Status:

Tired today, but not fatigued, which I’d like to think is a different. Fatigued it when it feels like my battery is flat and I’m just an empty shell. Tired is what I used to feel like after I did a thing a bit more than I might usually. And yesterday, though I took precautions, the power washing did involve postures and movements I’m not used to engaging, resulting in tiredness (and a bit of a sore back). But not a crash. The crash may still come but I’m optimistic.

Of course tired is still tired and I’ve spent most of the day napping and then wondering if I should have another nap. Lots of interesting looking things in the tabs waiting for me to be able to read them…

Reading:

• Geoengineering’s planetary risks — “Proponents of geoengineering are proposing to bash the climate with a whole new hammer, and one that engages some of the most poorly understood aspects of the climate system." As we enter the end-game of the climate crisis we’re going to hear a lot from people with more money than sense about how technology can fix things. It can’t, and it’s not worth the risk of trying to find out.
• Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you — A paen to typing and other finger-friendly computer interactions. “Fingers are time travellers. At any given moment, each one is living in a slightly different time." Gets a bit into the weeds (OK, a lot into the weeds) but some of the weeds are really interesting.

Watching:

• Juneteenth explained to white people ‌(20:23) “Free to go where?"

Listening:

• Origin Story: Think Tanks pt 1 — I’ve long been been fascinated by bodies with names like The Institute for Policy that serve as hot-houses for ideas to give political movements and ideologies some weight. Some of them seem pretty sound. Some are clearly not.

Music:

• John Hassell — Woke up to him being played on Night Tracks during one of my naps today and immediately looked him up. I love this idea of “fourth world music”, not just because it sounds like a Jack Kirby thing. It’s an attempt to mix “primative” and futuristic sounds, something that seems rather fraught for a white guy to do from our perspective, but there was a lot of that going on back then and the results are rather nice. I’ve been listening to Aka/Darbari/Java: Magic Realism which I heartilly recommend.