A reasonable mental model for X.com is as Elon Musk’s personal blog, with commenting enabled.
It is no more a “platform” than a casino is a park.
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We saw Thunderbolts tonight (opening night) and it thought it was pretty cool. It had a bit more complexity to the story than your average Marvel movie.
Finished 2.78 mile walk in 52 minutes (18.71 min/mile). Nice walk catching up with friend. 🚶♂️
Standard Water is putting drain tile into our basement to better manage ground water. What a crazy process and it shows how much this is going to help. There was a literal stream of water when they jackhammered the route. Wish I could have watched the action!
I had Siri read me a long email while walking and it was like stepping back to olden times. The TTS was lacking, not recognizing acronyms and with poor inflection. And I couldn’t even just ask “read this”, that failed. Instead I had to manually select the text and then press “Speak”. 😬
Renewal — IndieWeb Carnival Roundup
I’m wrapping up my very first time hosting an IndieWeb Carnival. After a good amount of deliberation I set this month’s theme of Renewal. It has been interesting to see how different people pulled that in. Here are this month’s carnival submissions in approximately the order they …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Renewal — IndieWeb Carnival RoundupMusical Renewal
I remember at some point in my early 20’s being curious why, it seemed to me at least, that as people aged they listened to less new music. This was all well before the Internet and I don’t even recall how I came to the research on this. Perhaps the research came to me and I’m …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Musical RenewalFinished 2.54 mile walk in 60.9 minutes (23.98 min/mile). Delightful evening for a cool neighborhood walk with Lucky. 🚶♂️
It was eight years ago today that I started using micro.blog. Seems wild that it has been that long. It has grown into a really great blogging platform. I’m looking forward to the next eight years. Congrats @manton!
My favorite Indieweb services — Micro.blog and Buttondown — have had a tough week. They worked through it.
