Monday Music for a Splintering Internet
Last week bluesky blocked access to all of Mississippi because of an age verification law in that state. This is a supposed federated service that, in their...
Persistence, Part 1
A couple weeks ago we road tripped across Iceland, in a fully electric BYD Dolphin. Here in Canada where the political class still fears China, despite...
The Whys
There are numerous reasons why I started to write here. In the literal sense, here because it’s not Substack. Substack is the easy option for email-centered...
Abide Coding
A corporation is pivoting to AI and in this dreck-filled regression it needs talent – ignore the fact that it had been laying off and/or losing people to...
Accountability Sinks
(1979) A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE | THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION (img) We were in Mexico when Andres Manuel Lopez...
e-mail, sometimes.
Hello, Hello? Is this thing on? In October of 2008, Paul Boutin wrote on Wired a piece titled “Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004”. It’s...