Tag: Safety
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Design Under Late Capitalism Destroys Safety and Usability
Been thinking a lot about design and engineering – I come from a design background (initially more product and design realisation/design technology at school, then moved into graphic design later as it used my art skills more). My dad was an engineer also, so was brought up tinkering with things. The Titan sub is a…
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I woke up on cue
On World Beard Day, I appropriately saw the very follically blessed Epic Beard Men tonight (Sage Francis and B Dolan) on the last night of their world tour, and they were, well epic. The audience was quite beardy & bearish too, but also a mix of ages. Several highlights – 2Bad, You Can’t Win, Sage…
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doing the rounds / technology and infostress
This funny text is doing the rounds atm: “This morning I woke to my alarm clock, powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the local water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to…
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Freedom Not Fear
No2ID and Open Rights Group are doing a Fear Not Freedom day on the 11th of October. Those in the UK – they need your pictures of the surveillance state! Those of you outside the UK might not know there is the biggest density of CCTV cameras here in the whole world…and with the new…