So, way back in my formative youth, I remember the great saga of Calvin and Hobbes’ Battery Operated Fan Beanie. In the comic, Calvin sees that he can turn in Cereal Box Tops for a plastic, child-sized beanie with a fan on top that would be spun by battery power. Bill Watterson perfectly captured the…
As an almost 42 year old who remembers logging into university servers before AOL to chat with friends/relatives to get around Long Distance telephone charges… I have been on the Internet a Long Damn Time. Also, my entire career seems to be “You have been saddled with this anxiety that will make you spend your…
So, over the last week, we had a tectonic shift in how The Internet manages to reach our house. The changes were technological, material, and locational. It also changed pricing structures and service availability that had a cascading effect with how we get the smorgasbord of television channels we have access-to. To wit, we moved…
I have been on Mastodon since mid-November 2022 and I have thoughts. BREAK OUT THE LISTS! For what it’s worth, I just really like Mastodon for now and one of the main reasons is the ability to follow a Hashtag. I follow #Knitting and see a lot of different knitting posts. And when I post…
First, read this: The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok | WIRED. It’s Cory Doctorow demonstrating precisely why TikTok (and Meta and Twitter and Google and Amazon GrubHub/Postmates and Uber/Lyft and AirBNB/ENVO and Tesla) and pretty much 93% of every other hyped awesome Internet thing feel so lousy and expensive despite starting out so strong in the 2010’s….
While the best explanation of what Mastodon is and how to use it is here… and the funniest condemnation of the inherent complexity of mastodon precisely because companies that would seek to make the sign-up and login experience smooth for everyone are gatekept away from mastodon is here (“You think someone is successfully explaining this…
Greetings, you are probably here because I linked this in response to something you posted on (Circa Halloween/Thanksgiving 2022) Twitter or whatever always-on-the-cusp-of-profitability running-out-of-venture-capital waking-nightmare-social-networking-site (Let’s stick with ‘twitter’) is having a similar breakdown… asking where you should go next and pre-lamenting the connections you will lose if the site sinks/explodes like a modern-day titanic/Hindenberg…
In the flavor of one of my favorite articles of all time, Facebook is the new AOL (Verge.com) I am going to sum up some of the thoughts that I have been bouncing around my brain about Cars that are juuuuuust provocative enough to provoke all the wrong people, because I am a scamp and…
So, it is time for a new phone. Update: I went ahead and got the battery replaced after reading some testimonials that several phone trade-ins were invalidated by swelling batteries: “Just because YOU are willing to risk turning on a phone with a battery that looks like a fire hazard, doesn’t mean the random tech…
You’ve heard of spoon theory, and here I come with “bullshit theory”. As I was relaxing and looking forward to two weeks off, finally starting to relax, my hubby had a minor medical emergency that was scary when it happened but no big deal after it all got sorted. It was ‘An Bullshit’: One item…