Approaching the midpoint of the year, I have three projects I'm excited about. One builds on the past, one exists in a perpetual present, and one looks to the future. This is about the perpetual present. Also, plums!

it's a symptom of a much bigger issue

Nationwide across the US, transit ridership is only at about 70% of where it was in 2019 before the pandemic. But this is not the case in all cities around the world. According to this recent Bloomberg article, Madrid, Hong Kong, and Paris are all above their 2019 ridership levels. Seoul and Shanghai are also close at just over 90%, and London is at 85%. So this problem of fewer people riding transit seems to be a North and South American phenomenon. Rio de Janeiro is at 73%, Mexico City is a...

India's new data protection law introduced the concept of age tokens as a means to obtain verifiable parental consent. If this concept can be adapted to apply to online content, it should finally be possible for us to ensure that online content is delivered in an age-appropriate manner without violating personal privacy.

In Which We Acknowledge That Painting Ourselves into a Corner Wasn't Very Smart

The new client release sets a default gas limit of 45 million gas and drops pre-merge history data.

Sourced very near our imagination. Written by the Patchwork Protocol on behalf of Patrick Atwater. Well now, folks, gather ‘round and lend an ear, for this one’s a humdinger straight from the canyon folds of memory and myth. I was out walking near the old Verdugo Hills Golf Course the other morning—the grass going yellow-brown like a lion in winter, the air just sharp enough to make you think of change—and I swear I could hear echoes in the eucalyptus. Not just birdcalls and freeway hum, mind...

A new version of cooprecords.xyz is here and its jam packed with updates to make it easier than ever to collect your first song and stay up with releases from your favorite artists. We've been cooking on this for the last month and a half so it feels really great to get it out into the wild for feedback. In short - the newest version features the ability to follow artists and get notified when they drop new songs, along with when you earn from curator rewards. We also pushed a new "Coins" sec...

Dune Riders

We meet even more people in the park in this issue #251 of your weekly poetry shot