So glitchy

I woke up this morning with a sound track…

“Why are you doing what you’re doing? Why aren’t you doing what you love?”—Danielle K. Gregoire

I made a simpler, more streamlined menu for the website here and deleted the whole menu and could not get it recovered. Rebuild. Fine. There goes that afternoon.

I made a poetry file ready to upload for free download and it is too big to upload. That fits the day perfectly. Perfect to chase a night with vertigo. And I’m cold again because I let the fire go out. Somehow power cable around my legs and yanked computer off the couch as I got up for kitchen timer. Not actually killed it. This on top of spilling water in my keyboard by drinking and missing my own mouth, and later cutting my hand with tin foil, all of which brings royal us to nominate today retroactively into shoulda stayed in bed.

I tried reintroducing a tiny amount of nightshade to my diet. A few potato chips. My body’s joints immediately swelled and inflamed. That’s a no then.

Sometimes you think you have data, but not quite a complete set. I did not actually sleep 2 hour nights and vastly improve. I consecutively forgot to charge my watch so it kacked before morning.

At least I could write some. Averaging 250 poetry words per day, but most of the time is editing and cutting old words and seeing if there’s anything salvageable in bounced manuscripts.

I could learn mellow from this mouse.

In other news, Al-manach, a new anthology with risograph printing, showcases writing of les collines/the hills of Gatineau. It launches on Friday February 6th at 6:30pm at the Wakefield Public Library.

Deadline extended to Jan 31: Have you made a chapbook of haiku in 2024 or 2025? Or tanka, renga, senryu, sequences, haibun, and visual haiku? Send to the Marianne Bluger contest.

In the next pivot of attention…I like the ability of the internet to connect people of like minds or experiences and far distance. I like the critical thinking skills of people who make rather than only consume.

I like the free exchange of ideas and people who are curious to learn. People who declare they “don’t want to be influenced” worry me for that alone and for the mindset of proprietary insular ideas instead of community and growing together in an interdependent way. Aren’t we each isolated enough without deliberately avoiding listening to one another? It’s never made sense to me.

Further to the open access vs. capitalism, I present, the Mozilla Manifesto, which lists 10 principles which Mozilla believes “are critical for the Internet to continue to benefit the public good as well as commercial aspects of life”.

1. The internet is an integral part of modern life—a key component in education, communication, collaboration, business, entertainment and society as a whole.
2. The internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible.
3. The internet must enrich the lives of individual human beings.
4. Individuals’ security and privacy on the internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional.
5. Individuals must have the ability to shape the internet and their own experiences on it.
6. The effectiveness of the internet as a public resource depends upon interoperability (protocols, data formats, content), innovation and decentralized participation worldwide.
7. Free and open source software promotes the development of the internet as a public resource.
8. Transparent community-based processes promote participation, accountability and trust.
9. Commercial involvement in the development of the internet brings many benefits; a balance between commercial profit and public benefit is critical.
10. Magnifying the public benefit aspects of the internet is an important goal, worthy of time, attention and commitment.

[via “Mozilla Manifesto”. Mozilla. Archived from the original on 24 June 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2020 via Wikipedia.]

Also from Wikipedia,

According to its founder Lawrence Lessig, Creative Commons’ goal is to counter the dominant and increasingly restrictive permission culture that limits artistic creation to existing or powerful creators. Lessig maintains that modern culture is dominated by traditional content distributors in order to maintain and strengthen their monopolies on cultural products.

Patterns that suck, suck. Break the status quo. Let’s make a better, kinder, world step by step.