One of those headlines that takes on a whole new level of “ick” if you’re a Brit:
UK has “no intention” to deliver COP26 pledges says Cambridge scientist:
“The UK’s net-zero strategy is as unrealistic as “magic beans fertilised by unicorn’s blood” and will fail to deliver the emissions reductions promised by 2030”
While my frantic week isn’t yet done, my reward has arrived. Looking forward to spending time meandering through this: A Year Unfolding 📚
One of the great moral panics of the last few decades debunked: Massive Study Finds No Link Between Time Spent Playing Video Games And Wellbeing – Research Digest
Today, it’s exactly 20 years since I wrote my first blog post.
I’ll write more about this tomorrow. But I just wanted to mark the day.
Two decades under the blog. 👴🏻
🚨 Important discourse. 🚨
Will the Metaverse save journalism?
It’s very clear that Facebook corporately wants the profits of global scale, without incurring the costs of managing that scale:
Commuting mask watch: down to about 10% of people wearing masks on this Southern train. Very thinly occupied, though.
One day I will manage to swab myself for a lateral flow test without retching.
Today is not that day.
Today has been the sort of day when I log onto Twitter, see the trending topic list, and log straight back off.
MacOS Monterey is a weirdly bland update — having been using it for a couple of hours, you could have easily persuaded me that the install failed and that I was still in Big Sur.
Om Malik on the iPod 20 years on:
Maybe knowingly (but more likely unknowingly), Apple had made a device that made it easy for normals to understand and embrace our then-new century’s big idea: the abstraction of our physical life into the digital domain.
And so ends a blog I’ve been reading since 2003 (ish). Sad news.
“But the worldwide supply chain (which is less a single chain than braided rivers spreading outward from many sources through countless deltas) is impossible to reduce to any one formal cause.”
Really positive feedback from TL;DR issue 1 on my blog. That’s a nice thing to start a Friday with.