Yes, the Inuit have dozens of words for snow – but what does each one mean exactly?
What a fascinating watch.
On GM swapping CarPlay for subscription services.
The arrogance in believing that GM should force people to bend their digital lives in order to fit into their cars is breathtaking. Are users going to be forced to change their podcast app of choice, or streaming music service of choice, or audiobook player of choice, all because General Motors wants to enhance its revenue?
I might need more popcorn for the current Twitter versus Substack squabble.
Possibly a beer, too.
My annual subscriber patch is here from Outdoor Swimmer magazine. I love these.
My train is running late due to… rain.
Completely understandable. I mean, who expects rain in the UK?
I suspect the percentage of the population who know what an owl bear is will go through exponential growth in the next few weeks…
Bit of a shocker: gal-dem magazine is closing. It had a passionate following - I’m genuinely surprised that they couldn’t convert that into a stable business model.
This should chill events businesses: the big games show E3 has been cancelled, in part because publishers announce new games directly to customers via streaming.
Ooof. Brutal take on the Substack crowd-funder.
Morning, troops. If you’re looking for things to read over your morning coffee this Saturday, boy do I have you sorted.
Hey, @help, am I missing something, or is the only way to trigger a webmention send manually adding class=“u-in-reply-to” in the link?
In the couple of days since I wrote this post, the chances of TikTok getting banned in the US have only increased.
This feel genuinely unprecedented.
The girls are eating fish fingers and custard.
Yes, they’ve just watched The Eleventh Hour.
Interesting legal analysis of the arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin.
News about our beaches like this makes me ashamed to be British.
I sometimes think the local birds eat better than we do…
Interesting to see that Automattic have acquired the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress.
The Fediverse momentum is growing.
William Davies on The Reaction Economy:
The individual is not conceived in the same way as in the liberal philosophical tradition – as an autonomous agent, possessed of reason and interests – or in the psychoanalytic tradition, as shaped perhaps unconsciously by past conflicts and injuries. Instead, each of us (celebrities included) becomes a junction box in a vast, complex network, receiving, processing and emitting information in a semi-automatic fashion, and in real time.
Quite.
Currently reading: Adventure Revolution by Belinda Kirk 📚
I’m still stupidly excited that I’ll be teaching on City’s new MA in Podcasting next year — on the audience development side.
A general US TikTok ban edges closer…
This is absolutely stunning drone footage of the Matterhorn.
Iris wanted to watch some Doctor Who. So, we started at the beginning. The very beginning…
Lots of writing to do today — so lots of coffee will be drunk…
One thing I miss about growing up in Scotland: walking home after dark in the snow, and seeing the snowflakes illuminated by the street lights.