A Sense of Doubt blog post #4195 - Buckminster Fuller's Chronofile and other Selections from Warren Ellis' Orbital Operations Newsletter

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4195 - Buckminster Fuller's Chronofile and other Selections from Warren Ellis' Orbital Operations Newsletter


My blog is not a chronofile, but there are parallels.

What an extra ordinary thing to catalog one's life in such detail. As I reflect on my own, I wish I had more detailed records.

This is a collection of a few things via Warren Ellis -- I am very behind on reading his newsletter -- all of which are somewhat writing related for today's WRITING WEDNESDAY.

Thanks for tuning in.

THE WORLD SERVICE

ONLINE

I’m trying to imagine what it would be like to be online your entire life. I saw a newsletter the other day talking about some fake scandal about a livestreamer being accused of using a shock collar on his dog (he didn’t), and there was a phrase therein along the lines of “he spends almost every waking hour livestreaming and there are tens of thousands of hours of video of him that people can take out of context and manipulate.” And it just got me to thinking - I can barely manage six posts a day on LTD and people like this guy are constantly online and constantly on. And the archives of that activity are almost like a public version of Buckminster Fuller’s Chronofile, his system that logged his life every fifteen minutes, every waking hour, for sixty-five years. Wanna see what that archive looks like?

With more than 140,000 papers and 1,700 hours of audio and video, all stretching to more than 1,400 linear feet of material, Fuller's life might be the most documented life of all time. The files go back to when he was four-years-old, but he only seriously started the archive in 1917. From then until his death in 1983 he collected everything from each day, with ingoing and outgoing correspondence, newspaper clippings, drawings, blueprints, models, and even the mundane ephemera like dry cleaning bills.

Source

I think about the Chronofile once every year or two. Especially a public one - private things are for paper notebooks. Livestreaming is, of course, more accessible, almost more ambient - these people who livestream eight hours a day are somewhere between a tv on in the background and a friend keeping you company. It’s a different degree of separation from someone who writes you regular letters, or sticks pieces of their notebook up in public for you to read.

We’ve gone to an interesting place, I think. Being invited to surveille someone full-time over the internet isn’t new - lifecasting, for one example - but for a certain class of creator and viewer, it’s become the norm. It is, on one level, constant production - but the viewer cannot stay fully and actively engaged with it all day. (Unlike the livestreamer, who has to time their bathroom breaks down to the second). It’s monetised disengagement, almost.

There used to be a thing called the blogosphere, which was everyone writing longform online all the time. Social media decimated the blogosphere. I wonder what decimates longform livestreaming, and when.

It’s perhaps worth noting that Jennifer Ringley, who was the immensely popular lifecaster JenniCam twenty-odd years ago, made damn sure she vanished from the internet when she quit streaming, and never went back.

Bonus round: sousveillance.

ORBITAL

TYPERACTIVE

Artist, writer and designer Rian Hughes has a compendium of his typography up on Kickstarter.

GOT MORE TIME?

LTD

I keep a digital writer’s notebook and you’re invited to read over my shoulder.

Morning Computer: a few useful things first thing in my day

Notes on Catherine Nixey’s excellent book HERESY resurfacing the blogchain-about-blogging BROADCASTING HOUSE telemetry - various links

Admin For Purgatory

Orbital Operations for 3 May 2026

THE WORLD SERVICE

RELICS OF A DEAD UNIVERSE

Headline of the week:

Physicist Proposes Dark Matter Is Made of Black Holes That Survived Dead Universes.

Here’s a fun dark matter solution. The invisible and as yet hypothetical substance could be made of “relic” black holes that survived the deaths of previous universes. This idea is explored as part of a new study published in the journal Physical Review D, which the lead author Enrique Gaztanaga breaks down in an essay for The Conversation. It hinges on two key concepts: the “Big Bounce,” a controversial idea that the Big Bang was part of an endless cycle in which the universe expands and contracts and expands again; and so-called primordial black holes. “The universe may not have begun once, but may have rebounded,” Gaztanaga wrote. “And the dark structures shaping galaxies today could be relics from a time before the Big Bang.”   https://futurism.com/space/dark-matter-black-hole-dead-universes

I wish I’d had that when we did DEPARTMENT OF MIDNIGHT.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2608.12 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 4059 days ago & DAD = 713 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4185 - Last Day of Blog Vacation: Action Comics 499 via Tom Brevoort - Comic Book Sunday for August Second 2026

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4185 - Last Day of Blog Vacation: Action Comics 499 via Tom Brevoort - Comic Book Sunday for August Second 2026

This is not a reprint of one of MY previous blog entries, but I am still officially on blog vacation for one more day, today.

