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29: Reads

I enjoyed this piece from Rob Horning, where by a chance encounter a north american discovers Gogglebox while visiting Europe and appreciates it without irony. I've enjoyed following Rachel Coldicutt's opinions on critical social technologies, especially coming from the perspective of a woman who's

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28: Translucent Technology

I've been thinking about a concept which I might unimaginatively call translucent technology or invisible technology (or shadow technology or ghost tech, idk something like this, hopefully someone else has already determined a much better name for it). The rough gist is that as a tech bubble deflates,

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27: Reintroduction

I want to start again here. To be frank, I've spent the last two or three months deeply immersed in a largely functional depression. Functional in the sense that I've been able to go to work or go outside or see people, but depressed in the

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email from Nathan (Item 26, Recently,)

I've been reading Rachel O'Dwyer's Tokens. Not really because it's apropos of anything I was studying, but because it was the most recently-added book on my ereader on the 2nd January when I needed something to read, and then on the 3rd

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email from Nathan (Item 25, On writing and reading)

This email has been a tough one to write, not because there's a dearth of content to discuss, nor because the content itself is necessarily particularly difficult, but because of the feeling of convergence of many threads of content I'd like to talk about. Each subject

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email from Nathan (Item 24, Recently,)

I'm building an app for EHFM, if you're interested in app development and/or online community radio then I could use some beta testers to help locate issues on different devices. You can get releases and log issues on Github. Managed to catch a chunk of

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email from Nathan (Item 23, On the creation of consensus)

These are some notes triggered both by the past two weeks I spent in the US, one of the most fascinating and disturbing political arenas in the world, and by the insipid vacuum of a 13-hour journey back to Glasgow. I've no real interest in discussing the actual

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email from Nathan (Item 22, I'm here)

Stating the obvious, it's a minute since I sent anything. Only three days after my last message back in May, Rishi Sunak announced a general election in the UK, an event that most of us expected wouldn't happen til around October or November. For the rest