Found this via the YouTube algorithm. Very dark.
Author: Seth Werkheiser
“I understand that Gmail is trying to make the product more user friendly, but I think it’s making some questionable decisions without the user’s knowledge. And unlike some email clients that allow users to choose whether to include contact names when sending, Gmail enforces this behavior with no setting to disable it.”
Maybe you wanna check your CONTACT NAMES in Gmail. Yikes. Read more here.
GARBAGE ON IPHONES
This post ‘Generate Images in iPhone’s Messages App Using DALL·E‘ definitely makes me never want to buy another iPhone.
Thank you Casey Barber for the final push to get me back to using RSS. Seems I forgot I had NetNewsWire installed, and now I have lots of catching up to do!
FRAIL CONNECTIONS
Our connections are only as strong as the technology in place that allows it. This is why I warn against using Facebook to stay in touch with friends and family – if that connection is cut, you account is suspended, the company implodes – you are no longer connected with friends and family.
All this talk now of new social media networks, as if the only way forward is based on the idea of setting up new accounts and importing our address books, when in fact we already have our address book from which we can communicate with friends and family.
Seems we like to stay in touch from afar, though, which is weird to me. I don’t need to know the breakfast choices of the kid who sat behind me in 10th grade science class. I don’t need to know every career move of people 1,000 miles away who can only be troubled to drop a “happy birthday!” text when prompted by a algorithm to encourage engagement.
Our brains are only capable of so many connections. There are a few people in our life, right now, nearly in arms reach, who we could grow closer to and go deeper with. Instead we keep seeking these lite-connections with people who only think of us when an algorithm deems it so.
PHOTO DUMP
Lake and horses by Ari Magnusson
Ferry by Francesco Aglieri Rinella
Handsome by courtney yau
Mt Hood by Lexi Brown
NIGHT DESK
I use that timer on occasion with work, to make sure time doesn’t sneak away from me.
IT’S EMBARRASSING TO POST THINGS ON THE INTERNET NOW
From Noah Kalina:
I was out taking pictures and I made a picture that I really like. I was working on it and I was like, “This is so good.” And I was like, “What am I going to do with this?”
My natural inclination is to want to post it on the internet, but why? I almost feel like it’s embarrassing to post things on the internet now.
More thoughts here.
HOW TO WRITE ONLINE
Solid advice for writing online, from Sean Goedecke:
- Try and find opinions you have that lots of people disagree with. Those are the interesting opinions others might want to read about
- Ideas should come naturally from doing actual work, not from sitting and reflecting on what a good blog post would be
- It’s OK to write multiple posts about the same thing
- I deliberately don’t include every caveat – good readers will know I’m only writing about my old experience; bad ones won’t care anyway
- I try to be upfront about my experience so readers can judge how seriously to take what I’m saying
- Set up a RSS feed and some kind of analytics
Read more at ‘Writing a tech blog people want to read‘ (via Hacker News).
DAD’S RECORDS
From ‘Her dad, the 10,000 records he left behind and a viral lesson in grief:‘
“Since September, the 24-year-old Polish Canadian woman has held a daily “listening party” on her Instagram and TikTok pages, @soundwavesoffwax, to explore decades and genres of music that her father, Richard, loved — punk, disco, pop, jazz, techno, new wave and ’60s psych rock. The project has exploded online, resonating with more than 460,000 followers combined so far — and she still has nearly 10,000 records to go.”
It’s sad that those vinyl records will outlive those social media channels, though.
(via HackerNews)