Things I don’t get about capitalism
I like money. I like having it and what it can get for me and I certainly wish I had more of it.It’s true that money can’t buy happiness. But I susp...
Category: social
WTF: What The Fugu?
Occasionally, a question strikes me that I can’t quite shake. Not just the big ones that will often occur to us — Why are we here? How are we here? ...
So you want to join Mastodon…
I joined the social media site Mastodon three years ago this month, having heard about it as an alternative to Facebook and Twitter, which I’d been growin...
Back in the Movember movement
Movember was an idea that became an annual fundraising movement. People grow a moustache over the month of November to help raise money for men’s health a...
My ongoing interest in digital privacy
I’ve talked before about digital privacy — among other places, here and here and don’t forget here — but after making some choices then ...
On the ebbing of persuasive debate
I got a job this past May working at the LCBO — Liquor Control Board of Ontario; the only place you can (legally) get booze in the province, though you ca...
A razor’s edge from chaos
As I write this, there are digital outages across the country affecting millions of people and a ton of businesses, because Rogers, one of the big three telecom...
On why the left lean
I lean left politically. That will mean different things in different countries, so to clarify: As a sweeping generalization and with the understanding that the...
A call to focus
Years prior to the pandemic, I had noticed a trend that was slowly but clearly getting worse, and it has ramped up even harder through these Covid years: People...