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30
Aug
text based on the cover of Charli XCX's brat album (extended edition). It reads: "bluesky and it's the same but there's less arguing so it's not"

The lost art of discovery

Greetings! Hope you’ve had a most agreeable brat summer. As I’ve been attempting to sift through the never-ending
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22
Aug
The word 'resist' on a sign, in front of a fence.

Minor acts of AI resistance

I suppose you could call this post a minor act of resistance. It’s been a year since I first
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12
Jul
Oxjam logo

History repeating

A lot of my writing tends to be about looking back – sometimes fondly, sometimes not so – on the way things
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14
Jun
An image from the original Pac-Man - the blue ghost

Old ghosts, irregular posts

Hello 👋 It’s been so long since I published anything that I got an automated email from my newsletter software
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17
Apr
Image of a 1961 postcard advertising Wonder Bread

Better than sliced bread (#1)

My recent post on scepticism proved quite popular, and I got some nice feedback (thank you). At risk of labouring
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09
Apr
Pet Shop Boys on stage

West End Girls, 40 years on

I thought about trying to find a technology angle to this post. Maybe a droll commentary on algorithmic music selections,
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05
Apr
Image with the words How Now Are You?

From whence did your scepticism come?

Hello 👋 Before I launch in, I briefly wanted to say 'greetings!' to my new subscribers, as there have
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15
Mar
An artwork showing a line of artists queuing for a job, being served by a robot.

How an artist tackles AI

Something a bit different this week. I’ve been writing this newsletter-or-is-it-a-blog for just over six months and I’ve
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07
Mar
A crocodile's mouth, with many teeth

Big is the enemy of good (part two)

In my last post I wrote about how applying for a job can be a complicated process. I picked an
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29
Feb
a dog looking at a computer

Big is the enemy of good (part one)

In this post – the first in a two-parter! – I'm expanding on observations I made previously when I wrote
8 min read