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This week we discuss notification anxiety, our device setups, the Baltimore Uprising, the communication pyramid, and how passive information affects your present being.


Show Notes


Special thanks to those that submitted their notifications to be used in today’s episode (in-order of appearance): Subi, Becky, Brandi, and Rob.


Sanebox, an email triage and filtering service.


Pebble Watch


Let’s be honest, “thug” is a euphemism for another word…


IRL Talk Episode 24: You Only Need To Make It To 88 MPH (this link starts at the 44 minute mark for the “communication pyramid” discussion.


Facebook has an Other inbox


This is Slack


Instagram Direct


Phantom Vibration Syndrome



Your listening, reading, and action list in regards to the Baltimore Uprising:


This Week in Blackness Episode 685: #BaltimoreDispatch


‘Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us.’: How a group of black social-media activists built the nation’s first 21st-century civil rights movement.


Fundraiser to provide Legal and Bail Support for Baltimore


The Roots of Baltimore’s Riot



Anti-Social, an app that blocks incoming communications for websites you choose


James’ article on making devices dumb: “Putting on the Blinders”


Open Call: The Aftershow


Cher’s choice for the week: Let it Happen by Tame Impala


James’ choice for the week: The podcast, Another Round, with Heben and Tracy

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