when I play with toys, I'm usually also texting a lot with a lot of people LOL, which is part of the context of why it is so unusual for me to have somebody who doesn't text like that in my life ( Read more... )

The changes in human culture and technology over the past few centuries have been unique to both human history and world history.  Previously humans used tools and lived in small groups with shared language for tens of thousands of years -- but so have other species.  We then developed agriculture and domesticated lands, plants, and animals about ( Read more... )

There are 40 million songs available on Google Music, which is the streaming service I subscribe to for $10/month.

It would take over 200 years for me to listen to all of those songs in a row one time. Without sleeping. Call it 300 years if I sleep. By that time, Voyager 1 will reach the Oort cloudI was trying to figure out how many albums are ( Read more... )

I'm not on Facebook, I don't Tweet. So the other night when Tod asked me whether I was the person who posted whatever, I reminded him that I don't post stuff anymore ( Read more... )

I'm thinking of creating a new Twitter account from a different email address that would only follow local weather and mass transit feeds, because I do really need that info for my commute ( Read more... )

I think Twitter has followed Facebook and LinkedIn to the grave. That leaves me with shrinking LJ and porn-only Tumblr. Well, Medium also, but I don't use that much, I really only have it as a more stylish way to re-publish some of my better LJ essays (at K's suggestion ( Read more... )

"Fact checking everything in my social media feeds is exhausting," I wrote back last November 22nd, after the surprise Trump victory.

So I quit Facebook and brought Twitter below 100 follows. And my Tumblr doesn't even get into facts, except I think some of those pictures of huge cocks I see are photoshopped ( Read more... )

I took a look at Medium and it felt awful. Worse than Facebook even. So algorithmed. I felt like the articles it showed me were overly machined to appeal to people like me, so that I would like them and follow the authors, BAM ( Read more... )

Still don't miss Facebook at all, and feeling like I've been more social since giving up Facebook -- I mean social in real life -- than I'd been in years. I'm to the point of having to put off answering social invitations, or just flat turning them down. Too busy ( Read more... )

Fairly often when I disagree with a lefty or liberal person on Twitter, I get favorites from Trumpers and other racists. More anecdotal evidence of how we are splitting into two tribes instead of viewing each other as merely disagreeable humans with similar needs and common destinies ( Read more... )