Ooof. Brutal take on the Substack crowd-funder.
Morning, troops. If you’re looking for things to read over your morning coffee this Saturday, boy do I have you sorted.
Hey, @help, am I missing something, or is the only way to trigger a webmention send manually adding class=“u-in-reply-to” in the link?
In the couple of days since I wrote
, the chances of TikTok getting banned in the US have only increased.This feel genuinely unprecedented.
Interesting legal analysis of the arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin.
News about our beaches like this makes me ashamed to be British.
Interesting to see that Automattic have acquired the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress.
The Fediverse momentum is growing.
William Davies on The Reaction Economy:
The individual is not conceived in the same way as in the liberal philosophical tradition – as an autonomous agent, possessed of reason and interests – or in the psychoanalytic tradition, as shaped perhaps unconsciously by past conflicts and injuries. Instead, each of us (celebrities included) becomes a junction box in a vast, complex network, receiving, processing and emitting information in a semi-automatic fashion, and in real time.
Quite.
Currently reading: Adventure Revolution by Belinda Kirk 📚
I’m still stupidly excited that I’ll be teaching on City’s new MA in Podcasting next year — on the audience development side.
A general US TikTok ban edges closer…
This is absolutely stunning drone footage of the Matterhorn.
One thing I miss about growing up in Scotland: walking home after dark in the snow, and seeing the snowflakes illuminated by the street lights.