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Apr
12

The long wait.

The UK's review into the treatment of adolescents with gender dysphoria may be well intended. The consequences are going to be awful.
3 min read
Aug
13

Making the personal mechanical.

I'm finding myself defending opinions where I try to explain why objecting to the #fraud era is as much a waste of time as welcoming it. It's tiresome.
1 min read
Oct
25

Live Twitter Feeds Into Powerpoint [2009]

Twitter plugins for PPT slides so you can have a slide with a live feed of twitter action as you present.... OMG - can you even imagine the horror? And, at the
Mar
30

Happy Trans Visibility Day. Also, can we stop doing this now?

No one should be celebrating trans woman today. Celebrate us as women, celebrate our achievements, everyday, any day but not one day dedicated to making the atypical quality of our foetal gestation visible. This day is the worst.
2 min read
Feb
18

Why does Twitter view transphobia as free speech?

Frustrated shouting into a bleak void..
4 min read
Sep
25

Machine Learning and Human Bias - according to Google.

For those paying attention - the "shoe story" had been a staple of my talks for at least a couple of years by this point - so I took some
Jul
16

Ford and the key to the future.

So Ford have a key that lets you unlock your car based on your proximity. Which is cool. And (it appears) their marketing agency decided to promote this by applying the same
3 min read
Jun
28

Breaking the law :: speeding (why don't we just fix it?)

This is a minor mental digression about speeding in cars. It is against the law, right? It's dangerous. Lethal in fact. With serious penalties. And even if you could tweak
2 min read
Oct
16

Fast Food Internet : what could go wrong?|

a scarily simple anonymous page hosting tool - http://checkthis.com "No set-up, password, back-end, save button, sidebar, blogroll… Just publish and share the link in seconds. To get started visit
Jun
05

Facebook Baiting.

Reminds me of The Googling by the Vacationeers:
Feb
25

Recognizr

AR App Helps You Identify Strangers with Social Media - because that's a good thing... right? Quote from popsci: "Dubbed Recognizr, the app essentially works like this: the user
1 min read
Sep
08

Climate on the Wall: Interactive Projection

The Watermarks Project (2009) - Chris Bodle Sea levels are rising due to climate change... but how much could they rise and how quickly? And how could this affect the city of
1 min read
May
04

The Power of Pariah Politics

So Greenpeace are taking a bite out of Apple: Yesterday: "Jobs looks for a greener Apple" (FT, 3 May 2007): "Electronic waste has emerged as a hot-button issue in
2 min read