As 2024 finishes its dismal performance, I don’t have any special message for this festive season other than to enjoy your holidaze and remember those…
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Publishing dark matter since 2018
As 2024 finishes its dismal performance, I don’t have any special message for this festive season other than to enjoy your holidaze and remember those…
Leave a CommentSay you want to start a second career as a teacher. You might make a little money teaching adult education courses. You might even work…
Leave a CommentThis month, more about my relationship with what I call digitalia, the assortment of devices and software and networks that have infiltrated my and your…
Leave a CommentWe all know that Google, Meta, and other social media harvest and monetize every click we make on their sites. Google is particularly worrisome because…
Leave a CommentThis month’s offering is on the longish side, so my blurb will be brief: I was able to lay my hands on printed copies of…
Leave a Comment[Nothing to say about Gaza this time around, to your relief. But it breaks my heart to see it.] First my daughter, then my wife,…
Leave a CommentLet’s talk about what’s behind rising prices. But first, a word from our sponsor: The Small Print Most of you have been receiving these newsletters…
Leave a CommentDear Readers, This month, no august pronouncements, just some random thoughts. Well, just one diatribe: Tech companies want to make themselves indispensable for anyone who…
Leave a CommentThis is a story about why technological innovation should worry us as our lives inexorably shift online, if only because innovation begets obsolescence. Fourteen years…
Leave a CommentToday would have been my mother’s 113th birthday. Even at 80, when this picture was taken in her Connecticut living room, Sophie Dutton was a…
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