Lone Signal

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  • Not A Gamer: missed messages

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    Indie game developer Angela He’s missed messages sets you up to fail, and that’s a good thing.

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  • Rest

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    The relentless hustle of startup culture, or the crunch of game development, or whatever synonym other tech-adjacent industries like to use for the endless grind of work, all rest on the metaphor of the worker as a single-minded machine.

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  • Tangible

    “Data is time-sensitive.” Do we ever actually own anything digital?

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  • Purity

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    There’s a popular tendency to view technology as an “objective” field, “purer” and somehow more essential for it.

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  • Basic analysis of Twitter takedown data

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    Earlier this month, political analyst Amal Sinha tweeted some preliminary analyses of Twitter data about false accounts / bots: Some background: On 12th June, Twitter released new datasets that compiled anonymised data from accounts that seem to be linked to information operations run by the Chinese (PRC), Russian, and Turkish states. These accounts have since…

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  • Stay Safe on the Web: Tips, Tools, Resources

    Lately I’ve been fielding questions from friends who want to take extra precautions to protect themselves and their loved ones online. In case it might be helpful to others, I’ve compiled recommendations and resources here.

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