More "freedom from", please
Why did "freedom to" advocates become so focused on punching down?
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Editing on Twitter is a fraught idea
Does that retweet you said you loved still say what it said when you retweeted it?
Search engines are dying
The optimisers are outwitting the engines. Now it's easy to find 'something' but hard to find a specific thing.
Just because we can...
Dyson's new air purifier raises big questions about form, function, and the just plain freaky.
Media
A cultural event horizon
Twitter showed its best and worst during the Smith/Rock Oscars incident.
Bad laws ignored badly
One year on, the News Media Bargaining Code has failed to stand up for those who needed it most.
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Exploring the Backrooms
William Gibson's 'The Footage' meets a horror liminal space meme and I love it.
Cringe du jour
The memes are on the attack, but happiness has other ideas.
Emailing through the info wars
The digital iron curtain can't hold back manual messaging systems
Stu-Stu-Studio
Apologies to Phil Collins...
The slow Airspeeder emergence
F1-style drone racing in the Aussie outback? Bring it on!
Moving to Substack
The next step in the evolutionary journey of the Byteside newsletter