Notes From The Cave

Last year Heather Cox Richardson wrote about what the current troubles in the United States are really all about. It’s worth reading again.

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I am using the Arabica theme for my blog design and while I like the font face I think it is too light and thus hard to read, so I need to figure out how to change to change the text font.

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Mike Caulfield provides good food for thought about over generalizing misinformation:

Instead of seeing versions of hearsay (non-institutional systems of news and analysis) as damaging institutional systems, we could choose to see the hearsay system itself as the thing under attack. That is, in the age of social media, a valuable system of non-institutional knowledge is increasingly gameable and gamed, rendered useless by a variety of threats and incentives that are polluting not the institutional space, but the hearsay space.

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Three tools that Power uses to retain power: assimilation, redirection, and religion.

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One of the things that I find really frustrating is following a link from an item in my RSS feed aggregator that is to an article behind a paywall.

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A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems suggests America’s problems are due to manufactured scarcity. I agree, but unfortunately scarcity is what makes some Americans very rich, and America is all about making a scarce group of people very rich.

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The [first public beta of micro.blog](www.manton.org/2022/01/1… has been released, which is good progress for my blogging platform.

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Last year Google completed the acquisition of Fitbit and we still have not seen a Fitbit running Wear OS.

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My reaction to the news that Jon Lester is retiring is that I wish he could have done so as a Cub. Seeing him in a Cardinal uniform last year was just wrong.

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Logitech Signature M650 first impressions: One mouse for all people Nice to see Logitech make a mouse for left handed people, who are usually forced to live in a right handed world.

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