Now for Cory Doctorow at #fediforum 🤩

Cory Doctorow speaking on Zoom

Currently listening to Ian Forrester @cubicgarden@mas.to at #FediForum. Next up is Cory Doctorow. Lots of exciting guests and so many friends! Will be popping in an out of the conference for the next three days.

Screenshot of Zoom showing Ian talking and a slide with a picture of Marshall McLuhan and the words "The medium is the message"

The villain in the original Tron is called Master Control Program. MCP.

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Started reading: Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick 📚

Posted a couple of things from attending #Websummit this year

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Greatest newsletter confirmation screen of all time. ☕️ 🥊 From enjoylunacoffee.com

Email registration success screen with screencap of Strong Bad reading an email that says: &10;&10;Hey Strong Bad, do you like techno at all? If you do, what kind.&10;&10;Silent J&10;&10;a> Well, its not really my style, but I heard a techno song one time that went like...

New kit! Mac Studio M4 Max with 16-core CPU, 40-core GPU, 1TB HDD and 128GB of RAM. 🏎

First image in a sequence: A large plain box on a computer desk The box flaps are opened revealing a Mac Studio box inside A complex folding Mac Studio box opened to reveal the computer inside A crisp clean new Mac Studio sitting on a computer desk, behind it is a large Benq monitor, a Keychron mechanical keyboard, a paper journal and pen, a Macbook Air in a stand, and a Timeular

Happy to be in this packed room with Dr Cornell West and Ramesh Srinivasan taking questions from the crowd #websummit

Ramesh Srinivasan and Cornell West sit at mics in conversation in front of a sign saying “WebSummit Community”

It’s #websummit time here in Vancouver!

Chad selfie in front of the Vancouver Convention Center holding a coffee on a gorgeous clear day

Oh wow! I really hope they do a good job on this! 🎬

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Everyone was piling into the new Mission:Impossible 🎬 but me and my nerd family were learning from our grampa about the absolute carnage of bottom trawling. Here’s to them making it illegal at the 2025 UN Ocean Conference 🪸🐠🦀🐙🐋🦈🐬🦭

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“Dad I had a dream … I had a pet octopus … but it was constipated … but I knew to push these pressure points … and then everything was okay”

Met this tree on my walk tonight 🌲 This dude has seen a lot.

A tree surrounded by foliage, but cast in the light of the setting sun

Beautiful clear, warm day. Everyone was out so I was gonna write. But just could not find the motivation. Do I do this? Or that? One of those days where I could just not pick a direction and just stewed in unproductive unsatisfactoriness. Decided to meditate. It’s okay to have days like this.

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Learn about a new massive data set for tracking open source, and how it helps fund #opensource projects not merely based on popularity, but on their criticality to the ecosystem as a whole. From @sustainoss@hachyderm.io | @sustainoss.bsky.socialpodcast.sustainoss.org/270

Une petite catharsis of anomie — a review of Deep Work by Cal Newport

Deep Work is Cal Newport’s highest selling book. He published it in early 2016 and it made waves at the time since he strongly argues against social media. Cal is infamously not on social media (unless you count blogging and podcasting 😜) so it is a little ironic that the reason I finally decided to pick up this book was due to a post I saw on social media. Although the book explores quite a few topics, to sum it up from my perspective, he introduces a term well known in software circles to a more general audience: context switching.

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Holy he did it! #COYS

Nice!

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Happy 47th birthday 🎈

Chad stands at the edge of a forest lake on a drab grey day, staring into the clear water reflecting the forest on the shore