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# Newsletter for friends #04: Things and thoughts from October
- URL: https://journal.jatan.space/newsletter-for-friends-04/
- Published: 2024-11-01T13:45:10.000Z
- Updated: 2024-11-01T13:45:10.000Z
- Author: Jatan
- Tags: Life slices

Hello friends,

Continuing to embrace a [calmer digital life](https://journal.jatan.space/digital-detox/) instead of drowning in the slurp—and now slop—of social media, I’m sharing with you via this web letter some notable things I’ve been up to or enjoyed in October.

## Reading

- [How to comment on social media](https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-how-to-comment-on-social-media/)
- [Technology is the problem](https://www.shyamsankar.com/p/technology-is-the-problem)
- [What would it take to make decentralized social media “click”?](https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/29/some-slightly-biased-thoughts-on-the-state-of-decentralized-social-media/)

> [Democratize not just publishing, but also the governance of the technology that enables it](https://john.onolan.org/democratising-publishing/).

> [The software interoperates; so should we](https://werd.io/2024/the-two-fediverses).

- [A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles](https://www.theverge.com/24282022/kamala-harris-endorsement-presidential-election-2024)
- [Jeff Bezos’ View from Nowhere](https://www.platformer.news/jeff-bezos-washington-post-endorsement-view-from-nowhere/)

## Writing

- [Not the fault in our stars but certainly stressful faults on our Moon](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-199/)
- My longest article ever: [How ISRO will study Venus alongside NASA and ESA](https://jatan.space/indian-space-issue-20/)

> [NASA’s road to the Moon inches through Starship](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-197/)

- [Suit up to walk under Moonlight](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-198/)
- [Confusion about lunar water](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-196/)

## Space, personally

- [I write for you, not social media or SEO](https://jatan.space/i-write-for-you/)
- Podcast appearance: [Discussing India’s lunar exploration heading with Carnegie India](https://jatan.space/podcast-discussing-indian-lunar-exploration-with-carnegie/)
- [LinkedIn rejected my application to their program for journalists](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/themoonmehta%5Fdear-linkedin-just-because-i-have-my-own-activity-7257352862253404161-z6Mm/?utm%5Fsource=share&utm%5Fmedium=member%5Fdesktop)..

## Thoughts

- [Trains over planes](https://journal.jatan.space/trains-over-planes/)
- [On the gap between voter turnouts in the US and Indian elections](https://journal.jatan.space/us-india-national-elections-voter-turnout-gap/)
- [Follow my blogs on social media that doesn’t suck!](https://journal.jatan.space/social/)

![](https://journal.jatan.space/content/images/2024/11/purple-grey-sofa.jpg)

A sofa that’s dark purple when light reflects from several angles but looks gray from a few others. More importantly, it’s my new reading companion. ^\_^

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I’d [love to hear](https://jatan.space/connect) what you’ve been up to.

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Let’s not live [an internet without intent](https://journal.jatan.space/an-internet-without-intent).