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Never again for a little while.
I don't know what I was thinking. I should know better. But I made the mistake of checking the news this morning. It's been a couple of months since I've done that. I guess I was thinking that at some point I’d have to go back to writing columns about stuff happening in the world rather than stuff happening inside my head. But honestly, the stuff inside my head is nicer to think about than the stuff happening out in the world.
Time to read
I realised with a start recently that I’ve managed to read and listen to quite a few books in the last couple of months.
Since November last year, I’ve read…
"Seizing the means of distraction"
I totally stole that (and tweaked it) from John Gruber’s comprehensive rundown of the gigantic clown car crash that is the TikTok ban/shutdown/forced divestiture.
I’m so fucking glad I didn’t invest a heap of time growing a book audience over there.
Not-so-automatic cash machine.
I had reason to withdraw some cash this morning. Nothing anyone needs to know about, especially not the authorities. Just… reasons.
Luckily, I was passing through the city, which is one of the few places my Very Large Bank still maintains a branch, let alone a cash machine. My Very Large Bank has decided to get out of the business of real money because, I dunno, it costs too much or something.
This would never have happened in Gene Roddenberry's day.
I’m kind of looking forward to the new Star Trek flick, Section 31. But possibly not as much as this guy, who’s done a whole thing about the moral/logical contradiction of 31 even existing the Federation:
Had my Covid booster yesterday.
… and I am paying for it today. Feels like I smashed out an epic weightlifting session and ran a half marathon. Backwards.
I always get this reaction to whatever Covid vaccine I have, except for the original AstraZeneca, so I planned a quiet one today. I’m going to read Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend and slow-cook some lamb shoulder on the Big Green Egg. By tomorrow I should be back to normal.
Generate your own zombies.
I was kind of incredulous reading this long piece in PC Mag from a guy who’d used AI to generate his own version of Zombies Run.