Whose Taste Is It Anyway

Matt Birchler on what makes you interesting: Whether it's Tomotometer scores or your online clan deciding something is good or the worst thing ever, I find these systems to make us all dumber and more angry. I've been thinking about this alongside a recent Vergecast discussion

The Oppo Find X9 Pro: A Camera That Doesn't Get In The Way

I've written before about getting itchy feet with technology. That pull toward trying something new, usually an Android phone, before inevitably running back to iPhone a week later because of iMessage or iCloud or whatever excuse I tell myself. My flip phone experiment was the culmination of years

A Very Human Vision for AI

A very human vision for going all-in on AI | The Vergecast I think there is a world where we all may be in this collective experiment where we're deluding ourselves into thinking these things are more effective than they are. This Vergecast episode gets at something I&

Suger Training

The Unseen Effects of High Carb Training: I'm starting to feel like I trained my stomach to expect 200g + of sugar a day and the gut biome found balance with that. I trained my gut for racing and now it wants that food all of the time. I

Face Palm Alert

Manuel Moreale with a spot on observation regarding Ghost CEO John O'Nolan: You are on your own blog, your own corner of the web, powered by the platform you’re the CEO of, a blog that also serves content via RSS, the thing you’re building a tool

Interoperability Is The Feature

Darren Cohen on moving back to Gmail: Going back to Gmail wasn't about giving up my principles; it was about accepting that interoperability is itself a feature, and right now, Gmail is where most of the tools I care about live. I'm currently using an Android

Replacing QVC

I was oblivious to its creation, but apparently there's a fediverse version of TikTok now. It's called Loops. People are already comparing them, talking about whether Loops can "compete" with TikTok, whether it'll attract the same audience and unfortunately that’s impossible.

The Weird Part Was the Platforms

Stevie Bonifield in The indie web is here to make the internet weird again: The end of Twitter may be indirectly part of the flourishing of the indie web trend because there's no longer a "default" social media hub everyone uses. Our social spaces online have

My Reading List

Craig Mod in Roden 109: ’Tis the season to Buy Things, apparently. So says every website in the world…Our faces are being smashed by sales. If you’re going to buy anything, I say buy books I hate Black Friday. Prime Day is a close second. Every website turns

90% Synthetic

Salvador Vilalta on the future of AI content: A study by Amazon Web Services estimates that 57% of online content is already generated or translated by artificial intelligence. And the boldest prediction comes from experts such as Nina Schick and Europol: by 2026, up to 90% of content on the