Gone to seed.

A large, tear-shaped rusted metal sculpture with jagged edges is situated near a waterfront with boats and a pier in the background.

Testing a new mobile working set-up, with the iPad Pro 12.9 and the new Mark II Brydge keyboard…

A laptop displaying an email inbox and a journalism article, a cup of coffee, and a croissant on a wooden table in a cozy setting.

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

Homework time. #backtoschool

A child with blonde hair is sitting on a bed or couch with a green plush pillow, reading a colorful illustrated book.

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.