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A♠ Sunday Morning Book Thread
A continuing conversation on books, reading, spending way too much money on books, writing books, and publishing books

Bits & Bytes - Sun Mar 20, 2022
chrissy on PoliNation, news, views, and links to enlighten, inform, and amuse

Bookworm Beat 3/22/22 — the “we’re clearly living in a computer simulation” issue —memes

h/t Pixy Misa on A♠ Tech Thread
Our universe may have a twin that runs backward in time
Paul Sutter, Live Science, Mar 16, 2022

An anti-universe running backwards in time could explain dark matter and cosmic inflation.

Is Ace of Spades ‘Cruel’?
Robert Stacy McCain, Mar 19, 2022

Basically, Ace is the reason I started blogging. Back when I had been trapped at my desk at the Washington Times for a decade (and slowly losing my mind because of it), the spectacle of Ace having fun over there at AOSHQ was very tempting. “I could be doing that,” I said, with zero comprehension of the difficulty involved in (a) consistently cranking out content and (b) trying to monetize such mischief.