Harking back to simpler times

 It has been MANY YEARS since I have posted a blog post on Blogger/Blogspot. Part of me wants to move away from the Google ecosystem (it being one of the companies chiefly responsible for the enshittification (see below) of the modern internet, but most of the alternatives seem a bit... well, inaccessible. 

Cory Doctorow's take on it is that things have got worse on the internet, and much has to do with the growth of gargantuan tech monopolies who have decided to screw both the public and businesses, and they're lawyered to the hilt, too big to fail and too big to jail. You can buy the book and support independent booksellers at the same time, rather than That Gargantuan Company, and help the disenshittification effort.

It does seem that the world is a bit crazy at the moment - is there hope? Yes there is, and you can see it in the real, ordinary people you meet every day.

So go out there, say hi to your neighbour, try to do some good in the world. The enshittocene is not permanent.

I gave up on Twitter/X a while ago for reasons that should be pretty obvious - the company and platform don't align with my values, even cutting them the maximum slack I can tolerate, so you'll not find me there. Instead, pop over to Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/shaneir.bsky.social 

I'm not going to promise a load of content on here, but I have missed writing the occasional blog, and we'll see where the muses take me in 2026.

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