2025-01-07 #newsletters are really just #blogging with a paywall, aren’t they?
2024-12-18 I started the Ken Burns documentary on Leonardo Da Vinci last night. Unsurprisingly excellent. Well …
2024-12-11 I mean, just fuck this guy on all counts. Trump’s pick for FTC chair promises to go after …
2024-12-09 I’ve been looking at Substack as a blogging/newsletter tool. The problem is that I don’t …
2024-12-04 We need a TikTok Voltaire. youtu.be/cfAUbJgR0…
2024-11-25 I binged season 1 of Pantheon on Netflix this weekend, and wow! was it good. This is some of the …
2024-11-20 Federal prosecutors have charged another Forbes 30 Under 30 alum with fraud It’s like a …
2024-11-14 Five Eyes infosec agencies list 2024’s most exploited software flaws Endless winning
2024-11-13 My gaming PC expired last night. Time to decide if I should troubleshoot and fix it, or just buy …
2024-11-11 I miss newspapers.
2024-11-11 Most board games are printed offshore, usually in China. I buy and play a lot of board games. …
2024-11-08 Thank god for RSS.
2024-11-07 I’m marginally interested in something like Substack. But I’m only interested in …
2024-11-07 Get Ready for Inflation and Interest Rate Rise Again
2024-11-06 That turned out a lot worse than I thought it would…
2024-11-05 Giving David Brin’s Earth a reread. Hat tip to @BillSeitz@mastodon.social #books #sff
2024-11-05 The Vatican’s Anime Mascot Is Now an AI Porn Sensation. No one could have seen that coming.
2024-11-05 I think one reason the US is in the place it is today is due to most people not teaching their …
2024-11-03 I rewatched Serial Experiments Lain for the first time in probably 20 years this weekend. Very …
2024-11-03 I wish my OS had a stack for everything I do, and I could search it.
2024-11-01 Careful filtering and using Elk in zen mode means Mastodon is no longer making me crazy
2024-11-01 Between COVID fatigue, a flu shot, and acclimating to Ozempic…I’m ready for a weekend.
2024-10-31 What Aristotle Knew About Oligarchy That We Forgot #oligarchy #politics #history #government
2024-10-31 I suspect I spend more of my life typing in chat windows than is healthy for me.
2024-10-30 Specialist Tools Don't Work Like That
2024-10-30 Deport Elon Musk. I’m going to keep saying this until it happens or he expires on his own.
2024-10-29 I have a customer this morning who firmly believes he’s somehow going to get AT&T to amend …
2024-10-25 It seems I’m dealing with a parade of Fenga Papit today. Happy Friday.
2024-10-25 Plutocrat Archipelagos
2024-10-24 Anthropic’s latest Claude model can interact with computers – what could go wrong? Yeah, …
2024-10-23 Hey, remember a few months ago when the tech employment world was all buzzing about “prompt …
2024-10-21 I’m pretty sure I caught COVID in France last month. Mostly over the flu-like symptoms. Still …
2024-10-17 Debunking Musk’s Robotaxi Pipe Dream Everything this fucker says is a lie.
2024-10-17 Elon Musk’s disaster relief promises: Should we believe the hype? I’m shocked, I tell …
2024-10-16 You should be using an RSS reader. Seriously, you should.
2024-10-15 LLMs aren’t “artificial intelligence” and never will be. Anyone telling you they …
2024-10-14 Dracula
2024-10-14 Utah Beach, Normandy
2024-10-13 If you ignore any particular form of social media long enough, it will collapse and go away.
2024-10-11 Fatherland. Feral Historian did an interesting video on the book/film. The book seems worth the …
2024-10-11 Everything Musk presented at his theme park event last night was bullshit. None of that is ever …
2024-10-11 Ribbonfarm is retiring Venkat is moving on from blogging. His points about the end of public social …
2024-04-24 I still don’t understand why I would want to use the Rabbit R1 over my phone. #ai #mobile …
2024-04-05 My dog died yesterday. I am not at my best.
