Back to School Tomorrow, summer redux
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8 books read
5 Walks mapped
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Went to Kelvingrove Bandstand to see King Creosote perform “From Scotland with Love” alongside the archive footage. Perfect weather. Lovely night, such an impressive mix. Thanks to @cmdjohnston & @MTImmonsMusic for taking me along.
Using current weather conditions The Conditional Orchestra generates unique compositions for your listening pleasure.
HT Joe Jennet.
Read: The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney & Ian Rankin 📚★★★☆☆
Mcllvanney left half a manuscript, finished by Ian Rankin. Good page turner. Especially enjoyable for the 1972 Glasgow setting, chain smoking, pints & whisky in pretty rough pubs. The hero travels on the bus!
Daniel Jalkut (redsweater.com)• The FastScripts menu can now be presented by keyboard shortcut even if the menu bar icon is not visible
This is nice, I can keyboard the menu then see the shortcuts I’ve forgotten.
Read: The Age of Algorithmic Anxiety
When we talk about “the algorithm,” we might be conflating recommender systems with online surveillance, monopolization, and the digital platforms’ takeover of all of our leisure time—in other words, with the entire extractive technology industry of the twenty-first century. Bucher told me that the idea of the algorithm is “a proxy for technology, and people’s relationships to the machine.” It has become a metaphor for the ultimate digital Other, a representation of all of our uneasiness with online life.
The Age of Algorithmic Anxiety via John Naughton
Our idea of algorithm is mixed up with other types of manipulation.
Got out yesterday and walked round the Glen Douglas trio of hills again. Map, photos and notes: walkmap
Large Red Damsel Fly Black legs are the clue to identify this one.
Read: Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping – gHacks Tech News
The main issue here is that there it is no longer possible to remove the tracking part of the URL, as Facebook merged it with part of the required web address. Removing the entire construct after the ? would open the main Facebook page of Ghacks Technology News, but it won’t open the linked post.
I don’t read FB but I typically strip any parameters from the urls of tweets. I guess this is the next stage.
Read: Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka 📚
A huge complicated baggy book. Perhaps reflecting the chaos of reality too much to read smoothly. Sometimes exciting, sometimes amusing & quite often baffling to me. I suspect some knowledge of recent Nigerian politics would help.
Re: slippy
I’m curious if anyone has tried building a digital public zettelkasten on WordPress in general or using using the Slippy plugin in particular?
Hi Chris,
you would think WordPress could do this.
I installed slippy on a test blog. As far as a quick look showed it would not be useful for a public slip box. There is no published url that I could easily find. The repeated slips appear in the editor.
