One of my "retirement" projects -- fresh every morning! Still in "alpha" -- please feel free to comment on what I should improve!

"You might think of Meta as a social media company, but its primary business is surveillance advertising. Meta's business model relies on collecting as much information as possible about people in order to sell highly-targeted ads. It's one of the main companies tracking you across the internet."

The US has agreed to stop importing seafood linked with bycatch, where whales, sharks, turtles & other marine life are collateral damage of reckless fishing. Great work by @centerforbiodiv.bsky.social NRDC, AWI, creating global pressure to eliminate bycatch. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

4/4 I need about 1.5 million dollars to ramp up. It might help steer the clown car, and might help slow its trajectory toward that precipice we can see, ahead. Got any ideas? Happy New Year!

3/4 If Wordaxity gets popular, then its sale could fund the rapid expansion of a great, complicated, and possibly important rural-community local social media model, locally controlled, and locally managed and supported.

2/4 swiftly ramping up the Commons Community Suite that I've built with a tiny team. The platform helps small rural towns self-organize to save $$$ and CO2 by carpooling, sharing resources, and easily coordinating and communicating (see commonscommunities.com, or the demo at commonstown.com).

1/4 Dec. 31, 2024: Today on my birthday morning. I'm 67 today. If you want to give me a birthday present, do one of two things: pass on my new toy word game to some wordy-nerdy friends of yours, who might enjoy it: Wordaxity.com. Or, find me an angel investor/funder for my last big swing:

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