2024-04-05 It’s been nine years or so since this: youtu.be/w-tFdreZB… I still can’t get any …
2024-03-05 Pouring rain just in time for a lunch meeting. A thunderstorm during the first week of March. Not …
2023-07-10 Let the Platforms Burn As usual, Cory Doctorow speaks profound truths. We missed the ball on …
2023-06-21 There are some people who I could filter every mention of from my various feeds and not really miss …
2023-01-01 2023 - Never Mind the Billhooks Deluxe Project With the turn of the year I’ve decided to get …
2022-10-28 The Internet Has Spawned a Generation of Losers Most of what’s on Medium these days …
2022-10-28 Twitter Will Allow Users To Buy and Sell NFTs Through Tweets And that’s how you can tell this …
2022-08-03 I used to post stuff like this to LinkedIn, but since LinkedIn turned into Facebook, I’ll post …
2022-07-02 In light of how things are going it’s time to re-read @amendlocke ’s Fall Revolution …
2022-06-21 A post from Warren Ellis about the markdown-based newsletter system he’s migrated to …
2022-06-07 We’re doing a learning game of the Great Campaigns of the American Civil War tonight over at …
2022-06-07 I am slowly easing myself back into social media. I find that when I read stuff on Mastodon, …
2022-06-07 I’ve been working on the game development tasks for Horse & Musket Volume V for the past …
2022-06-07 The only person that has ever really benefitted from the internet is Rick Astley
2022-06-03 I’m finding it very difficult to get out of “dark forest” mode. But this is an …
2022-04-27 DROP’S NEW MECHANICAL KEYBOARD KEYCAPS ARE A DIFFERENT TAKE ON A FAMILIAR DESIGN - Interesting …
2022-04-25 Musk And Twitter and the Fediverse
2021-03-08 Gmail to ProtonMail - a change I made last year and am glad I did.
2021-03-07 Presearh - a decentralized search engine. www.presearch.io
2021-03-07 Poking around with retrocomputing today and I came across #geminiprotocol, an alternative to the web …
2021-03-07 I had my first COVID-19 vaccination today. The site was very organized and the process was quick. My …
2020-11-23 All my old Gmail is finally moved over to ProtonMail. The new import assistant works well
2020-11-23 Mulling over the utility of moving different services back on to servers I control. The combination …
2020-11-18 After just a few weeks use, the screen on my @Remarkablepaper tablet is broken. I came into the …
2020-11-15 It occurs to me that I may have too many projects. Nah…
2020-11-15 Raspberry Pi 400 all set up. Color me impressed. Even the imaging tool to image a new boot image is …
2020-11-15 More rain than we’ve had in sometime overnight. Now very high winds – it’s …
2020-11-08 It’s 77F in Indianapolis on the 8th of November. That’s a pretty good argument for …
2020-11-08 Ah, what to do today? Last night’s Blücher game was as usual great fun. Trying to decide …
2020-08-04 Current reading Austerity Ecology & the Collapse Porn Addicts: A Defence Of Growth, Progress, …
2020-06-16 One way or another, this will be my “didn’t go to Origins/Father’s Day” gift …
2020-06-16 I’m pretty excited about these minis from Wofun Games.
2020-06-16 A desktop full of icons is a terrible thing to behold.
2020-06-15 I should really wait until my second cup of coffee before posting anything.
2020-06-15 Here in 2020, nearly everything Vernor Vinge described in Fast Times at Fairmount High has come to …
2020-06-03 Leave Facebook
2020-06-02 I’d be interested in something written from the perspective of someone who isn’t an …
2020-06-02 Zettlekasten I get the idea, but every article I read seems to be written from the perspective of …
2020-06-02 I’m having a lot of trouble focusing today. I can’t imagine why.
2020-05-08 Yes, I totally want this: Cut, Copy, Paste, & Highlight.
2020-05-08 No, I do not need to know how to cook and eat a Murder Hornet. Especially before my second cup of …
2020-05-05 Notes in Public #notetaking #linkblog
2020-05-05 The birth of a celebrity’s child is no more or less news than the birth of any other child. I …
2020-04-29 Things are absolutely no different than they were a month ago in terms of COVID-19, but Indiana is …
2020-04-25 I have to admit I recently did this too. Stop Using Dark Mode
2020-04-24 If you are the kind of company that thinks using a Facebook product is going to help your culture, I …
2020-04-17 A friend’s father passed away last night from COVID-19. I’m tired of this BS.
2020-04-17 Through this pandemic, I’ve really come to realize that a significant portion of humanity is …
2020-04-16 The klept at work: mattstoller.substack.com/p/is-priv…
2020-01-05 [Tesla’s success proves that what America needs is business, business, and more business …
2019-11-11 “Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”
2019-11-06 Hero Politician Shuts Down Heckler With ‘OK Boomer’ During Climate Speech in New Zealand
2019-11-05 I know, I know, I’m Gen X. I’ll just go sit over here quietly and shut up.
