Routine Revelations

One of the worst things about the United States is how healthcare amd public health have become politicized. We are no longer capable of doing things simply because they are the right thing to do. Trump’s view of COVID through the political lense caused COVID to rapidly spread in the beginning, and I fear Biden’s apparent political view of COVID and vaccines will likely keep it around much longer, and long enough for new mutations that the vaccines might not protect against.

Michigan Lifts Mask Requirement For Fully Vaccinated Residents | Patch

In Michigan, if you are fully vaccinated, you are not required to wear a mask. How does a restaurant or store know whether or not a person is fully vaccinated? Most likely people will just stop wearing masks and those who opt to wear them will become stigmatized.

And we are not yet at 50% of people fully vaccinated. We may be ok for the summer, but when the cold weather hits and people start congregating in poorly ventilated indoor locations, there will be outbreaks, and then, what will happen?

Keep in mind, mask wearing is never really been about personal protection against infection, it’s been about preventing spread by people who do not yet know they are infected from spreading it.

The story about the invention of Post-It Notes is a legend, so I want to acknowledge the passing of Spencer Silver, inventor of the adhesive used for Post-It Notes.

I think that in the article The Memex Method Cory Doctorow provides an explanation that I could use for why I blog. While when I write something here in a manner that is legible to anyone, I know that my real “audience” is myself. The most useful feature is the On This Day link above that collects and displays prior years entries on this site, which I look at each day to recollect what was meaningful to me in past years.

My writing since 1999 has accessible on the web, although not all in one spot, which may be a mistake on my part.

CDC Says Fully Vaccinated People Can Stop Wearing Masks Indoors : NPR So fully vaccinated people are not carriers of the virus and thus cannot spread it to others? I yet to see any clarification on this matter.

Roam is not an outliner, even though it has outlining features in it’s editor. Roam is a Personal Knowledge Management tool built around linking, either pages or blocks, (paragraphs if you will) to each other. In this way Roam is more like wiki than an outliner.

Said differently, Roam is to an outliner as the Windows File Explorer is to an outliner.

The little boy in me wants the Starsky and Hutch car! Child of the 70s!!

I was curious, so I created this simple one page blog using Little Outliner.

You will notice at the top of this page there is a link to a new Reading page, where you can see what I am currently reading along with links to books I have finished reading and want to read.

Currently reading: No Rising Tide: Theology, Economics, and the Future by Joerg Rieger 📚

I agree with The Verge, that the Shortcuts app needs to provide a way to silence notifications. And, it needs to fix the Close App action for Personal Automations, which currently only works when you switch between apps but doesn’t work when you return to the home screen.

Just received a frost advisory notification on my phone. Too cold for May!

Further troubleshooting of my Personal Automations finds that if I switch from the opened app to another app then the close app event triggers in the automation, but if I just close it to go to the Home Screen, it does not. I wonder what that means?

I have a few Personal Automations on my iPad that should trigger when I open and close an app. Up until a recent update to iPadOS, or to Shortcuts, both triggers worked but now the close app trigger does not work. I read that when first released Personal Automations only triggered upon open but there was no option for closed and it looks like some code was reverted in a recent release.

Currently reading: OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say? by Ben Sheehan 📚

“Lovers are the ones who know most about God,” von Balthasar writes; “the theologian must listen to them.” Such listening best happens, I’ve concluded, in art.

If Christianity gradually came to make a dent on the institutions of political life, transforming the very dynamics of rule, it was because “Christ has conquered the rulers from below, by drawing their subjects out from under their authority.”

I’m a philosopher. We can’t think our way out of this mess, Christian Century

A Personal Digital Habitat is a federated multi-device information environment within which a person routinely dwells. It is associated with a personal identity and encompasses all the digital artifacts (information, data, applications, etc.) that the person owns or routinely accesses. A PDH overlays all of a person’s devices1 and they will generally think about their digital artifacts in terms of common abstractions supported by the PDH rather than device- or silo-specific abstractions. But presentation and interaction techniques may vary to accommodate the physical characteristics of individual devices.

The Wilmington coup stands as the only successful and lasting armed overthrow of a legitimate municipal government in American history on U.S soil. It was a horrific turning point for the country, marking the beginning of Jim Crow and poisoning race relations to the present day. Not only was it a stain upon North Carolina, but on the federal government, too, which knowingly abandoned Black people to death and destruction.

America Hasn’t Reckoned with the Coup That Blasted the Black Middle Class, nakedcapitalism.com

I tried Tile tags and stopped using them, because I found I don’t lose things, so I am wondering whether the people caught up in the Air Tags hysteria really need them, or just craving a new Apple thing? What I most wanted the Tile to do is not let me forget my pills. I put a tag on a pill box, but found that the notification that my phone and the tag were apart came way too late.