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Less social media, more blogging
Sunset out the window of the study I’m glad I have a Facebook account, so I can see what my friends are doing (or obsessing about). I enjoy reading my Twitter feed, for the occasional brilliantly pithy...
View ArticleBruce Schneier removing anti-security features
Security expert Bruce Schneier wrote last week about some changes he was making to his blog to remove some anti-security features. Reading over his list of changes, I was pleased to see that I’d mostly...
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Not a link to my year in pictures
Google gave me a link to my year in pictures. And they have a lot of my pictures, because they have all the pictures I took with my phone. (But not the pictures I took with my camera, which is what I...
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The future
Like most of my friends, I’m distressed and depressed about the prospects for our country. I’m not going to back away from the fight. I hope and expect we will use the tools and tactics that the...
View ArticleNot posting clickbait. Really.
My brother complained that the two posts I put up earlier this morning (where I shared links to interesting articles) amounted to clickbait. I deny it categorically. This is actually a Twitter issue....
View ArticleLiked: The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem
Yes! I too have exactly this problem. Not with my mom, because she doesn’t do Facebook, but still… Dear Facebook Engineering: Could you fix this algorithm problem please? Source: The Facebook Algorithm...
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I went ahead and removed the link to my Google profile from the social media menu at the bottom of each page here, and removed Google+ from the list of tabs I routinely open on my browser.
View ArticleFacebook and Instagram: Even worse than Twitter
Whenever I tweet about a company, I like to go ahead and tag the company in the tweet, so they can see what I’m saying about them. Besides that, I’ve a natural inclination toward brand loyalty (for...
View Article2019-07-28 16:53
I’m seeing an ad (on twitter) for Ring that seems calculated to inculcate fear, which I guess is their business model. And twitter’s I guess.
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My photos are mostly CC-BY
I wasn’t huge fan of the Creative Commons until shortly after I started writing for Wise Bread. For illustrating Wise Bread posts I liked to take my own photos, but for some things I wanted an image...
View ArticleThe faux social interactions of social media
I just finished reading Cal Newport’s book Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World, which is excellent: Highly recommended. One point the book makes is that the faux social...
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Getting better at life under late-stage capitalism
I have always been an optimizer. I spend way, way too much time, energy, and attention optimizing things. Which is, you know, fine, even though my net benefit is small or zero, largely because I don’t...
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Currently reading: How to do Nothing: Resisting the attention economy by Jenny Odell, ISBN: 9781612197494
View Article2020-03-31 16:41
I’m about one request to “add me to an instagram group” away from deleting the @instagram app from my phone. Geez.
View ArticleMinimal doomscrolling
The New York Times offers up a widely-shared article on doomscrolling, which prompts me to realize that I’m actually doing pretty well at staying away from that. In large measure I credit my decision...
View Article2021-01-21 09:16
If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that I never quit writing link posts, even after they became the backward, less developed countries of the internet. “The sharing moved to social media and...
View Article2022-11-12 10:51
As Twitter swirls around the plug hole, I thought I’d mention that I’m philipbrewer@micro.blog. I encourage you to follow me there. I am also on Mastodon, but my first account there is for my Esperanto...
View Article2022-11-12 10:55
I guess I don’t really expect that the demise of Twitter will lead to a grand resurgence in websites that offer RSS feeds as the way to follow your favorite writers. But wouldn’t it be wonderful if it...
View Article2022-11-12 12:56
Ooh! I got on the mastodon server where all the cool f&sf folks are going! Follow me there: @philipbrewer
View Article2022-11-16 06:52
Gradually getting my follows arranged for Mastodon. I’m having less trouble than other people, because I had done my best to make Twitter act like Mastodon: I turned off anything that tried to...
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