¶Cultural activities can strengthen social connections, encourage healthier lifestyle habits, and support better mental health, all of which may contribute to slower physiological aging.

¶An interesting correlation. Increasing cultural activities may not cause a slowing of physiological aging, but a sudden or gradual decrease in participation in such activities may signal a shift in a person’s physiological aging.

¶Working together is the only way out of the shit we’re living in, in every aspect of life. Working together. Say it again and again until you do it. Underneath the mess, the beauty of the web is there still to build on, but only if we momentarily suspend our search for great wealth, and instead seek our humanity. Working together is the way.#

¶This post from Dave Winer goes a long way to explaining why I still cobble on web stuff, including this site. It reminds me of my “we had the web and it was glorious” post from a couple years ago.

¶We had the web and it was glorious. Anyone with some basic technical skills, or the desire to learn them, could buy a domain and start publishing content on that domain in a matter of hours, if not minutes. But they took it from us. Not in the traditional sense, mind you, because technically we still have it. We can still publish content at will. No, their taking is little more devious. They built their silos and made it even easier for people to publish content…in the silos. And they let people do this for no money (not for free, mind you). And then they junkified all the great content with ads and algorithms and infinite scrolling and piss-poor organization that makes it damn near impossible to find your old content and that of others.

¶I continue to build the publishing system for this site because it’s fun, and I continue to publish content here because it’s fun. I feel like a modern day HAM Radio operator at times, though, practicing an old technology for…fun. Maybe that’s the ultimate fate of the web, a relatively small group of people building on old technologies for fun. The silos don’t need to come down, we just need the basic technology to survive and remain accessible so that those who want to cobble can.