Month: May 2020

Tech Censorship News (23rd May 2020 Edition)

A couple of incidents of tech censorship I’ve seen pop up in my timeline today, and also the past week.

Education platform PragerU have been complaining that a video they created about climate change has been falsely labelled as “false information” by Facebook “fact checkers” who seem to think they know more about climate change than the experienced MIT Professor in the video, who just happens to be the world’s leading atmospheric scientist. Continue reading “Tech Censorship News (23rd May 2020 Edition)”

How to Make Money on YouTube

I keep seeing this question asked repeatedly on Yahoo Answers and assorted support pages / groups for Youtubers over on Facebook.

I decided to cobble together this blog post to try save having to repeat typing the same thing over and over again. Not least because of Yahoo Answer’s latest stupid trick of seeming to shadow ban your answers if you go back to edit it for assorted reasons, such as it made a mess of a link to a helpful video explaining something in more detail by tagging the start of the next sentence onto the end of the url to the video. Continue reading “How to Make Money on YouTube”

Casio Vintage Watch

If you’re looking for a cheap, basic digital watch to slap on your wrist, you probably can’t go too far wrong with this classic item from Casio.

Normally priced at £17, I’ve just spotted it discounted on Amazon for a mere £8.20 (for how long I don’t know).

As well as telling the time, it also as a built in stopwatch + a light, as well as a daily alarm function + a degree of water resistance.

What more could you want?