Posts From 2022
- Stop facial recognition algorithms from using your photos. (7th January 2022)
- The overpromise of tech. (10th January 2022)
- Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen. (11th January 2022)
- Redu, Belgium and the slow death of paper books. (12th January 2022)
- The psychedelic jelly. (13th January 2022)
- Facebook app tracks iPhone movements. (14th January 2022)
- Jackie Chan, the king of action comedy. (15th January 2022)
- Waste is central to everything we design. (20th January 2022)
- The Problem With NFTs, Web 3, and all that folly. (25th January 2022)
- Susy Thunder. The notorious phone phreaker that vanished. (29th January 2022)
- The forgotten history of the blinking cursor. (15th February 2022)
- The new pornographers. (16th February 2022)
- A shrine to toast (22nd February 2022)
- Bitcoin miners revived a dying coal plant – then CO2 emissions soared. (27th February 2022)
- A Novelist Invented a Fake Startup, investors want to fund it. (27th February 2022)
- How dark patterns work. (11th April 2022)
- The messy side of plastic recycling. (16th April 2022)
- The Bitcoin bust that took down the web's biggest child abuse site. (17th April 2022)
- The scourge of data brokers. (17th April 2022)
- Inside the world of underground warehouse raves, forest parties, and Freetekno. (30th April 2022)
- What was it like to be a teenager in the Victorian era? (10th May 2022)
- The inside story of Chernobyl during the Russian occupation. (29th May 2022)
- They're not selling your data. It's much worse... (29th May 2022)
- The oldest house in Antwerp. (5th June 2022)
- Spite buildings. (5th June 2022)
- How palm oil ended up in everything. (28th June 2022)
- Essays that became books. (7th August 2022)
- The old "I've go nothing to hide" argument. (7th August 2022)
- The Nazi concentration camps on British soil. (8th August 2022)
- The Medium Really Is the Message. (11th August 2022)
- The Burj Khalifa should never have been built. (12th August 2022)
- Bright Green Lies: a discussion with Max Wilbert. (23rd August 2022)
- Conspiracies and lies as an advertising filter. (23rd August 2022)
- You can't buy your way out of the collapse. (7th September 2022)
- Tracking people on public cameras from a single instagram post. (14th September 2022)
- Smoke alarms love the night. (18th September 2022)
- How civilization came to be and how social media is ending it. (3rd October 2022)
- The Commordion. (22nd October 2022)
- Floor 796 (18th November 2022)
- Startup releases particles to tweak the climate. (31st December 2022)