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See also Email Privacy — A Plain-Language Guide: The Problem, the Promises, and What You Actually Get This is the second part of a plain-language guide to digital privacy. Part One covered email specifically — the problems, the promises, and what services like Proton Mail actually deliver. This part broadens the lens: if email has […]
Article was compiled by Perplexity. The Problem: Your Inbox Is Not a Private Letter Most people think of email like a sealed envelope — private, between sender and recipient, opened only when it arrives. The reality is more like a postcard that passes through dozens of post offices. Everyone who handles it can read it, […]
In October 2019, Facebook ran automated content moderation sweeps that removed thousands of community pages globally — and non-English-language communities got hit hardest. Researchers have since confirmed this in peer-reviewed studies: Facebook's 2019 classifiers were structurally unequal, with documented overtriage of Arabic, Amharic, and other non-Western language communities (Technology Science, 2025; Modern Languages Open, 2023). Pages across Europe and South […]
Nobody gets excited about open standards. They have names like “W3C Recommendation” and “RFC 7033.” They’re made by committees. They take years to finalize. And they’re the most powerful tools we have. The Magic Trick You Already Use Every Day Your phone can call any other phone in the world. Doesn’t matter if it’s an […]
This is based on ChatGPT DeepResearch (2025-08-04) August 2025 – WordPress Plugin & Theme Development with Copilot GitHub Copilot’s latest agentic features can transform your WordPress development workflow. By combining Copilot’s autonomous Agent Mode and interactive Chat Mode across VS Code and GitHub, developers can offload routine tasks, generate code, and even have Copilot propose […]
The Vision (2025+) Facebook is no longer the only place to learn who’s dancing where tonight. With the open web (not the closed ad-owned social platforms) you can publish once and have your milongas appear: Below is an updated guide that shows the full journey from publisher ? aggregator ? regional calendar ? dancer. 1 […]
In the last few months, I have been working with different AI tools, from ChatGPT, to Claude, Copilot and Perplexity. Each has their own advantages, but they also have enough disadvantages — and they are all subscription-based, and you don’t really want to subscribe to them all at the same time. Of course, there’s also […]
The previous entry “The experience of flow in dance” was written by AI. How? It uses an algorithm that helps the AI bootstrap the writing process by asking itself questions, and then using these questions for web research, outlining, and writing. Quite fascinating. Application Link: storm · Streamlit (stanford.edu) Here is a screenshot of the […]
Previously (Preventing memory loss for tango blogs) I shared how I wanted to get old tango blogs to be archived on archive.org so we don’t lose the stories and ideas from our collective memory. A reader commented that she also has one of the blogs on my list, and would like some individual posts be […]
Photographer copyright, platform licenses, model releases and GDPR at tango events — a plain-language summary of what I learned, with a standing invitation for lawyers to correct me.