When I resume regular activity and exit low power mode, there will not be dramatic changes. My default is kind of low power.

But I will stop reprinting my own blog entries for the foreseeable future.

I often reprint other people's stuff, and, so, for the second week in a row, here's a post by Tom Brevoort.

Thanks for tuning in.

LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading.

BLOG VACATION #1 - 2026 - Taking a blog vacation for a couple of weeks, until at least June 26th, 2026. But now that it's past June 26, I am not sure when I am resuming normal operations. Mostly reprints. A few simple shares (not that simple shares are out of the norm) and THAT ONE THING. Need time for other things.

https://tombrevoort.com/2026/07/19/bhoc-action-comics-499/

ACTION COMICS was pretty much the first title that I read with any regularity; it and THE FLASH. And that was due to the fact that, as opposed to SUPERMAN or JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA or most of the DC line, ACTION was published monthly. That meant that there were new issues arriving more regularly than other titles. As Superman had been my gateway into reading comics, ACTION COMICS was comfortable, a known quantity. By 1979, that formula, being overseen by editor Julie Schwartz, was beginning to feel a bit stale to me. But I kept on going with the series anyway. It was reliable, even if it never quite reached the heights of my favorite books of the time.

This was another story that featured Superman’s interstellar hero-friend Vartox, a take-off on Sean Connery in the film Zardoz. Since his earliest appearances, he’d evolved into a recurring presence in the Superman stories, a kind of elder statesman hero from the far-off planet of Valeron who had been in the hero game longer than the Man of steel and who could function as a bit of a mentor to him (though Superman, being the lead character, was always the one to help out Vartox with his difficulties in the end.) He’d also developed a bit of a loose relationship with Superman’s childhood sweetheart Lana Lang, which gave him a reason to come back into the Man of Steel’s orbit from time to time.

This was the second part of a two-part story. In the opener, Vartox had come to Earth after his own world of Valeron had been destroyed before his eyes. A sympathetic Superman had helped Vartox to establish a civilian identity on Earth, that of Vernon O’Valeron, newly-hired security officer for the GBS Building. In this role, he’d caught the eye of Lana Lang, who began to pursue him. But Vartox has come to the belief that he was somehow responsible for the demise of Valeron, and he’s now convinced that Earth will be next. As this story opens, he seeks out Superman to tell him about what he’s discovered, but they’re both interrupted in the Store Room where Clark changes clothes by one of the secretaries. and then before the two heroes can download further, Lana shows up to pull Vartox away. So while this is a planet-threatening matter, it’s going to have to wait.

While Vartox is revealing his true identity to Lana and giving her and the audience a helpful recap of the events of the first chapter, Clark Kent’s attention is caught by a news bulletin coming over the teletype indicating that the entire population of the town of Corlyville, Wisconsin is convinced that the Earth is about to come to an end. He becomes Superman and checks this out, finding the story to be accurate (and justifying this issue’s cover.) Mobbed by citizens begging him to take them to some other planet, Superman is forced to return to Metropolis, where he discovers that bulletins are coming in from other parts of the country as well, where people all across the world are experiencing the same phenomenon. At this point, Vartox is finally able to catch up with his super-friend. He tells Superman that he believes that he is responsible for the mass hysteria–that his powers are innately psionic, and he fears that his own dread is being subconsciously broadcast all across the planet.

Superman and Vartox head to the Fortress of Solitude to examine Vartox’s hypothesis. He believes that he must have picked up some alien substance in space that combines violently with oxygen, eventually causing a chain reaction that wiped out Valeron. It’s only the lower oxygen levels in Earth’s atmosphere that has saved Earth so far–but by Vartox’s calculations, in ten hours the chain reaction will hit. However, when both Superman and Vartox use their individual microscopic vision to examine the oxygen in the air around them, there is no sign of any impending catastrophe. Superman tells Vartox that he’s suffering from a paranoid delusion due to having watched his entire planet be destroyed, at which point Vartox attacks his friend, intent on forcing him to heed his dire warning.

