Episode #13: Tacos & Email

Tacos & Email
There are two pressing issues we discuss in this episode: tacos & email. There is an abundance of both. Take a listen to episode no. 13 as we talk about managing your digital self/data in email and more, and how to get the most out of the myriad of taco options in Texas.

Laura recently read 120 Tacos You Must Eat Before You Die and she is thinking about where her data living in the email realm thanks to the Note To Self podcast episode on leaving yahoo and changing email platforms. Both Laura and Jeff declare their love for tacos, soft shells, and jalapenos -- and their shared distaste for dealing with email, of course. Taco tally for number of times per week we each eat tacos:

Laura: 2Jeff: 6 (a lot)

Talking about Tacos:

Tex Mex definition/originNew Mexico Hatch Chiles are delicious, but different from TXSoft Tacos (corn or flour) are da bomb! Why is there a case for hard-shell tacos?Street Tacos are where it is at for bothRise of the Food Truck (history)Laura’s bucket list goal for breakfast tacos in the Big DApparently Puffy Tacos are the Unofficial Food Mascot in San AntonioCheers to the bean and cheese tacos!Butter flour tortillas + Cayenne pepper tortillas

In thinking about email, Jeff and Laura chat about the platforms and spaces they use for this type of computer-mediated communication channel. The score for email accounts we each have total: 

Jeff: 5 Laura: 12

Clearly Laura is looking to bring down this number and perhaps do another digital clean-up 2.0. We talk a bit about email; however, there are greater stakes at hand as technology companies merge or takeover other entities in the tech world. What happens to those terms of service (TOS) you first agreed to when the company changes ownership? What are the possibilities for your information and data with this new owner? Will you stay with a platform or app if these TOS go against your personal privacy issues?

Visualized acquisitions by the Big Five tech companies since 1985What do you gain/risk with these “free” emails? E.g. Is Gmail a risk? They have stopped scanning your email and selling targeted ads (apparently)Oath isn’t just a terrible name — it’s going to be a nightmare ad-tracking machineYahoo Mail and Tumblr and Flickr: What Happens Now? Via NYTA Way to Own Your Social-Media DataTumblr’s Unclear Future Shows that There’s No Money in Internet CultureSwitching to encrypted emails, e.g. ProtonMailJeff will judge your Hotmail/AOL email account. #TBT What Your Email Domain Says About You“To Do” List we’ve tried and use: Any.do, OmniFocus, and TodoistHave you thought about migrating to a new social media platform?Decluttering Your Digital LifeHow to Start Purging Your Digital LifeHow to delete your digital lifeDelayed PSA: Livejournal accounts and data are living on servers in RussiaHow to Download and Archive your Social Media Memories via WiredHow to Back Up Your Social Media Feeds via NYTOn a creepy side of archiving: How to Save Your Digital Soul via MIT Technology ReviewDomain of One’s Own started at UMW http://umw.domains/ Reclaim Hosting https://reclaimhosting.com/ 

We have made an oath, that is a promise that we will start to clean up our digital lives and archive content posted on social media and other sites we don’t own NOW. We’ll let you know how it goes and y’all need to hold us to it. We will do a check-in and update down the road to some of our own archiving solutions and strategies to reclaim our life online.

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