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 ...
Category: social
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...
The dual realities of not wearing a mask
In the last number of months I’ve been seeing more people not wearing masks when they’re grocery or furniture shopping. To clarify: Toronto holds th...
New tech still needs old fashioned communication skills
Hearing my eleven-year-old on a phone call is equal parts cringe-worthy and hilarious. You’ll note I said “call”. Not a Zoom or FaceTime or te...
Finally kicking Spotify to the curb
I’ve been mulling over what to do for a (more) ethical music streaming service for a while, largely writing about it here after already noodling on it for...
The new phone I went with was…
… a Pixel 5. Not the current flagship Google Android unit, but one generation removed from it. Here’s how the decision happened, in brief:– It...