Notes and links from Wed 10 June

Status: Was determined to resume pottering today, a medically prescribed activity which keeps me moving in a non-fatiguing way. In other words, get off the fucking sofa. The best pottering activity I’ve found is tidying up, so I’ve been working along the bench in the shed, putting things away and sorting through those plastic boxes of random bits that just accumulate over time. Wally was doing that slightly needy thing he does sometimes, hanging around near me and looking a bit sad. He’s not actually sad. His breeding just makes him look like an insecure 2000’s era San-X character. I think he might be a bit needy though, poor little boo. Reading: The Online Marketplace of Ideas — I love this exhibition, made up of merchandise and books sold by online influences and thought leaders, or whatever we’re calling them these days, from blatant grifters to considered academics. “Merch is where the immaterial experience of web 2 culture touches down into our lived human space. It is the…