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A blue, neon sign hanging in front of an office window saying: "What is your story?"

The Memex Method

How does Cory Doctorow do it?

A concrete slab which is part of a wall, surrounded by grass with a graffiti saying "eat the rich, feed the poor."

American Obsession With Socialism

From all the questions that could cross your mind about Cory Doctorow, this one is probably the most American one.

Photo of a cruise ship in open sea.

"I am urgently chasing"

MP Rupert Lowe warns authorities and posts on X that "Brittain needs mass deportations."

Space Shuttle photographed from above while flying.

But you didn't

"Why couldn't we just discover that on our own?"

A blurry picture of a red cab (taxi) at night in something that looks like an empty street.

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Kaleidoscope City

A R/C car at night with the LED's switched on.

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Little Machines, Big Messes

An AI generated image of the main character sitting behind her desk in a dim and depressing appartment that she calls home.

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The Unmaking of Alexandra

A sun-dried fish fragment rests on the golden sand, its scales glistening under the relentless sun.

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Berlin is circling the drain

An AI generated illustration of a private detective sitting in his dim office.

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Keaton Brase in Shattered Facades

A pencil on a black background.

Teaser: Keaton Brase in Shattered Facades

A job wasn’t worth doing unless it reeked up the joint.

Encryption machine, probably an Enigma, behind glass.

PGP encryption for Linux file browser

Secure Nemo and his Nautilius.

Old tape pulled out if its housing.

Flat Tyre With Flatpak

Let's plug the hole.

A wall of old, red bricks;

Block naughty IP's with UFW

Let that little firewall work.

Prompt on a Linux terminal showing a command line on an Ubuntu PC.

Make the headphones sing with Linux

Without the snakeoil.

A screenshot of an old-fashioned computer terminal with black background and amber fonts.

Retro Linux terminal

Because, why not!

A laptop screen with lines of computer code on a black background.

Post & share

Don't listen to the techbro's: Sharing is good for you.

Magdalena Wywrot's family album of a special kind

Photography of a special kind

Tell me this isn't true.

Tell me this isn't true.

If it smells like enshittification, then it is enshittification.

Image of a crocodile resting in the sun.

Bold Promises and Hidden Pitfalls

Are we looking at vaporware?

A sign saying "today has been cancelled."

Not Today and Definitely Not Me

A broken TV in an old building.

I'm fed up with this world

Please read again, I think you're missing the point.

A pink, piggy bank on a white background.

Financial Discrimination.

Because they wouldn’t block Bezos, would they?

An outside bin overfloring with garbage and more garbage lying on the ground.

Pilmp my AI

Virtual influencers that steal content from real models take over Instagram.

A graph showing an upwards tendency wit a pen and part of a notebook lying on the table.

Digital Finance Tools (copywrite)

Navigating Personal Finance in the Digital Era.

A wooden cabine in the field.

COPY - Green Living Strategies at Home.

Easy Strategies for a Greener Tomorrow.