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I sent my first email with Gmail on 24 December 2004. Big day. That was when Gmail was a beta, and you had to get an invitation to use it. Ooh, look at him. Gmail account. Almost 22 years and 46,000 emails (and that’s just the ones I kept) later, I’m winding my Gmail account …
A great video this from the Norwegian Consumer Council on enshittification. They’ve also released a report on enshittification and how to resist it, and written to Norwegian, EU, UK and US authorities on reversing the trend. Enshittification, a term first coined by Cory Doctorow, is the gradual process where online platforms draw users in by …
Recorded in the morning at the end of February, birdsong in the garden. House sparrows, a song thrush, robin, woodpigeons, dunnock, the cock pheasant that lurks in our garden, blackbirds and corvids off in the background.
Next month I’m starting a Master’s degree in Food Studies at the University of Exeter. I’ve been thinking about doing a Master’s for the past couple of years. I have spoken with several people and been given some brilliant advice. I have questioned my motivations and my commitment. I wanted to focus on something that …
2023 for me was a year of sampling, reading, reflection, learning, conversations and getting lost. A messy, liminal year where I realised that I was very tired after the three years before it and I needed to walk a lot, breathe very deeply and collapse a bit. I won’t be glad to see the back …
In a fit of… something or other, in the past I have deleted blogs from the web. I regret it. I think maybe I thought that by casting old stuff aside it would make space for the new. Perhaps I was embarrassed about old stuff I’d written. Perhaps I felt like that history was a …
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