Moss has a snow cap.

Status:

Much sleeping, let the rabbits out in the snow (they weren’t impressed), great-nephew M came over for a bit, powered up the old infra-red camera to diagnose cold spots in the house, hopefully entered the end game of 45 groups of 45, screwed the legs onto Fiona’s new desk, which she’s very happy with.

Overnight listening:

• If Books Could Kill: Elon Musk pt 1 - focussing on Walter Issacson’s hagiography and his inability to see through Musk’s bullshitery as much as the bullshittery itself.

Reading:

• ‘A place of darkness and light’: the uninhabited Japanese island that became a rabbit paradise - I have so many thoughts and feelings about Okunoshima island, the main one being it’s not cute, it’s a hugely problematic animal welfare issue. Still, it’s good to get a bit more of the history of the place, and those listening devices in the header photo look pretty neat.
• A Difficult Few Months - Robin Ince reflects on the final night of Monkey Cage
• A website to destroy all websites. How to win the war for the soul of the internet and build the web we want. - [old-man-voice] I’ve read (and written!) similar polemics over the years but it’s always good to keep up to date with the nuances of this sort of thing. (I really hope “the web we want” isn’t formatted in this style-over-accessibility way, and at least renders in Reader view better than this. Sheesh.)
• Ancient Everyday Weirdness - one of those loooong Bruce Sterling pieces which are usually worth it in the end. This one starts off with some musings about multitools and has some nice lines. This one, about multitool nerds, could apply to a lot of contemporary things: “Normal people are becoming weird like them, much faster than normal people can scold them, assimilate them, or calm them down."

Telly:

• Bay of Fires - Fi discovered this and I’m quite liking it so far.