In the midst of returning
This is As I Said, a site that died a couple of weeks ago and is now being resurrected along with older articles and pieces that languish on Medium.
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The Tyranny of Categories
We are perpetually, perhaps even cyclically, possessed by our perception of social discourse now primarily in social media. We compare it unfavourably with how it used to be, before Trump, before Brexit before whatever time; before the Interweb, before Facebook, before Twitter and Reddit. The relative heat, the name calling,
Everything Will Swallow You Review
It has been quite a while since I read Everything Will Swallow You by Tom Cox (@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social) and I intended to write a Review fairly immediately but I paused until there was some kind of order to all of the responses and thoughts I had. This
If You Are Over 16
There is a possible advantage to a restriction on delivering services to those under 16 and that is teaching them to minimise their personal data or masking it completely from data corporations. That can be used when they're adult as well. Nurturing children is the responsibility of society
Are you an Aristocrat or a Peasant?
In your work place, your company or organisation do you recognise yourself as being one of the aristocracy or one of the peasants? If you…