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An unfortunate side of being a proper adult is that occasionally I wake up at 5 AM, and wonder what I should do then.

And I saw prices rising, having three vendors serving seven transnationals, and on their heads Jensen Huang’s name.

The year went wild with fiction.

The subject deserves a few toots rather than a post, however, I would like it to stay here.

With time being scarce lately, I am jotting personal reflections when I can.

I love to refer to the letter “Can a biologist fix a radio”, often in a manner ill-suited to the debate.

For quite some years, I spend summer vacations with my in-laws, in a tiny mountain parish in central Portugal.

“He ate his own leg.

I thought of a different title, “The new luddism is okay”.

I skipped a post on this topic in 2023 and don’t really remember why - probably just laziness.The retrospective this year is shorter than it was in 2022.

Not to start with a resolution, that can wait untill the New Year, but I took a decision to write here often.

I took time to catalog the household library, LibraryThing platform was very handy.

Well, Happy New Year.

Let’s put aside “Sprawl” and “Bridge” trilogies.

Now I see it — indeed, the members of totalitarian societies do not often realize how bizarre their world is.

I have my own, very special relationship with the “Dune” saga.

I was never political and, voting for Prokhorov (we did 8% that year!)