#Platform

The stand off between @Twitter and the #Indian government is symptomatic of a shrinking space for dissent. In an early response they temporarily blocked a respected news outlet and several
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According to Accenture we now need to build an #InternetofTrust, because the old one we grew up with is fundamentally broken. Dude, it's never been unbroken. Let me explain... The
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Imagine, folks on a platform that thrives on irony and hyperbole pretending they can’t understand that Melusi was using the tools of the medium to make a wider point about
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Some initial reflections on the work behind the Thunder Bay podcast series, #ReturnToThunderBay, a thread (with many more reflections to come later): Much of Thunder Bay is looking for "good
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Was good to speak to @MarkUrban01 @BBCNewsnight last night on UK/EU deal. In case you missed it, I think TCA will basically be as good as it gets - for
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let's have a quick chat about the popularization of sex work:just because you see someone you follow online who appears to be having fun and making money from OF, stripping,
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1/ Why doesn't insurance just "come with" everything? Rental w. apartment lease, cyber w. domain name, pet w. dog etc. Instead, we buy the valuable thing, then go somewhere *else*
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since I guess I'm talking about this again, let's talk about why "death of the artist/separate the art from the artist" doesn't apply to JKR firstly, this isn't ~merely~ a
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I have never used #WhatsApp, ever. I always saw it to be an invasive & privacy violating tool. In #India, that translated into being called "Luddite" & an anti-social. I
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Sometimes copying people is the fastest way to $8.2 BillionScrew being originalHere is the story of 3 brothers, who are some of the best copycats the world has ever seenA
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Good night Patriots, So. What is Joe M saying in his address to the nation? He is saying that every institution, absolutely everything, has to be torn apart and dissected
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"How can you not root for Substack?" asks @austin_rief.Well. I have some (spontaneous) thoughts...https://twitter.com/austin_rief/status/1327706934561136640 I guess the best place to start is by acknowledging what Substack has (un
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Hey folks, let's talk about parasocial relationships and "content creators" for a moment, okay?I'm sure we've all come across statements like "such and such YouTuber is not your friend" or
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Truly gobsmacked by Epic's anti-Apple monopoly video that parodies Apple's classic "1984" Macintosh commercial. Here's a top-of-my-brain breakdown, as a video game AND computer historian:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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Beleaguered Finablr, owner of #Ripple partner UAE Exchange, has been sold to a consortium for the princely sum of $1. UAE Exchange was the remittance arm of Finablr, run by
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While we wait, a short thread of my Biden-related work, starting with my 9/17 piece: "Joe Biden’s Platform for 2020: Anti-Populism""you can see him sculpting a role for the 2020
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