A bit derivative

Idle thoughts about Twitter and space and time

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February 13, 2024

As I’m poking through half-forgotten draft posts languishing behind this page, I’ve had cause to reflect that a recurring theme in my research concerns the technologically mediated dimensions of space and time. This subject is broached, for instance, when someone talks about how the internet eschews borders. That is a spatial observation. On the other…
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Tops of the Pops 2022

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Quick Hits, Top5

January 14, 2023

Following on my last post wherein I gave a Top5 sampling of my favorite songs of the year. I am going to develop another Top5 of 2022 list. This one, a bit more general. After finishing my previous list I reflected that: “yes, I like pop music”. This isn’t to say that the music I…
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New Year, New Memes

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Quick Hits, Top5

January 10, 2023

This year I have resolved to populate this website with more content at shorter intervals. What better time to start than now. I am going to start the year with a series of blog posts looking back at 2022. For this post, I will don the mask of a music blogger. Year in Review Part…
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Great Site Here You Got Here, Too Bad it ain’t Free

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November 11, 2022

It has been a long six months since my last post and upon reflection it is remarkable how quickly the tech landscape can change. For example, these past six months has seen Facebook/Meta’s stock price nearly halve. We also bore witness to a strange purchase of Twitter by that tricky sinkster, Elon Musk. In my…
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Great Site You Got Here, Too Bad it’s Free

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May 11, 2022

Spending time on Twitter means that you you will almost certainly be confronted with a mind numbing contradiction or *Bad Take* from an account with a large following. Inevitably, someone will remark, “I can’t believe this website is free”. “Yes”, we say, “What else should we expect? You get what you pay for, and this…
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Idle thoughts about Twitter and space and time

Tops of the Pops 2022

New Year, New Memes

Great Site Here You Got Here, Too Bad it ain’t Free

Great Site You Got Here, Too Bad it’s Free