Gordon's Notes

Geeks know the web has been dying for over a decade. Google was one on the killers, which is ironic since now the near-dead web is a problem...

I am told Oligarch Musk did something that made blocking less effective on X.  I don't care about what he did, but I think our would-be ...

What? You've never heard of Ed Lotterman, the Minnesota economist  whose web site was last current around 2020 ? At one time he was an a...

It's hard to imagine how very simple much of our technology environment was in the 1980s. Much of what we interacted with was still unde...

1. I was right about polling being worthless 2. At least Biden was spared humiliation  3. Americans chose oligarchy willingly.  4. Our feebl...

I'm putting this down as a marker for me to look back to in a few years. When autonomous vehicles are able to operate in Minnesota winte...

In advance of Nov 5 2024, some thoughts on  Muskism. Because I can't resist this kind of thing. Musk and his fellow tech oligarchs more ...

I have a dark past. I asked questions. In class. Lots of questions. Too many questions. I hear things, I get ideas, I notice gaps, I ask que...

In the years following the Great Recession, from 2010 to 2013, many web services went offline . In retrospect that was the end of the Berner...

These days my social media experience is largely Mastodon. There's something to be said about a social network that's so irreparably...

This morning on my Mastodon : It’s possible that we have built an economical and technical environment that is too complex and treacherous f...

TLDR; If you are a US citizen by naturalization or adoption you should check (call SSA and wait on phone for 1-2 hours) that your SSN is cla...

One of the fun things that happens to Americans as we become redundant to life's requirements is signing up for Medicare. There's a ...

Twenty years go when I wrote a post title like this one I was pretty sure at least one person who needed help would find through Google and ...

Gabapentin  was developed as a focal seizure medication and has been found to be effective for neuropathic pain syndromes in diabetic neurop...