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ai AI as a detector of work that needn't be

Can AI serve as our quiet advocate for rooting out poorly designed systems that sideline human experience in favour of performative artefacts that allude to productivity?

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making We got offered $10,000 to build a property management app in Hong Kong, here's why we said no.

Why we turned down a $10,000 funding opportunity to build and launch an app in Hong Kong.

ai Wage slaves: the Neo way
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systems Agency claims from subjects in closed systems - Legalposting on social media

What cringe legalese facebook posts tell us about our relationship to exploitative data monopolies

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ai The new apple advert wants you to stop thinking about other people

Septembers ad campaign that saw a formal invitation to truly stop thinking about the people we love.

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systems Pointing at the mushrooms - Identifying our own digital colonisation

A chat about digital advertising and fungus

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systems Anxiety alleviation rituals are not knowledge production

Reflections on the use of the term research and big data's attempts to innovate away the integrity of critical thinking

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systems smartphones and children

Reflecting on the landscape of children using smartphones

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security The Launch of ISO27001.zip

Sav reflects on the launch of his new project, ISO 27001.zip

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security A Lapsus$ in judgement - The sacrifice of Arion Kurtaj

An examination of the recent Lapsus$ cyber attacks that culminated in the indefinite hospitalisation of 18 year-old Arion Kurtaj

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security Considerations when getting started with InfoSec policy.

A potentially dated collection of thoughts on starting out with infosec policy.

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systems The internet forest
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security Reflections on the radiowaves - TETRA:BURST and secure software in CNI.
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