The clouds were particularly silvery today. Impossible to photograph, of course, but they were.
Status:
A friend let me know that confirmation email for subscribing to this blog went into her spam folder. Which email service, I asked. Gmail. I was not overly surprised.
Spam filtering is hard to get right. I’ve been using Fastmail for about a decade now and every day there’s a one or two pieces of unsolicited junk in the inbox for me to process, which is not bad given my email has been harvested off my various websites by nefarious actors for decades. I don’t mind this as ultimately I’d rather they err on the side of caution that delete something potentially useful.
Realising I hadn’t done it for a while I had a look in the spam folder to see if there were any false positives. Nope, nothing. All genuine spam. The filters are working well for me.
I can’t speak for why Google can’t do spam filtering properly. Maybe they feel that maintaining zero spam in the inbox is worth falsely flagging the occasional useful email. Maybe they just don’t care about email from outside the Google ecosystem. Maybe they’ve given up on email like they’ve given up on search and not being shite.
Death by a thousand tiny enshittifications.
Overnight listening:
- In Our Time - The Temperance Movement - surprised not to hear any mention of the Quakers, although maybe that was just the Cadbury family.
Music:
- Hannah Peel - Fir Wave - Put it on to sleep to last night and again to jigsaw to today. Lovely.
Reading:
- I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards
- They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity - “They have turned [the Son of God] into a gun-toting, gay-bashing, science-denying, money-loving, fear mongering fascist."
- How inflation and the two-child benefit cap has increased poverty. - “Once the goal of food banks was to work themselves out of a job. Now they have become a necessary part of the welfare state.” Any society that accepts food banks as normal is a broken society.
Watching:
Telly:
- I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
- Documentary Now! - just discovered a fourth series came out in 2022. Fantastic!