alternative. If you have any special requirements for shampoo and conditioner - in my case, I have low-porosity hair and lots of common ingredients don't work for me - there tend to be no unscented options, because unscented products are already considered a special requirement. I have decided that I need a new leave in conditioner that's more effective for holding curls and waves without frizz, and maybe a curl cream. (I don't like gel but it's always there if I can't find a good cream solution.)
Well, I tried a John Frieda Frizz Ease "curl revitalizing oil spray" today with great hopes.
My first impression was "this smells like my mother in law".waxjism agrees. It's a perfume, and the product does contain a little patchouli but it's not exactly patchouli that smells like her (but it is musky). The ingredients include "perfume", as usual, which should be illegal anywhere btw, so that's not much help.
Anyway, it's strong enough that I don't like it and will have to give it away, but it's not strong enough that I need to wash it out a day early, as long as my hair is kept back out of my face.
I've been reading the occasional perfume review reblogged bycleolinda and have got the idea it could be oud or some rose-related thing. Or maybe it's the combination of patchouli with one of these other things? I'm medium confident that it's not moringa...
( full ingredients list )
So as you can imagine, I usually buy unscented cosmetics, hygiene products, etc. And that's not always enough! As I was saying to
twistedchick recently, sometimes I have to discard unscented products due to the smells of ingredients. Common offenders include burning (how?), ozone (this isn't unbearable but it's very annoying), a vaguely "gone off" smell in some moisturizers (rancid oils? Or some kind of fungal ingredient??), and urine (WHY! I know it's because they use urea in the manufacture but that's an issue I would think they would consider urgent to fix???)But sometimes I feel compelled to try scented products because there doesn't seem to be a good unscented alternative. If you have any special requirements for shampoo and conditioner - in my case, I have low-porosity hair and lots of common ingredients don't work for me - there tend to be no unscented options, because unscented products are already considered a special requirement. I have decided that I need a new leave in conditioner that's more effective for holding curls and waves without frizz, and maybe a curl cream. (I don't like gel but it's always there if I can't find a good cream solution.)
Well, I tried a John Frieda Frizz Ease "curl revitalizing oil spray" today with great hopes.
My first impression was "this smells like my mother in law".
waxjism agrees. It's a perfume, and the product does contain a little patchouli but it's not exactly patchouli that smells like her (but it is musky). The ingredients include "perfume", as usual, which should be illegal anywhere btw, so that's not much help. Anyway, it's strong enough that I don't like it and will have to give it away, but it's not strong enough that I need to wash it out a day early, as long as my hair is kept back out of my face.
I've been reading the occasional perfume review reblogged by
cleolinda and have got the idea it could be oud or some rose-related thing. Or maybe it's the combination of patchouli with one of these other things? I'm medium confident that it's not moringa... ( full ingredients list )