Pondering the continued enshittification of just about every social media platform, I realized that I’ve got a space that I tend to forget about until I get an email reminder to renew my domain name and webhosting. With money. I bet you can look at my posting patterns and figure out when I get those emails.
So I got it into my head to work on a little platform reset, pinning potential reference material here rather than somewhere I can get a quick like or reply. Hence the recent increase in non-weeknotes posts. Sure, it’s slightly more effort but again, I am paying for ::waves hands:: all this.
Anyway, here are some things that caught my attention last week, currently marinating in my brain:
1
I guess we should bahala na si Batman!!
67.21% of passengers offered their seats in the presence of Batman, or more than two out of three, compared to 37.66% in the control experiment, or just over one out of three.
2
If I’ve ever seen a setup for a DATELINE episode, this is it…
Days after an Atlanta man died in a scuba diving accident in Hawaii, authorities said they found the skeletal remains of his son who had gone missing four years prior in a tree house in his backyard.
3
With the assault from the government on one side and the threat of AI from another, I’ll take all the reminders I can get that art can survive. Unsurprisingly, it takes the form of the legacy of a Black woman completely unknown to me previously.
The arts remind us that none of the current truisms are absolutes—that there are other ways of living, existing, and being. Arts can exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.
As you can see, I’ve been playing around with Quotebacks. Jury’s still out, but so far I’m liking the convenience. Anyway, I’m not completely off the socials–you can find me on Bluesky these days–but I’ll be shooting for more cross-over. Let’s see how this goes!