updates on various tools
Micro.blog: A couple of days ago I posted this: “I really do think this is a great service, and I’d like to be...
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a little more on micro.blog
Some things I like: Markdown formatting in posts plain old RSS feeds for the blogs it’s really hard to find...
social media their way — or my way
It’s fairly common for the local businesses I follow on Instagram to post there news of sales, or unusual opening...
“not to waver with the wavering hours”
I’ve just been teaching Horace’s Epistles, and it strikes me that Horace ought to be the man of our...
propaganda and social media
Reading Ellul on the massive and pervasive consequences of propaganda in the twentieth century, I found myself over and...
"a revisionist blizzard of alternative theories"
Tim Adams on the media in Putin’s Russia: In this culture war, disinformation was critical. Russian TV and social...
Freedom
I’m quite late to this party, but I recently started using Freedom and I really like it. What led me to it was my...
people and algorithms, principalities and powers
In this interview, Jill Lepore comments, To be fair, it’s difficult not to be susceptible to technological...
the fragility of platforms
In a comment on my previous post, Adam Roberts writes: In terms of human intermediation, facebook and twitter are...
platforms and institutions
In the new edition of his book on the modern Left, which I review here, Roger Scruton writes, Occasional lip service is...