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The pleasures of surveillance: Re-reading Marwick through Foucault
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The future of observability: smarter troubleshooting with change intelligence
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Substation: how an open source alternative to Substack could help us rediscover a more independent and adventurous culture
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Can we build a better content ecosystem without making big tech the discourse police? [Interview with Jillian York]
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‘Tech for good’ isn’t really a movement. It’s more of a posture – one that
Stop using social media as an easy explanation for the violence at the Capitol
Barely hours after crowds rioters left the Capitol, commentators began formulating their responses to the
Science and intimacy: The troubling relationship between data surveillance and care
At the end of November, The Daily Mail published details of an investigation into how