jh @jh@mastodon.org.uk

Wikipedia records a list of common misconceptions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

Prediction: Disney will lead the charge in mainstream entertainment abandoning the cinema. Cinema will go the way of vinyl: fewer of them, but focused more on independent productions.

Recent interestingness: 61 kinds of cognitive bias, using sting rays to map the ocean floor, and what different cultures can teach about boredom… https://pinboard.in/u:anticontent/t:interesting/

This may be the darkest thing I’ve read on what I’ll laughably call “the Trump administration” to date. Fucking. Hell. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55236260

“When the young [Ralph] Vaughan Williams asked his mother about Darwin's [then] controversial book On the Origin of Species, she answered, "The Bible says that God made the world in six days. Great Uncle Charles thinks it took longer: but we need not worry about it, for it is equally wonderful either way".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams

Fuck casual “I don’t like” Gdoc comments. I have a reason I wrote it that way. Have a reason to change it. I’ve been doing this a while. Hugely appreciative of thoughtful, constructive and reasoned critical feedback. But spare me your fucking wafty reckons.

Mastodon: stop being weird.

I'm now a Contributing Editor at Damn Interesting. My first short-form curio is 'The Trouble With Triples' https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-trouble-with-triples/

I feel sick for George Russell. Excellent driving; terrible luck. Burgled.

Recent loveliness: beavers of Exmoor, handwritten notes by Darwin, and a touching piece on Michael J Fox: https://pinboard.in/u:anticontent/t:lovely/

Next in sequence: 42

Text-only browsers or extensions – desktop and mobile, anyone? Firefox lets you disable images. It’s a start.

One of my favourite bits of internet, every Wednesday evening. Coldcut’s Matt Black jamming on Twitch for a couple of hours: https://twitch.tv/coldcutofficial

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“ Of all the mammals on Earth, 60% are livestock, 36% are humans and only 4% are wild.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/02/no-kill-lab-grown-meat-to-go-on-sale-for-first-time

Online shops should have to say up front what couriers they use so you can make informed choices about whether to shop with them. Hermes have dumped a delivery somewhere around a mile from my house.

The time-honoured castle parrot.

Romain Grosjean is a very very lucky boy.