Christopher Daniel

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Working with time, place & story.
Committed to this real world but intrigued by virtual ones.
Dancing about architecture.
Spatial strategy with Atmospheric XR.
Teaching at University of Westminster.
Organising at Long Now London.
Webhttps://polysemic.co.uk/
Instagramhttps://instagram.com/polysemic

Long Now London now has a proper website: https://longnowlondon.org/
News will now be shared via Substack and events are on Eventbrite.
Our first migration in 14 years. It won't be our last.

#longnowlondon #longnow #thelongnow #thelongnowfoundation #longtermthinking #deeptime #maintenance

Long Now London

A community of practice for long-term thinking. Conversations about art, technology and deep time. Meeting in person on the second Thursday of every month.

Realising I didn't come near Mastodon in 02023 and... didn't notice.
"Is... Is it okay to be weird?"
The witch studied the young woman.
"No."
"No? I thought you'd understand."
"Don't be weird," the witch said. "Be yourself."
"But..."
"Now, some people may call that weird, but that's their word, not yours. Be yourself, however that is."
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic
@Faintdreams I'm glad that that framing feels useful. It certainly has been for me.
If you search for #digitalgarden or something similar you should find plenty of discussions of these approaches online.
The gamechanger for me (first in Roam, now in Obsidian) has been the ability to start a new note and immediately be shown how many times I've mentioned that topic in previous notes. As new priorities and interests surface, the software supports that brilliantly.
@Faintdreams I am loving Obsidian, several months after migrating from Roam Research.
I'm definitely a "gardener" rather than an "architect" when it comes to my note-taking, but I'm really appreciating the ability to include some folder structure in my digital garden.
*There's something darker going on as well.* Some of the inconvenience that US travelers are suffering is built into the system on purpose. Sales platforms are convenient by design because companies don't want to lose sales. Customer service platforms are inconvenient by design because the sale has already been made. Inconvenience makes people go away– and making people go away saves money.

I greatly appreciated this, @davidribes.
Can't quite remember how I found it (perhaps #TheMaintainers email list?) but I'm very glad to have saved it.

Your framings of #infrastrutcture and work had me stopping to make notes far too frequently for the recent cold weather in London.

Just gonna throw in a few more search terms for those who might be seeking our campfires...
#clockofthelongnow
#stewartbrand
#culturalinfrastructure

This strip came out in 1995. What would Calvin’s dad have to say about technology in 2022? 😬🫠 #CalvinandHobbes

@nikclayton I have never had any results when searching for people on either Tusky or the Mastodon app (I can search for hashtags, but it always gives no results for accounts).

Until you suggested it, I don't think I'd actually visited the mindly.social website.
I searched there and it worked.
I'll have to try searching there in future.

Thank you!

Thanks, @musingoddity.
I suppose you could find him because you're both on @zirk.us!