Data privacy starts with your own choices
I was scrolling on Mastodon yesterday — the ad-free, federated social media I went to after finally leaving Twitter and Facebook for good a few years ago ...
Category: social
Too many people like shooting the messenger
The LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) is the provincially-owned company that, until relatively recently, was the only place in the province you could legal...
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...
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...