No Idea

Knife attack in China primary school wounds at least 39

If this happened in the United States it would be school shooting leaves at least 39 dead

The siren call of a dying open podcast culture is the same siren call of the dying blog. Open podcasts are not dying because Joe Rogan signed a contract with Spotify. Open podcasts are not dying just like open websites are not dying.

Will some players like Spotify entice popular podcasts to be exclusive to their platform?
Yes. No question.
Does that mean that indie and small publishers will lose users?
Yes. No question.

Much like text editors, there will be alternatives to Word, Pages, Notepad, and other built in system applications.

Remember the tale of the boy who cried wolf.
If the indie web keeps saying X will be the death of the open Y, when it finally does happen no one will have listened.

Today’s Wisdom

HOW YOU THINK IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT YOU KNOW.

Indeed.

I’m playing around with iA Writer and it’s a nice looking application on first launch.

I’m wondering what use case I might have for it.

I’m not sure that there is anything that I do that I would need to pay $20 for a text editor. But, holy moly is it a nice writing experience.

Blank space all over.
I haven’t explored the options yet.
I’m just trying out the first launch experience.

So far so good.
14 more days on the trial to see what I can or want to do with this little thing.

My 2 cents on the ‘Obamagate’ Susan Rice email

Too many people have seen too many buddy cop movies where “by the book” is a superiors way of telling cops to get their act together and the cops ignoring their superior and still being reckless to get their perp.

Holy Moly does Expanding Universe: The Hubble Space Telescope look good. This is an instant pre-order. It’s out in July.

Today’s wisdom

YOU CAN’T FIX EVERYTHING THAT GOES WRONG IN LIFE. SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT.

Totally normal thing for the sitting president to say. Totally normal.

So presidential.

So the Trump administration, along with many of its Republican collaborators, has a plan. It’s just that the plan is so horrifying that many people don’t want to believe the administration would do something like that. The plan is simple. Restart businesses, and let the American Carnage ensue. It will disproportionately affect minorities and lower-income people–and if those people were better people, they would have been wealthier and whiter, so fuck ’em anyway. I think they also believe–likely incorrectly–that the carnage will be confined mostly to urban, Democratic areas. Meanwhile, TEH STONKS! will be doing well, so all is good.

Well, shit.

Trump also called coronavirus testing “overrated” and complained that doing more testing was driving up the numbers of Americans known to have the virus. It’s not clear if Trump fully understands that people infected with COVID-19 have the virus whether or not they’re tested.

I mean.

There are roughly 50% of Americans who think he’s doing a good job as the president.

I mean.

I. I just. I just can’t handle my country sometimes.

Most of his inanine and assinine comments have no bearing on my daily life.

However:

I just can’t handle my country sometimes.

American Exceptionalism

Need to trim some green stuff in the backyard.

>It can be very easy to tolerate poor conduct and shoddy performance from a distance.

Sounds about right.

The only thing you can be the best at is developing your own self.

Natalie Portman

I do not need an iPad but I keep randomly going to the Apple website and looking at the $300 iPad.

Cultural Offering

There is a blogger respect for other bloggers that permits us to find points of agreement and read points of disagreement without any heartburn.

No, that’s called being an adult. And it’s a shame that the ability is a lost art to most “adults” these days.

Patrick Rhone

I know the things we do disagree on we could discuss rationally because of the respect for each other built on top of that which we agree on.

You shouldn’t need to agree on anything to be able to discuss thinks “rationally”.
I’m assuming that means to not resort to insults, with anyone.

It is supposed to be a part of society that we can interact with each other no matter what our beliefs. Of course the beliefs that are based in hatred and oppression are the exception to that rule.
The default of, “your idea is wrong so I will belittle and insult you”, is not something that should be aspired to become normal. We should not have to find common ground to agree on ideas to be able to be civil to each other.

Don’t assume that the obvious will remain obvious

This is a good reminder to “inspect what you expect” from your team.

When did Google calendar start to not allow you to click on events to get a description?

I am ashamed the United States things a flyover of military jets is the appropriate way to show support for essential workers during this pandemic.

If you really want to show your support, there is only one thing to do:

GoodFellas

I was so, so close to getting all green stars from Fitbit this past week.

1,405 steps away from getting them all.