The little-known social network’s user base has swelled after Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter. Source: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? – BBC News Opinion: You know what they say… The early bird gets the worm! I signed up for Mastodon last night—err tried to but some of the servers were… Read More Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? – BBC News
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales started up an alternative to Twitter and Facebook that has no ads. I just found out about it but it’s been around since 2019. My last tweet about the fish stock replenishing originates from there. So it’s already been useful. News junkies and those interested in what’s happening around the world… Read More Sick of Twitter and Facebook?
I didn’t until this morning. https://apps.wordpress.com/ Installing the app for Linux hoping it would make things easier with an older PC, I was pleasantly surprised to find that this app rocks. How many times have I not been able to find a blog because the blogger did not list their URL along with their Gravatar?… Read More Bloggers… Did you know that WordPress has a desktop app?
You may have noticed that I reverted to an older WordPress theme for Earthpages.org. I generally like the change because it’s more pictorial. But one drawback is that News – 24/7 links are not immediately visible. Visitors need to scroll down a bit to see them in the right column. I could Tweet like crazy…… Read More Just a friendly reminder to check out the latest alt news at Earthpages.ca
A German musicologist complained in 1954 that they reminded him of “barking hell-hounds.” Source: The Fear That Synthesizers Would Ruin Music | JSTOR Daily Opinion: The above-linked article talks about early fears surrounding the advent of electronic music, but it points to a larger truth: Technology is not the enemy. How we potentially misuse it… Read More The Fear That Synthesizers Would Ruin Music | JSTOR Daily | + Opinion
I’m up very late reconfiguring one of my older computers. It only runs on 32-bit so I can’t really use Chrome. Chromium, yes. But that’s a community project which doesn’t play all media. So I’m back to Firefox, which I haven’t used for ages. It’s still dark outside and quiet. The city won’t awake for… Read More The Sunrise Kid – The Sound of Silence
Have you ever found yourself counting ums and uhs? Many scientists, though, think that our cultural fixation with stamping out what they call “disfluencies” is deeply misguided. Saying um is no character flaw, but an organic feature of speech; far from distracting listeners, there’s evidence that it focuses their attention in ways that enhance comprehension. Source:… Read More Your Speech Is Packed With Misunderstood, Unconscious Messages | + Opinion
It seems Facebook will make an attempt to filter out obvious fraud and deception by hostile foreign powers but still allow American politicians to potentially mislead. The new prohibitive measures probably won’t probe high-level, backroom corruption where politicians have an economic interest in allowing foreign powers to lead them around by the nose, either through… Read More Facebook – Should tech companies decide for us what’s true and false?
As Pierre Delecto, Romney used the account to like critical tweets about the president while also occasionally defending himself against detractors. Source: ‘C’est moi’: Mitt Romney admits to running secret Twitter account under the alias ‘Pierre Delecto’ Opinion: We can look at this two ways. Using an alter ego on the internet can indicate a… Read More ‘C’est moi’: Mitt Romney admits to running secret Twitter account under the alias ‘Pierre Delecto’ | + Opinion
I’d just like to thank all the wonderful, alternative, sometimes eccentric and ‘off the grid’ type of people whom I’ve gotten to know through the web. Sometimes I just get so sick and tired of the mainstream media I can’t watch nor read it. Most news anchors seem to be primarily promoting themselves. I guess… Read More It’s Thanksgiving weekend in Canada and…
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