Essay
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Fast Moving Is Not Always Better
Matt Birchler on wanting a delay tweet button: People sometimes act like outrage and fake news is only a problem for Twitter and Facebook, but it’s a problem for any form of social media, as these services live and …
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How Facebook Makes Money
Karen Hao on Facebooks misinformation addiction: The algorithms that underpin Facebook’s business weren’t created to filter out what was false or inflammatory; they were designed to make people share and engage with as …
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The Thought Of Fading Away
I don’t remember the first time I thought about killing myself. It has to have been too long ago for my mind to recall, or it’s blocked from my conscious thought. I do remember the ups and downs of earlier life. For the …
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Being Able To Publish To The Internet
We’ve all seen or heard of someone being ‘de platformed’ and loosing access to a service. Usually because they’ve done something stupid, or heinous and the powers that be no longer want them on their platform. It …
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Tracking All The Things
DHH on old school tracking: How bizarre it would have seemed back then to learn that in the future your reading habits would not only be tracked forever by Big Tech, and thus available to any agent with a subpoena, but …
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Why Micro.Blog
In recent weeks I have been a bit of a restless soul. Moving things around despite my insistence that you didn’t need to do it. It’s been part of a long-running plan for me to straighten everything out and stop spreading …
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My Favourite Apple Device
To steal some inspiration from Gabz I wanted to write about my favourite Apple device I own. For which I own loads of them — Apple Watch, iPhone 12 Pro, iPad Pro, iMac Pro, MacBook Pro (Pro all the things) — but these …
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A Bit Of Quiet And Focus
DHH wanting less platforms Everything from everyone all the time is too much. It’s unnatural and it’s unhealthy. We weren’t built to listen to hundreds if not thousands of people every day. Sometimes regular things to …
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Feed Worries
Yes. Unless you can’t tell I have moved my blog, again. It’s now firmly rooted into micro.blog, and I’d like to say it’s made me happier. But you know me, I worry about almost everything at the minute and one of the …
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Facebook Is Cigarettes
Make me smart with Kai and Molly: Facebook is cigarettes… It’s Big Tobacco… They know its product causes harm and they keep minimizing the harm to keep selling product. As Mario pointed out, who brought this to me …
