Oh and it's not just teens! It's folks up to age 26!
I was yesterday years old when I learned the Seattle Public Library has a program called Books Unbanned that lets teens anywhere in the country access their full collection of eBooks and audiobooks: www.spl.org/programs-and...
Teens and young adults ages 13 to 26 living anywhere in the U.S. can access our entire collection of e-books and audiobooks.
Using large language models to fight health insurance companies is possibly the best use of AI I've seen: sfstandard.com/2024/08/23/h...
Sick of the lengthy process of battling insurance denials to get companies to pay for her medical care, Holden Karau decided to fight back like an engineer: She built an AI program to automate the pro...
Making any kind of work around the demands of capitalism and chronic illness can be challenging, but I am a very determined person who (according to my exes) has a glowing yellow to-do list in her head at all times and is Very Serious. Thank you for letting me indulge in some self-promo. Done now!
Link 2! Today my first ever podcast script goes off to recording. It's an installment of Very Special Episodes, and tells the incredible story of the first Japanese people in WA state — three shipwrecked sailors blown here in 1834. Out in the fall from: www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
On the Very Special Episodes podcast, we tell one incredible story each week. Stranger-than-fiction tales about normal people in extraordinary situations. Stories that make you say, “this should be a ...
Hey Bluesky friends! I love you and wish I was here more, but right now I want to spam you with two links. Link 1: I am delighted (no, filled with terrible joy) to have a story forthcoming in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, which you can pre-order here: smallbeerpress.com/lcrw/2024/04...
We have one of those near me too!
(Directed by Dan Curtis, who did Dark Shadows, and co-written by Richard Matheson. The movie even mentions, very briefly, Madame Damnable, a legendary Seattle "inkeeper")
In case anyone needs a break, the highlight of my week may have been discovering that the Kolchak movie THE NIGHT STRANGLER from 1973 is free on YouTube. Weird occult murders in Seattle's Pioneer Square! The underground tour! Delightful for Kolchak fans, newspaper people, Seattle people.
This movie is so good and so weird.