2019-11-05 What would happen if we compared Milennials to the Greatest Generation, or the Silent generation? …
2019-11-05 I see constant comparisons between Milennials and Baby Boomers, as if Boomers are some sort of …
2019-11-04 Fascists turn out to be fascists… Internet-Savvy Nazi Says a Bunch of Old Fashioned Nazi Shit …
2019-10-31 Scientists and researchers reveal 13 dark technology scenarios that keep them up at night
2019-10-29 Really quite enjoying Carnival Row
2019-10-14 In case you needed more proof that VCs and Silicon Valley execs are any smarter than you, …
2019-10-12 Protonmail like a pro
2019-10-12 Jim Crow and Monopoly Money
2019-10-12 WeWork is now is said to be talking to JPMorgan about a $5 billion credit line and could run out of …
2019-10-11 The Miasma. In this case, the comments are as relevant as the post itself.
2019-10-10 Substratum. I want to meet with these guys.
2019-10-09 I spend a lot of time self-censoring. I know that there’s a general sense that doing so is a …
2019-10-09 Check for Incompatible Apps Before You Install macOS Catalina
2019-10-09 Thanks Twitter, thanks ever so fucking much. Centralized social media is a complete shit show.
2019-09-26 mattstoller.substack.com/p/wework-…
2019-09-23 A tablet with a keyboard is just a shitty laptop.
2019-09-12 Destroy the MIT Media Lab More than anything else, the corruption of Joi Ito and the Media Lab …
2019-08-29 You can heal the internet
2019-08-27 Reading Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts: A Defence Of Growth, Progress, Industry …
2019-08-26 I’m really very much not one for Millennial bashing, but you people have really got to learn …
2019-08-23 Only Apple could come up with a credit card too fragile to be kept in a leather wallet. What a …
2019-08-22 Eco-Fascism
2019-08-20 Keep your scythe, the real green future is high-tech, democratic, and radical
2019-08-14 This Ain’t Walden Pond, Mate. anyone that claims disconnecting from social media is a …
2019-07-24 It’s kind of a week for rediscovering old tools I used to use a lot, but abandoned for newer, …
2019-07-24 DoorDash Flip-Flops On Controversial Pay Policy, Says Tips Will Go To Delivery Workers - Slashdot …
2019-07-23 US attorney general William Barr says Americans should accept security risks of encryption backdoors …
2019-07-22 These technologists think the internet is broken. So they’re building another one.
2019-07-22 I have not seriously touched emacs since, oh, 2009 or 2010? Just popped open a file, edited, and …
2019-07-22 A CEO’s Guide to Emacs @bsag
2019-07-22 Cyber threats from the U.S. and Russia are now focusing on civilian infrastructure - TechCrunch
2019-07-16 Everytime I look at Twitter my head starts to hurt.
2019-07-15 I have an overwhelming desire to be using NeXTStep this morning as my OS.
2019-07-14 Bird Scooter reportedly lost $100m in three months, needs more capital to stay afloat / Boing Boing
2019-07-13 How the biggest decentralized social network is dealing with its Nazi problem - The Verge
2019-07-13 A Weird Interaction With Oscar Health Insurance Yes, what you write is being watched.
2019-07-13 Facebook’s $5 billion FTC fine is an embarrassing joke - The Verge. If you’re still using Facebook …
2019-07-11 GoTenna. Mesh networking, no Internet required. 4 mile range.
2019-07-10 Hong Kong’s Protesters Use AirDrop To Spread Information To Mainland Chinese Visitors - …
2019-07-07 [Answering Questions about Self-Sovereign …
2019-07-07 Making the most out of your YubiKey 4 - Kamus Hadenes - Medium
2019-07-07 Elementary OS
2019-07-07 A Privacy Manifesto
2019-07-07 Hong Kong Protests ‘Show The Dangers of a Cashless Society’ - Slashdot
2019-07-06 Climate change could be paused by planting trees, researchers say, as they map out available land - …
2019-07-06 Enormous 5,500-Mile-Long Patch of Atlantic Seaweed Might Be the ‘New Normal’
2019-07-06 Fuck “communities.”
2019-07-06 [Tor Project To Fix Bug Used For DDoS Attacks On Onion Sites For Years] …
2019-07-06 [Safer Nuclear Reactors Are On the Way] …
2019-07-05 We need to slow down communications
2019-07-04 I can not believe that anyone is arguing over whether a mermaid can be black.
