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I submitted my dissertation a day early. No late nights before the deadline, no last-minute rush, no panic. I used to pride myself on quoting Douglas Adams, with his deadlines making a whooshing sound as they fly by, but in the end I was relaxed and ahead of time. So uncool. My past self doesn’t …
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 …
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