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Michael Crider

@michaelcrider.bsky.social
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News, reviews, and short-form videos for PCWorld. Formerly Android Police, Review Geek, How-To Geek, Digital Trends. Opinions are my own. I have a personal website, almost never updated: thegumshoe.com I write fiction: amazon.com/author/crider

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 6h
Today we’re launching Opt Out October, our guide for opting out of certain features and finding alternatives to products made by big tech companies. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Happy Opt Out October! Let’s Find Real Alternatives to the Tech Giants
Over the years, the major tech companies have found all sorts of ways to embed themselves into our lives. We often use their software, their AI tools, their social media, and their operating systems
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 8h
journalism in your imagination: breaking huge scoops, changing the world journalism in reality: fighting with the CMS
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Mark Hachman @markhachman.bsky.social · 10h
Microsoft has several "energy recommendations" to reduce power and maximize battery life within Windows. You can turn them on with one click... so I did some testing. I was shocked at how well they worked! www.pcworld.com/article/3245...
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I doubled my laptop's battery life in a single click. Here's how
Microsoft Windows makes available ten "energy recommendations" that extend your laptop's battery life by hours -- and they can all be launched with just a single click.
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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Did an extremely fun commission for @rachelsacksmph.bsky.social and @michaellehrer.bsky.social!
Chief O'Brien in his Niners baseball uniform with the slogan "He was more than a hero... HE WAS A UNION Man!"
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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
why don't combadges have headphone jacks anymore
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026
it's a lovely michaelmas day and you are a horrible goose
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Michael Crider @michaelcrider.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ooooh
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Michael Crider @michaelcrider.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reminder with "AI," as with the general internet. Don't put anything in there that you wouldn't want read back to you in a courtroom. Especially now.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/09/2026
Hi, I'm looking to speak to people who have left games journalism in the last few years and have gone onto do something else. DMs are open, or luke@aftermath.site, thanks!
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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"why would I deceive you?"
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Michael Crider @michaelcrider.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is weaponized software, most effective against people who are already addicted or hopeless. When you build systems designed to prey on people for profit, you're beyond the imaginary ideal of an amoral market force. You're just goddamn evil.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026
ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points
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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Disable gambling ads:
Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressedSponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressedManage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There are two dieticians on local TV news right now talking about how you can buy potatoes and some cheap cuts of meat to really stretch your dollar and I feel like this is more devastating than any anti-Trump ad currently running.
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Michael Crider @michaelcrider.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nnnnnnnnnnneat.
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Marko Bajlovic @marko.tech · 21/09/2026
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Michael Crider @michaelcrider.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I've always loved this site, for its insight and coverage of smaller devices and companies. I marveled that it was just one person for so long. Google et al. decided that Liliputing and others weren't as worthy as an internet full of auto-generated slop.
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Liliputing @liliputing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What’s up with Liliputing? (Fall 2026 edition) #Liliputing, #SiteNews
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What’s up with Liliputing? (Fall 2026 edition)
Long-time visitors to Liliputing may have noticed that we've been posting news articles less frequently and relying more heavily on news roundups consisting of short summaries or previews of interesting mobile tech news articles found around the web. Here's why. As I mentioned to Patreon subscribers in August, there are a few reasons for this shift, but basically it comes down to these two: Shifting dynamics of online search and advertising have made it much more difficult for independent bloggers and journalists to make a living through the mix of advertising, affiliate revenue, and donations that have allowed me to treat this mobile tech news and info website as my full-time job for much of the past two decades.
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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
ME: it is the middle of September and it is almost 80 degrees outside. it still feels a little early to be drinking pumpkin spice coff- STAPLES: merry christmas you piece of shit
K cup display with peppermint bark coffee and peppermint Swiss miss in goddamn September
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
Alan Ritchson seems like a forthright dude. (Original image with alt text)
Screenshot of an exchange on threads:

fattys_revenge:
Every season of Reacher so far has been great, and I understand that they may be avoiding the earlier novels due to their slightly less standalone nature, but every year I'm sad to learn that next season won't be the book where he kills his way through a white supremacist militia camp.


