My big thesis about technology is that “technology weirds the world” — instead of ruining or fixing it, it typically changes it in a bunch of unexpected ways, twisting the contours of human life into shapes never seen before.
Lovely sunny day. Had a walk from the Braeval carpark, out towards Calendar, saw my first butterflies of the year, peacocks, quite a few this, one quite ragged.
Bonus Coal Tit
Some more photos on flicker, celandine & primroses were out.
The Next War
It will take place,
it will take time
it will take life,
and waste them.
Ursula K. Le Guin
From
Pome Newsletter by Matthew Ogle
Black on Blue
Two years ago today was the last day before schools closed for lockdown. Seems longer than that:
“Listen where ever you get your podcasts” == the sound of victory in the battle to keep the podcastosphere from being dominated by evil tech companies.
Read: The employees: a workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn ★★★★☆ 📚
Quite unclassifiable, science fiction, elliptical, mysterious and compelling. I found Lea Guldditte Hestelund at Overgaden, the art exibit the book is ‘based’ on, helpful.