This might become a microblog about photography, blogging, emacs, analog tools, tech, etc. We'll see.
"A man with one blog knows where to post things. A man with two blogs is never sure." -- (paraphrasing) Segal's law
With that in mind, I'm shutting down baty.blog in yet another effort to consolidate my blogs.
See you at baty.net!
Every time there's an Apple Event, people on the internet like to smugly claim they didn't even know about it1. I hate when they do that. Except I swear to god I did not know about it this time. It seems impossible to me, but here I am browsing apple.com and not wanting anything they announced today.
It's the modern day "I don't even HAVE a TV!" ↩
The full moon was so bright this morning that I had to squint just to look at it.
Interesting: Hyperuplink: Discuss like it's 1998
Still noodling about Pure Blog. It's so nice...but Emacs!? :)
I'm sure there's a Petosky stone in there somewhere
I'm not supposed to be putting journal entries on this blog, but it's what I reached for without thinking this morning, so here we are. I enjoy using Pure Blog quite a lot.
I promised myself that I wouldn't post about any more social media dustups, but I broke my promise recently, and I wish I hadn't. It's just so hard to watch people on "my team" do things I wish they wouldn't, whether that's retreating to a platform that disgusts me, like X, or scolding someone for choosing for themselves to do that.
So here's the thing, our performative virtue signaling seems to be alienating the very people we need to persuade to come over to our side.
I remain convinced that Trump is president because "regular folk" were sick of being scolded and shamed for simply living their lives in the world they were born into, their only sin being that they were maybe a little behind the curve.
Anyway, my wife and I had a lovely weekend up north. Turns out that "the Outdoors" is pretty neat.
Sunset over Lake Michigan. Charlevoix, MI. (iPhone 15)
I knew I should have brought color film. All I had was a stupid iPhone.
Crowd: "That guy is pretty cool and is doing good work for the community. We should support him!"
Guy: Continues to do the exact same work, but decides it might actually be better for him to be posting on X.
Crowd: "That guy is a loser facist-supporting asshole with no moral compass or sense of decency. Boycott him!"
Personally, I hate X and Musk and the whole lot of them. I believe that using X is wrong, but I'm beginning to hate the lazy righteous finger pointing from the "good guys" just as much. How dare anyone only get a C on the purity test. What is this, 2020? I'm on vacation this weekend and seeing this shit happen 2 or 3 times in as many days is so disheartening.
City Park Grill