Castopod robot icon Yes, there are companies out there hosting Fediverse alternatives to SoundCloud, but what makes this exciting is that Castopod itself is offering managed hosting via their .com Castopod website. "Podcasting...
This is the second post in a series on what Meta did in Myanmar and what the broader technology community can learn from it. It will make a lot more sense if you read the first post—these first two are especially tightly linked and best...
I bought a suitcase from Amazon, partly because of its good reviews. The suitcase is alright. It's not the best I've ever seen, but the price was decent and it seems like it should last a while. A couple of weeks later, I got a postcard from the...
“Technology is like a bomb in Myanmar.” —Kyaw Kyaw, frontman of Burmese punk band Rebel Riot 1 Back in early July, I started working on a quick series of posts about online structures of refuge and exposure. In a draft of what...
I wrote so many posts that that my posts needed a post. Sorry about that. Right now, Part I and Part II are up, and over the next couple of weeks, there will be two more. The series this note accompanies is a work of synthesis, in which I...
Is it futile to tame the deluge of information? Well, I'm trying anyway by simplifying, streamlining and yes, deleting stuff.
Threads as death in the Fediverse Image Credit: @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org on Pepper & Carrot So the Verge has an excellent interview of @zuck@threads.net by @alexheath@threads.net & the first 17 minutes of the interview are worth...
This post is related to bump, boost, but focuses more on the ways that mass social media and the internet in general aren't great for facilitating meaningful discussions between strangers. I think this is (arguably!) one of the internet's main use...
A few weeks ago, I saw a flurry of conversation about how you can now disallow OpenAI from indexing your personal website using robots.txt: User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / That felt a bit “ex post facto“ as they say. Or, as Jeremy put it, “Now...
As someone who doesn’t fly, living in Finland makes traveling in Europe a bit challenging. While I lived in Berlin, I truly enjoyed the privilege of being able to jump on a train and be in a different country later the same day. Now that I’m back in Finland, there are a few extra hoops. This month I traveled from Turku, Finland to Prague, Czechia by the sea and the land and here’s my diary of the journey. Sunday, Sept 10th Public transport: ~20 min buses to railway station; 2h in train; 20...
