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Over the past couple of weeks, my news and Mastodon feeds have been overloaded with discussion of Bluesky. This has made me rather grumpy, but I’ve had a hard time articulating why. About a week …

Can’t even pay the services revenue tribute without running into bugs, amazing. The solution to this You have not completed the entire form. error is to log into appleid.apple.com and perform the action there instead, …

On curation, or fighting back in the age of the algorithm TL; DR – Our digital spaces are run by algorithms: they dictate what we see. The fight back againt this begins with curation. That …

A few days ago I had an interesting maths thought which I dropped on Mastodon: Today’s interesting maths problem to think about: what is the largest total from a correct maths equation which uses any …

This is yet another small companion piece to my Ghost on Fly tutorials. In my last tutorial in the series, I showed how to back up your Ghost blog hosted on Fly.io over SFTP. SFTP …

We’ve been talking about intellectual property in one way or another for at least the last five hundred years, and each new wave of technology or creativity leads to new kinds of arguments. We invented …

Background 🔗 The 2023 edition of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee (TPAC) meeting took place from September 11 to 15 in the Meliã hotel in Seville, Spain. The hotel …

This is a lecture given at the Festivaletteratura, Mantova, Italy, in September 2013, about legal personhood, non-indigenous species, terraforming, colonialism, floods, and more-than-human relations. It was given without notes and the transcript below has only …

Introduction to everythingPlease note that I really do like Enigma, and I have mad respect for everybody who designed its levels, since the levels are an essential part of the game. As you read, please …

You’re given a list of integers and a target number. You can add, subtract, multiply, or divide numbers, and you can use the result for future operations. Once you have used a number in an …

I’m helping out the IxDA London crew with an evening discussing ethics and responsibility, part of World Interaction Design Day, next Tue 26 Sep:"We all want to be more responsible, ethical, and equitable in our …

I should have said “can” and “have”:

There are many reasons to make things and share them, to write and publish, to speak and record. So many reasons, most unknown; far be it from me to make assumptions about other peoples’ motivations. …

Hollywood and tech firms want to reduce culture to a slurry of interchangeable bits. Let’s not help them outContinue reading on Medium »

I’m not a huge fan of facebook. I had an account as a youth, deleted it in college, and then later realized that facebook marketplace was the new craigslist, and that I’d miss out on …

I decided to re-read Fahrenheit 451 with my eldest this last week. I don’t think that I have read this classic Bradbury text since high school. What I had remembered about the book was that …

Paper # Malmodin, Jens, Nina Lövehagen, Pernilla Bergmark, and Dag Lundén. “ICT Sector Electricity Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions – 2020 Outcome.” SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4424264. Notes # This paper presents the most up …

This is Part II of a series examining the proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty in the context of LGBTQ+ communities. Part I looks at the draft Convention’s potential implications for LGBTQ+ rights. Part II provides a …

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