👁️ You forget all the funny little things you do to get all this stuff going. Eight days later - and we are finally back. I think.
John Philpin
npub1yuck...rlu2
People First
I have had various incantations of Marked on my machine for a while - so naturally when it came out - moved along to Marked 3.
I just read Lou’s review:
Marked 3 Is the Markdown Companion a Lot of Mac Writers Have Been Waiting For
"That means it fits alongside Scrivener, Word, MarsEdit, Bear, Ulysses, Obsidian, and other writing apps. In v3, Scrivener rendering with live preview is new, and Bear and Obsidian callouts are now fully supported."
💬 Lou Plummer
🤯 Now you know why I read Lou - he regularly demonstrates that though I think I know my apps - I clearly do not. Thank you sir. 
Marked 3 Is the Markdown Companion a Lot of Mac Writers Have Been Waiting For
Brett Terpstra has released Marked 3, and this is not just a routine update. It’s one of those releases that makes you stop and think about wher...
📸 Ton // @zylstra.org will know exactly what I am talking about.
Waving from the other side of the bay.
(To make sense - 🔗 click here and scroll down to the last photograph. See that big building top left? That is where this was taken just under three years ago.) 
Interdependent Thoughts – by Ton Zijlstra
Portugal in Spring – Interdependent Thoughts
"So “Maybe the new Golden Age begins with a simple post that references someone who stirred you,”"
💬 Jim Groom
… via 🔗 Stephen Downes
I am aware that I share a lot of links, with one or more of these traits;
no explanation
appending a little commentary
surrounded by a lot of commentary
in a sentence
with snark
a little more cryptic than some would like
… but the common thread through them all is that they all ‘stir’ me in some way.
‘Stirred’ mind you - not ‘shaken’ - though on occasions both. 
Let the Golden Age Begin
Commentary on Let the Golden Age Begin by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environmen...
"If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do."
💬 Bertrand Russell
.. via John Naughton
🔗 A Template You Might Find Useful
"Thanks to whoever thought of me for the kind invitation, which I must regretfully decline.
I’m Canadian and as a matter of principle feeling negative about visiting a neighboring country whose leader has repeatedly threatened our sovereignty and shown massive disrespect for our nationhood. Particularly when that leader has followed up similar statements about other nations with military action.
I could probably work around that. But there’s also the issue of entering the US; if I roll up at the border and am asked to disclose my social media output, there’s a..."
john.philpin.com 
ongoing by Tim Bray
Declining America
John PHI⑊PIN
🔗 A Template You Might Find Useful
Thanks to whoever thought of me for the kind invitation, which I must regretfully decline. I’m Canadian an...
👁️🤯 If I understand this correctly - Nilay Patel, Peter Kafka, Scott Galloway, Kara Swisher, Preet Bharara, Henry Blodgett, Maria Sharapova, Sean Illing (who all sit in my feeds) - and a whole host of other podcasts are shortly all going to be managed (if not owned) by … James Murdoch?
👁️ Back in the day @stefp / @stephenpieper.net was a welcome source of posts in my micro.blog stream - and then somehow he wasn’t. Probably moved on. Then I saw him on Crucial Tracks - found his site and added to my Feeds in NetNewsWire and of course he is here - just not as prolific?
Reminded me of others... john.philpin.com 
Micro.blog - @stefp
Stephen's Notebook
Stephen Pieper. Music lover, book reader, tea drinker, film watcher. Glasgow, Scotland.
John PHI⑊PIN
👁️ Back in the day @stefp / @stephenpieper.net was a welcome source of posts in my micro.blog stream - and then somehow he wasn’t. Proba...
👁️ I rarely get guestbook posts - and then 4 this week. All of them spam. Not good.
🔗🤯 A Seat on the Rocket Ship
"The education company Cengage found that just 30% of last year’s graduates landed full-time work, down from 41% the year before."
💬 Parker Molloy 
A Seat on the Rocket Ship
The students who booed AI at graduation were right. It probably won't matter.
🔗 The four pillars of modern media
"A recent issue of Casey Newton’s Platformer newsletter [£] made an offhand remark that I think both sums up how the modern media word operates – and which I know many media businesses haven’t completely assimilated as an idea yet:
> The mass audience has now moved fully to video; the personal audience now lives in the group chat. Professionals are getting their information from newsletters and podcasts."
Must be ‘offhand’ - because it is certainly not thought through. 
One Man & His Blog
The four pillars of modern media
The way people get information has changed. And we're not adapting fast enough.
Platformer
Are the Twitter clones in trouble?
A new report says X is resurgent — but it may be missing the bigger picture
🔗😂 XKCD and 🔗😂 Existential Comics are both crackers today.
Seems that 🍎 are pushing more Peanuts programming into 📺.
🍎📰 is missing a ‘comics’ section for Peanuts and other great comics, including XKCD and Existential. (With their permission - and payment - of course.)
👍🏼💡❓ 
xkcd
Particle Census
Tech Bros Utopia
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
🪦 RIP Barney - you gave ‘em hell - so I’ll assume you are heading to the other place. Deserved.
Inventing the modern world while pretending not to
Inventing the modern world while pretending not to ...
Between the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the Reformation, society underwent significant changes while quietly laying the foundations for...
Funny👁️ how suddenly things just come to mind. Take 🔗🎵 Russ Conway - not thought of him for decades - my mum was a fan (which is why I even know his name), but I still have no idea how he suddenly cropped up in my brain. 
Russ Conway - Wikipedia
🔗 GDS weighs in on the NHS’s decision to retreat from Open Source – Terence Eden
"a meeting _without_biscuits."
💬 The UK's Civil Service
😂 Perfect - only the British.
BUT - please don’t ignore this article - particularly if you are in the UK - and as I track the latest moves in New Zealand - also there.
"Some people make things happen. Some people watch things happen. And then there are those who wonder, ‘What the hell just happened?""
💬 Carroll Bryant
It’s bad enough being in the second category, but too many people are in the third.
🔗📼Which is why it is also important to watch this. 
GDS weighs in on the NHS’s decision to retreat from Open Source – Terence Eden’s Blog
Substack
Robert L Arnold (@defiance13)
For my friends that are exhausted