My 14yo shouldn’t have to do moderator work for Meta because other kids keep using the N word and other offensive language in Meta Quest games. He does it, and rallies other players to report accounts.
What a delightful world we’ve created.
New on my blog: John Green on Taking a Break from the Internet
Currently reading: Slash by Slash 📚Would you be shocked to find out it’s full of misogyny and objectifying language? I know I am.
Tornado watch issued for Saskatoon and area weather.gc.ca
My brain can spin on whether something is YOLO or wasteful forever. Which feels wasteful since YOLO.
New on my blog: David Simon on AI
Alright I’m invested. I was ready to tune out hockey after my Jets bowed out in the first round. Now the Oilers better win game 7 after coming back from 3 games to none.
New on my blog: U2 Inspired Evangelical Church Worship Music
It’s really weird to me that Final Cut Pro for iPad with a new iPad is needed to do multicam with iPhones or iPads, when I’ve got a Mac Studio on my desk that has to be able to keep up as well, wouldn’t it?
Normalize breaking “streaks” that social media apps try to use to keep you coming back to their app. Snapchat, TikTok now, etc. It’s not the same as breaking a reading / exercising / therapy related streak. 😆
“Just edit your robots.txt file and AI Startups will respect that.” Turns out, surprising some people who learn nothing from the past, no they won’t.
New on my blog: Foo Fighters and HIV AIDS Denialism
I just came across ScummVM, an emulator for playing old computer games, and I don’t have time for this distraction right now. 😆
We’ve been watching the new Netflix series Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial and while I’ve known most of the story, it’s still so jarring to realize how relatively easy he came to power.
Apathy abounds and the power hungry will use that to their advantage every time.