Trying once again to get a grip on my social media silos by taking another look at Monocle, and thinking this time it might stick.
March: Kung Fu Nuns, Discontinued products, new things, RICOH and NITT – Rivendell Bicycle Works
You can say or think oh shut up, what's the big deal, it's just progress and it'll be fine, but there's more to it than that. What if you couldn't buy a plain hammer--only an electronic nail gun? You couldn't buy a kitchen knife, only a Cuisinart? No pencils and pens, only computers?
Never Have I
1) Had a MySpace account
2) Had an AOL email address
So, that's twice as many as Tim Prebble, where I found the original. But is that twice as good or twice as bad?
@friedrichlongin Another fascinating and informative thread that will presumably be lost if Twitter does eventually implode completely. Where is the backup? Why go to all this trouble only to be beholden to an autocrat's whim?
And there I was, foolishly thinking that somehow a weather Station had blocked Chuck's work that had been in progress.
And having spent a happy couple of hours tinkering with occasional bits of success, I'm giving up again.
My conclusion now is that WithKnown actually does a lot of the heavy lifting itself, with reverse geolookups and so forth. Maybe try something a lot simpler, and send only lat-long
Calculating the signature not as easy as it seemed originally
At home, thinking about a location shortcut for WithKnown, and starting with the easy stuff.
There has to be a better music library manager and player for OSX than Apple's Music app, but which one? Your recommendations, please. Please!
The supersedure state revisited | Small Farm Future
States and civilizations have collapsed many times in the past. But we’re in an unprecedented situation globally today, with such a vast population so reliant on high-energy resource flows orchestrated by a tightly-organized global network of centralized states increasingly incapable of organizing those flows, whose citizenries are extraordinarily alienated from the material and mental resource base needed to generate local livelihoods.
Measure attention, not just downloads. Here’s how Bumper calculates Listen Time. — Bumper | podcast growth agency
I think Bumper is onto something here for sure, in that the main reason for big download numbers is to sell advertising, whereas I would just like some sort of measure of whether people find my episodes interesting and whether that is going up or down. If data collection could be automated ...
So, my online friend Jason has brought a new puppy into his life, and she does look very good. I feel the pull too.
TIL about the Bismarck Archipelago in the Bismarck Sea. Who knew? Not me, obviously.
My Dad would have been 100 today. I can't say I miss him every day, because that would not be true. But still.
11 ways ChatGPT saves me hours of work every day,
I'm sure I could make use of at least some of this, in my bumbling, amateur way. I also wish it wasn't a Twitter thread. Need to find time to save the details for myself.
I wish I knew why @launchcenterpro had suddenly decided to lock most of the functionality, but hey, that kind of behaviour is unlikely to encourage me to pay anything.
Does anyone know what happened to The Prince's Charities International Sustainability Unit? Did it turn out to be, er, unsustainable? Or something else?
http://pcfisu.org/ #pcfisu
Just to follow up and note that after carefully studying and then doing the set-up steps in the piece I linked, and then chasing down missing modules after nuking all `venvs` and tinkering in `.zshrc` everything seems to be operational. For now ...
Prompted by In Our Time, we (re)watched Citizen Kane last night. It really is very good, and holds up remarkably well. Lots more to look out for, thanks to the discussion.
Talking “Bretbug” in the Classroom
Classy dissection.
Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr
I liked rss.app, but in all honesty is just is not worth $8.32 a month for me. I'll find another way ...
Sapir-Whorf for Rationalists
Very thought provoking and quite apart from reading and thinking about it, I'm feeling the need actually to do something about it.
it's a truism that anyone who wants you to stop thinking isn't your friend but it's equally true that anyone who insists that you think in exactly the way they've deemed proper is also not your friend.
If Ben Werdmuller is wondering about the look of his front page, maybe that means that @WithKnown will get a template system that mere mortals can understand ... but probaby not.
Lost Media: Finding Bill Clinton's "Boxers or Briefs" MTV Moment - Waxy.org
This is why I contribute my bit to the Internet Archive, when I can.
Spending time cleaning up my RSS feeds in Newsblur and it isn't easy. I can export the OPML, and work directly on that, but is there a tool that will let me do so easily? Codebeautify's treeview doesn't let me edit the tree. opml.org seems dead. Is there anything else?
#IndieWeb
The UK is wasting a lot of wind power
Very grateful to John Naughton for pointing to this article, which explains the problems and some of the solutions and which seems like an obvious dose of sanity.
Ultimately, like many discussions around solutions to climate changes, this is a “yes, and” rather than an “or” choice. We can, and should, build more transmission capacity and storage, whilst reforming the market such that the UK’s phenomenal success in deploying wind power can be finessed to more precisely match our energy needs.
I'm sure I don't understand all the details, but I feel as if I understand more than I ever did before.
Whatever was wrong, it is right again. Thank you, mysterious gods of the internet.
The housing theory of everything - Works in Progress
I'm persuaded; but then, I was already persuaded.
My morning is disrupted. Something seems to be wrong @gocomics and I cannot get my daily dose of Nancy by Olivia Jaimes
My only experience with far infra-red heating is the lovely little Klarstein panel under my desk, which makes winter just about bearable. When (if?) the time comes to extend, I'm calling in Peter Molnar as consultant.