Inspired by Hemispheric Views, here are my app defaults in my privacy-torn world: thefield.blog
2026
Putting Cloudflare bot challenges on RSS feeds should be considered an internet crime.
“We can use the internet as it was actually intended to be used: go to the protocol layer to interact with the data at it’s source. Throw off the facade of the modern social platform, and we start to see that freedom of information is within grasp.”
Using the internet like its 1999 by Joshua Blais
“AI doesn’t have a marketing problem. People experience these tools every single day! … You can’t advertise people out of reacting to their own experiences. This is a fundamental disconnect between how tech people with software brains see the world and how regular people are living their lives.”
One of the signs of FOMOnetization: Pushing a version of the future that just happens to align with the speaker’s material interests.
if it’s not “wherever you get your podcasts,” it’s not a podcast
The Other Reasons Why Podcasting is Hot by Doc Searls
While trying to delete my Instagram account, I discovered another one I had forgotten about. What a mess. Now I have to wait 7 days for it to go.
Last year I learned about broligarchy. In March I learned about TACO. This month I learned about Starmergeddon. What is next?
Back on micro.blog after 5 years. A lot has changed in this world, I guess.