There’s a brief battle between the two heroes, but Vartox with his greater experience is able to overcome his friend Superman. When the Man of Tomorrow revives, he’s presented by a ridiculous pantomime: Vartox is suited up in the manner of Superman’s father Jor-El and parrots Jor-El’s warnings about Krypton’s impending destruction before a Science Council made up of mannequins. This makes it seem as though Vartox has truly gone around the bend–but it also brings back enough trauma for Superman to fly ff the handle, He smashes the makeshift Council, and breaks through the outer wall of the Fortress in doing so. Vartox follows, hoping that he hasn’t completely caused his friend to snap. But outside of the Fortress, an examination of the atmosphere confirms Vartox’s story–there is a chain reaction building up that will destroy the Earth. So why was it not apparent inside the Fortress?

The answer turns out to be that Vartox carried the remedy for the catastrophe. This turns out to be fragments of Valeron, which have been transformed by the destruction of the planet into a counteractive X-Element. Superman and Vartox are able to journey out into space and gather up the remains of Valeron. They then pulverize the fragments, scattering them into Earth’s atmosphere in order to neutralize the chain reaction and save the planet. (I’ll admit, my memory of this story before reading this second part again was that Vartox’s vision of Valeron being destroyed was an illusion caused by something he’d encountered in space, and that his planet was actually safe and well the whole time. But I must be conflating it with some other story.) At the issue’s end, Vartox makes the decision to say goodbye to Earth and to Lana and seek out some other planet who might benefit from having a hero such as himself in residence. Which feels inauthentic, especially after how much work the guy had put into establishing an Earth identity and hooking up with Lana. But I guess Vartox is just a love-’em-and-leave-’em kind of a fella.

This issue of ACTION COMICS didn’t carry the regular weekly Daily Planet promotional page. In its place was a feature detailing the answers to the assorted trivia questions put forward by Bob Rozakis, the Answer Man, as part of the second Superman the Movie contest as well as what back issues they were pulled from. I don’t know that I liked this as much as a Daily Planet page, but if there had to be a substitution, this was a relatively good one in my eyes.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2608.02 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 4049 days ago & DAD = 703 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4153 - SoD Reprint from 2019 - Perpetual Learning

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4153 - SoD Reprint from 2019 - Perpetual Learning

Today's reprint.

Thanks for tuning in.

LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading.

BLOG VACATION #1 - 2026 - Taking a blog vacation for a couple of weeks, until at least June 26th, 2026. But now that it's past June 26, I am not sure when I am resuming normal operations. Mostly reprints. A few simple shares (not that simple shares are out of the norm) and THAT ONE THING. Need time for other things.

Link to the original post I am reprinting below:

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1587 - Perpetual Learning and E-180 fortnightly links no.23

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1587 - Perpetual Learning and  E-180 fortnightly links no.23

I like learning.

Here's a newsletter I receive and wish I took more time to explore in depth.

There's good stuff here on cognition, the learning brain, cultivating curiosity, and knowledge sharing culture.

Good stuff.

That's all I am typing on it today. I grabbed this one out of the deepest crevice of the archive. The cavern. The abyss.

And so it goes...

E-180 fortnightly links no.23

I hope you have some time this week because we have a few longish (7 min reads) articles; brain-inspired and brain-inspiring, cultivating curiosity, the forgetting mind and knowledge sharing culture. Oh, and LEGO!

To keep the newsletter to a manageable reading time I’m sticking to the usual format but if you want to find even more interesting reads, you can head to the magazine version of the newsletter where I’ve included a few more links. (Be sure to hit reply if you have thoughts on this “add-on.”)

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☆ Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Systems and the Learning Brain (7 min read)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a trendy topic recently, in some cases simply “big data” under a different name, in tother cases actual significant advances. Here is an interesting brief on AI in education at Pearsons and IBM which includes advances in neuroscience and our understanding of how learning happens. Ends with some good questions about the approach and how interactions with such systems will shape our brains.

AIEd will continue to leverage new insights in disciplines such as psychology and educational neuroscience to better understand the learning process, and so build more accurate models that are better able to predict — and influence — a learner’s progress, motivation, and perseverance. … Increased collaboration between education neuroscience and AIEd developers will provide technologies that can offer better information, and support … a child’s progress.

