📚 In the USA, Amazon is removing the only (mostly) reliable way of backing up your books (“Download & Transfer via USB”) by Feb 26. One more reason to go elsewhere, and to buy DRM-Free.

📱Anybody using the Punkt MP02 in the US? Would love to hear from you, especially around how well the Signal implementation works.

Reshares appreciated.

🚲🥾 thinking about giving up our car for Lent…

🕊️ Today we celebrated the life of Linda Jane Dixon.

At a time when interracial marriage was still illegal in many states, she risked being disowned by her family and was married in a Mennonite church in Ohio.

She was gentle and powerful.

She always had something positive to say.

She is missed.

Author: creates thousands of interesting names for things.

Reader: “what’s the important new concept we uncover in this book, and what fantastic name did you give it?”

Author: “I’m calling it ‘The Spiritual Realm’ and you’ll hear it A LOT.”

📚 #DeathOfTheEditor

🔗 This is good news: Entering Holliday Park just got easier for hikers, bikers 🚲🥾

🛡️ Trying something new:

I wrote a roundup of some of my professional connections this week.

Tried the NotebookLM thing where you feed it material (in this case, my blog) and then have it create a podcast.

It made one all about one headline (a link) just riffing on what it could possibly mean, but not actually following the link or looking at other writing.

So basically it made Joe Rogan.

🛡️ I can confirm this analysis from lcamtuf: How security teams fail

It’s relevant to why I put so much emphasis on cybersecurity strategy, principles, and communications.

🔗 A Plea for Urgency from Newsrooms and Their Allies