social media
I loved this quote from Petter Törnberg in an article about studying social media on Ars Technica: First, you have echo chambers or filter bubbles. The risk of broad agreement is that if you want to have a functioning political conversation, functioning deliberation, you do need to do that across
thoughts
Fresh starts are just another form of perfectionism
weekly review
Pressure cooker explodes. News at 11.
Here yet again. and again. and again 😆 I triple pinky-swear this time I'll stick around. Really. No more domain changes. For now 🤪
writing
Always learning is a great thing, even when you're learning something new decades after starting something.
One of the things I always read when reading about people using plain text files and something like Markdown (or other similar markup languages) is that they’re “future-proofing” against some time when nothing can be read but ASCII files. Today I ran across Beorg, a plain text-based time management
journaling
I had a plan to start journaling more on paper. I bought a few different journals to try them out. I bought some different pens. Am I journaling more on paper? Nope because I always have my iPad with me when I'm home. It's easier to
ai
This post...where to start... Gerard is wrong in the first paragraph (emphasis mine): Proton Mail is famous for its privacy and security. The cool trick they do is that not even Proton can decode your email. That’s because it never exists on their systems as plain text — it’
Lots of talk on TV commercials about their 5-year price lock. What they don’t say in those commercials is that they will keep moving things from your current package to a higher-level package. First it was Cartoon Network which is now in an add-on package that is $9.99
So I’m in the process of “degoogling”. Not for the reasons most people use, just because I am trying to simplify (I have far too many email addresses) and my main email provider is Fastmail. Unfortunately most of what I’ve signed up for I’ve signed up using
art
Absolutely love this guy’s stuff. Wish I could afford some of it 😆 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/joncarling.bsky.social
health
This story in The NY Times is an important one. A calcium score is a simple 5-10 minute CT scan of the heart. It shows whether or not you’ve got plaque building up in your arteries and assigns a score starting at 0. 0? You’ve got no problems.
