{"id":4185,"date":"2026-07-18T23:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/?p=4185"},"modified":"2026-07-18T23:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:43:25","slug":"the-future-is-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/the-future-is-offline\/","title":{"rendered":"THE FUTURE IS OFFLINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post from <a href=\"https:\/\/social.lol\/@maique\/116458479890970399\">maique<\/a> h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.dougbelshaw.com\/thought-shrapnel\/the-future-is-offline\/\">Doug Belshaw<\/a>, struck a chord,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.uploads.micro.blog\/139275\/2026\/future-offline.jpg\" alt=\"Auto-generated description: A red sticker on a gray surface reads THE FUTURE IS OFFLINE.\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the past ten years I&#8217;ve used and retreated from various online platforms. Starting with Facebook following the Cambridge Analytica scandals, Twitter after the takeover, etc. Some of their replacements, Bluesky, Mastodon, etc. just didn&#8217;t stick for me. The most recent abandoned space for me is where many people seem to have landed, Linkedin. For the most part, I&#8217;ve moved almost entirely to messaging apps, my RSS reader, and the blogwall for my online activity. The rest I&#8217;m trying to focus a lot on spending more time in the dojo, and with folks face-to-face (I&#8217;m going to count phone calls and video calls in that category as well. )<\/p>\n<p>What I find compelling here is both the dystopic reading of this sticker, and the hopeful one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post from maique h\/t Doug Belshaw, struck a chord, Over the past ten years I&#8217;ve used and retreated from various online platforms. Starting with Facebook following the Cambridge Analytica scandals, Twitter after the takeover, etc. Some of their replacements, Bluesky, Mastodon, etc. just didn&#8217;t stick for me. The most recent abandoned space for me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quick-reflections-and-webmentions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}