Year: 2021
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We’re hypnotised by the social media giants. We’ve convinced ourselves they’re impossible to deal with. They’re not.
The more frantic we become about the wickedness and power of the platforms, the more we confirm that power. The more action we demand of police and legislators, the more…
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Let’s rebuild the internet and make it much more awkward. More like Bluetooth in fact. Seriously.
Everybody knows now, we built the wrong internet. Instead of a democratic, participatory playground we seem to have built something predatory and exploitive. The solution—bear with me—is more awkwardness, more…
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Competence can fuck off
I learn that Photoshop is thirty. The small revelation that goes with this information is that I’ve been using Photoshop for thirty years. That’s more than half of my life…