For those unaware, for the past 15 years, Jay Rayner has been the food critic for The Guardian and its sister publication, The Observer. Individual foods are not pharmaceuticals; just eat a balanced diet. Tipping should be abolished. They should be paid properly.
It works in Japan, France and Australia. It can work in the UK. All new restaurants should employ someone over 50 to check whether the print on the menu is big enough to be read, the lighting bright enough for it to be read by and the seats comfortable enough for a lengthy meal.
Source: The Observer. Dave Winer has launched something called WordLand which uses RSS as the federated specification underpinning a federated social network. I immediately ran into an error about API calls, with no suggestion how to fix it. This approach seems a bit post hoc, ergo propter hoc. Thanks to John Johnston for bringing this to my attention, and for pointing me towards PootleWriter which looks simple and great for quickly getting things on the web.
WordLand is designed to be the kind of editor you use in a social app like Bluesky or Mastodon, but with most of the features of textcasting.
WordLand is where we start to boot up a simple social net using only RSS as the protocol connecting users. I think we can do it with feeds and start off with immediate interop without the complexity of federation. I call it the feediverse. Image: Juno Jo. There is enough going on in the world and in my life at the moment that Thought Shrapnel does not need to deal with. A4 is a single A4 sheet of paper with seven little nano-fiction stories.
