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I bought Nick Brawl 2 on sale. It’s about time I got back in the saddle…
I am asking you once again to read my opinions on network effects
Playing to win is for losers.
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CONTENT WARNING: Sex, BDSM, questioning authority.
Part I Part II Part III Part IV
YOU CAN’T SAY “ORANGE” TO YOUR BOSS.
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The most violent book I’ve read this year. Jenny Odell argues the unthinkable – why don’t we harness doing nothing as a form of political activism?
Lessons from the scrivener – you can’t say “no” to your boss, but to refuse, you don’t have to.
Published in 2019, it’s a product of its time – might the Fediverse make collective action and co-operation easier?
I would prefer not to.
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A brief respite from editing posts on polemic books to bring you news about the ex-bird site – news about its ex-users , that is.
The migration from X (formerly known as Twitter) to Mastodon gave researchers a golden opportunity to record data on the collective action problem. Spoilers: it’s pretty good news.
TOOT TOOT
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Content warning: Both of these books explore weight stigma, wellness culture, and fads that can be extremely destructive, physically and mentally. If you’re made uncomfortable by that, give this post a pass.On the flipside – if I get it wrong, I hope I’ve got it wrong better than most.
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In which the featured image does not display the books in chronological order, but in the order that I write about them.
This is the first in a series of posts about books I’ve read this year. Find the introduction here .
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Despite catching COVID, I’ve been doing a lot of reading. Approaching the end of the year, I find it appropriate to share what I’ve read.
I was going to do this all in one great big long post, but decided to split each book into separate posts.
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I turned twenty-three this week, so here’s a collection of topics that have nothing to do with that:
Frustrations over that bloody video, again;
Books on my radar;
Working on the blog on-the-go with a new cloud solution (that’s not actually in the cloud)
happy birthday
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In which I document the steps I took to go from the default cube to a dice in Blender.
No, really. That’s it.
It’s not much – well, there’s a lot of steps – but it’s honest work.
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Twitter friends: Friends, on Twitter, who I left without telling them where I was going.
Our social media predicament: Is it addiction, a you problem? Or does that distract us from the reality of monopolies doing a monopoly?
The EU will force Big Tech companies to interoperate in 2024. It’s got one chance to show the world how interop can work. I hope it does.
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