Author: PGR
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the new normal is that there is no normal
15th January 2020, Sheffield; the Beeb (and all other sources I’ve checked) suggesting a peak temperature of 12 or 13°C* this evening. I think I can recall a single night over the last two or three months during which there was a mild frost. Are you worried yet? Because you fucking well should be. […
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the mainstreaming of solutionism
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WORKS ENQUIRIES
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Metabox
Box of boxes, innit.
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beyond the valley of the trolls
Interesting interview with Anna Wiener, The New Yorker‘s woman-on-the-ground in Silicon Valley. Her critique is informed by actually having spent a number of years in the trenches of tech, always on the non-coding side of the payroll. Today’s iteration of Silicon Valley seems ahistorical, anti-intellectual, irreverent in a way that is more reflective of the…