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A recursive relationship between machine cognition and human cognition is assumed in this statement. It sees cognitive systems as both brain-inspired and brain-inspiring, both modelled on the brain and “rewiring” the brain through interacting with users.

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How to Cultivate Curiosity That Creates a Fuller Life (5 min read)

A good look at Ian Leslie’s book on curiosity with some of the best insights and a quick look at the diversive, epistemic and empathic kinds of curiosity.

The turning point in my life and career was when I became obsessed with learning; when I realized how dark my mind was and how this ignorance was like trying to find my phone in a dark room. This was also when I realized I had stopped doing the most important thing: asking questions.

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7 Brain-Based Ways to Stop Forgetting (7 min read)

A study trying to understand how forgetting works and seven ways to prevent forgetting. And good to know; “critical thinking—asking ‘how’ and ‘why’—can actually boost brain power.”

“These results suggest that mastery-approach goals eliminate retrieval-induced forgetting, but performance-approach goals do not, demonstrating that motivation factors can influence inhibition and forgetting.”

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Why a perpetual learner beats a fancy cv anyday (7 min read)

Crew believes in hiring learners and fostering opportunities for growth, constantly challenging their employees to get better at what they know and diving into what they don’t know yet.

Perhaps our most consistent topic though is what each person is learning. Everyone has an area in which they are currently pushing their skills. Ask me at any given time where my primary focus of growth is and I can tell you without hesitation… In the one-on-one each month, we write them down to hold ourselves accountable. Then we check in the following month to see how it’s progressing.

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A knowledge-sharing culture is essential (3 min read)

Talking about knowledge sharing and implementing tools for it is all well and good but people have to use it! Dave Conrad here has some good succinct points on how to create a knowledge sharing culture.

Only effective collaboration and communication — which spans across the whole company — will give knowledge management the emphasis and impact it deserves. I always tell my business students the individuals that rise in an organization are not those who hoard information, but rather, those who openly and freely share their knowledge and expertise with their colleagues.

In a very similar vein: 5 reasons your employees aren’t sharing their knowledge

Extras

Legos: A New Frontier for Libraries (3 min read)

“Not all learning comes from books,” she continues. “If libraries want to stay relevant in this digital age, they need to embrace methods of informal learning and step out of their comfort zone with makerspaces such as a Lego playing station, which is not always quiet, orderly or clean.”

It’s supposed to be written in all caps though; LEGO ;)

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Event: The Future of Learning 2016

Future of Learning brings together leading scholars in fields such as cognitive and social psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, digital ethics, art, and design whose latest research will help you understand the changing nature of learning in today’s societies. Leading practitioners working in schools, museums, and NGOs will broaden your repertoire of frameworks, resources, and tools to create learning environments for today and tomorrow.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1906.25 - 10:10
- Days ago = 1452 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2607.01 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 4017 days ago & DAD = 671 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4109 - Know Your Tools and the Music of Danielle Dax - Music Monday for 2605.18

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4109 - Know Your Tools and the Music of Danielle Dax - Music Monday for 2605.18

I know Danielle Dax from Robert Fripp's 1981 album The League of Gentlemen, one of my favorite albums.

And the cover of the Beatles' single "Tomorrow Never Knows" in 1990 which I saw on 120 Minutes on MTV (or at least I am reasonably sure of this).

But I had not followed her career.

Today's content is mostly sharing from Warren Ellis' newsletter.

Thanks for tuning in!!

Danielle Dax - Wikipedia 

Danielle Dax - Inky Bloaters

Danielle Dax - Jesus Egg That Wept (FULL ALBUM)

Danielle Dax - Tomorrow Never Knows (Official Music Video)

Orbital Operations for 5 October 2025

THE WORLD SERVICE

PATIENCE

By the time you read this, if everything’s gone to plan - and there’s no reason to expect it will - the entirety of graphic novella PROJECT LOST SIERRA should have been delivered to the upload site by the artist, if she hasn’t experienced yet another bizarre Fortean accident that has led us both to believe this book is cursed.

