While I haven’t used it much, no regrets to my micro.blog renewing. Happy to see Ulysses will let me post directly from the app to here, and wondering if WWDC is going to inspire me and my cough copious cough amounts of spare time.
Journal
It's getting better?
The Internet is getting better (yes, parts of it, or the people and businesses behind it continue to be rubbish) with all this… enjoying catching-up with what Kottke.org and LaughingSquid.com (some old school aggregation and curation) have corralled over the past week. Digging Brian May’s Instagram posts. There are many little reasons to hope. For now I’m focusing on individual creativity and sharing.
(Without devolving into a power politics analysis, we gotta do more than hope. Gotta keep naming the whole thing and realizing we have barely maybe begun to fight for the thing that could bring everything else that gives reason to hope down. But we gotta give ourselves breaks too. And create. I’m so stuck… I’ve forgotten how.)
Time has passed, stuff happened
Plenty has happened since I last bothered to post here.
I got to travel a bit more, my wife gave birth to our son, I’ve been mucking around on the preview of Planetary, I got promoted.
I’ve gotten overwhelmed, stuck, unstuck, stuck again.
Working on it.
Woodford in the solstice sunset.
An election shouldn't be anything like a horse race
“The handicappers influence the betting … the horserace coverage is more distorted than ever.” My only quibble w/this analysis is it was too extreme long ago in parallel w/media consolidation & declines in media literacy. www.wnycstudios.org/story/on-…
Thunder From the Mountains
Really digging this Orson Welles radio play about Benito Juarez and the Mexican resistance to French imperialism being aired tonight on an NPR affiliate. I’m sure it’s a flawed telling of the history, but I dig Welles and its a more in depth telling of what Cinco de Mayo is an observation of than most mentions in broadcast media now.