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Types of guys: the production of a folk taxonomy of masculinity

By Richard Gall / December 7, 2021 8:45 pm
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Bureaucratic technology and the limits of solutionism at Cop26

By Richard Gall / December 7, 2021 6:39 pm
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The world on a grid: Accidentally Wes Anderson and empty aesthetics

By Richard Gall / November 27, 2021 5:04 pm
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The pleasures of surveillance: Re-reading Marwick through Foucault

By Richard Gall / November 18, 2021 5:36 pm
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The future of observability: smarter troubleshooting with change intelligence

By Richard Gall / September 23, 2021 9:01 am
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Substation: how an open source alternative to Substack could help us rediscover a more independent and adventurous culture

By Richard Gall / May 13, 2021 11:49 am
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Can we build a better content ecosystem without making big tech the discourse police? [Interview with Jillian York]

By Richard Gall / April 23, 2021 11:56 am
Inventions People

The DevOps trends and tools putting a renewed focus on maintenance and care in tech

By Richard Gall / February 10, 2021 4:14 pm

Google workers have formed a union
People

Google workers have formed a union

Google was arguably at the epicentre of the origins of the tech worker movement. The

By Richard Gall / January 4, 2021 6:53 pm
Uber’s EU lobbying efforts could step up a gear in 2021
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Uber’s EU lobbying efforts could step up a gear in 2021

Proposition 22’s victory in California in November highlighted the extent gig economy companies will go

By Richard Gall / December 23, 2020 5:43 pm
Science and intimacy: The troubling relationship between data surveillance and care
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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

By Richard Gall / December 15, 2020 11:57 am
Could big tech platforms improve democracy rather than undermine it? Possibly, says Common Wealth
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Could big tech platforms improve democracy rather than undermine it? Possibly, says Common Wealth

The digital platforms that make up ‘big tech’ as we know it today have done

By Richard Gall / December 9, 2020 2:24 pm
Microsoft has a patent for a chatbot based on a real person
Inventions

Microsoft has a patent for a chatbot based on a real person

Do you remember that episode of Black Mirror with the artificial Domnhall Gleeson? Well, Microsoft

By Richard Gall / December 8, 2020 1:04 pm
UK publishers to receive millions from Facebook as the platform prepares to launch Facebook News
Policy

UK publishers to receive millions from Facebook as the platform prepares to launch Facebook News

Facebook announced on Monday that it will launch Facebook News in the UK in the

By Richard Gall / December 4, 2020 11:14 am
Google and Facebook face regulation from the Digital Markets Unit, a new digital watchdog in the UK
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Google and Facebook face regulation from the Digital Markets Unit, a new digital watchdog in the UK

The UK government has announced the creation of a new digital watchdog, the Digital Markets

By Richard Gall / November 27, 2020 4:22 pm
The AWS outage exposes the fragility of our data-hungry digital economy
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The AWS outage exposes the fragility of our data-hungry digital economy

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, reported by The Verge, took down a huge number

By Richard Gall / November 26, 2020 6:10 pm
A Coinbase internal email preempts a New York Times story alleging discrimination inside the company
People

A Coinbase internal email preempts a New York Times story alleging discrimination inside the company

Cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase has published an internal email intended to rebut to a New

By Richard Gall / November 26, 2020 12:06 pm
U.K. “scaleup” success is built on VC opportunism, not meeting society’s needs
Policy

U.K. “scaleup” success is built on VC opportunism, not meeting society’s needs

A new report by Beauhurst and the Scaleup Institute shows that the number of ‘scaleup’

By Richard Gall / November 24, 2020 4:37 pm

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Types of guys: the production of a folk taxonomy of masculinity

By Richard Gall / December 7, 2021 8:45 pm
Bureaucratic technology and the limits of solutionism at Cop26
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Bureaucratic technology and the limits of solutionism at Cop26

By Richard Gall / December 7, 2021 6:39 pm
The world on a grid: Accidentally Wes Anderson and empty aesthetics
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The world on a grid: Accidentally Wes Anderson and empty aesthetics

By Richard Gall / November 27, 2021 5:04 pm
The pleasures of surveillance: Re-reading Marwick through Foucault
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The pleasures of surveillance: Re-reading Marwick through Foucault

By Richard Gall / November 18, 2021 5:36 pm
The future of observability: smarter troubleshooting with change intelligence
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The future of observability: smarter troubleshooting with change intelligence

By Richard Gall / September 23, 2021 9:01 am
Substation: how an open source alternative to Substack could help us rediscover a more independent and adventurous culture
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Substation: how an open source alternative to Substack could help us rediscover a more independent and adventurous culture

By Richard Gall / May 13, 2021 11:49 am
Can we build a better content ecosystem without making big tech the discourse police? [Interview with Jillian York]
Ideas/People/Policy

Can we build a better content ecosystem without making big tech the discourse police? [Interview with Jillian York]

By Richard Gall / April 23, 2021 11:56 am
The DevOps trends and tools putting a renewed focus on maintenance and care in tech
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The DevOps trends and tools putting a renewed focus on maintenance and care in tech

By Richard Gall / February 10, 2021 4:14 pm
Tech for good is a con trick – it’s time to demand better from the industry
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Tech for good is a con trick – it’s time to demand better from the industry

By Richard Gall / January 21, 2021 5:21 pm
Stop using social media as an easy explanation for the violence at the Capitol
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Stop using social media as an easy explanation for the violence at the Capitol

By Richard Gall / January 9, 2021 1:59 pm

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