@nprofile1q... Yeah, not Van Ronk. But maybe someone not many steps from him. I thought maybe Patrick Sky, but not there either it seems.

@nprofile1q... Talarico at least has spoken directly about the separation of church and state, and how Christian Nationalism threatens that, and recognizes that we live in a pluralistic society of different religions and pracitces. He sees that breaking down that wall is a threat to people like himself as much as anybody. Did this guy complain when GA sent a Black minister to the Senate?

@nprofile1q... As a production editor who has spent some time proofreading and copyediting, I am not entirely sure we've ever had working spelling and grammar checkers. I've never lacked for work.

@nprofile1q... I've always found it telling that that right-wing xtians seem obsessed with slapping up the ten commandments everywhere-a segment of Jewish law from the Torah--rather than say, the Sermon on the Mount, the actual teachings of Jesus.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... It does, in a sense. What we supply to Amazon for distribution is a regular epub file. Amazon does some proprietary processing of the file before it delivers it to the customer. But the source file is the same file we send to everyone else.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... THe HTML allowed in epub files is not fixed, you may use any current HTML (or css, etc.) in your file as long as it conforms to XML serialization. Whether or not this is actually supported in the reader may vary. The Kindle, for instance, tends to lag behind.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... How does it save time if it is not reliable?

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Actually, it is possible to deny. Does it do the 'analytic' better than previously exisint solutions? Arguably, it does not. It only mimics what has come before.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... It is more than that. It's a deliberate ploy by the designers of the systems to make you think the machine behaves in certain ways, much like social media algorithms designed to drive engagement. There's a human hand in the puppet.

@nprofile1q... can the binder be opened and pages removed without cutting?

@nprofile1q... I remember having similar thoughts ~25 years ago. It turned out, at that time, the answer was 'massive, systemic levels of loan fraud.'

@nprofile1q... our neighborhood nut processing plant sells pb at about the same cost as the bags of nuts. Which reminds me that i need to order some stuff.