If a book is called Silence, but isn’t really about the absence of audible noise, what is it really about? The answer is in the rediscovery of something we’ve lost.
Finished reading: Silence by Erling Kagge 📚
”I had to use my legs to go far away in order to discover this, but I now know it is possible to reach silence anywhere. One only need subtract.”
— From Silence by Erling Kagge 📚
My weekend reading has arrived. 📚
Some fun weekend reading for you from my soon-to-be-defunct Revue newsletter.
Metal cover of the A-Team theme.
Perfect Friday fodder for those of us of a certain age.
Twitter’s API appears to be down, breaking any third party client access to the service.
And now we wait to find out if this is intentional, or just a cock-up.
What do you think the chances of the Revue integration on people’s Twitter profiles just frictionlessly disappearing when they shut down the newsletter service next week, as opposed to breaking in new and exciting ways?
Looks like Hasbro is learning that you can create a community, play host to a community, but never, ever own a community.
The courage and talent of Laura Price, whom I had the privilege of teaching a few years ago, continues to inspire me, as she prepares to launch the paperback edition of her novel from her post-cancer surgery hospital bed.
D&D’s OGL was a corporate con job
Cory Doctorow on the Hasbo D&D OGL rugpull:
If you’re a game designer who was pissed off because the OGL was getting ganked – and if you’re even more pissed off now that you’ve discovered that the OGL was a piece of shit all along – there’s a lesson there. The OGL tricked a generation of designers into thinking they were building on a commons. They weren’t – but they could.
Source: Pluralistic: John Deere’s repair fake-out; Good riddance to the Open Gaming License (12 Jan 2023)
There’s a guy down the river collecting old boats. He seems to be working on them. It annoys some locals, but I rather like it. It’s a great reminder of the Tonks maritime past.
This looks worryingly like the Royal Mail has been hit by a ransomware attack.
The science of stupidity
Stupidity is a very specific cognitive failing. Crudely put, it occurs when you don’t have the right conceptual tools for the job. The result is an inability to make sense of what is happening and a resulting tendency to force phenomena into crude, distorting pigeonholes.
Source: Why some of the smartest people can be so very stupid - Psyche Ideas
It’s interesting how many publications do “predictions for the year ahead” posts - and how few of them go back and assess how good their post the year before was…