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I write about lots of things, but mainly what’s known as the indieweb (whatever that means), politics, music, football, writing, and publishing and building websites. You’ll note I managed to avoid using the word.
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Where I'll be posting in the future
There's a tradition of bloggers making grand announcements when they change something on their site, such as its visual design. As this strikes me as yet another manifestation of techno-individualism, a kind of PR for the demesne of me, I shall keep this
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Futures and pasts: What I've been up to and what to do with This Day's Portion?
I last blogged here on 15 March, which is a long time ago considering I was posting about once a week for years before that, often more when I entered my slightly manic periods. I have had a lot going on. Firstly, I stood as a Green in the local council e
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Hating the tech is rational
It's worth remembering the meaning of the luddites doesn't lie in the fact that some of them were skilled machinists, somehow reluctant to rebel against the tech of the day. It's that they smashed machines in an act of collective bargaining by riot . Emph
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Decontextualising the indieweb isn't being positive, it's a form of tech fundamentalism
Khürt argues that the indieweb is not defined by its enemies , a positive sounding notion that's hard to disagree with. No-one wants to succumb to the enemy's framing of the world, do they? It also chimes with a certain part of the tech community looking
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On ethics, using LLMs and cultural purity
A mild drama broke out today on, well, the fediverse, but possibly in other places as one of the protagonists POSSEs to various platforms. Tante posted Acting ethically in an evil world in response to an article by Cory Doctorow ostensibly about the sixth
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