2019-07-04 I’m half seriously considering using Mutt for email. Many of the security problems with email go …
2019-07-03 The Moochers of Middle America All of which is true. None of which will matter to Trumpists and …
2019-07-02 Who Should Live in Flooded Old New York?
2019-06-29 The Russians never really understood the Enlightenment. In one way or another they’ve always tried …
2019-06-29 Something is Wrong on the Internet
2019-06-28 MIT’s new interactive machine learning prediction tool could give everyone AI superpowers
2019-06-28 How Memphis’s Methodist University Hospital, a “nonprofit,” sued the shit out of …
2019-06-28 My six months with $30/month email service Superhuman
2019-06-28 Morning links, or just how weird things are getting: DoorDash double downs on controversial pay …
2019-06-27 Boy, does this guy remind me of my younger days.
2019-06-27 Then of course there was Archy…
2019-06-27 Doing some afternoon reading and came across a reference to Ubiquity. I remember using it, and …
2019-06-26 I lean this direction myself… PERSONAL UNIFORM UPDATE 2019
2019-06-25 There is effectively no point in my phone being a phone anymore. I never answer calls, because …
2019-06-24 THE INTERNET HAS MADE DUPES—AND CYNICS—OF US ALL
2019-06-23 A Strange New Blend of Rock and Plastic Is Forming on a Portuguese Island
2019-06-23 [Will Hot-Desking Kill Your Company?] …
2019-06-21 I’ve been watching HBOs Chernobyl. I’m struck by how the attitudes, denial of reality, …
2019-06-20 World’s Population Is Projected To Nearly Stop Growing By the End of the Century Slowing …
2019-06-20 Millennials
2019-06-19 Stealing Worlds Reading this right now. Recommended. #stealingworlds
2019-06-19 www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/785/
2019-06-18 If 100% of your job is talking with coworkers, working remotely in a coworking space is a bad …
2019-06-18 I think you’d have to be particularly stupid to use a crypto-currency from Facebook.
2019-06-17 Back from Origins and from running two Kriegsspiel sessions of four hours each. I enjoy Kriegsspiel, …
2019-06-13 I am the sort of party animal that goes to a gaming con and is in bed by 10 PM
2019-06-12 Made it to Origins. First game session run this evening. Kriegsspiel forever, baby.
2019-06-11 i.redd.it/tkynzx65m…
2019-06-11 Americans are too poor to survive whether or not they’re working Was this the future you …
2019-06-10 Report: Google News Does Not Have an Anti-Conservative Bias So Much as a Pro-Credible Source One
2019-06-09 Spending the day reading, so far. Reading Warren Ellis’ newsletter over breakfast tends to cause …
2019-06-09 Caesar’s Blitzkrieg
2019-06-08 [Bloomberg To Put $500 Million Into Closing All Remaining Coal Plants By 2030] …
2019-06-07 YouTube’s anti-extremism crackdown targets journalist who documents extremism The Training …
2019-06-07 [Rat brains provide even more evidence our brains operates near tipping point] …
2019-06-06 I’ve posted this before, but I really encourge you to subscribe to this short-duration, …
2019-06-06 Australia’s raids on journalists signal an authoritarian turning point
2019-06-06 Black Mirror Isn’t Surprising Anymore. We’re Screwed
2019-06-06 Idiocy. Baltimore Officials Estimate Damage From Ransomware Attack At Over $18 Million, Likely to …
2019-06-06 Of course, the outcome of doing this is that social media ends up mostly abandoned, left to nothing …
2019-06-06 Also, people should immediately consider anyone that uses the term “fake news” to be …
2019-06-06 If people started to treat anything posted on social media by people they don’t personally …
2019-06-05 YouTube just banned supremacist content, and thousands of channels are about to be removed - The …
2019-06-05 How America could become a dictatorship in 10 years, according to Jared Diamond
2019-06-05 Your morning dose of derangement: …
2019-06-04 Compromising online accounts by cracking voicemail systems
2019-06-04 A White Man’s Republic, If They Can Keep it - The Atlantic nzzl.us/Gm0azDl via @nuzzel
2019-06-04 An excellent post on the IndieWeb and how to do the Dark Forest right.
2019-06-04 I really, really enjoyed watching #GoodOmens last night.
2019-06-04 It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning
2019-06-04 Along with Apple’s approach to privacy. Interesting that Apple and to an increasing extent …
2019-06-04 iPad OS is one of many things tempting me back toward Apple. www.theverge.com/2019/6/3/…
2019-06-04 Why I’ve moved to sites like micro.blog: www.pcmag.com/news/3684…