Editor's Note In this series, readers showcase what they carry in their backpacks on a daily basis. Check out the other backpacks that have been published and submit yours — the this series depends on you. I’m Keli Vasconcelos (she/her), journalist, freelance writer, and postgraduate in Public History, 44 years old,...

I’ll say it right up front: I’ve written my share of pieces on this topic, which doesn’t invalidate the observation Nicholas Carr made in his newsletter: I hate to be a cynic, but I’m guessing the main reason for the proliferation of these sorts of articles [about using your phone less] is that they’re algorithmic...

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. WikiCity. One more creative way to browse (or fly over) Wikipedia. Every entry is a building in a city made up of the encyclopedia’s 100,000 most-visited entries. For the...

Pictures by Hyperallergic. According to the website Hyperallergic, the London-based activist group Everyone Hates Elon pulled off this intervention on a bus-stop ad for Meta’s new pervert smart glasses created in partnership with celebrity Kylie Jenner. Depending on the angle from which someone views the ad, Kylie’s...

AI-drunk companies love to trumpet their millions or billions of users. What they don’t tell you is that most are forced to use such features. Think of the AI overviews that Google Search forces on you, whether you asked for it or not. Samsung seems to have taken this tactic to the next level. According to How-To...

This comment from Bruno, on Bluesky (pt_BR): Instagram launches new tool that drains your entire bank account and kills your family. Here’s how to turn it off 👇 Instagram doesn’t (yet) do that. His joke references the recent news that photos from public Instagram profiles could be used to generate new images on...

LineageOS now has a web installer. The project warns, however, that it doesn’t handle the entire process, and that you’ll still need to follow the instructions on your device’s wiki. Even so, it should make things considerably easier during those major yearly updates. In the same announcement, they report that work...

Scarcity makes us pay more attention to details. A clear reflection of living with limited resources, one of the things that has intrigued me is the tiny battery capacity of my phone. It wasn’t the biggest when it was new and, four years later, reduced to ~82% of its original capacity and more demanded by major...

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. Favicon Website. This entire website is served from inside the “favicon” — that little icon you see on your browser tab. The author explains how he did it. Are you in the...

Screen compulsion is a widespread problem — anyone who says they don’t have it just hasn’t realized it yet. Is ditching the screen while keeping the tech apparatus connected to the internet a possible way out? I’ve been thinking about this since I put an Apple Watch on my wrist. (I’ve since taken it off after four...

Hot take: if you feel comfortable with Markdown, you don’t need an editor that displays the formatting. Any plain text editor will do. The rest is just fluff.

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. handwritten.blog. A handwritten blog. Literally. The guy writes on an e-ink tablet, then does a whole adaptation process before publishing. The downside is that on mobile...