A letter from January 12th, 2021

Dear FutureMe, Today, the online game I play, myminicity.com was affected by the great Adobe Flash Block of 2021. The website still works; I just can no longer see my score. I'm going to try Lightspark an open source Flash Player alternative. Back around December 31, I took Facebook out of my list of web sites I visit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhSX7IzHkrE https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/01/changes-in-whatsapps-privacy-policy.html On the one hand, I haven't been bothered with current news, which apparently there is a lot of. On that same hand, none of this news (protest at Congress) (https://babylonbee.com/news/antifa-accuses-trump-supporters-of-cultural-appropriation) (https://babylonbee.com/news/liberals-tell-everyone-to-calm-down-about-the-siege-since-the-capitol-has-insurance) actually applies to me, so this is a good thing. On the other hand, the whole point of Facebook is to let me tell people (who have opted in) to pay attention to me. I miss having a audience*. Of course, years ago, Sam The Butcher liked to say "I want my posts to be worth the click" and that is an attitude I agree with and perform under. This last year (or is it two?), I've mostly stayed away from politics on my Facebook posts, and instead went for funny. But there has been less and less stuff for me to post / say. There just isn't really much for me to relay that is worth the click. * I recently listened to a YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8wBjH8aXw4) where Jordan Peterson and Matthew McConaughey talked, and the point was made that we talk to ourselves when we talk (internal monologue at least), so it's not that I have an audience, but that _I like the idea_ that I have an audience.