Author Archives: n8chz

Seems just yesterday I set up shop here. Now I’m defecting from wordpress dot com to a self hosted wordpress dot org instance. Also, I’m generating this trackback to see if it helps get a certain comment liberated from a … Continue reading →

If you’re an OTA viewer you’re feeding on cultural leftovers, quite literally. If you’re not, your baseline cost of living is poverty line times 1.5 or something. Sure Netflix is somethingteen dollars (or is it more by now? I don’t … Continue reading →

Aral Balkan: In the PC 1.0 era, individuals had ownership and control of their machines. If, for example, you installed an app and it used your 9600 baud modem to phone home and report on your behaviour, we called it … Continue reading →

The problem with main$tream social media isn’t the fact that it’s closed source, but the fact that it’s for-profit. I’m happy to see that people are interested in creating alternatives that incorporate some combination of decentralization, software freedom, or user … Continue reading →

Aral Balkan: In the PC 1.0 era, individuals had ownership and control of their machines. If, for example, you installed an app and it used your 9600 baud modem to phone home and report on your behaviour, we called it … Continue reading →

I’m of two minds on the subject. I agree with everything in Larry’s declaration of digital independence and as far as I know, I agree with the petition language (although I haven’t yet followed the link to change.org). But as … Continue reading →

I used to sometimes joke (somewhat tastelessly I’m sure) that there are three categories of autistic people systematically underrepresented in media, at least news media. Those being autistic adults autistic girls autistic boys whose name is something other than Daniel … Continue reading →

Part of the problem is that at some point the hype machine made a regular meme campaign of using the words innovation and entrepreneurship interchangeably. I can only assume that the goal of this aggressive framing is to create a … Continue reading →

Please see this discussion between Isabella DiMichelis and Evgeny Morozov, moderated by Maria Mazzucato. I’m concerned less with the right to monetize than the option of not monetizing. I miss the days when many Internet participants chose not to monetize. … Continue reading →

h/t /u/rbif All three do all three of those things and more. There is no major variation in business practices between competitors. The role of competition in capitalism is not to see who can be innovative and come up with … Continue reading →