When Elon Musk announced his intention to purchase Twitter, I knew then and there that staying on Twitter is counter to the values I hold. I cannot in good conscience provide revenue to any company owned by Elon Musk. After some flitting around looking for an alternative, I found a…

I wrote this thread on Twitter. I copied it to here to keep as a record. Edited for clarity and readability on Medium. I deleted my Twitter account but use the Twitter search function to keep up with some people still using it. In those posts I see a lot…

One thing I have learned is that when I grasp the obvious, others are quick to do it too. As I was drafting You Have the Power , I realized that there was a tremendous opportunity for journalism and journalists with the Mastodon solution. You could be a Mastodon admin…

If you are on Twitter, and are uncomfortable with it being owned by Elon Musk, why are you still on Twitter then? Twitter is nothing without you. You are the customer, and you are the product. Everyone is. Believe it or not, you only need a Twitter account so that…

CNN Exclusive: We fall for everything anyone tells us. They just have to use their ‘serious voice.’ — This CNN Exclusive landed in my Twitter feed with a loud bang as if it had something important to say. It does not. “FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications” ‘Disrupt’ Key word there. The story opens with an interesting (for those of us that…

Well. I was proven wrong on the “we may never know” argument as presented in my last post, from a few hours ago…. So what went wrong? We don’t yet know, and, we may never know. Rogers may never know for sure. As of10:34 PM about 8 hours after I…

This may be an evolving post as new information comes out or as I rethink the arguments presented below. Friday, July 8, 2022 was a very bad day for Rogers Communications Corp. and its customers. Absolutely every service Rogers provides to its customers was unavailable. Internet, Ignite TV, and Cellular…

What do you get when you both misunderstand math and representative democracy? This:

For such a snoozefest of an Election campaign where the result was foretold eons ago when the Ontario Liberals elected Steven Del Duca as their new leader, there’s still a lot to unpack and understand. We know the result, but what really happened and why did it happen? To understand…