Substrate

Ironically enough, I'm sitting in a public space with my earbuds in while I write this post. I live in a small town where what's described in this article is less pronounced, but it's still A Thing.

As someone who listens to a lot of music – I even use brain.fm to help me sleep – I'm very aware of the ability for headphones to create a 'bubble'. It can be comforting, but also isolating. My solution is to always take at least one earbud out when approaching someone I know, and to not have them in the entire time I'm working in public.

I do like a standard, and in this case it was such an easy, obvious fit for Substrate that I added it immediately. So I can export a zip file in Open Knowledge Format, or one compatible with WordPress.

As published, OKF v0.1 represents knowledge as a directory of markdown files with YAML frontmatter, with a small set of agreed-upon conventions that let wikis written by different producers be consumed by different agents without translation.

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This is pretty incredible. The only member of our family who gets travel sick is my daughter, who coincidentally is also the only one of us with an iPhone!

Introduced in 2024, Apple’s Vehicle Motion Cues promise to tap into your device’s accelerometer and gyroscope to reduce or, in my case, even eliminate the motion sickness felt when trying to use an iPhone, iPad, or MacBook inside a moving vehicle.

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Cory Doctorow points out that Elon Musk's personal wealth has soared to astronomical heights while everything he's actually done since 2020 has been pretty much a failure. Why? Because of memes and vibes, basically.

Today's vibe:

No more of that sittin' in a slump and uh

No more of that coulda-woulda-shoulda junk (nope)

No more of that waiting for the inspiration, innovation

Or a green light – now begin

No more of that lettin' all your time pass (uh-uh)

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As my mother graduated from a degree in Theology, I've been familiar with the apocrypha from an early age. Some of the stories are cute (Jesus making sparrows out of clay which come to life) while others are wild (St Paul baptising a lion, or a catalogue of punishments visited on sinners in hell).

This is a difficult article to quote because it's all so good. I encourage you to go and read it in its entirety.

I have always been against hierarchy and extreme forms of wealth. As this article explains, although not in the part I've quoted below, that makes me an anarchist, because I see "concentrated wealth and concentrated power [as] inseparable" and meaning that I "reject the distinction often made between economic and political authority".