Because I’m selling my first bike, I signed-up on Facebook with a temporary account1. I lost some familiar with the tool — which I don’t use for at least ten years — and had registered to several groups because I needed to spam for my Marketplace announcement.
At the beginning of the 2024, I decided to subscribe virtually to some services or people that I use or follow during the year. I’m done that with monthly donations, like Spotify: every month a different person, application, service, or podcast. I used this way to give back something that I received, that be worth much more of my two coins. It was a contribution, a form of thanksgiving. It’s a way to demonstrate my gratitude: I know that it’s not enough, but I tried to support many recipients as possible.
Nick Heer about tech billionaires at the king’s court:
There are two possibilities. The first is that these CEOs are all dummies with memory no more capacious than that of an earthworm. The second is that these people all recognize the transactional and mercurial nature of the incoming administration, and they have begun their ritualistic grovelling. Even though I do not think money and success is evidence of genius, I do not think these CEOs are so dumb they actually believe in the moral fortitude of these goons.
I recently put my first bike on sale. It is a useful bike for beginning riders, and has a 500 cc displacement. It’s too small for me, that have large build, but it’s straightforward to learn.
During last week, being away for a family trip, committed to walking and to visiting and to playing, I didn’t use my phone, didn’t check never the email, didn’t watch RSS feed, social things or podcasts. Absent on everything. Voluntary darkness on the news, on the tech update or any web content or curiosity stuff. I deleted any routine. And this liked to me.
Yesterday I was in train. I was headed to Milan. The passenger behind me was a banking and spoke a lot on the phone. Next to me, was settled a woman with two dogs that was snooping on social media. Both were making noise. Both were somehow marking their sound territory. I had my AirPods Pro with noise-cancelling.
Since Elon Musk started to participate in the Republican campaign for the Presidential — and overall, after the Trump winning and the initiation as external member of the next government — many Twitter/X residents were waking up and decided to left their account. Many of them signed up, almost exclusively, to Bluesky.
When I’m writing, I have the bad habit of repeating continuously “in my opinion”, “I think that”, “for me”, and other highlights to confirm that it are really my words. I do it unconsciously, kneeling to my thoughts and softening an opinion that I fear can appear disruptive.