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Fuzzy logic and customer comments
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Does a generative AI search really burn down the world?
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Thoughts on theft, and AI's social contract
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Face it: search engines are dead and AI is doing a great job replacing them
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> The steak bake spidermapper
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Confidently wrong
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How dare you (not) use AI
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> The history of album art
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Defamation by LLM
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The web used to be a reliable library. AI has ruined it.
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Crossing the Rubicon: thoughts on AI over #WeblogPoMo2025
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> New music from The Divine Comedy!
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Fritz Haber
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> Mid nineties/early 2000s computer screens as tapestries
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> The history of "It is now safe to turn off your computer"
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> The advertising profile about you built on a single photograph
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> Wikipedia is only a non-profit because of a labour strike
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Gallows, my childhood home, and David Bowie sleepovers
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2024 album of the year
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2024 albums of the year - the not-quite-but-still-good runners-up
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> Outsourced Facebook moderation results in severe PTSD
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Yuck (or, why Bluesky still isn't for me)
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> The Guardian is ceasing their Twitter posting
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> New music from Hope Of The States (!)
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> Cabel Sasser's 2024 XOXO talk
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> Bluesky, other Twitter-like replacements, and why they'll disappear
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William Blake versus England
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What does 'ephemera' mean on this website?
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> A Kubrick quote about good and evil
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> Grist for the AI mill
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> The Bop Spotter
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"Several"
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> Bringing the fun songs of Adult DVD to your attention
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> New music from Franz Ferdinand!
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> Yes, your car is listening to you
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There's a secret magical spreadsheet function that calculates mortgage payments
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> Yes, your phone is listening to you
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> The sinister history of Jelly Babies
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> A delightful story about teens having fun with binary
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> You have not considered the phrase 'balls to the wall' before
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> Embed your own images in QR codes
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My hot take nostalgia piece on the news that Oasis are reforming
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> New music from Ruthven!
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Don't buy a iPad Mini right now, but also do because they're awesome
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> How big is a billion?
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Why doesn't the TXT entry in my DNS record get propagated across the web?
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> Mark and Lard nostalgiafest
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> AI says 'strawberry' contains one r, proves it with logic
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Moving blogs all over again
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> New music from Field Music!
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> Doing magic with sodium polyacrylate
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> Maths and Mario Kart choices
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> Video of the second time I saw my favourite band live
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> Microsoft's AI chief thinks anything published online is up for grabs
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What I learned about my online self during #WeblogPoMo2024
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omg.lol, the Indieweb, and joy
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Beyond bensinterests
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Why was bensinterests abandoned?
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> The pre-Photoshop art of Sandy Skoglund
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> Novelty answerphone greetings
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Listlogs express joy
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> Images of Australian criminals in the 1920s
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How Japanese children learn multiplication
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> First time ski jump
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The Instapaper years
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Nobody needs a 404
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Blogging as nostalgia
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The sun, in ultraviolet
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Engagement metrics do not make you a good person
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You're doing Tumblr wrong
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> High order bit
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What was bensinterests?
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Remembering bensinterests over #WeblogPoMo2024
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> New music from Hinds!
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Six thoughts about Cyberpunk 2077
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Just write something
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Notes on books read in 2023
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Notes on twenty years
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Notes on going viral
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> Lizzo - 'Juice'
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2018 music highlights - 'Rip It Up: The Story of Scottish Pop' exhibition
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2018 music highlights - David Byrne's 'American Utopia' tour
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2018 music highlights - an introduction
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2018 album of the year, and why I'll never listen to it again
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> Amazing visualisations proving that pop music's getting more repetitive
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Falling out of love
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> Silicon Valley nannies are keeping kids away from screens
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> "This is how we radicalised the world"
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> "You don't have to answer criticism of yourself"
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> 'Cool! This guy's personality is music'
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> Mono no aware
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Introducing Jericho, the bike that's a pony that I own that's not mine
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> How do people feel when they lose Internet access?
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> 'Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests'
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> The clock that shows the time in literary quotes
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The joy of going phone free
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> 'Everything about Facebook is bad for the same reason'
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> Charlie Brown, Franklin, and the problem of representing minorities
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> How CDs and music downloads died
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> "I was fired by the machine, and no human could do a thing about it"
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> Bodega - 'How Did This Happen?!'
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> A flaw-by-flaw guide to Facebook's new GDPR privacy changes
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> The Guardian on Facebook: they're the bad guys, definitely not us
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> An apology for the Internet, from the people that built it
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> Numero on Record Store Day
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2017 album of the year
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2017 albums of the year - the not-quite-but-still-good runners-up
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> The Magnetic Fields - 'Have You Seen It In The Snow?'
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Do you want headlines, or do you want content that people will share?
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> 'The end of the end of the world'
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> David Bowie - 'Five Years (live in 1976)'
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> Once there was a search engine
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> 'Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like—I Know Because It Happened to Me'
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> French Wives – ‘Me vs Me’
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2016 albums of the year
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Hello again
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> PJ Harvey – ‘This is Love’
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Peanuts – the ‘two ponies’ strip
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> Etta James - 'Seven Day Fool'
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On algorithms
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> Security is still so difficult
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2015 album of the year
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2015 album(s) of the year – 4 to 2
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2015 album(s) of the year – an introduction
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2015 album(s) of the year – 6 to 5
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> Henry and June – ‘Goin’ Back to Memphis’
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> Joanna Newsom - 'Leaving The City'
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Two months with an Apple Watch
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Getting the most from market research
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> Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.
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> The Parrots – ‘All My Loving’
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How streaming music services are changing us
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Who is watching you online?
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Background music
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> T.S. Eliot on the information age
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Two and a half years with wearables
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Thoughts on Apple Music
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The beginning of the end of the World Wide Web
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> Click-click-click
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> Dex Romweber/The Lonely Teardrops/Deadly Lo-Fi — ‘Muchacho’
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> A seldom-asked question amongst Internet of Things manufacturers
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2014 album of the year
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2013 album of the year
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2013 album(s) of the year - 4 to 2
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2013 album(s) of the year - 7 to 5
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2013 album(s) of the year - 10 to 8
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2013 album(s) of the year - an introduction
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Could HMV still survive?
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2012 album of the year
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The shock of the new
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2011 album of the year
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2010 album of the year
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The first CDs I ever bought with my own money