The Darnella test of social media and smartphone regulation
Young people, using smartphones, film journalistic content in the public interest. Anti-social media and anti-smartphone regulations threaten that.
Author: Heather Burns
The worst fucking app idea ever
A page out of my Mphil project research. This is not a joke.
Resistance honeypots
Journos: if you are advising your readers on counter-surveillance measures but not dropping the adtech, you are not helping your readers. You are building a honeypot to trap them.
2025’s best reads
Non-fiction, fiction, and my heart.
My top achievement for 2025
For 2025, only one dramatic achievement stands out. Yes, you all know what I'm talking about.
Throwing the Flying Spaghetti Monster at the Wall
God has entered the UK chat.
Time to start de-Appling
One for your to-do list.
Footnote privacy? Footnote privacy!
If you use a citations manager for academic writing, add it to your opsec to-do list.
Democracy and the open internet die in daylight
Same shit, different toilet.
Surveil and segregate and suppress and snitch
In which I take someone else's idea and expand on it. If only there was a term for that.
Speculative Legislation
nerd harder etc
Banned Books Week 2025 / nothing new under the sun
Turn right at Utopia and you'll find yourself here.