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Every morning that we open our phones and laptops, we are staring pitifully at a necrotic digital organism. It's sad and fucked up, no way around it, and there is no reason to go on what I'll call the Obvious Internet at all anymore IMO...
We adopted Moogle1 from a local animal rescue on May 21, 2025. He was exactly two months old on that day. I have never had an orange cat, but I quickly learned that the "one brain cell" jokes are true. He is the third cat in our...
I don't need to tell you that generative AI has been shoehorned into just about every tech product and user interface lately1. Microsoft has been guilty of some of the most egregious examples, such as the inclusion of Copilot in Notepad...
This post was last edited 11 hours, 29 minutes ago. PreambleBruno reached out to me mid-April with a suggestion to check out his privacy-first search engine tool Uruky. Uruky works on a subscription model, but one of my kids and I were...
What is Bill C-22?Bill C-22 is also called the "Lawful Access" bill, or "An Act respecting lawful access." It is, essentially, the Part II, the Electric Boogaloo, to Bill C-2, the "Strong Borders Act"; So basically, the sequel to a...
Right now, raising a child in the U.S. costs an average of $300,000 from birth to age 18, excluding higher education. That is roughly equivalent to the cost of a brand new 27-foot boat. Of course, raising a child requires much more labor...
Today I decided to quit my blog. Not this one, but the microblog I've been running under another domain name. I want to focus 100% on this blog instead. I'm also planning to slightly shift focus here. Not when it comes to the main thing,...
See if you can relate to this. There's a stratum of conscious mental activity that keeps telling you something and/or that "just" makes you feel a certain way. But then there's another stratum that feels like it's definitely placed above...
I was at a wedding party, a boy around 8 years old was sitting next to me. The parents have left him alone with a tablet. I don't know that many people at the wedding, I was by myself as well. The boy saw me looking at his screen. He sat...
I like to compliment people. Especially here, even if it’s something simple like “I love your theme” or “I really liked your last post (…)”. If I can, I sign their guestbook. I think even something little can make somebody's day better....
AI takes in all the input, whether the original authors have consented or not, and do some "learning", and then the AI companies sell these learned result to humans, without compensating the original authors. Worse, the customer of these...
I'm just a regular ol' end user. I'm not some cyber security guru who actually understands how any of this shit works, but I use a password manager and 2FA whenever possible at least. About a year ago, I permanently deleted my Facebook...
So let's say you've had enough of all the ads, the tracking, the promoted posts, the I'm Never Seeing Anything my Friends Post, and you want... a different experience. One where it's not the billionaires deciding what you get to see or...
Right now there is a rejection of social media, so some people open personal sites (like the ones hosted on Neocities). In combination of the pandemic lockdown, there is a replication of social media usage in personal sites. What do I...