#2023inreview — Public Fediverse posts

Yesterday I posted something about how I used to do New Years day posts where I posted one picture from each month as a year in review kind of thing. I said I was still thinking of doing one for 2023.

I just went through my Flickr trying to decide which pics to use for the post…

…and it turns out that most months don’t have anything worth highlighting. It was a nice quiet year but photographically? There are long stretches of time where there’s nothing special to look back on. There are lots of guitar pictures and lots of cat pictures and not a whole lot else.

Oh well. Let’s try to make 2024 a little more visually interesting, m’kay?

Maybe I am just old and uninteresting now. Not that I was ever very interesting to begin with.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/01/09/skipping-a-year/

#2023InReview #NewYear #newYearsDay #photos #pictures #yearInReview

For my final summary of 2023, let's rank all the movies and video games, both old and new, that I reviewed during the year. I'll also be picking my single favourite and least favourite in a handful of categories. https://youtu.be/rH_eCE6cnLM

#selfpromo #film #movies #gaming #videogames #2023recap #2023inreview

Yesterday I posted a review of my 2023. A year in which I did not collect any new cats or broken bones, but did gain a son-in-law. https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2024/01/01/2023-in-review/ #2023inreview

Happy New Year! Click to check out my 2023 Year In Review In Photos.

https://www.rickberk.com/gallery/2023-year-in-review/

#mastoart #artist #artistsonmastodon #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #2023Recap #2023inreview #2023inPhotos #fineart

2023 in review! My first ever yearly director’s newsletter has been published and is available now. Read all about some of our biggest adventures over this last year: https://www.yorku.ca/science/observatory/ #Astrodon #astronomy #2023Recap #observatory #2023inreview #newyearseve

More on mindful word choice and removing religious terminology from my evolving personal lexicon (see previous #2023inReview #OnLanguage toots):
For a while I’ve joked about starting my own religion @humanissome. [But spiritual growth is personal. Every religion and cult likely contain some good ideas that are corrupted by greedy ambition—true in business and politics too.] As I build my personal religion from scratch I search for terms to use.
Pray · I ask myself if I can pray.
1/

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVE!!!

Join @suzystarlite and I for our final episode of 2023.

One hour of music and chat featuring Blur, Lana Del Rey, The Smile, Wet Leg, Sparks and of course Starlite & Campbell.

https://vibes.starlite-campbell.com/p/episode-149-the-supertone-end-of-year-show

#podcast #music #rockmusic #2023recap #2023inreview #substack #FediMusic #MastoMusic #FediArt #MastoArt

Was gut war in #2023:

Bester Podcast: Telephobia
https://www.br.de/mediathek/podcast/telephobia-dieser-eine-anruf/895

Beste Doku: Echt
https://www.ardmediathek.de/serie/Y3JpZDovL3N3ci5kZS9zZGIvc3RJZC8xNTY3/

Beste App: Ice Cubes
https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp

#bestof2023 #2023recap #2023inreview @dimillian

2023 Pie Chart

I set out to make one pie based on a cocktail every month - happy with the results!

Penicillin, Pornstar Martini, Dark n Stormy, Apricot Julep, Liberté, Bloody Mary, Champagne Cocktail, Gin and Tonic, Appletini, Goldwyn Follies, Sazerac, Parsnip Flip

Looking forward to more cocktail pies in 2024!

Recipes: https://cellarcrumbs.wordpress.com/2023-pies/

#Pie #Cocktail #Cocktails #CocktailPie #CellarCrumbs #Food #Cooking #Baking #Foodie #HomeMade #Recipe #Recipes #2023Recap #2023InReview #YearInReview

A year in review!

I didn't draw some months, and some months I was way more productive. So here's just 15 of the best, roughly spread out across the year! Overall, I don't know if I improved my style or anatomy or perspective; but I definitely improved my speed. A few of these I finished in a single day, and I consider them my best art yet!

