Just some personal news, I’ve decided that I know about the same amount about epidemiology, public health policy, firearms, the movie industry, bushfires, human rights, sexuality, religion, climate, and nuclear submarines.
But if you want any ideas on which MacBook to buy 🤙🏼
Facebook’s algorithm automatically sent a bot “full-on Qanon” within 48 hours.
One day I’ll write an essay about how the Facebook algorithm’s tendency to send people this way has made my life rather painful.
Life status: my three year old lives on my shoulders.
I’ve got 99 problems and they could all be solved with a new MacBook Pro, a DJI Mavic 3, and maybe a new 35mm lens I think.
Seeing as though my social media influence is waning on the daily I have some personal news, I’m starting a Withers Media & Technology Group. You’re going to love it.
How do you know things?
I think all day every day about the world I want to leave Luna and Goldie in.
I spend so much time wondering how to teach them how to know things. What they know will forever by growing and changing, but how they know things. How they learn, and how they research, and experiment, that’s so important to me.
So I’ve decided to create email accounts for them and to start writing to them. Because my words matter to them.
Your words matter.
Share them, with anyone, everyone, with me.
I don’t really care about fitting in with cool buzzwords and virtue signalling. But tell me how you lived in a tense moment today and how it was weird or awkward, but we learned more about each other.
Tell me about how you didn’t know something and you said you didn’t know.
Tell me about how you were scared and you said you were scared.
Life’s too short for platitudes and fitting in. Let’s be scared, daft, vulnerable, and authentic together. I don’t care what you know, but I’d love to know how you know it.
“The committee recommends that the Australian Government establish a new Decentralised Autonomous Organisation company structure.”
In the Australian Financial Review: Senate report proposes model to regulate the crypto economy
Every day I wonder when the day will arrive when it’s the last time I ever pick Luna up. What I mean is that when she’s 35 I’m probably not going to pick her up and throw her on my shoulders. So when, between three and thirty five will that day be?
“You always know when you’re doing something for the first time, and you almost never know when you’re doing something for the last time.”
“I collect shares of businesses … I use a certain type of non fungible token called a stock certificate for this.
Speedtest’s quarterly Australian internet report shows that Aussie Broadband outperforms everyone else, including Telstra. I’m an Aussie customer, I’m getting about 900mbps down, if you signup using my refer-a-friend code we both get a kick off our next bill: 5272836.
The most annoying position anyone can take through this season is a religious devotion to vaccines, or anti-vax, or lockdown, or open up, or whatever fucking position you think is correct.
We’re all mostly wrong and have no idea.
Screenshot from today’s NYT email.
GG
Guy on the phone with me right now from Australia Post is trying to convince me that Australia Post does other things on top of delivering mail, I’m like “just deliver me my mail, mate” and he’s not too sure what to do with that information.
Ben Sherpherd’s “The Commercial Experience 21.11: Programming the news media” dissects how the news has changed over the last three years
“My view is news media was more like SVOD, but COVID has made it more like TV.”
It really has been a blockbuster season of tiring news.
A walking disappointment to his mother
The Gold Coast gets one case of Covid, the first in 15 days in Queensland, and the whole state breathes in through its teeth.
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
“The stated mission of a company worth almost two trillion dollars is to “organize the world’s information” and yet the Internet remains poorly organized.”
– Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why we need more Boutique Search Engines
Happy third birthday Lu, I’m so proud to be your dad
