Did you know that E-Mail is for Old People?
Recent Bluessky Posts- AI? August 30, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Look forward to similar article, almost word-for-word, substituting "Trump" for "Putin" and "Iran" for "Ukraine". www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/w... August 30, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Microsoft's summary of changes to its consumer services agreement refers repeatedly to "verbiage" as in "we added verbiage". Wonder why they couldn't say "wording"? Some weird TM fear relating to MS Word? Verbiage has negative connotations, why not "language"? www.microsoft.com/en-us/servic... August 30, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Not only are we cutting taxes on the 1%, we're not chasing big tax cheats: "the purposeful reduction in the enforcement of the tax code for the wealthy is both a symptom as a well as a cause of America’s rising oligarchy." - Krugman paulkrugman.substack.com/p/oligarchy-... August 30, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Ukraine captured "men from Somalia, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Armenia and Uzbekistan ... Central Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America. ... Chinese ...North Korean". Russians won't exchange them to ensure they don't go home & discourage others. shaunpinner.substack.com/p/one-in-thr... August 30, 2026 Michael Froomkin
What happens when MySpace declares bankruptcy and ceases to exist? Or, more likely, what happens when MySpace is purchased by a CIA front company that has bad intentions?
I hate stupid people like this. Students tell them that they don’t like to use the school’s e-mail system because it’s too cumbersome, duplicates the e-mail accounts they already have and they get too much spam from the college. Rather than addressing any of these problems they decide the answer is to put something “lively” on MySpace since nearly a quarter of the students use it and start sending mass IMs saying things like, “OMG! ICE CREAM SOCIAL L8R. TTFN.” What a shock that Mixum thinks they need to recognise school spirit.