Recovering academic. Aspiring Funkadelic. Lover of Hendrix, McLuhan & McKenna. Sole Editor-in-Chief of Travellikeaking.blog. #travellikeaking #positiveforce
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24 Sep 2025
This is why I've not been active on Twitter/X for years. Users don't get exposed to good content. Instead, they get exposed to shit.
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Patrick Couch retweeted
26 Aug 2021
How long do we have left before the iPhone in your pocket begins quietly filing reports about encountering âextremistâ political material, or about your presence at a "civil disturbance"? edwardsnowden.substack.com/pâŠ
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14 Jul 2021
âwe should not build a means to silently monitor billions of private conversations just because we could.â
We cannot take end-to-end encryption for granted. There remains serious pressure to take it away. wired.trib.al/B9TNi3p
13 Jul 2021
âThe physics of cyberspace are wholly different from every other war domain.â Indeed.
Subscriber exclusive: On June 27, 2017, a single piece of code racked up more than $10 billion in damagesâcrippling ports, paralyzing corporations, and freezing government agencies.
This is how it happened. (from 2018) wired.trib.al/H7pFFoN
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3 Jul 2021
Food for thought. Give it a read!
Being stuck on the idea that private money will protect you from a promised hellscape might not be the best plan. wired.trib.al/MqiLwRs
21 May 2021
Great piece! Well worth reading if youâre interested in classic 80s/90s computer gaming!
With the release of this new book, the raison dâetre of Sierra as a company is now laid bare. wired.trib.al/INoVeNV
14 Apr 2021
Another very interesting and well-written piece courtesy @WIRED! Highly recommended! đ
Erdal Arıkan was an unknown Turkish academic in 2008 when he published a major discovery in the field of information theory. Huawei plucked his theory out of academic obscurity, using it to boost a technology so big it could not be denied: 5G wired.trib.al/TolU67p
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9 Apr 2021
âThere were a few episodes they didnât want on their platform,â Rogan said, per DMN. âAnd I was like, âOK, I donât care.'â Which reminds me of @IggyPop comment on the commercial use of his songs: âthatâs not how they were conceivedâ but still #JimMorrison not happy #lightmyfire
9 Apr 2021
Spotify Has Now Deleted 42 Episodes of âThe Joe Rogan Experienceâ - TheWrap dlvr.it/RxLQzG
27 Mar 2021
Another great piece from âŠ@WIREDâ©. âif the human ear can naturally separate the sounds of instruments from one another, it should also be possible to model that same separation by machine.â It will be! #ai wired.com/story/upmixing-audâŠ
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27 Mar 2021
Also: âSome 16-year-old making hip hop records on a PlayStation is going to figure out some genius use of this thing and create a sound world we've never heard before.â Itâs inevitable! đđđ„đ ping @TouristInSpace
25 Mar 2021
âDirecting executive branch agencies to enforce the antitrust and securities laws against flagrant violators would be welcome next steps.â Indeed! đ
Opinion: Subjecting business executives to felony prosecution might finally create incentives for good faith negotiation with corporations whose behavior poses a threat to society and the authority of the government wired.trib.al/GST1kpz
17 Mar 2021
âFollowing the Santa Clara PrinciplesâNumbers, Notice, and Appealâwould be a good start.â Indeed! đđ„
When @Facebook disables user accounts, it should offer real notice and an appeal process. This Oakland band got neither. eff.org/takedowns/facebook-tâŠ
17 Mar 2021
âArtists have been using hardware and software to create artwork and distribute it on the internet for the last 20 years but there was never a real way to truly own and collect it. With NFTs that has now changed." Great... đ âŠ@Robertstasinskiâ© cnn.com/style/article/beepleâŠ
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17 Mar 2021
Is this desirable? Progress? Or just another way capitalism subverts art into commodity? Do all analog structures need to be retained in or transferred to the digital domain? What was it Gertrude said? Make it new? đ€·ââïž
Patrick Couch retweeted
14 Mar 2021
REASONS TO NOT GET THE VACCINE
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13 Mar 2021
Indeed!
FLoC is rooted in the false premise that we have to choose between âold trackingâ and ânew tracking.â Instead of re-inventing the tracking wheel, we should build a better world without the problems of targeted ads. eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/goâŠ
13 Mar 2021
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