Network Effects

Bits Poor way to address concerns around #academicintegrity #uvic uvss.ca/2026/05/06/uvss-statem Sound & Music Wild field recordings on #bandcamp .. sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.c Livin’ in a city that never sleeps My heart keepin’ time to a thousand beats

Bits “In practice, the scaling laws worked until they didn’t.

Bits “What if the most salient factors shaping health today lie not within the atomized individual or even their immediate social milieu, but in the fractured, volatile relationship between our species and the Earth system itself?”

Gardening Baskets ‘o’ beans Film & Video A boy who was born blind, suddenly at the age of seven sees a light.

Bits The future we were promised #c64 archive.ph/6glUm Photography Sunsets & Summer

Music & Sound A week of big memories occupying the shoreline & raising hell with @blamb

Bits Well, well, well .. take a look around #july4th youtube.com/watch?

Comics “That aggrieved, insecure white Americans with an exaggerated sense of sovereignty have officially declared their existence as above the law, consistent with a long tradition of acting and living above it – propped up by apolitical consumer trends’…

Bits “data centres owned by Google alone used nearly five billion gallons of fresh water for cooling in 2022.

Music & Sound “blaring harmonies over a very sloppy guitar track.”

Bits mythcloud.eu explores the enduring power of shared stories and their relevance to our everyday lives.

Bits Brock University’s Senate formally approved and adopted an ethical framework for educational technologies. https://mastodon.social/@rajiv@scholar.social/114597401223608167 Gardening All my Spring seeds in the ground this week (bit later than usual th…

Bits “Users were granted a somewhat awkward email address of username@davidbowie.com, along with 5MB of personal web hosting.” https://hackaday.com/2025/05/19/remembering-the-isp-that-david-bowie-ran-for-eight-years/ “Jazz must swing – #jazz musicians agr…

Bits “Since last year, the #Nextcloud app hasn’t been able to upload non-media files like documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, etc., due to Google’s restriction on file access permissions.

Bits “It is not necessary to bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old.