I bought a printer, months and months back, because I had these ideas of beautiful janky little booklets, monochrome laser printed, lovingly finessed margins. I buy people’s zines and read them. I write, I illustrate things, I have a rotating stapler; trust me that there is a …
I’m pretty excited about Automattic’s acquisition of Matthias Pfefferle’s ActivityPub plugin. I believe it will remain open source, but by acquiring the copyright to the code and hiring its developer to work on open web projects, Automattic is sending a signal about what it …
Popular sustainable-future imagery depicts industrious workers tirelessly constructing expansive green infrastructure…but what if averting climate catastrophe could also mean a life with much less work, and much more free time?
Canny readers of my book will have figured out that the Postscript, formally titled “Privacy and health data”, was a coded message. We used those pages to talk about one thing, but we were actually talking about something else.
Bluesky, a new social media platform and AT Protocol, is unsurprisingly running up against the same challenges and limitations that Flickr, Twitter and many other social media platforms faced in the 2000s: passwords!
Bluesky, a new social media platform and AT Protocol, is unsurprisingly running up against the same challenges and limitations that Flickr, Twitter and many other social media platforms faced in the 2000s: passwords!
Today, a post by my online friend Ali generated a lively exchange where all the participants agreed on one point: how we were all fooled by the idea of turning our online presence into a brand.
One of the biggest stories in tech policy, right now, is that governments all over the world are banning TikTok on government devices. There are concerns about Chinese state access to the information on those devices, and on wider systems, enabled by TikTok’s background software.
In May 2021, I co-authored a post with Sahdya Darr titled “Is government preparing to censor discussions about migration?”, where we fleshed out how the then-Home Secretary was leveraging the draft Online Safety Bill for explicitly political purposes.
