The two, berry covered, rowan trees outside our flat have been nearly completely striped by redwings over the last day or two.
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Why is a manufacturer allowed to create an inherently distracting live video which takes over 2/3 of the screen which the driver relies on for all vehicle information?
“Passenger Play”, Another tech billionaire at work?
Hand stamped ‘Under Dubwood’, no other details. The sender clearly wished to remain anonymous.
Wandering around the internet in the insomniac hours I find Caught by the River an interesting gathering of nature, poetry & culture &:
The nitwit founder of Facebook has created the worst, most damaging website in the world. And we’re just supposed to accept it.
Americans represent only about 10 percent of Facebook’s users, but nearly 85 percent of the efforts that the company has put toward stemming the spread of misinformation has been focused on the U.S.
Scoundrel seems a mite gentle given the content of the article.
Via jwz
Read: The Union of Synchronised Swimmers by Cristina Sandu ★★★★☆📚Sad tales, elliptical fragments for the lives of six defectors that sync together a story.
Castro’s Top Picks algorithm fooled me yesterday with last episode of 2019 Cow sharing in the European Alps from Eat This Podcast I was not expecting another today. High Art dropped in & delighted.
1. I’ll keep an eye on Castro. 2. @jeremycherfas’s podcast is wonderful.
Going to listen – Social Warming: The dangerous and polarising effects of social media
Talking about Charles Arthur’s Social Warming: The dangerous and polarising effects of social media John Naughton says:
I run into non-tech-savvy people and realise they have no idea about how social-media feeds are algorithmically curated, say, or why many people in the global South are unaware that Facebook is not the Internet. But then I think: how could they have known? After all, mainstream media doesn’t do a good job of explaining it. And social-media definitely have no incentive to do it.
From Memex 1.1
Which made it sound like an interesting book. I’ve grabbed the audio version for January’s commute. I tend to prefer shorter podcasts, and have not listened to many audio books so am wondering if I’ll manage to keep on to the end.
Currently reading: Antlers of Water edited by Kathleen Jamie 📚 finding so many interesting Scottish writers I’d not read. The temptation to put the book down and search is strong. I also do not want to finish it too quickly.
Another year another flickr video
Since 2014 I’ve been making “movies” with my flickr photos for the year. I make them with a script which downloads the years photos puts them together into a movie and, use to, add music. The Music bit is broken (https) so I downloaded some manually.
This year pretty much stopped in October, then I got covid in November and have not been out much since.
I also average the photos ( below) and montage them for the featured image. This year I made a version of the script to download wee square images for the montage (average & montage scripts here).
I enjoy both the process and watching my photos flickr by. I like the fact that I can easily tweek bit of the script or run the video creation again quickly to try out different speeds, music etc.
Anti-5G necklaces found to be radioactive – BBC News
Necklaces and accessories claiming to “protect” people from 5G mobile networks have been found to be radioactive.
HT @mrmcenaney