Testing a new mobile working set-up, with the iPad Pro 12.9 and the new Mark II Brydge keyboard…
Could the way we read online be contributing to the polarisation of politics? Quite possibly.
My goodness. An update to Flickr!: All new Flickr galleries
Amazon is losing out to Google in the in-house spy…I mean “smart speaker”… market. This is probably Google’s game now
On the psychological impact of social media: ‘I had trained my mind to flit like a nervous sparrow’
While Mastadon is interesting - the fact it so closely replicated the Twitter experience means it’s just as likely to become toxic in the long term. It’s hard to commit time to it until tehre’s evidence that the community is thinking about that in how they develop the tech.
Parenting, Twitter-style
I’ve Decided to Parent the Way Jack Dorsey Runs Twitter
Instead of family meetings where everyone has an equal voice, and where feelings and concerns are shared and worked through together, we now host a weekly family shout-down. One person speaks, and then we all yell at him until he shuts the hell up, cries, or leaves.
Abusive tweets to MPs ‘more than double’ between elections — given that Twitter’s user numbers were pretty close to flat over that period, this really doe suggest a huge tonal shift.
Servalan was a defining character of Blake’s 7, and hence of TV culture for a while…
Pre-school shoe fitting. Hazel needs new school and casual shoes. 💰🙄 (grumpy Dad mode in full effect.) 😂
Testing my original tent from 22 years ago! It’s not been used for 8 years, but is still in good nick. Need a little re-waterproofing of the fly, and then the girls can use it.
