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I originally posted this on heyheyrenee April 15, 2018 I was aching for the Syrians before. Now, I’m feeling their pain. I read a piece in 2012. It made total sense to me. The cliff note is that the crisis in Syria roots to climate change. 5 years of
Counterculture
From heyheyrenee, published 11-2-14 Midnight Express is one of my favorite movies. The other day I was thinking how out of the norm it is now, to have free thoughts that are “outside the box” (whatever that means). I was thinking nowadays how “odd” it is to be different, to
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I wrote this on heyheyrenee on November 2, 2014: They say movies are where art depicts life — or something like that. It’s true. Right now, I’m thinking about a favorite movie, “Network“. I wonder when the millions of people who lost out on the American dream, who are
Divestiture
This was originally posted on heyheyrenee on October 22nd, 2015. I've modified it slightly, to bring in the importance of two critical figures in my life and Internet history - President Jimmy Carter, and Judge Harold Greene. Dennis Ritchie along with Brian Kernighan wrote a book that changed
Politics
I wrote this on heyheyrenee on Nov 15, 2017. I traveled from Eagle to Chicago to see history when Obama was elected in 2008. I was there in Grant Park when he came out and gave his speech. It was great to be there. What an experience. I remember leaving,
Bad Signs
Howdy, I first started writing these posts on heyheyrenee.com in 2017, when I noticed people getting the peace sign wrong - using the Mercedes logo. For me, this foretold a bad sign. Today, Cory Doctorow calls it enshittification. The June 30 2019 was the biggest offender – until today. Today
Tech
Last week I was introduced to a new word - enshittification. It's one word that defines what I wrote about for years on heyheyrenee.com, pieces such as this one. Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don’t Fire Us?paulie Put simply, enshittification means everything is going to shit.
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I wrote this in 2013 on heyheyrenee. I wouldn't change a word. Here's a great piece by Kevin Drum on Mother Jones on what the not too distant future will look like, technology wise. It's about what technology will do, the jobs that'
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Howdy, I watched "Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga" on Netflix last night. I thought it was entertaining and accurate. I started paying attention to the $GME story about a year after I got into crypto. I wrote a blog post about it on heyheyrenee - Pay attention
Social Media Is A Social Disease
Here's a post I wrote in 2020. I'm posting again here, in it's entirety. #### The beginning of the end was early on in dotcom, when newspapers sucked up to the search and ad engines. Newspapers should have put up paywalls. But instead they listened
Tech
I wrote this March 2012, back wen it wasn't popular to side with Microsoft. Today, Microsoft dominates the server space and gaming. Their cloud platform is outstanding. Blazor is the primo framework to use for building interactive client-side web UI apps. C# developers are everywhere. They're
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From March 2012 on heyheyrenee. We were on the waiting list for the 1st Nest thermostats. I knew they were going to make a dent, they did. #### The guys who designed the iPod designed a thermostat. That's right, a thermostat. We have 5, they're the best.