#2023inreview #2023recap #YearInReview #yearinreview2023 #mastoart #art #mlp

For my 2023 book review, I made a Streamlit app with Python to take in data from my Goodreads account. It includes the following:

💠 hover data to provide more clarity on certain visuals
💠 a word cloud that extracts themes from books I'm interested in.
💠 customizations with layout, colors, animations, favicon
💠 csv upload of your own Goodreads data export

Check out the app
➡ https://goodreads-jh.streamlit.app/

#Python #Streamlit #BookRecommendations #2023inreview #Data #DataVisualization

#2023inReview #OnLanguage continued
Saying What I Mean & Meaning What I Say:
* worship (see previous toot)
When a questionably loaded word occurs to me I look it up paying particular attention to etymology. I believe words have lives — and like other living things are made by nature and nurture. The nurturing of the word “worship” is not optimal, but its nature derives from “worth,” a highly favored word for me. I do feel it’s accurate to say that I worship words. (Yes this is how I think!)
🙏🏻

#2023inReview continued
• I began widespread use of the following character: ※
I have to cut & paste it but I find it worthwhile as an additional asterisk or footnote indicator when supra script number formatting is unavailable. I personally dislike the dagger † because I am not fond of either daggers or crosses. That leads to
• Meaning what I say; saying what I mean. I practically worship* language. I work to remove words with connotations I dislike including religious terminology.

*see next

Images from Reuters. A combination of wonderful and disturbing. That was 2023.

#photography #art #news #2023recap #2023inreview #reuters

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-poy-2023/

2023 in Review: Essays!

This year I published two peer-reviewed essays in academic anthologies and one pedagogical article online.

🖖 "Beyond the Wilds and the Waves: Reevaluating Archer, the Armory, and Enterprise" in Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier

💀 "Dark Arts and Secret Histories: Investigating Dark Academia" in Potterversity

📚 "Teaching Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman" at Reading Shirley Jackson in the 21st Century here: https://shirleyjackson21stcentury.wordpress.com/2023/01/27/teaching-shirley-jacksons-hangsaman-1951-by-amy-h-sturgis/

#2023InReview #StarTrek #StarTrekEnterprise #Enterprise #DarkAcademia #Gothic #ShirleyJackson #Hangsaman #Books #Bookstodon #Scholarship #ScienceFiction #Academics

Wir blicken zurück auf 2023.

Was hat sich #bewegt, welche Fortschritte konnten wir erzielen und warum hört der #Radweg einfach immer noch hier auf?

#2023recap #2023inreview #ruckblick2023

https://www.radentscheid-bonn.de/blog/2023-ein-rueckblick-aus-radentscheid-sicht/

New at bl.ag online: 'BLAG's Top Ten for 2023, and Reflections on the Year'

https://bl.ag/blags-top-ten-for-2023-and-reflections-on-the-year/

Round-up of the year's most popular articles from the adventures in sign painting at bl.ag online.

#SignPainting #Signwriting #2023 #2023inreview

Every year @suzystarlite and I learn some new and life-changing things and 2023 was no exception. As it comes to a close, we thought we would share them with you.

#life #romance #music #love #portugal #2023recap #2023inreview #friends #art #artgallery #MastoArt #FediArt #MastoMusic #FediMusic

https://vibes.starlite-campbell.com/p/12-things-we-have-learnt-in-2023

Last year, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida laid the foundation for Japan’s defense policies for years to come. But questions remain as to whether he can follow through on his pledges. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/12/29/japan/politics/japan-security-policy-2024/?utm_content=buffer45513&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #japan #politics #defense #defenseministry #budgets #taxes #sdf #fumiokishida #china #ldp #2023inreview

"The sky’s the limit for DHL when it comes to unusual shipments" by @Air_Cargo_News - A house key (returned to save a hungry pet), multiple manatees and a load of bobsleds stood out for DHL among unusual cargo in 2023. https://www.aircargonews.net/airlines/the-skys-the-limit-for-dhl-when-it-comes-to-unusual-shipments/ #aviation #avgeek #2023InReview

2023 in Review: Books!

This year, with my wonderful co-editor #EmilyStrand, I published two scholarly anthologies with #VernonPress.

