Very nice to see this send-off of John Dougill, an influential member of the English-speaking community in Kyoto. I have a number of his books and he came to Iki for a few days while I was there. I had the privilege to tour him around the island and talk about travel writing. I learned some valuable lessons during that trip. Here are a couple of his blog posts from Iki:
Completed rewatching S01 of Andor tonight. Ready for season 2! 💫
Finished listening to The Martian Contingency by @maryrobinettekowal.com 📚 I love all the (good) characters, and it is so cool to read about “real life” issues in space! As always her narration is top notch. This one was sexier 🌶 than the others… but I guess it is set in the ’70s 😉
Berlin Tech Workers Coalition will host the largest English speaking and tech worker-led conference in Germany, together with their trade unions ver.di B+B and IG Metall Berlin. April 11, 9am CET. Berlin, DE.
h/t Internet.exchange
Oh man tonight at archery was over-rotating and pulled something in my neck 😬 🏹
Oh! Just got the notification I was accepted to Birken Monastery for a week-long retreat in September! The last time I was there was in 2019, just before we went to Iki Island. Been really looking forward to going back. 🧘
Congrats to Graham Culbertson of Everyday Anarchism who completed his nearly 2 year long chapter-by-chapter podcast mini-series David Graeber’s Debt. 👏👏👏 I have been waiting for the completion of the series to start my own re-read of this excellent book. Anyone want to join? 🙋♂️📚
I know I said things are finally settled down since the move, but there is so much inspirational stuff happening in my various communities that I had to take a quiet walk this morning just to process.
Hanami mode 🌸
Started listening to The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal on the way home tonight on the train. Lovely to be back in this series! 📚
Enjoyed this interview of @ntnsndr.in | @ntnsndr@social.coop by @ethanz.bsky.social | @ethanz@social.coop for #ReImaginingTheInternet. Their timeline of where social media went off the rails (from ✌️neutral✌️ platforms to a politicized spaces) was particularly interesting.
Enjoying the sakura in Vancouver 📸 🌸
I like this exercise from @gordon.bsky.social. Some excerpts:
Networks generate exponentials.
Broadcast: standardized | Network: personalized
Broadcast: manufactured consensus | Network: runaway amplification
Some things that don’t exist in a network society: facts, shared truth.
Just had the onboarding call and tech check for #FediForum which I will be attending for 2 days starting tomorrow. It is an unconference that is held entirely online. I have followed it for a couple of years but this is my first time attending.
After a month of “working” from Tokyo and Seattle… I am back to my normal schedule this morning. First day working from the new home office! 🎉
As user 87 on Bluesky, I have been around the AT Protocol ecosystem — the ATmosphere — for a while. My comrade Boris Mann (@bmann.ca) started https://atprotocol.dev to serve as a place to do tech talks with developers, just like we used to do for Fission before (and Causal Islands before that and TFTRocks before that… and… 😊). When Boris was thinking of starting the first community conference for atproto devs back in early December 2024, he asked if I was in… of course!
Dinner time! 🥘 😋
Zulip finally replaced Slack in my iPhone dock. And considering the ad and IPO rumblings, it may replace Discord someday soon.
Last day of spring break: Daddy/Daughter Day at Vancouver Aquarium
all pics 📸: flic.kr/s/aHBqjC7…
Just arrived! 🎲🧝♀️⚔️🪄 Looking forward to running this
