Quick update: in case you missed it, a couple weeks ago I posted this open letter on Medium. Since that time I have doubled down on the particular uniqueness of this situation. I’ve spend a LOT of time thinking (and even working, somewhat, inside the system) about issues related to…

Here’s an open letter to Amazon that I just sent. Of course, I have to make the dumbest typo ever. Whatevs! Dear Amazon Corporate- Thank you for taking the time to read this message. I apologize if the email addresses I am using aren’t correct. However, I wanted to make…

TL;DR: What happens if a piece of midterm election disinformation that is successful in going viral is traced back to a video by a TikTok account that was quietly deleted? Will anyone take note, or will it slip by unnoticed? Greetings everyone! In the past few weeks I managed to…

I’m awfully tired, but I wanted to make sure I put this one up as soon as I saw it. I’ll likely return to this — and i’ll possibly deleted this post with a more understandable explanation later. Here goes. TL;DR: A quick note about some shenanigans I discovered today…

TL;DR: The Google News redesign has resulted in Google News search results being cluttered with spam ‘Source’ labels. Keywords such as ‘Canada’ and “Coronavirus’ have been taken over by spammers — the result is that end users are often just one click away from massive amounts of spam content. Some…

Greetings! Hope all is well out in the world with my six readers. I just returned from a delightful trip to Berlin, where I slept in a pleasant garden cabin near the outskirts of the now-closed Tegel Airport. …

I first noticed this back in late April. I took some screenshots, saved some URLs, and then promptly forgot about it. …

Dear Amazon Corporate- Thank you for taking the time to read this email. I apologize if the email addresses above aren’t the appropriate avenue to contact you all in regards to the issue I am about to discuss. …

The Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine brought with it a slew of new catch-phrases, hashtags, memes, Tiktoks — all purposely designed to spread across social media and online communities. Symbols such as “Z” and “V” were rolled out with the deliberate care of a viral marketing campaign, introduced on the same…