Werd I/O

I wish there was a single place I could list my email address so that every political candidate knew that I work for a newsroom and am banned from making political donations. I'm hitting "unsubscribe" an awful lot lately.

The idea that profit is what primarily motivates people says more about the people who say this than anything else.

America’s long-held restriction on people who lived in the UK during the vCJD epidemic giving blood and donating organs has been lifted. I’m a registered organ donor - as everyone should be - and, this year, I’m going to give blood for the first time.

Because this was my birthday weekend, my 2023 properly starts tomorrow, as is tradition.

This is maybe silly, but I’ve never really understood how angel investors who are also software developers with non-FAANG day jobs made their money and have enough to invest. I’ve always assumed they (1) came from wealthy backgrounds (2) somehow made giant salaries?

I love traveling, and I love seeing new places, but I have less than zero desire to go to space. I want to be where the people are.

Simply put: if you think critiques of racism and systemic power imbalances need to be hidden away and shouldn't be openly talked about, we can't be friends.

Happy new year to everyone who celebrates it today!

cPanel is such an awful piece of software that I think it may be holding the entirety of the independent web back.

It's such a Windows ME thing to do, but I've set my desktop to rotate through pictures of my mother every 30 minutes, and I love it. Every time I quit an application or lock my computer I see a photo that makes me happy. Highly recommended.

My targeted ads over on corporate media:

- A $1000+ coffee machine that likely makes coffee like a $100 machine
- Crypto miners
- Ebooks about how to hustle
- T-shirts that turn your "man boobs" into pecs
- Endless fintech

You know you've made a wrong turn when ...

Happy last minute panic-shop to everyone who celebrates.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from authoritarianism.

Federated communities with more friction will make it harder to manufacture consent, and that’s a good thing.

I’m now getting roughly 20-30 approaches about placing ads on https://getblogging.org a day. I’m not doing it.

Own your posts. Own your words. Own your identity. Own your ethics. Own your ideas.

I don’t know why I worried: this baby is an almost absurdly chill traveler. He slept better on the plane than he does in his bed.

You know, I haven’t been to the movies in over three years, and at this point I’m not sure what would bring me back.

Send me your best air travel with infant tips! Please. I need them.

Just realized that maybe some people think that if it weren't for Twitter's community moderation America might be more receptive to conservative ideas? Because here's some breaking news: it's not Twitter. Twitter is the mirror. People genuinely care.

Four-month sleep regression is go!

A full two-thirds of incoming phone calls to my cell are salespeople looking to find an executive at some company called Known that is different to the one I started. People thought we'd do badly on SEO and we didn't; on the other hand, these sales databases are killing me.

I'm really excited about what seems to be an uptick in tech-related co-operatives. Co-ops are a brilliant organizational tool and (done right) a way to build distribution of equity into an organization's core. One member, one vote. More, please.

You don't need to stay on a platform whose CEO just amplified a man hours after he said he loved Hitler.

Overlooking that because you think you need audience is not the pragmatic decision you think it is.

And you can certainly get reach elsewhere.

Beginning to think I should ban myself from (1) posting (2) buying anything during overnight feeds.