🖖 #StarTrek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier

🪐 #StarWars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away

https://vernonpress.com/author/134857

#2023InReview #StarTrek #StarWars #StarTrekBooks #StarWarsBooks #ScienceFiction #SFF
#ScienceFictionStudies
#PopularCultureStudies
#FilmStudies #FandomStudies
#FanStudies #Books #Bookstodon #Academics

2023 in Review: Books!

This year, with my wonderful co-editor #EmilyStrand, I published two scholarly anthologies with #VernonPress.

🖖 #StarTrek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier

🪐 #StarWars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away

https://vernonpress.com/author/134857

#2023InReview #StarTrek #StarWars #StarTrekBooks #StarWarsBooks #ScienceFiction #SFF
#ScienceFictionStudies
#PopularCultureStudies
#FilmStudies #FandomStudies
#FanStudies #Books #Bookstodon #Academics

2023 in Review: Books!

This year, with my wonderful co-editor #EmilyStrand, I published two scholarly anthologies with #VernonPress.

🖖 #StarTrek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier

🪐 #StarWars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away

https://vernonpress.com/author/134857

#2023InReview #StarTrek #StarWars #StarTrekBooks #StarWarsBooks #ScienceFiction #SFF
#ScienceFictionStudies
#PopularCultureStudies
#FilmStudies #FandomStudies
#FanStudies #Books #Bookstodon #Academics

2023 in Review: Books!

This year, with my wonderful co-editor #EmilyStrand, I published two scholarly anthologies with #VernonPress.

🖖 #StarTrek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier

🪐 #StarWars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away

https://vernonpress.com/author/134857

#2023InReview #StarTrek #StarWars #StarTrekBooks #StarWarsBooks #ScienceFiction #SFF
#ScienceFictionStudies
#PopularCultureStudies
#FilmStudies #FandomStudies
#FanStudies #Books #Bookstodon #Academics

2023 in Review: Books!

This year, with my wonderful co-editor #EmilyStrand, I published two scholarly anthologies with #VernonPress.

🖖 #StarTrek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier

🪐 #StarWars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away

https://vernonpress.com/author/134857

#2023InReview #StarTrek #StarWars #StarTrekBooks #StarWarsBooks #ScienceFiction #SFF
#ScienceFictionStudies
#PopularCultureStudies
#FilmStudies #FandomStudies
#FanStudies #Books #Bookstodon #Academics

Looking back at a year of hiking, and picking my top 5 videoed routes I accomplished. Come with me, and Walk with Llama Paws one more time in 2023!

https://llamapaws.wordpress.com/2023/12/28/my-top-2023-hikes-across-england/

#videos #youtube #retrospective #2023inreview

Outside of the successful G7 summit, the year was not kind to Kishida and his unpopular administration. A kickback scandal provided one final headache for the leader, with a party election on the horizon in 2024. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/12/28/japan/images-of-the-year-japan/?utm_content=buffera55b6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #japan #2023inreview #g7 #hiroshima #covid19 #tourism #overtourism #fukushima #nuclearwaste #boj #shogi #unificationchurch #fumiokishida #johnnyassociates

In the last week of every year, I reflect on the year that is about to end and prepare for the new one. Here's what I do, day by day.
Do you do year-end reflections? If so, how do you do yours? Ideas are always welcomed.

#Productivity #2023inreview

http://elizabethtai.com/2023/12/28/how-to-do-a-year-end-reflection/

#RIP to a lot of tech that died in 2023, and mostly deserved to. #2023InReview

"Another year, another crop of tech products and services that were unplugged, powered down, and erased from the web. Pour one out for the tech that had its last hurrah in the last 12 months."

https://www.pcmag.com/news/game-over-the-tech-that-died-in-2023

From the eruption of war in the Gaza Strip to the drawn-out fighting in Ukraine to concerns in Asia over North Korea and China, conflict took center stage around the globe in 2023. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/12/27/world/images-of-the-year-world/?utm_content=buffer43f0c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #worldnews #2023inreview #gaza #israelhamaswar #northkorea #climatechange #wildfires #wagnergroup #india #china #population #russiaukrainewar

