Just finished reading Exit Strategy by Jen J. Danna. It's been on my (metaphorical) shelf for a while, I think I found it a few years ago Dollar Tree. Started reading it during a power outage the other day, and got hooked pretty fast. A lot of books are a bit bulkier, scifi/fantasy books that have a lot of world building and really detailed plotlines. Exit Strategy has a lot "smaller" of a story for a lack of a better term (smaller stakes, humanity isn't at stake or anything, + a smaller cast of characters), and it takes probably a dozen or so pages to introduce the setting and then gets right into the main plot. It moves quickly, in the ~300 or so pages it has a self contained story that's moves rapidly. There's not a lot of subplots and it doesn't meander too much, so it's a fairly linear story throughout the entire book that doesn't get boring. Characters seem human, not just cardboard cutouts or with crazy inhuman smarts/skills/etc. Definitely worth a read. #bookstr

Finished reading Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin recently, it's a really good read. At the start it feels like the writing keeps branching in unrelated ways, only to abandon the plotlines and jump to something seemingly unrelated, but it all comes together in the latter half of the book. A very interesting read with a fairly unique execution. #bookstr

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The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury

Pluralistic: The games industry’s self-induced traumatic brain injury (17 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

"No matter the reason, there is nothing good about the games industry's decades-long project of erasing its own past. It's bad for gamers, it's bad for game developers, and it's bad for games. No art form can exist in a permanent, atemporal now, with its history erased as quickly as it's created."

Android Developers Blog

Android developer verification: Early access starts now as we continue to build with your feedback

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

I don't know exactly what the "advanced flow" to install 'unverified' software is going to look like, but Google backtracking on requiring their approval to install apps on your phone is certainly a good thing to hear. I'm sure they're going to make some sort of really inconvenient hoop to jump through, but I guess just about anything is better than outright preventing it. As always, though, it's a good time to de-Google you're phone if that's something you'd be up to. It puts a nice little buffer in between you and Google's shenanigans. It's rather nice to be able to treat my phone as ... *checks notes* ... my phone.