Category: Culture
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Aren’t We Done With Facebook Yet?
Wow. So much has happened since I started writing this article. Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp went down. Facebook Whistleblowers seem to be coming out of the woodwork. The Wall Street Journal released a whole series called the Facebook Files. All those complaints from people saying they won’t use Oculus VR were redeemed when Oculus owners…
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What a fictional Michigan family can teach us about robots, humanity, and YouTube videos.
The Mitchell’s vs the Machines is a family centric movie with a positive outlook on human/robot relations.
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Astronauts In The Ocean
Do you ever hear a song that you can’t get out of your head? The latest for me is Astronaut in the Ocean by Masked Wolf. The chorus goes like this: What you know about rolling down in the deep?When your brain goes numb, you can call that mental freezeWhen these people talk too much,…
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Would you pay to read my blog?
📰 Substack 🐦 Twitter Super Follow 💰 Patreaon 💻 WordPress Premium Content Walled gardens are going up, but do people deserve to be paid for what they post? I have to say, getting paid for blogging is appealing. Since enabling ads in December, I’ve earned a whole $0.68 in ad revenue. Thank you for the…
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I Deleted WhatsApp Which Officially Makes Me Facebook Free… or does it?
“WhatsApp” with WhatsApp WhatsApp joined Facebook in 2014. It took a long time for Facebook to get any benefit from WhatsApp because the app was encrypted. Facebook couldn’t find a way to get WhatsApp data without breaking the encryption, and user’s trust. It seems like they now found a workaround. The WhatsApp privacy policy says…
Lily Snyder 