受博友启发重新立一些 2024 年能量化的小目标们！ https://blog.douchi.space/2024-flags/?utm_source=douchi.space

#blog #2023InReview #人老椒黄养生修仙 :mtfront_taosit:

Taiwan's upcoming 2024 elections are set to be the most consequential in Asia — and have the world on edge. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/12/25/asia-pacific/politics/taiwan-presidential-election-preview/?utm_content=buffer5151a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #asiapacific #politics #taiwan #china #us #usmilitary #pla #laichingte #houyuih #kowenje #taiwanjapanrelations #chinajapanrelations #2023inreview

In today's story on @medium, I write about my volunteer work on the @wikipedia articles of three #Black artists who died in 2023: Actor #AndreBraugher, opera singer #GraceBumbry, and sculptor #RichardHunt.

Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall:

https://medium.com/afrosapiophile/commemorating-black-brilliance-on-wikipedia-7abe4cd0191a?sk=b20d397fdea3d4f6f43eb6fbb8970d60

#BlackMastodon #Wikipedia #obituary #2023InReview

In today's story on @medium, I write about my volunteer work on the @wikipedia articles of three #Black artists who died in 2023: Actor #AndreBraugher, opera singer #GraceBumbry, and sculptor #RichardHunt.

Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall:

https://medium.com/afrosapiophile/commemorating-black-brilliance-on-wikipedia-7abe4cd0191a?sk=b20d397fdea3d4f6f43eb6fbb8970d60

#BlackMastodon #Wikipedia #obituary #2023InReview

In today's story on @medium, I write about my volunteer work on the @wikipedia articles of three #Black artists who died in 2023: Actor #AndreBraugher, opera singer #GraceBumbry, and sculptor #RichardHunt.

Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall:

https://medium.com/afrosapiophile/commemorating-black-brilliance-on-wikipedia-7abe4cd0191a?sk=b20d397fdea3d4f6f43eb6fbb8970d60

#BlackMastodon #Wikipedia #obituary #2023InReview

In today's story on @medium, I write about my volunteer work on the @wikipedia articles of three #Black artists who died in 2023: Actor #AndreBraugher, opera singer #GraceBumbry, and sculptor #RichardHunt.

Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall:

https://medium.com/afrosapiophile/commemorating-black-brilliance-on-wikipedia-7abe4cd0191a?sk=b20d397fdea3d4f6f43eb6fbb8970d60

#BlackMastodon #Wikipedia #obituary #2023InReview

In today's story on @medium, I write about my volunteer work on the @wikipedia articles of three #Black artists who died in 2023: Actor #AndreBraugher, opera singer #GraceBumbry, and sculptor #RichardHunt.

Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall:

https://medium.com/afrosapiophile/commemorating-black-brilliance-on-wikipedia-7abe4cd0191a?sk=b20d397fdea3d4f6f43eb6fbb8970d60

#BlackMastodon #Wikipedia #obituary #2023InReview

This year began with one professional streak continuing, in the form of my covering CES in person for the 25th time in a row, followed by another ending: USA Today dropped my column after 11 years. And now it’s ending with my having written for multiple new clients, two more than once.

So I’ll call 2023 a story of growth, even if I’m a little irked at myself for slacking off on pitching some of these new outlets more often. It was also a story of growth at my most frequent outlet, PCMag, where I was able to share such interesting new experiences with readers as seeing a rocket launch up close for the first time since 2018, sampling Starlink broadband from a chair in the sky, and taking the helm of a battery-electric hydrofoil.

Among all the posts I wrote for various clients, these ones stand out for me:

• I used my perch at Fast Company to tee off on Twitter’s lapsed transparency reporting, one of many cases of blatant hypocrisy in Elon Musk’s incompetent stewardship of the social platform he has since renamed X and I have since quit supporting with new free writing.
• In my first piece for AARP, I drew upon the insight of information-security experts I’ve know for years to suggest that the threat models of most people don’t require paying for anti-virus software.
• After more than 15 years of reading Greater Greater Washington, I wrote something for that site beyond a comment: a post explaining why military flyovers keep taking people by surprise. For several months after, the District’s AlertDC system seemed to do a better job of notifying people of impending free airshows associated with Arlington Cemetery burials, and I’d like to think my story had something to do with that.
• A friend’s temporary stint editing at the New Republic led to my breaking down a judge’s reactionary ruling over alleged social-media censorship by the Biden administration; the piece aged vastly better than Judge Terry A. Doughty’s incoherent injunction, since reeled back under appeal and now awaiting the Supreme Court’s scrutiny.
• An extended test of the experience of running Windows on a Qualcomm processor inside a borrowed Lenovo ThinkPad x13s yielded a feature at PCMag reporting compatibility and performance issues arising from the interactions of software with that computer’s Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 chip that I hadn’t seen covered elsewhere.
• After years of pointing out the uselessness of 8K TVs for the vast majority of home viewers, I told PCMag readers about the emptiness of Samsung’s pitch for that format at the IFA trade show in Berlin–and about the Consumer Technology Association’s shriveling shipment forecasts for 8K TVs.
• Most of my Fast Company stories involve some extended reporting time, but I turned around a piece unpacking Facebook’s history of bad-faith behavior towards the media in a few days. It seems that being mad at a company can be a motivating factor for me.
• In a piece for the telecom trade pub Light Reading, I shared how even wireless-industry executives are already showing signs of weariness over early hype over “6G.”

Once again, speaking at conferences took me to some new parts of the world–but this time, they included a continent and an entire hemisphere I’d never visited before. My trip to Brazil for the new Rio de Janeiro edition of Web Summit was my favorite, treating me to the fascinating sight of constellations different from the ones I’ve known my entire life. (I’m saying that even after picking up a mild case of covid there that never felt worse than a cold and was gone within days–further proof that vaccines work–that I did not transmit to anybody at home.) It was also a treat to visit Croatia in September for Infobip’s Shift developer conference and see the country that one set of great-grandparents had left 110 years earlier.

And as ever, one of the best parts of every trip was landing at National or Dulles and then coming home.

(You can see a map of those flights after the jump.)

I created the map below at the Great Circle Mapper site, following the instructions Tiffany Funk first shared in 2016 at the One Mile At A Time blog. The predominant shade of blue represents flights on United and codeshare flights on Brussels Airlines and Swiss, while other colors, some of which may be impossible to differentiate, represent American and Turkish Airlines (various shades of red), Copa and Croatia Airlines (other hues of blue), Gol (orange), Icelandair (dark blue), and Southwest (yet another shade of blue).

Map generated by the Great Circle Mapper – copyright © Karl L. Swartz.

https://robpegoraro.com/2023/12/20/2023-in-review-changes-in-latitudes/

#2023InReview #businessDevelopment #businessTravel #conferences #Covid #freelancing #yearInReview

Japan’s auteurs and anime triumphed in 2023: From Hayao Miyazaki's “The Boy and the Heron” to Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Monster,” the box-office hits kept coming. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2023/12/15/film/super-mario-bros-hayao-miyazaki-ryusuke-hamaguchi/?utm_content=buffere5776&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #culture #film #theboyandtheheron #hayaomiyazaki #oppenheimer #johnnykitagawa #ryusukehamaguchi #hirokazukoreeda #thesupermariobrosmovie #2023inreview

J-pop's global ambitions came closer to reality in 2023, with Yoasobi's "Idol" becoming a true international breakout and a viral trend turning imase into a pop ambassador between Japan and South Korea. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2023/12/08/music/yoasobi-idol-imase-xg-atarashii-gakko/?utm_content=buffer7cc3d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #culture #music #2023inreview #jpop #yoasobi #imase #xg #atarashiigakko #kazefujii #ado

2023 in Review: The success of “Oshi no Ko,” “Detective Conan” and “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” proved that anime is clearly in the post-Miyazaki era. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2023/11/30/film/anime-studio-ghibli-post-hayao-miyazaki/?utm_content=buffer04808&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #culture #film #2023inreview #anime #studioghibli #hayaomiyazaki #theboyandtheheron #thefirstslamdunk #jujutsukaisen #attackontitan #oshinoko #onepiecefilmred #bluegiant #demonslayer