Forty-one states and the District of Columbia have sued Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, accusing it of using features that hook children to its platforms even as it claims its sites are safe for young people. According to Phil Weiser, Colorado’s attorney general, “Just like Big Tobacco
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The Cracked Crystal Ball II: Meta’s Temper Tantrum Is Partisan Politicking
So, if you use Facebook and reside in Canada, by now you’ve noticed that anything resembling news articles are being blocked. At first, you might look at it and say “oh, that’s just Meta having a temper tantrum over Bill C-18”. You wouldn’t be wrong. It is a corporate
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Hiatus
Gone trippin’. Back to this space on my return.
Continue readingwmtc: something strange going on with this blog: a sad update
I was so excited. I thought all the thousands of lost comments might be coming back. Now I am let down all over again. A few weeks ago, I noted that very old comments — from 2005 and 2006 — have been appearing in the spam queue of this blog.
Continue readingwmtc: something strange (but good) is going on with this blog
In early 2020, I lost a wmtc post that was important to me and had a lot of comments. Allan and I were able to re-post the post itself, but in the process, a huge chunk of the blog disappeared. Coincidentally, I had recently done a back-up using Blogger’s export/import
Continue readingwmtc: a note about subscribing to wmtc by email
This is an note for wmtc readers subscribe to the blog by email. Zoho, the service I am now using to handle the wmtc mailing list, allows three “campaigns” (sends) per month on their free level. This will sometimes be enough for one email per post, but sometimes it will
Continue readingwmtc: new email list manager: switching from mailchimp to zoho
Mailchimp recently announced that it is changing its free plan, reducing the number of contacts and sends that can be managed for free. Wmtc will no longer qualify for the free level. This was disappointing, as it required research to figure out next steps. There are many email services, but
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Migration in progress
After using Twitter as my main political social media outlet for years, I’ve joined the many in the process of shifting to Mastodon. You’ll find a link to my account in the right sidebar – and hopefully the new year will see the continued development of communities which better serve
Continue readingwmtc: housekeeping complete
* The best-of page has been updated to 2021. * The links on that page are working again. * Internal links on multi-part posts are also working again — i.e. on the second part of a post links to the first, the third part links to the first and second, and so
Continue readingwmtc: housekeeping in progress: apologies for possibly sending old posts
For a very long time, old links on this blog have not worked. This has always bothered me. It’s bad enough that I lost many thousands of comments (2006 through 2019). I live in hope that this may change, if Blogger fixes the import/export issue, but as time goes by,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Light blogging ahead
Don’t expect much from this space for the next week-plus. Enjoy your summer in the meantime!
Continue readingwmtc: using mailchimp for subscribe-by-email is no longer working
If you subscribed to this blog through the widget on the sidebar, that service is no longer working. Mailchimp’s free option has a cap on sends — not only how many email addresses you can send at a time (which I knew) but how many you can send, cumulatively (which
Continue readingwmtc: how i resolved the feedburner (subscribe by email) issue: mailchimp
A while back, Blogger announced that it will no longer support the subscribe-by-email widget. This means readers who receive blog updates by email will no longer receive them. I posted about this, looking for input from other bloggers about how they are handling this. I must have been unclear, because
Continue readingwmtc: subscribe-by-email is going away. bloggers, what are you going to use instead?
Blogger will soon stop supporting the function that allows readers to subscribe to blogs via email. This is occurring because Google is killing Feedburner. Like the deceased Google Reader, Feedburner is very popular, used by millions, but Google has not been updating it, and is now officially killing it. There
Continue readingwmtc: the post of orphaned notes
Like many writers, especially those of us who grew up before the digital age, I keep a notebook. I use it to capture ideas, capture thoughts about I’m reading, take notes on experiences, and take notes on various activist or community meetings I attend. I’ve learned that I have to
Continue readingwmtc: it’s national read a book day: let’s play the page 56 game
In honour of National Read A Book Day, grab the book you are currently reading or the last book you read. Open to page 56, and find the sixth sentence on the page. Type the line in comments, plus the title and author of the book. I’ll start: —
Continue readingwmtc: blogger’s backup and restore (export and import) functions do not work properly
Allan and I have spent countless hours this week trying to backup Joy of Sox and to restore posts and comments to wmtc. I think we are making progress, but I don’t know what the final outcome will be. Which is ridiculous. This process shouldn’t be this difficult and the outcome
Continue readingwmtc: why this blog looks strange right now
A post was accidentally deleted — an essay that took a while to write. Happily, I had recently backed up the whole blog. And thank goodness, as it had been a long while since the last backup. In order to restore the missing post, Allan imported the backup copy… and
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Light blogging ahead
Expect this space to go quiet for the next week-plus. For those not following on Twitter, I’ll still be somewhat active at @juristblog.
Continue readingwmtc: best of wmtc, 2018 edition
The “wmtc’s greatest hits” page is now updated to include 2018. Somehow Allan continues to find highlights.
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