Hoping this will be my last twt from this Ctrl-C Club locale; my pod is up & running at twt.nfld.uk. :-) Planning to migrate this week!

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interesting challenged to remaining decentralized: Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~tysong/files/Mastodon.pdf

Known 1.0 is released https://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2019/10/27/known-1-0-out-of-the-door/

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2019/07/10/visa-applications-emotional-tax-privileged-passports/

Travel to Manchester, UK | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/travel

Cyborg sentiments | Red Pepper https://www.redpepper.org.uk/cyborg-sentiments/

Where to begin with Japanese cyberpunk | BFI https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/where-begin-japanese-cyberpunk

The Siren Song of Little Languages – Wilfred Hughes::Blog http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2019/03/24/the-siren-song-of-little-languages/

Vector, the Journal of the British APL Association http://vector.org.uk/art10011550

Kingdom Hearts III: The Kotaku Review | Kotaku UK http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2019/01/27/kingdom-hearts-iii-the-kotaku-review

Teletext graphics characters among those added to Unicode – Teletext Art http://teletextart.co.uk/teletext-graphics-characters-among-those-added-to-unicode

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Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/

Proto-internet trolls’: Johann Friedrich Struensee and freedom of expression in 18th century Denmark - European studies blog https://blogs.bl.uk/european/2018/06/johann-friedrich-struensee.html

Mark Zuckerberg did everything in his power to avoid Facebook becoming the next MySpace “ but forgot one crucial detail… • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/20/facebook_disaster/

Allende’s socialist internet | Red Pepper https://www.redpepper.org.uk/allendes-socialist-internet/

The unbelievable tale of a fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante… and a murder | WIRED UK https://www.wired.co.uk/article/kill-list-dark-web-hitmen

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Berners-Lee takes flak for ‘hippie manifesto’ that only Google and Facebook could love • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/09/berners_lee_criticism/

So, the GCHQ has released a statement backing up Amazon & Apple’s denials. What do you bet the implant is 5eyes tech and not chinese at all? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cyber-britain/uk-cyber-security-agency-backs-apple-amazon-china-hack-denials-idUSKCN1MF1DN

James Stanley - Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/hardbin-phishing.html

@pete@petedeas.co.uk I’ve played with Mastodon but I really never got into it.

Decentralising the web: Maintaining the momentum https://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/3036546/decentralising-the-web-maintaining-the-momentum

Creeper & Reaper http://corewar.co.uk/creeper.htm

How People Used to Download Games From the Radio | Kotaku UK http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/10/13/people-used-download-games-radio

BBC Computer Literacy Project Archive https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/

@pete@petedeas.co.uk nice story 😃

x86 assembly doesn’t have to be scary (interactive) https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/interactive-x86-bootloader-tutorial

The Story of Second Life’s Long-Abandoned Duran Duran Universe | Kotaku UK http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2017/07/07/the-story-of-second-lifes-long-abandoned-duran-duran-universe

Review: 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson | Kate Manne https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/jordan-peterson-12-rules-kate-manne-review/

Alan Kay Thesis: The Reactive Engine http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/pdfs/kay.htm

Footnotes to Plato | Spinoza’s philosophy of freedom – Steven Nadler https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/spinoza-philosophy-freedom/

What should you do when Google gets into bed with the US military? | WIRED UK http://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-microsoft-amazon-us-military-ai-conflict

200 years later, we can say that Marx was very often right – but in a much more literal way than he intended | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/karl-marx-200-years-uk-politics-elections-working-class-slavoj-zizek-a8335931.html

Cambridge Analytica dismantled for good? Nope: It just changed its name to Emerdata • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/02/cambridge_analytica_shutdown/

A Theory of Information Warfare http://www.iwar.org.uk/iwar/resources/airchronicles/szfran.htm

Memetics does provide a useful way of understanding cultural evolution - Dr Susan Blackmore https://www.susanblackmore.uk/chapters/memetics-does-provide-a-useful-way-of-understanding-cultural-evolution/

BBC Sound Effects Archive Resource • Research & Education Space http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/

Encoding data in dubstep drops https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/encoding-data-into-dubstep-drops

It’s Nice That | A chat with the Orwellian mastermind in charge of the UK town known as Scarfolk https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/scarfolk-graphic-design-210318

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Stack Overflow Culture | Jon Skeet’s coding blog https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2018/03/17/stack-overflow-culture/

Log Ratio – an informal introduction | ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) http://cass.lancs.ac.uk/?p=1133

In The Eternal… http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2018/01/31/in-the-eternal-inferno-fiends-torment-ronald-coase-with-the-fate-of-his-ideas/

We need to an internet of unmonetisable enthusiasms | WIRED UK http://www.wired.co.uk/article/obsessive-depth-of-the-internet

Dan Collier — Typographic Links https://dancollier.co.uk/work/typographiclinks/

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