Re: [Silk] Intentionally restricting your exposure

2024-05-06 Thread José María Mateos via Silklist
On Sun, May 05, 2024 at 08:03:16PM -0700, Yeddanapudi Radhika via Silklist wrote: I also limit my exposure to political commentary these days to maintain a sense of hope and direction. I will raise my voice but will choose to be silent when I have nothing original to add. When I was living

Re: [Silk] Our own Cory Doctorow features in this story

2024-04-22 Thread José María Mateos via Silklist
On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 05:19:54AM +, Venkat Mangudi - Silk via Silklist wrote: How do you guys protect yourself from getting scammed? Has anyone else on our list been scammed? I’d love to hear about it. I haven't had serious attempts, but everybody's threshold is different. In my case,

Re: [Silk] Back to actual *social* media

2023-01-08 Thread José María Mateos via Silklist
On Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 04:21:11PM +, Suresh Ramasubramanian via Silklist wrote: I’m getting déjà vu to several such discussions from the 2000s. And mastodon as well is one of those things that takes me way back to when we were all young and naive I left Twitter in 2016 after having

[Silk] Re: Too many needles. How do you cope?

2022-07-08 Thread José María Mateos via Silklist
On Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 02:14:23PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist wrote: "Too many needles" is a brilliantly evocative phrase that alludes to how one's TBR pile keeps monotonically increasing. How do you cope? https://www.oliverburkeman.com/so/60NWXZixI#/main I keep articles open in a

[Silk] Re: how many batteries do you charge daily?

2022-06-16 Thread José María Mateos via Silklist
On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 10:02:22AM +0200, Tomasz Rola via Silklist wrote: Ugh. Judging from other people's answers, I am quite an ascetic: - ebook reader, about once per month - old dumbphone, about once per week - old smartphone, about once per week - it really does nothing, but I have