Hi! My name is Josh, this me blog.

The dance of pleasing the social media algorithims of the world’s biggest companies, whilst being beat to death by strangers with their comments displeased me so now I’m here.

I wish I were the kind of person who could just live without broadcasting. But there’s an animal inside me — right down in the marrow — that keeps asking ‘can you see me?’ and silence has never once soothed it.

  • Choices

  • Kesha, the artist, is a prophet: Her ’09 debut single Tik Tok turns out to be quite the business plan for the 2016 social network bearing the same name. 2010's Blah Blah Blah describes, well, it describes everything. 2017's collab with Macklemore, Good Old Days? Enough said.

  • 🛹

  • In the last 18 months, how have QR codes taken off but Touch-Free Copper Keys not? I feel like 2020 was the Copper Key’s year but the key missed it.

  • An ode and a farewell to my Apple iMac G4

  • On in-person education:

    "The Nobel laureate economist Friedrich Hayek had a phrase for the kind of awareness it’s hard to capture in metrics and maps: the ‘knowledge of the particular circumstances of time and place’."

    from "How to Make the World Add Up" by Tim Harford

  • record scratch yup, that’s me, catching a ride out to attempt a drone rescue after a bird attacked it and sunk it into the Gold Coast Broadwater

  • Number 2

  • Highline // Palm Beach

  • The wedding industry is weird, it’s one of the few workplaces where you’re encouraged to make your clients cry,

  • ☕️ Merlo

  • The Calile

  • "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer

  • 39 images, all glued together with digital sticky tape 🌳

  • As a native speaker of Strayan’ English, I feel like our own whistled language has been ignored by the Smithsonian Magazine here. The great Australian wolf whistle is a complex piece of kit.

  • Ira Glass on loving the gap

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  • 🐮

  • Secret beach

  • A weak link in Microsoft's Power Apps portal service has exposed 38 million personal records. Great.

  • “...there is no ladder of intelligence. Intelligence is not a single dimension. It is a complex of many types and modes of cognition, each one a continuum. … we have no measurement, no single metric for that intelligence. Instead we have many different metrics for many different types of cognition.”

    “A squirrel can remember the exact location of several thousand acorns for years, a feat that blows human minds away. So in that one type of cognition, squirrels exceed humans.”

  • Australia’s Channel Seven’s The Morning Show, explaining how Apple’s The Morning Show is called Morning Wars in Australia: “lawyers”

  • Happy third PM anniversary, Scott Morrison

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  • 🌊

  • Sunshine Beach

  • The worlds greatest scientists: do you think we can combine PPE and speed dealer sunglasses?

    Other scientists: no, it’s impossible

    World’s greatest scientists: mission accepted

  • New moon Sunday

  • A lot of people who don't live in a border region posting big words regarding the protest from those living in border regions today. I live 1km inside the Queensland border to NSW and if you cared, I can tell stories for days of people who are affected, you'd be speechless.

  • “The Media Is Too Clueless and Sensationalistic to Properly Explain Breakthrough Covid”

  • ” I worry about a world in which many people will believe anything, but I worry far more about one in which people believe nothing beyond their own preconceptions."

    Currently reading "How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers" by Tim Harford

  • The protested-against take issue with the protestors, who aren’t in lockdown, and are allowed to meet and peacefully protest. Cool story, Nazi Queensland.

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  • Well guys, I think that just about wraps up our first dress rehearsal for humanity. Let’s come back tomorrow and start a fresh and try and do it properly then.

  • BREAKING: Netflix Secures Exclusive Broadcast Rights To NSW Premier's 11am Press Conference

    “The Premier’s 11am press briefing is literally the only thing people watch on free to air these days except the Olympics and maybe State of Origin football.”

  • 2060 US Presidential election prediction

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  • 🌙 Luna

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  • Ok, real talk, in Paw Patrol, why does Ryder, a human, get a Jetpack, but the pups have to drive or fly with their paws? Also, why don’t they deploy all pups to all jobs? Through each episode they all eventually get called out. It’s just inefficient patrolling.

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  • Spammer has given me the name of my next podcast, “Voice Massage”

  • Come on Australia, we can do this, just keep on posting about Covid and we’ll solve it once we reach heard immunity.

  • “Unravel from toxic individualism. You do nothing by yourself. Your whole life is a collaboration.”

    – @TheNapMinistry

  • Phone call starts with a recorded Australian accent speaking “This call is from National Crime Authority, the legal department of Services Australia” and I'm probably one spam phone call away from never answering a call again.

  • Hometown

  • Magnetic Island