News, reviews, and short-form videos for PCWorld. Formerly Android Police, Review Geek, How-To Geek, Digital Trends. Opinions are my own. I have a personal website, almost never updated: thegumshoe.com I write fiction: http://amazon.com/author/criderhttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelcrider.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelcrider.bsky.social/post/3mwodfoszi23booooh [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Sep 2026 17:16 +0000at://did:plc:rgbaomecagssgkvu7jh56wkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwodfoszi23bhttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelcrider.bsky.social/post/3mwmlxq5n4k45Reminder with "AI," as with the general internet. Don't put anything in there that you wouldn't want read back to you in a courtroom. Especially now. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Sep 2026 00:44 +0000at://did:plc:rgbaomecagssgkvu7jh56wkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwmlxq5n4k45https://bsky.app/profile/michaelcrider.bsky.social/post/3mwer5tapbc2xThis is weaponized software, most effective against people who are already addicted or hopeless. When you build systems designed to prey on people for profit, you're beyond the imaginary ideal of an amoral market force. You're just goddamn evil. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Sep 2026 21:55 +0000at://did:plc:rgbaomecagssgkvu7jh56wkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwer5tapbc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelcrider.bsky.social/post/3mw5olk6vvp2aNnnnnnnnnnneat. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Sep 2026 02:21 +0000at://did:plc:rgbaomecagssgkvu7jh56wkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw5olk6vvp2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelcrider.bsky.social/post/3mvy5wsfyuk27I've always loved this site, for its insight and coverage of smaller devices and companies. I marveled that it was just one person for so long. Google et al. decided that Liliputing and others weren't as worthy as an internet full of auto-generated slop. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Sep 2026 21:39 +0000at://did:plc:rgbaomecagssgkvu7jh56wkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvy5wsfyuk27https://bsky.app/profile/michaelcrider.bsky.social/post/3mvtbjchzry23How bad of a tattoo artist, how completely out of fucking touch do you need to be, to use an AI slop poster for your business? How much do you want people to run away from your needle?18 Sep 2026 23:00 +0000at://did:plc:rgbaomecagssgkvu7jh56wkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvtbjchzry23https://bsky.app/profile/michaelcrider.bsky.social/post/3mvpxuibxaf2qThis is my favorite hoodie. I like to wear it to tech media events, for absolutely no reason at all. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Sep 2026 15:29 +0000at://did:plc:rgbaomecagssgkvu7jh56wkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvpxuibxaf2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelcrider.bsky.social/post/3mvld3hvhtc2nDevastating. ...but Switchfoot and Relient K can stay, my 2000s church kid heart still beats [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Sep 2026 19:07 +0000at://did:plc:rgbaomecagssgkvu7jh56wkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvld3hvhtc2n