by Ty Davison | Jun 7, 2022 | News & Commentary
Washington Post’s Dave Weigel suspended for retweeting sexist remark. The joke specifically: Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar or sexual. Thought it was moderately funny myself. That a reporter would be suspended for...
by Ty Davison | Oct 2, 2020 | Essays
[This essay was also crossposted to Facebook on October 2, 2020.] If your response to the news that President Trump has COVID-19 was “it’s a hoax” then this essay is directed to you. Given all the gaslighting and lying from the president, skepticism...
by Ty Davison | Aug 2, 2020 | News & Commentary
Trader Joe’s, responding to demands to change its packaging, says the product labels aren’t racist – CNN: More than 5,000 people have signed a petition calling on the grocery store chain to change what they call its racist branding names, using...
by Ty Davison | Aug 2, 2018 | News & Commentary
https://qz.com/1342757/everything-bad-about-facebook-is-bad-for-the-same-reason/ …Facebook didn’t intend for any of this to happen. It just wanted to connect people. But there is a thread running from Perkins’ death to religious violence in Myanmar...
by Ty Davison | Oct 15, 2017 | News & Commentary
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopiaI deleted the Facebook app from my iPhone and my iPad. Life improved. I had more time, since I wasn’t checking Facebook all the time. Now I look in on it maybe once a...
