Appreciating, as I think I have nearly every year since it began, the “State of the World” thread on the Well, from Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky.
Kevin McCarthy’s expression when he got the gavel reminded me of my 3-year-old’s reveling when I capitulate over allowing him a too-early or too-late sweet.
Ready to head back to the woods now.
The last Twitter lockout I remember is when the FBI seized the servers running predecessor code right out of Rackspace’s racks in 2004 😉(Indymedia and Cryptome were implicated/affected too).
Was never wed to Twitter, even before the drama that made me grateful to be here too—but the 2FA drama is enough to invest in more Mastadon subscriptions to make my feed here more relevant and informative.
If it weren’t for the occasional Aeon Magazine article I half-grok & whatever-the-fuck Meta & the web3 bros are doing that seems like they’ve read dystopian scifi as a manual, I’d consider the show based William Gibson’s The Peripheral a nice distraction. Enjoying it in spite of that.
All the local broadcast weather reports I heard the past couple of days celebrated the 10 degrees (Fahrenheit) warmer than normal temperatures. Which was depressing. Currently put it in real context.
"Mapping the most influential Twitter accounts during COP26"
At a quick glance, this seems to imply a reinforcement of a disparity I’ve perceived my entire life across all convenings of power I’ve become aware of: the popular and factually correct voices are effectively paid lip service and empty tribute, if not entirely ignored, by a small set of people with even less popular influence but far more official power (and responsibility). Not feeling optimistic about COP27.
We’ve not really figured out printing, calendaring or email… what makes anyone think we’ve got the rest of this figured out is beyond me.
Suffering the Ed Sullivans and still failing at recovering some lost productivity on a Sunday night. But my desk is clean now.
Monday gonna Monday.