Calling Lake Ontario "Lake America" is stupid for the obvious reasons, yes, but also for historical ones.

Instagram is a hostage situation. It has photos and videos from the people in your life, but it will only show them to you occasionally—most of the time you get algorithmically-chosen slop. This means you can scroll for hours on this so-called social network and learn very little about the people you care about. Maybe...

What I learned from the most depressing conversation of my life.

Stop doom scrolling and start creeping on the location of every boat on earth.

​​It’s not click bait: I left Mastodon last month. But it’s also kind of clickbait, because you can still follow me there. Is that confusing? A friend of mine, also a tech journalist, recently told me it is, so I thought I’d try to explain. One of the nice things about Mastodon, and social networks...

Don't passively consume—take control over what you see.

A lot of people ask me how to get rid of the AI suggestion box at the top of Google's search results. And I personally have my own beef with the feature, even while understanding it can occasionally be useful. There's a lot of bad advice for removing the feature out there. Some people recommend...

On the joy of tinkering and figuring things out.

Science shows rest makes you more productive (but that's not why you should rest).

USA Today may pull their articles from search results to avoid feeding the AI machine. Other publications could follow.

A bad game from 1993 taught me that humanity isn't necessarily doomed.

A bad game from 1993 taught me that humanity isn't necessarily doomed.

I call it WisprFree and you can download it if you want (you shouldn't)

Don't want to "Get the app to keep using Reddit"? Me neither.

Quickly find out which games are and aren't being broadcast.

I'm tired of posting on so many different social networks, so I built my own. All it took was a WordPress website, two plugins, and a lot of fiddling. But what does this mean? To get an idea you can browse JustinPot.com. The main feed is now a combination of my longform articles and shorter...