A gem from yesterday's news feed, X (formerly known as relevant), has lost its last remaining PR person. Because Elon wotsisname is so good at managing the story.
I'd do that job, oddly. I'd make a passable job of it, and the personal insights gained would be solid gold for the book I'd write afterwards.
I gave my Super 8 digital talk at #emf2024 and encountered quite a group of like minded old camera enthusiasts.
The idea formed in the Q&A after the talk that a camera hacking village would be a cool idea at a future EMF. I'm unable to organise it because other commitments, but I am putting it out here.
At a guess, a workshop area and a darkroom (subject to water supply). Make it sew.
Can I make a suggestion? How about if people going to #EMFcamp have a non-volatile #EMFnamebadge?
The event badge is a thing of beauty, but its display is small and it needs to be powered on to see the name.
Can I suggest people have something that's large enough to read, and which doesn't need batteries? One of the e-ink badges for example, or just a big bit of card with your name written in marker pen.
I know I'm not alone in having a poor memory for names and faces.
It's approaching the deadline for registration to be in time for UK election season. Certainly local, possibly general election too.
For the first time in my life, I won't bother.
Partly to stay off the radar of shitty family, but mostly because this time I see no point in voting. Both main parties are institutionally transphobic, one is now far right and the other seems desperate to follow them. My constituency is a safe seat anyway so a Lib Dem vote means nothing.
If you open in Chrome it'll go straight to the relevant section, annoyingly no id has been put on the headings for easier linking.
They also did fire a guy for describing ' biology of sex as “real and immutable” ' and then a court said they unfairly dismissed him - that was apparently because they didn't follow proper procedure, not that they weren't allowed to get rid of someone ideologically opposed to the party's stances.
(1) Create worthless cryptocurrency with aim of providing blockchain in which to encode any software <litigious console company> tries to sue out of existence.
(2) <LCC> can chuck around sueballs, but they can't kill a distributed blockchain.
(3) They eventually realise they have to buy every single one of your altcoin, thus it becomes anything but worthless.
I'm in an odd position, I'm at the grand old age of 53, and after over 20 years of wishing I could, I've finally realised I am not too old to do #parkour training.
So I've spent several months bringing my fitness and strength up. I'm a bit overweight, but otherwise in good nick.
But being an older person taking up what is generally a younger person's sport, I'm overcome with shyness at the prospect of encountering other people doing parkour training. I need to overcome this.
The 1980s hacker teen experience wasn't very exciting either. You stayed up at night learning 8 bit machine code which you swapped with your friends on cassette tapes.
And if you were into hardware you dismantled every bit of broken 1970s consumer electronics you could for parts, and you had a TV in your room - a circa 1973 family colour set from a dumpster that you fixed.
I read a guide written by a left-wing Israeli on not being antisemitic in talking about the actions of the far right Israeli government in Gaza. It struck a chord for me as a Brit.
First of all, it was spot on in identifying the antisemitic tropes and rabbit holes in talking about Israel. But beyond that, there was a strong sense of someone very uncomfortably failing to come to terms with the shitty things their government has done in the past. That's the bit that struck a chord as a Brit.
There is probably nowhere on earth that doesn't have dodgy stuff in its past that they don't teach the kids about. God knows, my country has plenty of examples.
It's only by facing up to those from the past though, that we can address our position in the present.
It's very sad that as our economy seems to be sliding into a pit and our public services have been slashed to the point of collapse, that the party which forms our government thinks it's a good idea to cut taxes as an election bribe.
Sadder still that for some voters it will work.
Of course, it could be said that it's a move to force an incoming labour government to raise taxes.