Getting started with Mastodon
Aug
29
2024
There's plenty of blogposts about getting started with Mastodon, but that doesn't mean there shouldn't be another. This one is aimed particularly at UK users, people who might be academics, special interest folks or alternative culture people. Technical…
/ Read MoreOpting out of Meta Facebook AI training data
Jun
11
2024
This post is a quick guide to how to object to Meta Facebook including your content for AI training model data. TLDR: if you just want the main form Ive linked it below, but its interesting to see where this is buried and the preceding question asking…
/ Read MorePossible futures of microblogging
Jul
27
2023
It's going to be very interesting what happens to microblogging now, with the apparent chaotic meltdown of 'X', formerly known as Twitter, and the rapid, planned…
/ Read MoreBillionaire Platform Society and You
Apr
26
2023
A time will shortly be upon us when we must decide, make a choice about how we might want our interweb to look and be in the near future and beyond. I think it boils down to a single catch-all choice: who owns the content and interactions of the Internet.…
/ Read MoreThe shifting sands of tech
Apr
09
2023
This post is about the shifting sands of technology we find ourselves in as simple flesh and bone humans trying to deal with the landscapes of media and information in our datafied lives. Nothing is certain, nothing is permanent. It is actually a bit…
/ Read MoreKnowing about the tech you use to teach
Feb
07
2023
More thoughts on current tech. Trigger warning, these basic questions and points may cause offense. These thoughts were initially a Facebook post, but deserve further sharing. Too many academics are rushing toward this shining hill of gilded future…
/ Read MoreData landscapes, perceived truths
Feb
20
2022
This morning I woke up and listened to the excellent BBC world service documentary ‘Dark Patterns’. It’s 27 minutes of your time, and it’s very much worth it. It will introduce you to, if you’re…
/ Read MoreSelective democratisation of the arts: who needs your book, song, painting
Feb
08
2021
"When Toni Morrison said ‘write the book you want to read,’ she didn’t mean everybody" (Fran Lebowitz).
I recently saw this statement in a social media feed. Momentarily I thought someone had singled something pithy out of the current Lebowitz…
/ Read MoreLaughing Men and Data Libertarianism
Aug
31
2019
This post is about hacker activism, disruption and social iconography. Images used in this article are without permission, serving their profound duty as another link in the chain of hacker identity proliferation.
Today’s news about Jack Dorsey’s…
/ Read MoreMeme Me
Mar
09
2019
Ideas for the Internet culture wars. These came about as a result of seeing what people said in tweets or Facebook posts...
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