alanritchson [official]:
My favorite book. Fun fact: I had it approved until someone got re-elected.
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Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
it’s time to give Ms Rachel a gundam
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Michael Crider @michaelcrider.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How bad of a tattoo artist, how completely out of fucking touch do you need to be, to use an AI slop poster for your business? How much do you want people to run away from your needle?
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Richard Cobbett @richardcobbett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Interactive fiction in a nutshell.
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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 17/09/2026
I mean yes, obviously
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Michael Crider @michaelcrider.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is my favorite hoodie. I like to wear it to tech media events, for absolutely no reason at all.
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Michael Crider @michaelcrider.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Devastating. ...but Switchfoot and Relient K can stay, my 2000s church kid heart still beats
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I noticed this too, and this has to be one of the most user-hostile changes I've seen to shove gAI into everything Replacing the New Tab button with a chatbot assistant is how you get "We have a bajillion monthly AI users!" when people fucking hate your product
Mobile Chrome toolbar with a Gemini icon where the new tab button used to be
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
as she said
"They took your story. Something that meant so much to people like me, and turned it into something trivial. That's what the Matrix does. It weaponizes every idea. Every dream. Everything that's important to us."
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If the rationalist dweebs developing Ai think there's a good chance that it's going to wipe out humanity then basic game theory dictates that the logical course of action for the rest of us would be to [manuscript breaks off]
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Michael Crider @michaelcrider.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New MacDruid spell table just dropped
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Michael Crider @michaelcrider.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You can't just ask the MAGA cult to hate something because it's objectively bad, or even because it's costing them money. You gotta find some way to tickle that all-'Murican xenophobia. It's like a youth pastor telling kids that if you think about it, Jesus was the original Italian brainrot.
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Imagine that AI is told to behave like capital, and behaves like capital, and causes destruction because it behaves like capital" ... sure sounds like the problem might be capital?
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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As part of the new E3 collections in our digital archive, we received a donation of over 1600 digital photos from E3 2009. Get an unprecedented look at the event, inside and out
gamehistory.org
Library Highlight: Exploring E3 2009 through 1600 photos | Video Game History Foundation
A spotlight on a photo gallery from our new E3 collections, documenting every corner of 2009's biggest gaming event.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Do you ever stop and think that Donald Trump has by now probably cost you personally thousands of dollars, regardless of where you live in the world? Like, your actual own money that you could have spent on stuff.
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GG TRIBUNE @ggtribune.com · 10/08/2026
Hades Reveals Tenth Circle of Hell Just Valnet ggtribune.com/2026/08/10/h...
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Michael Crider @michaelcrider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Let the floodgates of phone case PR emails, to websites that do not cover phones, OPEN
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Michael Crider @michaelcrider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I really, REALLY like my Z8 Fold (the one that Samsung may or may not have based on leaks of the iPhone Duo). But I admit: the no-camera interior screen looks so much better. I almost never use a front-facing cam, there's one on the front anyway, and I miss the under-screen camera on the Z6.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.
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Michael Crider @michaelcrider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
oh no not the PervPods
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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
dear god.. a flavor scientist at the Cheetos factory has published a blog post saying no one is prepared for how "dangerously cheesy" they are
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Michael Crider @michaelcrider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
hehehehe www.youtube.com/shorts/ZthRx...
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subway surfen't #animation #funny
YouTube video by So Okay Here's the Thing
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Michael Crider @michaelcrider.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yet another thing the MAGA cult and the Taliban have in common.
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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Almost let the day pass without posting this one!
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Michael Crider @michaelcrider.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The beacons are lit! Gondor calls for aid!
"Sensible chuckle" meme: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani chucking at a magazine with his own face on the cover.
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Michael Crider @michaelcrider.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The hummingbirds are watching me play video games in the living room, the same way I watch them at the feeder. Between this and the beavers, I may qualify for Disney princess by this time next year.
Hummingbird at feeder, wings outstretched
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Michael Crider @michaelcrider.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Shop Amazon, with browser extension to turn off the awful AI chatbot. Click on a Qi charger. 4.3 stars. All the promo photos are AI. Scroll down to see the buyer reviews. Every photo is of a clearly different model charger than the listing is selling. Amazon 2026, enshittification embodied.
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JoCat 🔜 Spokane Ren Faire @jocat.net · 07/09/2026
Shout-out to Travis Knight, who's father is the CEO of Nike (yes THAT Nike, the shoe brand) using his immense inherited wealth to fund stop motion animation at a financial loss purely for the love of the art. Laika Studios my beloved <3
A compilation image of Laika movies: Coraline, Paranorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link, and Wildwood
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Alan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Are my ideas racist and harmful, and I should stop and think about my motivations for this project?" "No, it is the negroes that are wrong! AI told me so, and I have enough money to not care what they think!"
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