micro posts
- engagement farmers
- way-too-prolific posters
- shit-stirrers
- negativity drains
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See the first essay in Graeber’s newest posthumous book, also archived here: There Never Was a West ↩︎
When did they start arming law enforcement with machete guns?
The good news: roof and skylight repair from Spring ‘23 damage is started
The bad news: likely won’t complete for 7 days
🖖 Silly Trek (aka Lower Decks) is the best Star Trek.
And yet, it can’t be the best Star Trek, because it depends on other Star Treks.
Discuss amongst yourselves.
Learned a new Secret Rule Parlor Game from my nephew, who picked it up at Northern Tier camp:
How Many Bears?
Also:
Good Moon, Bad Moon
🍌 bananas: for when you really want some fruit flies
🎲 Ran some Isle of Ixx again.
3 for 3 parties have had things go sour with the Hermit Spire!
🎶 the Shpongle guys made a chill piano & flute album
🗞️ following lots of great people, comics, and feeds, but it’s taking over a half an hour to read through it all each day.
So I’m culling, starting with:
Watching X-men ‘92 with my nephew and dang I wish people would have learned something from X-men.
🐾 Happy Dog Show Day to all who celebrate.
Still waiting on Premier Protein to release an Egg Nog flavor.
🎶 One of the joys of re-ripping your CDs is going to back through gems you haven’t listened to in a while.
In the late 90s, Rhys Fulber was creating remixes for Fear Factory.
It’s some of his most interesting work amongst a mountain of diverse projects.
Which is worse?
Apple “reaction” texts
Google “reaction” emails
🎙️Scene On Radio all-stars used the phrase “objective but not neutral” and I think that’s a pretty useful framing for how to speak about events.
📚 book recommendations:
I’ve updated my reading page with the latest few books I’ve completed.
🔒 The 2024 edition of CWE Top 25 is published:
Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses
“But what about the OWASP Top 10?” Think of the OWASP list as more of an engagement and learning tool.
The CWE 25 can more effectively be used as a target list to build your evaluation, mitigation, and prevention.
🎲 It’s here and it’s incredible. Doomsong. @caesar-ink.bsky.social
🎶 Incredible new track from Yovel - Scroll. Post. Like. Die..
From the forthcoming album.
🕊️🏴 A friend and Richard Beck (Experimental Theology) both pointed me to this Paul Kingsnorth lecture, so, despite being mildly allergic to talk of “the West”1, I watched and enjoyed it.
Yes, TikTok actually is a threat to America. …
Oh but also so is X/Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, YouTube, and any algorithmic feeds.
And they’re threats everywhere.