Worth supporting? The Inheritors is an intimate science-fiction short film exploring themes of race, family and belonging. Reflecting on the experiences of people with multiple-heritage, it’s a story about how societal polarisation creates walls that divide us, deprive us of love, of community, of a sense of identity, and ultimately of our deepest humanity. [Via Orbital Operations]
Picard Season 2
Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard has been a poorly-paced tale that is so busy looking backwards that I have very little confidence that the coming third season will be worth my time, even if they are reuniting the TNG-era bridge crew and promising us “Federation starships galore”.1 On the other hand, sometimes it prompts… Continue reading Picard Season 2
Shut up and take my money!
Obsidian OUCH: A third brain, for you, for now. Obsidian Ultra Cloud Host (OUCH) is a brand new PKM platform by Obsidian. It’s like Obsidian and Obsidian had a baby, in the Cloud™. (Note the publication date…) I’d really like to be a web client so. I could view and edit my Obsidian vault’s content… Continue reading Shut up and take my money!
Mean?
It would be a crime for me to post a mere excerpt from Damon Young’s A letter to that man who emailed to correct my grammar. Just go and read the whole thing, either at the Washington Post or via Archive.ph. Very nicely done. (Not mean. Just accurate.) [Via MetaFilter]
Alarmed
Watching the video at Google’s Little Signals site, I was struck by the thought that all these oh-so polite, unobtrusive attempts to replace notifications look fine in a demonstration video but they really don’t scale well. Take the use of a device – shown 1 minute, 15 seconds in – that taps on a solitary… Continue reading Alarmed
Getting [On | Old]
Dan Hon ponders an increasingly important question: I gave in and upped the font size on Mail.app on my Mac because I’m now not too precious to admit that I need to be able to read things. Which got me thinking: if we’ve got Dark Mode, then what does Old Mode for Internet Olds look… Continue reading Getting [On | Old]
Being Evil
Compare and contrast: Contra Chrome and Scott McCloud’s original.Fair use, to be sure. Can’t imagine why Apple are so disinclined to allow sideloading of apps under iOS/iPadOS, given the number of ways Google/Alphabet Inc. have backed away from the picture they drew1 back in 2008. [Via MetaFilter] Well, Scott McCloud drew, but as a work-for-hire… Continue reading Being Evil
Levelling-up
Spotted in the Guardian’s letters, a reader gives the government credit where it’s due: I am pleased to say I have spotted the first concrete evidence of the government putting its levelling-up agenda into action. While viewing information on my NHS app, I found the guide to foreign travel under Covid regulations, with the following… Continue reading Levelling-up
Dave Winer, Revolutionary
Dave Winer wants publishing platforms to stop locking writers into using the platforms’ own writing tools to compose content:1 I’d like to see someone like Substack or Medium, for example, who says “Write your stuff in your favorite writing tool, export it in Markdown, and give us the link. We’ll take it from there.” That… Continue reading Dave Winer, Revolutionary
BallDont
I’m not entirely convinced that the Balldo™ is going to take the world by storm in the way the makers are hoping for. (NB: some content on their web site is Not Safe For Work. That being said, you really do need to visit their web site to get a proper sense of just how… Continue reading BallDont