Planetary, a decentralised social network, officially launched yesterday.
I’ve been on the beta. It’s interesting - but really needs the network effect to kick in.
When you head towards the beach, it’s easy to forget that Shoreham is still very much a working harbour. But a walk up the riverside quickly reminds you that it is. Yesterday, we saw one of the fishing boats bringing in a catch.
We found a great hagstone yesterday.
The “staycation” semantic drift is complete, isn’t it?
The accepted usage now seems to be “a holiday in your own country” rather than “a holiday at your own house”.
“Human YouTube comment section Marjorie Taylor Greene was stripped of all her congressional committees on Thursday.”
TIL: There’s a Wikipedia page for my surname. And it’s not terribly informative.
This bit of boat decoration is cute, unless you’ve seen Toy Story 3, in which case it’s vaguely horrifying…
Oh, Wix websites are a pain. They have a “blog” section, they even publish RSS feeds - but they don’t set up auto-detect properly, so you have to know where the feed lives before you can subscribe. (It’s at /blog-feed.xml)
An interesting set of predictions for 2021. If the world shifts its focus from solving the COVID crisis to solving the climate crisis, we might just have a chance as a species.
What can we do to help that happen?