Wednesday, Sept 10th, 2025
- Last week I may have mentioned that my endo put me on Monjauro. Apparently when it is combined with Jardience, I have not had to take insulin for a week. That’s outstanding. I have not yet broken into dance, I’ll keep you informed. #
- I’m not a geezer by any stretch, but I have lived long enough to see walled gardens like CompuServe give way to the open web, only to see us head backwards towards something like Meta, or other social media. It’s not the same kind of walled off product like CS, but I know too many older folks that call Facebook ‘The Internet’. If it had just stayed there, it might have been fine, but the collecting of our information, and the creation and weaponization of the algorithm is malevolent.
I’m at a stage where I really believe staying on social media makes us (me) complicit in something I think is partly responsible for, well, all this fuckery. With social media, I no longer have a lot of control over what is shown to me. I can choose what I consume with an RSS feed reader. I can subscribe to a blogger, or a news site, and I get what I asked for. Will I see ads? Sure. But the RSS doesn’t extrapolate based on my viewing habits and decide I’m not seeing enough right-wing reactionary bullshit. If I do, I can unsubscribe and move on. No big whoop, as Linda Richman would say.
The prevailing wisdom is to share your content on social media, but I won’t actively do that. I’m not creating content to ‘be’ anything anymore, I just want to have fun at this point, and share what I know, and what I learn on the way. I’ll just do it here on my corner of the world. I have an RSS Feed here, find yourself a feed reader and subscribe. #
