River's Blog

August 8, 2026 The internet nowadays has become saturated in influencers.

July 19, 2026 Regardless of what the domain of knowledge we're talking about, there's a common tendency for people to forget what it was like to be a non-expert.

July 18, 2026 There are a lot of things in this world worth fighting for.

July 17, 2026 We live in a pretty scary part of history right now.

July 16, 2026 So, you've been hearing more and more lately about a free and better alternative to commercial social media, called "the Open Social Web", "the Social Web" or sometimes just "the Fediverse".

June 23, 2026 I think it's become clear to a lot of people that the internet is in a state of decay.

June 18, 2026 I've been thinking a lot about Big Tech and the various ways people have proposed fighting back.

June 7, 2026 I've been looking into and learning a lot about Reinforcement Learning lately — which is a method of Machine Learning which doesn't rely on the copying of original human work.

March 23, 2026 Note: This post ended up being a lot more of a speculative exploration of ideas, rather than being a concrete declaration of opinions, so do keep that in mind while reading.

February 01, 2026 Last week, I published a blog post titled The Internet Doesn't Suck: Blame Big Tech, Not The Internet.

January 23, 2026 I think about social media a lot.

December 23, 2025 Anybody who's even slightly involved in tech-related activism will know that there is just simply a lot of jargon and technical details involved in the issues.

December 08, 2025 Well, it's been a minute since I've made a post.

September 24, 2025 I just finished reading The Caves of Steel (1953) by Isaac Asimov.

September 17, 2025 Happy Constitution Day to everyone living in the United States!

July 13, 2025 The Free and Open Web The internet is a truly incredible thing.

July 16, 2025 Email is magic A good email client is like magic.

July 27, 2025 Lots of people right now feel inundated by information.

August 10, 2025 I made an earlier post where I tried my best to inspire folks to use simple tech solutions in strategically useful ways in order to get large gains out of the tech they already have.