PROJECT BORLEY’s artist is in the last half of issue 3 - 4 is on his desk, which mean I need to get a wiggle on and produce two more scripts to stay well ahead of him. PROJECT EXPLOITS RIVER is into its final pages now, I believe, PROJECT KNIFE HILL and PROJECT ROANOKE are still waiting for their artists to get free, I’m already into the projected 7500 words of contracted ebook PROJECT SODA SPRINGS (I suspect it’ll end up around 10k, like DEAD PIG COLLECTOR, and I don’t even bother mentioning all the film and tv activity - options, attachments and the like - because none of that stuff matters until it physically happens on a set or in a studio.

Patience. I was having a conversation about that with someone earlier. Things will happen, or not happen, in their own time, and there is rarely anything you can do about that. If you want to make things for a living and not go batshit - and I have to remind you that all creative industries are filled with people who went batshit - step one is to learn how to wait and let things go.

It’s among the hardest lessons to learn, but it’s the one that will save your life. Take it from someone who’s lived through a lot and nearly died a few times.

OPERATIONS

KNOW YOUR TOOLS

Actors talking about acting can be painful to listen to. But actors who have really thought in practical terms about what they do and how they do it - that’s fascinating.

Michael Caine would talk about acting on film as “surgery with a laser” as opposed to theatre acting being “surgery with a scalpel.” Film doesn’t let you be broad or take your time and you can see every little detail in that frame. Hence his famous “eye trick” - he won’t blink during a shot unless he’s trying to show nerves.

Anthony Hopkins doesn’t blink when he plays Hannibal Lector, either - but he does hold his mouth slightly open in every shot, the way a snake does.

I once saw a short documentary about the film THE COMPANY OF WOLVES, and in an interview Angela Lansbury said something brilliant. Her character, the slightly creepy grandmother, wore little spectacles. And, every now and then, Lansbury would hold her head a certain way, because she knew the lighting would catch the glass of her spectacles and hide her eyes. And when you can’t see someone’s eyes, you unconsciously stop trusting them. Therefore, Lansbury would make it so you were never quite sure about Granny, without her doing anything except tilting her head a bit.

Because she was in command of the tools. She knew what everything on a set did, she knew what a camera did, and she knew that the tiniest of movements would change everything.

And here’s musician and actor Danielle Dax, of the Thames Delta, as the werewolf girl in COMPANY OF WOLVES:

DANIELLE DAX ENTR’ACTE

And since I ended up talking about the sainted Danielle Dax, here’s a short musical interval:

Danielle Dax - Bad Miss 'M'

Daisy

07. The Spoil Factor - Jesus Egg That Wept (1984) / Danielle Dax

Danielle Dax - White Knuckle Ride

ORBITAL

SOCIAL MEDIA WINTER CONTINUES, ALMOST EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

I’ve seen this quoted in a few places - it’s a piece on the FT that I don’t have access to because I’m too cheap to spring for the FT, but this is the bit, this time on Marginal Revolution:

It has gone largely unnoticed that time spent on social media peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline, according to an analysis of the online habits of 250,000 adults in more than 50 countries carried out for the FT by the digital audience insights company GWI. And this is not just the unwinding of a bump in screen time during pandemic lockdowns — usage has traced a smooth curve up and down over the past decade-plus. Across the developed world, adults aged 16 and older spent an average of two hours and 20 minutes per day on social platforms at the end of 2024, down by almost 10 per cent since 2022. Notably, the decline is most pronounced among the erstwhile heaviest users — teens and 20-somethings… Additional data from GWI trace the shift. The shares of people who report using social platforms to stay in touch with their friends, express themselves or meet new people have fallen by more than a quarter since 2014. Meanwhile, reflexively opening the apps to fill up spare time has risen, reflecting a broader pernicious shift from mindful to mindless browsing.

There is, of course, one notable exception to this global trend. America.

Recently: THE DEPARTMENT OF MIDNIGHT audio drama podcast, DESOLATION JONES: THE BIOHZARD EDITION, THE STORMWATCH COMPENDIUM., THE AUTHORITY Compact Edition, the LIGHTS OUT Anthology.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY with AJ Brady

One More Won’t Hurt

There’s nowhere to stand in this country that doesn’t have twelve feet of human bones under it. Every day we're walking on nine hundred thousand years of buried bodies.

These are the collaborations between myself and painter AJ. Sometimes she sends me an image and I respond to it in text, sometimes I send her a piece of text and she responds with an image. Find her work at brady-pictures.com.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2605.18 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3973 days ago & DAD = 627 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.