BlogFlockEscape the Algorithm is a newsletter about taking control of our attention and finding a more human side of the internet. After you subscribe, you can make me feel supported by performing a tiny act of codependence: mail me a gift or a postcard, take me out for…Greetings everyone. Hope you all are hanging in there as everything continues to catch fire/freeze over. There’s been little meaningful fallout since the federal agents’ killing of Alex Pretti, other than the apparent dismissal of ICE figurehead Greg Bovino; operations are still continuing apace, Minneapolis is still…
Th execution of Alex Pretti has made one thing clear, if it was not already, and that is that the lines have been drawn.
When ICE killed Rene Good, there was horror of a boundary transgressed. ICE was willing to shoot a white woman in the face, in broad daylight,…
It’s hard to be shocked by anything Elon Musk does this days, and even less by how easily he’s able to get away with all he does. But even with that said, the saga of the past month has been something to behold.
At the end of December, X rolled…
As Donald Trump issued his latest round of threats to seize Greenland, he illustrated his intent with, what else, some AI slop.
Trump posted the above image on Truth Social, along with another one depicting some kind of a strategy meeting in the Oval…
The recent US invasion of Venezuela and the saber-rattling toward many other countries, including Greenland and Denmark, have given new energy to concern about dependence on the United States and how governments should react. Given that I am Canadian, I’ve been thinking a lot about what this means for my…
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I’ll be honest, I’ve been struggling with how to get the newsletter going again in this already terrible new year. The president of Venezuela is sitting in a Brooklyn jail. The FBI raided the home of a Washington Post journalist. And of course Donald Trump has…
Last summer I had an admission to make: I’d only read eight books so far in the year! I was not proud of it. But I wanted to get a better total by the end of the year. While I didn’t hit my usual goal of 52 books a year,…
Let’s be honest with ourselves: if a broadcaster or newspaper had started publishing thousands of non-consensual, sexually explicit images of women or — even worse — of children, politicians and regulators would be out for blood. It would be a front-page, ongoing scandal and the organization responsible would be…
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