All the good stuff still exists (and there is more of it, in fact). But it is no longer the mainstream. The popular discourse is always around what is happening on the major platforms, but there is constantly great creativity happening over at Neocities and MakerTube, just to name a couple platforms. Hell, even YouTube and TikTok have amazing stuff happening on them. It’s just not the top-viewed content.

One of the best things you can do is stop using algorithmic recommendations for a few weeks. Download the Unhook plugin for YouTube, etc. Then you actually choose the internet media you are exploring.

This is a CEO who shares opinions on many things he is truly uninformed on.

I recently switched from Linux Mint to Ubuntu Studio. Both are fantastic and intuitive. Ubuntu Studio just has more of the Linux audio configuration worked out by default.

Reading Connected Places and being reminded that thr Fediverse is truly one of the greatest technical-social innovations in recent history. And we get to be part of it :)

Yup, fucking captured it!

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I listened to the whole audiobook in a day - one of the best books I’ve purchased recently. As someone who has been very much into the techno-futurists over the last 15 years, I would suggest this book, along with Manu Saadia’s Trekonomics for a much needed reality-check.

Might not be exactly what you have in mind, but I have a separate browser that has set as Home the following state-owned or aligned news sources from around the world to check different perspectives on current headlines:

https://www.bbc.com/ - Britain

https://www.abc.net.au/news - Australia

https://english.news.cn/ - China

https://www.foxnews.com/ - US Right-wing

https://edition.cnn.com/ - US Left-wing (@GuyFawkes recommends MSNBC over CNN here)

https://www.rt.com/ - Russia

https://english.alarabiya.net/ - Saudi Arabia

https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097 - Germany

https://www.batimes.com.ar/ - Argentina

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/ - South Africa

https://ddnews.gov.in/en/ - India

https://www.cbc.ca/news - Canada

https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en - Brazil

https://www.straitstimes.com/global - Singapore

https://news.un.org/en/ - United Nations

https://www.sbs.com.au/news - Australia, but more multicultural perspective