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August 18, 2023

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Witness: Google God and Local History

Sunday’s protest brought 2000+ people together in downtown Columbia, MO.Last week, I shared “Google Is Not God of The Web” on Hacker News - a news aggregator...

I'm reaching out to update you on a few things I've been doing lately – I hope I’m finding you well. It's been exactly one year since the last edition of The...

Dirty Dave's Poweruser Tips

Dirty Dave's Poweruser Tips and an interesting new medium for interviewsThis episode, I discuss Dirty Dave's Poweruser Tips - some of the software and...

2019 Volkswagen Atlas Review

Upon meeting an elderly recently immigrated German friend of my mother's for the first time yesterday, she exclaimed He looks German!... and so tall! Both of...

David Blue Master Link Index

http://extratone.com/ http://bilge.world http://asphaltapostle.tumblr.com/ https://davidblue.bandcamp.com/ https://bandcamp.com/davidblue...

David Blue on Vine: The Platinum Collection

Yes, I am still managing to waste my time digging up and re-arranging some very old content, but I just couldn't resist. Somehow, it didn't occur to me until...

Philip Roth, American Pastoral

You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or...

relentless, the country keeps doors and walls reverberate all but rest in summer’s heatI remember the dawn and dusk – the open palette, gradiented above...

A premium Mastodon client for MacOS!

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Microsoft Designed Its New Surface Laptop 2 Specifically for Me

January 1, 2019

After living and working with Microsoft's Surface Laptop 2 since its release, I've realized (intellectually) that it's more suited to my personal use than...

Mastodon's Big Moment, 20 Months Later

November 18, 2018

Amid some life changes, I took the opportunity to revisit Mastodon as I've recently realized how much more it has to offer than Twitter does, these days. A...

November 15, 2018

listen now, wrinkling husk of the wheat:now or then, it did not matter, but forgone, it comes back around again.come down out of there, now. tend to that...

David Blue, Federated

November 12, 2018

If you’ve been keeping up with the web at all in the past two years, you’re no doubt at least somewhat familiar with the terms “Mastodon,” “Diaspora,” or...

Speedy Speed Boy

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Bow to your new God

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Solo: A Star Wars Story is saturated with bizarrely toxic themes

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The new Star Wars movie, progress on Blimp's Burden, the future of my writing on Extratone

Hello friends, It's been a while since I've checked in with an update, but it would appear that I've now finally succeeded in migrating to Portland,...

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Your Social Credit has been found insufficient

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The Farhad Manjoo beat

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Surviving five days of soylent

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Learning how to say goodbye to the past

February 18, 2018

I've been humbled a lot in an essential way since I last wrote you in October. I crashed the car I asked you to bury me in, slept in a Lincoln Continental...

We're still here

February 9, 2018

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Unfortunately, I wasted these letters' best subject line yet on this unfinished one, left two weeks ago when I ran out of adderall. It was a particularly fun...

I have to confess... I ended up building a section on the site for these. Here's this one. I just couldn't bear the TinyLetter site-bound "letter archive"...

I Am Still Coughing and Sending Emails to Myself

Hey. My late-month adderall deficit vacation has seemed particularly prolonged, this go around, but it would appear - post-Extratone's first birthday on the...

David and the Bilge

We've all known that Radiolab is superb since its origin, but I didn't really start taking the time to listen to podcasts methodically again (since I used to...

A year of blasphemy

I've just spent what seems like way too much time writing my first real addition to Words of David Blue in Red in a very long time. It begins with the story...

Assumed Suicidal, but Impervious to Email Fatigue

I've probably already told some of you one or more of these stories, but these past few weeks have been more interesting than usual. I spent nearly all of...

Pros & Woes of my Tardy, Existential Toddlerhood

I am feeling discouraged and stressed, but that's okay. Well... that's all I was compelled to write, sober. Yes, I'm still thinking about why I am doing this...

The Millennial Startup Chronicles #88325632

The Pitch: Dirty, Digital, Defective? White people really like to sit around and talk about things, and about talking about things. They like making up their...

There are a few entities which continue to validate what I'm pursuing, but Joshua Topolsky and his Outline are particularly worth noting. In search of...

I'm crazy enough to believe that I can - or must - learn the things you're supposed to seek from academia by embarking on a journey to start an online...