Here are some browser extensions and tools I've been using to make my experience on the Big Three social networks better: Twitter Since 2012 I've been using Fix Twitter to swap the right and left columns to put the feed back on the left, as it was pre-2012. Mostly cosmetic, but for me preferable. Make … Continue reading How I’ve made my social media better
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Ursula Le Guin on the ‘media golem’
A pox upon me for never having read Ursula Le Guin before she died last week. I'll get right on that, as her reputation is high among many different kinds of readers. Before diving into her novels, though, I encountered her blog (an 88 year old blogging!) on which last year she posted "Constructing the Golem", pretty … Continue reading Ursula Le Guin on the ‘media golem’
If the President Tweets It
When the National Review is calling Trump out, it's worth reading: [Trump's] tweets, however, are exposing something else in many of Trump’s friends and supporters — an extremely high tolerance for dishonesty and an oft-enthusiastic willingness to defend sheer nonsense. Yes, I know full well that many of his supporters take him “seriously, not literally,” but … Continue reading If the President Tweets It
Let me exhort you
"Let me exhort you, people: close Twitter and read a book. Take delight in something well-made, well-made because the author loved her task and sought to bring her best intellectual resources to bear on her work. Take delight in words crafted to increase the world's store of intelligence, to share what the author knows and … Continue reading Let me exhort you
How Tweet It Is
At the beginning of December I had my wife change my Twitter password so I couldn't access it. I've learned that I'm a cold turkey guy. Maybe I have some elements of an addictive personality, because for things like social media that act as mini dopamine triggers, I can't use them moderately. I'm either on … Continue reading How Tweet It Is
Make Yourselves Whole Again: On ‘Dataclysm’ and ‘So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed’
In a sloppy but understandable attempt at satire, Justine Sacco tweeted: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!” Then she got on a long plane ride to South Africa. During the flight her tweet went viral, enraging the easily enraged bastions of social media and catapulting the hashtag #HasJustineLandedYet around the … Continue reading Make Yourselves Whole Again: On ‘Dataclysm’ and ‘So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed’
The Millennials Will Be All Right
I finally read Joel Stein's Time magazine piece on the Millennial Generation, called "The Me Me Me Generation." For the record, unlike some of my Millennial cohorts I hate "selfies" (the term and the thing it describes), I don't feel entitled to a great job right out of school, and I don't sleep next to my phone. … Continue reading The Millennials Will Be All Right
Pruning The Rosebushes: What Not To Share
There's a scene in Saving Private Ryan when Matt Damon's Pvt. Ryan and Tom Hanks' Capt. Miller sit and chat, waiting for the impending German offensive to hit their French town. Ryan's three brothers had recently died and he can't remember their faces. The Captain tells him to think of a specific context, something they'd shared … Continue reading Pruning The Rosebushes: What Not To Share