The Dead Internet

Since I was seventeen, I’ve been a smoker. I should warn you, this whole post is about nicotine, smoking, and addiction, and if that’s something you don’t want to read about, click away. But, I smoked for a long time, even tried dip, early e-cigarettes, and nicotine gum. Eventually, vapes got enough ...

The man who thinks using Linux is like leaving the United States for Canada, and also refuses to allow Linux gamers to participate in his games (see: Fortnite), also thinks Steam (a platform where Fortnite isn’t listed) should do away with the “made with AI” labeling. Because, nothing says, “We don ...

After a lot of deliberating and deciding, since I’m not really capable of just throwing ten years of work in the trash and forgetting about it, and because I’ve had months of work I did in 2023 kind of just … offline, in Second Life: Neo Machina is back online. And I know what you’re thinking, “Isn ...

I’m at this impasse with my Second Life store, and I just can’t make a decision. If you’ve read my blog at all over the past year or more, even, you already know I’ve shut it down, and then opened it again, and then shut it down, and then opened it again. A lot of my indecision comes from this ...

In early October, I stepped down from my moderator position over at app.wafrn.net, which also followed me deleting my accounts and moving onward with my own instance/s. I detailed that this was something I felt necessary for multiple reasons, which includes the suspicious moderation response to a ...

Mozilla this, Mozilla that. The Mozilla corporation hates you. It hates its userbase. Mozilla desperately wants you to stop using the Firefox browser. It seems every single day they’re coming up with some new, egregious way to shove some “AI” feature into the web browser, further peeling back the ...

Today I discovered something new about Linux, or maybe just Pop!_OS itself, since that’s nearly the only distro I’ve used, besides Debian (on a repurposed Dell). And, let me tell you, this wouldn’t be even half the problem it became for an hour while I was munching on my lunch, if games weren’t so ...

Over the course of the past ten years, and … I really can’t believe I’m saying “ten years.” Has it been that long? But, over the years, I’ve been in a lot of different online spaces. I’ve been deep in the discourse. From Tumblr, to Reddit, to Twitter, and back again. But, there’s something that’s ...

That is for sure a kind of corn I have never seen before haha pretty cool roots

@castanea_jo@ni.hil.ist , by way of the big anarchist server and the now long defunct mastodon.technology (IIRC). I jumped on in 2014/2016 somewhere in there but wasn't very active there til just before covid hit


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