The latest Neverpo.st roundtable asks: “Is the internet driving you to the brink?”
Mike points out that a first Trump admin, followed by Covid, and then another Trump admin, has turned many people’s online brains into mush.
How do you keep up or stay informed, without driving yourself insane?
A dozen years ago I tackled this problem, taking an information fast and reading The Information Diet by Clay Johnson.
Things have gotten away from me over the past few years, but recently I have been leaning more into RSS and trying to read more blogs.
Lovely Saturday. Bought some handmade chili crunch and chocolate at the Nikkei Centre market, took a bunch of photos with family at our local wisteria trellis, and watched 2 eps of Andor.
One of my all time fav photos came up in my Memories today: the eaves of Bukko-ji, our neighbourhood temple in Kyoto, against a clear blue sky. Shot on this day 2 years ago.
Opera time! #vancouveropera
Excellent ep of @techwontsave.us I’ve known Son from way back, but did not know about the Sheldon Adelson connection. @lalehkhalili.bsky.social’s story of Trump teaching Son how to comb his hair is wild
This past weekend we were blessed with gorgeous clear blue skies as we took the ferry from Tsawwassen across the Georgia Strait to Swartz Bay on Vancouver Island.
Swartz Bay? But, it says “Nanaimo” in the title? you observe. And yes, you are correct. Although there is a ferry from Tsawwassen direct to Nanaimo, we decided to land at the southern end of the island and spend the Friday afternoon driving up the east coast of the island, visiting all those tiny little towns that I have heard about but have never actually visited before.
The Vaisakhi parade in Surrey is said to be the biggest in the world, attracting over 500,000 people! (See these aerial photos from last year to get a sense of the crush).
This year’s parade also saw the appearance of two of the candidates in the upcoming election for our next prime minister: Jagmeet Singh and Pierre Poilievre.
I was down on the ground, in the mix, surrounded by the celebratory masses with my older daughter.
