It’s almost delightful that Trump’s Twitter addiction might be the cause of his eventual downfall.
One unexpected surprise in upgrading from a 2006 car to a 2020 car: it got two software updates when I took it in for annual service…
Cars get software updates now?
Hmm. Should I rename the “Twitter” category on One Man & His Blog to “X”? 🤔
Most publications needed a Twitter strategy. But is making an X strategy a good use of time anymore?
Well, it depends…
Why people are pulling up their fake lawns.
Good.
Why selfish co-workers stick together:
a Cognitive Science paper published Monday by psychologists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, […] found people who are selfish by nature tend to punish generosity and reward selfishness even when it costs them personally.
Fascinating how strong social affinity is.
Stanford neuroscientist demonstrates the quickest way to eliminate stress:
“The physiological sigh is the fastest hardwired way for us to eliminate a stressful response in our body quickly in real time,” says Andrew Huberman, an associate professor of neurobiology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Gonna keep this in reserve for the autumn.
A wet but enjoyable bike ride with the offspring this afternoon.
The worst part of coming back from a good holiday.
Back from holiday. What have I missed?
Aaaaaaar!
“Solastalgia is a neologism that is becoming commonplace. It describes a feeling of homesickness while still being at home. It is a sense of loss, but also a feeling of confusion: the planet that we think we live on no longer exists. In a warming world, words become unmoored from their meanings.”
— The Treeline by Ben Rawlence 📚
Oh.
Ugh. New inner needed at the very least.
Breakfast with the scrap, now the schools are on holiday.
This morning I shall mainly be monitoring streaming bandwidth.
First day of the school summer holiday, obviously.
A happy transatlantic delivery.
I just read an attempt at a scathing take-down of Caitlin Moran’s new book on men.
Guess the gender of all the writers whose scathing reviews were approvingly quoted. Go on.
I bet you can.
Here’s my epic attempt to categorise and explain the microblogging landscape in Twitter’s twilight: the new microblogging ecosystem.
😮💨
Currently reading: Corduroy by Adrian Bell 📚
In the process of consolidating my personal blogging (going back to 2001) here on micro.blog. It’s going to take a bit of work to tidy it up - but I think it’ll be worth it.
Has anyone found Apple Mail, and iCloud accounts in particular, to have really shot up in the number of false spam positives recently?
Oh, my.
This is the man who created Clippy.
(Ask your parents who Clippy was, kids.)