Elizabeth Tai

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  • The puritanical pursuit of platform purity

    Threads is out. And the natives are restless. 🍿 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.

  • Google: All your content are belong to us

    In a move that surprised absolutely nobody, Google has changed its privacy policy to declare that they will scrape up anything you post online to train their AI tools. How should writers and artists protect their content from now on?

  • How I am blogging the IndieWeb way

    Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Medium, Substack … if you’re building your content home on any of these, it’s time to wake up to the cold hard reality that they could all disappear on you one day. As a writer, embracing Indieweb principles could save your life’s work from disappearing along with these platforms. Here’s how I…

  • POSSE and PESOS: Better ways to publish content

    When I wrote this today, #TwitterDown was trending on Mastodon. Here’s another lesson why using platforms like Twitter and Substack as your content home is a bad idea. Publish your content the POSSE/PESOS way and you avoid much of the dangers of a social media site melting down.

  • That Man

    The Outerworlds formed the Federation because they had to. At least, that’s the “official” story. A Distant Stars tale. This story is exclusive for blog subscribers, so do subscribe to the blog to read the story :) 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.

  • A Dream of Splendor – review

    Finally, a Chinese drama that is not just beautiful to look at, but is well acted, authentic, and celebrates womanly ideals and the female gaze.

  • Distant Stars — story index

    Distant Stars is a composite novel set in the distant future where humanity has fled to another part of the galaxy. But old habits die hard. Humanity is still at each other’s throats and have long forgotten why they need to work together. A roadmap for readers.

  • How I’m healing from algorithms

    The slow awakening that I no longer have to create around an algorithm’s demands. 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.

  • The point of my words

    People are dying. The world is in chaos. Do our words matter? 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.

  • How I journal with Obsidian

    I recently made a video about daily notes, but since then, I’ve already made improvements to my template. I’ve incorporated bullet journal principles into it, which has made the process more enjoyable and has encouraged me to journal more frequently.