Ted Gioia:

"Mr. Zuckerberg’s ideal Metaverse is just a panopticon—those infamous prisons where every inmate can be scrutinized simultaneously."

Chris Dixon:

“What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in 10 years.”

Well, that will be the last time I ever take hot or not advice from Balenciaga.

The couple I married today at Freycinet’s Honeymoon Bay married in secret (after booking me four years and a pandemic ago) so I tried my hand at double-exposures and blurry photos.

Annie-B Parson:

“Social media forms are performative solo forms with an odd conflation of friendship and marketing; the body is alone in a room performing the self, with an undercurrent of desire for applause. Without a town square to gather in and hash out the day with neighbors, social media communications have a shading of loneliness underneath.”

Today milestones:

11yrs ago Rhi and Jarryd became official. 10yrs ago Rhi found me on Instagram. 9 yrs ago I quit 4BC, went full time as a celebrant, and got on Nine’s Today Show as the “celebrant that only does cool weddings” 🤮 Today I married Jarryd & Rhi at sunrise in the Byron Bay rainstorm before flying to Hobart.

Today is day 10 away from my family. I embarked on this trip to Australia thinking I’d get lots of sleep and rest from being a dad. Instead of barely slept and miss them like crazy. Please don’t tell them, they already hold too much power over me.

Travel hack for New Zealand is to fly out of Queenstown Airport because they have a special check in counter for frequent flyers.

If you're thinkin' of being my burger it don't matter if you're black or white

Glacier to Ground pop-up waterfall

The Mātukituki River valley

ZQN bound

How am I supposed to drive five hours on an Ice Break

I’m sitting in row three - the last row - of business class on this flight from Canberra to Brisbane after being upgraded overnight and the Queensland Premier just walked past me to economy.

How did the Qantas algorithm put me ahead of Palaszczuk?!

Couple I'm marrying tomorrow: We'd like to have an entertaining and funny wedding ceremony. Me: Oooh, I'm going to have to Google how to do that. Them: Awkward silence.

🎶 It must be hard for musicians and songwriters to try and produce better songs than the best song ever produced, Frenzal Rhomb's Mr. Charisma.

The internet is more fun when you upload as much as you download. When you stop, comment, post, share instead of doom scroll. People create and also consume, not just consume consume consumer consume.

Re: Bird app

Cute. On the news that the leap second is being removed, Rev. Pavel Gabor, an astrophysicist and the vice director of the Vatican Observatory Research Group in Tucson, Arizona said that,

"atomic timekeeping was just one example of how the world was becoming incomprehensible to the average person, and that scientists had a responsibility to help people feel in control of their lives."

And he went on to say,

“I think sensitivity to this mistrust of elites, mistrust of experts, mistrust of science and institutions, that’s something that’s a very real problem in today’s world,” he said. “And let’s not contribute to it.”

I'm so looking forward to the world returning to normalcy and peace in 2035 when the leap second is removed.

Breaking: news.

You take a six week break in Mexico and your phone gets real judgemental

Philip Glass:

”I don’t know what I’m doing. And if you don’t know what to do, there’s actually a chance of doing something new. As long as you know what you’re doing, nothing much of interest is going to happen.”

It’s not often you get Coolangatta and Surfers Paradise in the same photo. But that’s what happens when I’m back in Australia :)

Current status: Getting wasted on old fashioneds in the Los Angeles Qantas First Class Lounge.

I don't think Trump will even make it to the Republican Nomination for President, let alone the actual Presidency. The Trump voter hates losers more than lefties and abortions.

I've been talking about switching social networks for a decade now ...

Having my first experience of Live Activities on the latest iOS software. The app that is “live” is Flighty, and I really like this. The only negative is that 4G/3G/wifi is terrible here.

To chool for school

Experiencing the weirdest vibe right now. I’m packing to leave home for a month, and the place I’m travelling to is Australia. I never thought Australia would be somewhere I travel to, only from.

Dane Winer:

"Twitter inherited the blogosphere, in a sense, and the chaos of the company hid the fact that it was owned, all that we put into it, we owned none of it. It could all be sold."

Sharing God's Law from Letters of Note, as seen multiple times around the internet and on The West Wing, now in it's original form, by Kent Ashcraft:

Dear Dr. Laura,

Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God’s law. I have learned a great deal from you, and I try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend homosexuality, for example, I will simply remind him or her that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. End of debate.

I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some of the other laws in Leviticus and Exodus and how to best follow them.

When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord (Leviticus 1:9). The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. How should I deal with this?

I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as stated in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?

I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness (Leviticus 15:19-24). The problem is, how can I tell?

I have tried asking, but most women take offense. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may buy slaves from the nations that are around us. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify?

I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?

A friend of mine says that even though eating shellfish is an abomination (Leviticus 10:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don’t agree. Can you settle this?

Leviticus 20:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?

I know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God’s Word is eternal and unchanging.

Your devoted disciple and adoring fan.

Are you a parent of a toddler or an assistant to a male CEO of a tech startup?

Why Mastodon is "big" in Japan

I think about this email that Steve Jobs wrote to himself a lot

Gosh I needed to enjoy this: "You Can't Handle The Truth," but it's the Toy Story Song

Touché Google Translate

Watching Seinfeld and the episode ‘The Limo’ starts. Opening scene is at a NY airport and a Trump airline Boeing 727.

Of course the only Trump cameo in an episode of Seinfeld is one from 1992, about the neo nazi.

Rancho Pescadero, the new old kid on the block, just re-opened. Keen as mustard to start making weddings there!

❤️ El Pescadero, Baja California Sur

Britt & I toured around this new resort, Rancho Pescadero, last week to talk about making weddings there. Those oceanview rooms are actually built into dunes & the cactus were geotagged then replanted back into the same exact locations. Only $3k a night on the beach there!

This is Noah Sushi in Pescadero. The best sushi I have ever tasted, and I've had good sushi, even in Japan. It's on a dirt road, with no signage, and no fancy tables inside. People come from hundreds of kilometres around to enjoy it.

Baja is wild.

Street names in Baja are wild, in that they barely exist. To prove my residence/address I need to show an electrical bill. So this street a few blocks from our house is hilariously named.

It's named after a gardener who still lives in that street, and drinks multiple litres of alcohol a day. His nick name is "Litre" or in Spanish "Litro". So a gringo who loves him had a street sign made, attached to the pole at the start of the street, now everyone calls it Litro Street.

In the future we won’t share our most intimate stories with, and through, the world’s biggest tech companies. Mastodon and blogs might not be the complete indieweb story, but it’s at least in the first or second chapter.

I’ll never forget today. The day that my 20 month old daughter, whilst holding a banana, screamed for another banana, but when she had two, realised she only wanted one.

The classic B1 and B2 dilemma.

Siri, one of the foremost artificial Intelligences, thinks I should call in to the Airbnb to check out. Thanks mate.

Apparently I don’t share my photography enough (sorry, Zac) so it’s mostly on Unsplash.

There you go ya filthy tech-news-lovin animals.