Julian Oliver

Nostalgic for when 'the rise of the machines' felt like our primary existential threat

One of the more wicked problems of 'living green' is not wanting to buy wool (land stress, animal Ag) or leather (animal Ag, poisonous to rivers & producers, exploitative labour), & so then defaulting to microfibers, which are themselves human & eco-toxic. Of this I am guilty

"The air we breathe now contains plastic micro particles, there is plastic in Arctic snow, plastic in soils and plastic in our food" The report from the Environmental Investigation Agency argues we're approaching peak toxicity. Plastic is becoming to us, what lead was to Rome

Back. Let's clean some timelines

Poetic really, that a cartographic platform becomes the final and incumbent grip to escape. With mean colonial cunning, Google literally have the terrain

I run a de-Google'd phone, use anonymised SE, no GMail, GG docs or any GG platform except Google Maps. I keep falling back to it. It's painfully good at what it does. Route planning & sat imagery is ++. OSM, which I use & value, isn't close. I know why, just wish it weren't so