33+ year columnist. Pioneering Online Creator: Since 1994. See header at https://xitter.gq/t.co/7QRhIOrNUV for “all” of my social links.
Online, Baby! No fixed address
Joined December 2007
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I don't trust @OneTrust: Their client Endicia/Stamps.com uses them. I told them to remove my private info. All went fine until the "verify your email" step. Clicked it within seconds, but OT says "link expired." To complain, I have to create an account at OT?! Nope!
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I'll never give @gofundme again: they WILL NOT STOP sending me emails. "Send MORE money to X!" No, I sent what I intended: I'm done. "Give to THIS campaign!" Nope. Even after MANY unsubs. Now marking as spam in gmail. Their greed knows no bounds.
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I've been using @gmail since it was invite only. I'm about to leave it, though: Can't turn off "Help me write"?! Intrusive, irritating, and interrupts my work. AI is nice, WHEN we decide to use it. FORCING it on us makes my middle finger very stiff.
After asking Gemini itself (which shows how "smart" IT is!), after searching on Google, and after asking ChatGPT, I finally thought of going into googSupport and searching there. Paydirt: support.google.com/mail/answ…
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In September told Canada, don't spend >C$756 M to buy Assault Weapons & destroy them, they should instead pay a stipend for gun owners to take guns to military bases to ship to Ukraine. THEY’RE DOING IT! So... PAY UP, CANADA! go.thisistrue.com/canguns/
Question for @IKEAUK: After getting "home" from my first ever store experience (in Belfast), I found I was charged for 2 of an item I bought. Only had 1, only wanted 1. How do I get a refund or credit without taking a £12 taxi in and another £12 back?
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Wells Fargo @WellsFargo sent a survey now that I've paid off my mortgage early, and wanted to know why I said I would not use them again in the future. I said:
I like that Wells doesn't sell its mortgages to other companies. A definite plus. 1/3
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Oh @LinkedIn [position in job listing]: "End date can't be in the future." You know, because NO ONE ever plans their retirement. No one. Ever. 🙄 Obliviocy!
(P.S.: No, not retiring from This is True!)
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I absolutely HATE the way @Microsoft interrupts my work to pitch me "Xbox Game Pass Ultimate". This is a WORK computer, you dolts, and I will never, EVER be installing stupid games on it. If I have spare time, I'm not going to use it playing games on my computer.
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I think I have to quit using @startpage -- when I type in "https://domain.ext" I expect to GO TO that domain, NOT freaking SEARCH for it. It's especially doing that with the ever-more-popular .co domains. Get OUT of the way! 🙄
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Thanks for the follow, @cilerdemiralp. If you'd like to interview one of the oldest online newsletter publishers ever, pop me an email.
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My twitter account had my Mastodon link in the bio for weeks, but when I made a tweak to my bio it wouldn't save it due to the "malware" link. Uh huh. (Really: malware?!)
And now Musk is banning reporters. THAT's his "unfettered free speech"?! My days here are clearly numbered.
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You can find "all" of my social links in the header at thisistrue.com -- but I think I'm going to delete the one to here, since there's no use in getting new followers here.
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I “interviewed” #ChatGPT about something it can’t do: thinking!
The exercise was fascinating, and then I answer the obvious question: is this AI? In my blog! go.thisistrue.com/thinking
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Sunday Reading - No doubt this “Christmas story” is going around (and around and around) again this year. Here’s what really happened. go.thisistrue.com/falsified
This reader is talking about the Honorary Unsubsrcibe this week.
Didn’t catch it? It’s definitely worth 5 minutes!
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This Week’s Honorary Unsubscribe is an absolutely amazing story, so it takes a whole 5 minutes to read. It’s worth your time: Hiroshi Miyamura, American, pictured here with President Eisenhower. owowi.com/jl owowi.com/jl
Raspberry Pi computers have been THE tiny platform for 1000s of microapplications for a decade. “It’s hard to see how they can recover the trust they seem to have almost willfully dismantled today.” ...by being completely tone deaf to their own community.
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Dumbass of the W... uh, I mean, STORY of the Week from This is True’s 1486th issue. Subscribe by email (basic subscriptions FREE since 1994) at the website.
Awww, man! Kirstie Alley died. Cancer. You know the role I liked her best in? Lt. Savvik in Star Trek II. bit.ly/3F5sGkH