Here’s your periodic reminder that, if you’re gainfully employed in the tech industry, you can afford to donate (the equivalent of a monthly streaming service fee) to the load bearing infrastructure of the Internet/web.

Accessibility options are the “glass of ice water in hell”, but more tepid with each release. “Reduce Transparency” is basically required, and I’m contemplating “Increase Contrast” for the first time.

The tabs button is behind a menu now in Safari…. but why?

Checking in on Amazon’s best seller list (as of this post) and…. maybe that lawsuit attempting to suppress the book wasn’t the best idea.

Just… wow.

I’m half way through “Careless People” and the most succinct thing I can say is: this book scorches the earth like nothing I’ve read in a long while.

More impressions to follow.

Wouldn’t you know it I’m reading a book with a nearly identical plot line.

Hyperbole and hypertext having the same prefix is probably an accident, but I guess you sometimes don’t make a difference if you don’t make a scene.

The latest addition to my already weird collection of books.

“Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else.” - Winston Churchill, supposedly. www.thehighline.org/art/projects...

Slowly (finally?) working my way through Jean Baudrillard’s “Simulations”. Currently unsure of Baudrillard was ever cynical enough to think we’d take things to the level of generative AI images/video but I get the feeling he’d be appalled.

Thanks for what you do @propublica.org

This is a reminder that if you can afford a streaming service you can also afford to support real journalism.

Labeling feeds in BlueSky are so, so good. My feeling is that they are fertile ground for creative and helpful applications that will change how we view those with wide influence.

So I’ve avoided looking up what a signed, first edition of ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ would cost so that I could live out the fantasy of buying it “one day”. Today curiosity got the best of me, and… #BookSky