Good morning. I hope you’re doing well. I’m writing this at the end of a busy week that hasn’t left me much time to think about a specific subject, so this will probably be both short and a little unstructured.
After a lull in activity, it seems the Atlantic is firing up for a busy end-of-season. To remind you, Hurricane season is from June to November, with a peak in early September and a spike in October.
If you live in the Caribbean or have interests in the region, you’ll know that we’re now past the peak intensity of hurricane season on average. The statistical peak is the 10th of September, and we’re now two weeks past this (on the day this is sent as a newsletter), and the remarkable thing is that, so far, we haven’t experienced much heavy activity with the lead-up to the peak being particularly quiet in the Atlantic.
Finally, after a few days of rain, rain, rain, we’re back to no weather alerts for a little respite. The ground is saturated, and any more rain just runs off or causes localised landslides, but so far, nothing too worrying.
Last week, I mentioned that I had been selected for a second time as an ARIN Fellow, although this time, I won’t be travelling; I am attending as a virtual Fellow.
It might be a short one today, as I am currently writing this amid a fairly heavy tropical wave passing over us. Heavy rains, lots of thunder and lightning, a breaker tripping every few minutes, oh, and a UPS battery failure are making my morning a little more difficult than it normally is. It’ll pass, but in the meantime, I will try to get this written and out the door before the end of the day.
😱 It’s already September! I’m not entirely sure where the earlier part of the year went. A lot of things happened in the news, but many events also made for a busy period for me up until now. Spoiler: it doesn’t look like it’ll be any calmer, either!
I wanted to get back to some of the thinking I have been doing about governance and the open web. I mentioned a project last week from a team that decided to look into Fediverse governance and offer a guide to setting up and operating Social Web services by looking at the technology, moderation, legal risks and other topics important to good governance.