McFilter

Read This If You’re New and Trying to Find Your Way. “I don’t know how things will turn out, but I am committed to something other than this — the current structure and state of this world. We can live differently. I don’t think we have to live the way we currently do. I think something else is possible.” It’s 2026 and women are still asked to teach others to think a little bit and not be a prick. Illuminating, brave, dispiriting-that-we-still-need-this writing from Ana. AI Economics for…

These used to get scheduled to be published on the Monday after I started drafting them, and would then include whatever I’d collected over the following week. Since I migrated the blog to Jekyll I’ve lost the scheduled post option. At some point I’ll reinstate that, but for now it’s interrupted the posting of Interesting Things as I keep collecting-but-not-publishing. This is a note (to me mostly, given I doubt anyone else cares when they get published) that I’m going to switch to a more whe...

These used to get scheduled to be published on the Monday after I started drafting them, and would then include whatever I’d collected over the following week. Since I migrated the blog to Jekyll I’ve lost the scheduled post option. At some point I’ll reinstate that, but for now it’s interrupted the posting of Interesting Things as I keep collecting-but-not-publishing. This is a note (to me mostly, given I doubt anyone else cares when they get published) that I’m going to switch to a more…

I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Actually Handed Over.. All this biometrics in place of passwords and the like is a terrible idea. And this is why we need the private options to be just as convenient to use as the ones harvesting our data. The unlikely story of an e-mail time machine. Turns out people, not corporations or capitalism, are our bests bet for the long-term. Who knew? Who Will Remember Us When The Servers Go Dark? A long, but interesting, essay on the cloud and how i...