Beeper Mini registered your phone number with Apple and connected directly to the iMessage servers. That version was killed after three days of usage. The mac mini farm still works but that's just through an apple ID email address.
I'm not sure how niche this novel is since Three-Body Problem hit the mainstream, but Diaspora reminds me a lot of Liu Cixin's earlier novel, Ball Lightning. Really raw and almost unpolished hard sci-fi. Which I love but of course might be niche. Please reach out and let me know how you like Diaspora after you read it, would love to hear other opinions.
It's an option in all states to receive books that some legislators have declared illegal in their states.
EDIT: I think there's a misunderstanding between us here. The only issue I'm picking here is that no matter if they made the right choice or not, they did cave/give into the hardliners. Will this choice help book fairs continue and scholastic to make money, definitely. Did they cave though, also I think so.
They could have at least made this "controversial" collection of books opt-out instead of opt-in.
Yes. It's opt-in to receive the books tagged as controversial by them.
The layoffs are related to the sale of Bandcamp to Songtradr.
https://variety.com/2023/music/news/bandcamps-layoffs-songtradr-1235758123/
If the choices are to continue to sell these books at book fairs and to not sell them and they are now allowing schools to not sell them, it seems like they caved, correct?
I highly recommend this novel. I enjoyed every minute of the read.
We can hope for redemption. https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/eragon-tv-series-disney-plus-1235325019/
Thanks! I found a bunch, now I just need to chop them up and add them into my ersatztv pipeline.
Please post a review of it once you finish! I'm obsessed with Time Shelter and would love to see other opinions on it.