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🔮 Miss Cleo and Me
: A fundraising scandal involving the former president’s aggressive approach to recurring donations reminds me a lot of something that a famous TV psychic did to my credit card 20 years ago. 04/01/2021 #28
🎤 My Words, Your Voice
: What an open letter that emerged from the music industry says about the art of creativity in mainstream culture. 03/30/2021 #27
💿 The Lone Coder
: A letter of appreciation to the guy who spent years developing one of the few modern web browsers for vintage Macs. 03/29/2021 #26
😈 Chaos For Good
: Why Lil Nas X, in all his Satan-sneaker glory, represents a positive form of chaos in modern internet culture. 03/25/2021 #25
🔐 Lock Up Your Phone
: Why a marketing scheme by an obvious search-bait website actually has me sort of impressed by the brilliance of its growth hackery. 03/23/2021 #24
💉 Maybe All I Need Is a Shot in the Arm
: On fighting with pharmacy websites in an effort to get the COVID-19 vaccine. 03/22/2021 #23
🤬 I Hate Facebook Groups
: Explaining why Facebook Groups are built so terribly that even The New York Times couldn’t wait to get rid of their incredibly popular group. 03/18/2021 #22
😕 A Culture of Overstimulation
: With basically every culture option under the sun served on a platter, it can be tough to find novelty in any of it anymore. Perhaps a change in perception is the solution to that. 03/16/2021 #21
📺 Background Competition
: I cannot write in the same room where a television is airing, because it destroys my concentration, and I have no clue why. I’m writing this for my own understanding. 03/15/2021 #20
🔐 Sequestered In Memphis
: Discussing one of the most entertaining Twitter bugs in quite some time. Sometimes it doesn’t need to make sense for it to be hilarious. 03/11/2021 #19
🤑 Values Were Lost
: Can you imagine the same internet that was once sold as a noncommercial utopia produced something as crassly commercial as the non-fungible token? Neither can I. 03/09/2021 #18
🌊 Low Tides
: Why did Tidal, a service that tried to do right by both users and artists, become a third-tier music service? Maybe mass audiences don’t really care about quality. 03/08/2021 #17
🪥 Lessons From a Cleaning
: For no particular reason, I decided to spend a couple hours of my day cleaning my keyboard, inside and out. I actually found the process quite enlightening. 03/04/2021 #16
📚 Theodor Wasn’t Perfect
: Explaining the difference between proper historic contextualization and cancellation, Dr. Seuss style. 03/02/2021 #15
⌨️ Be A Digital Omnivore
: It’s easy to stick with one phone or one interface, but by trying out other operating systems, browsers, or even types of smartphones, you get a better understanding of your exact needs. 03/01/2021 #14
🎶 Big Red Annoyance
: How a recent Tedium piece added an incredibly awful annoyance to my life: The Big Red jingle. Please, something else fill my head. 02/25/2021 #13
💾 Comeback Story
: Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the lamented mobile operating system webOS expands into new markets in its modern-day home—on television sets the world over. 02/23/2021 #12
🐽 Resource Hog No More?
: Amid the latest flare-up of the Chrome RAM consumption debate, let’s wonder aloud if ARM processors could end this debate once and for all. (I think they can.) 02/22/2021 #11