Aral Balkan
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Aral Balkan’s personal web site. Covers small technology as an alternative to big tech and surveillance capitalism, human rights in the digital age (cyborg rights), personhood, and democracy.
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Careless people
Facebook: they sound nice. This is not your father's book review So, a bit of an admission: I normally don't read stuff about Big Tech, even though I've been railing against it a href="https://ar.al/2019/05/02/slav...
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Optimal automation
We keep seeing the following cycle in growth-based systems: A technology is introduced that improves a manual process via automation. The technology is iteratively improved, eventually reaching an optimal state of automation. Instead of stopping there 1 ,
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Kitten Kawaii: porting a React library and Next.js web site to Kitten
Interactive embed (play with it) Kitten Kawaii is a Kitten port of React Kawaii by Miuki Miu (Eli...
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Small Web: computer science colloquium at University of Groningen
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