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Idle thoughts about Twitter and space and time
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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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Great Site Here You Got Here, Too Bad it ain’t Free
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SCF
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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SCF
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…
