Today NPR announced that they're quitting Twitter because Elon Musk labeled them as "state-affiliated media". On the one hand that's cool that they're no longer feeding the trainwreck that is Twitter, but it also highlights something that has been bothering me for at least three decades now.

On The Fediverse …

I'm currently reading "The Effortless Life" by Leo Babauta. In it he makes recommendations for how to best live a life without much effort (hence the title). One of the items in there really struck me: "Have No Goals or Fixed Plans". This seems pretty radical to me as someone …

Yesterday I managed to finally get Star Realms running on my laptop using Proton. I then promptly deleted it from my phone; a platform that I've been using for what feels like a decade with this software. I started thinking about why this is and I (naturally) have some thoughts …

Chew on this for a bit:

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I bring this up because I …

A while back on The Fediverse (using the Mastodon Client / Server software) I posted about a thought experiment wherein I wondered out-loud what it would take to completely remove Google from my life. I was reminded of this with a recent story about how Google is cutting back on laptops …