acb / is on Nostr

Melbourne→London→Stockholm; pronouns: he/they; was andrewcb on birbsite. I also post about music at @acb

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2024-11-14 20:23:08

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@nprofile…c5n8 are you catching the 23:10 sleeper train to Malmö?

2024-07-30 12:35:25

The prefix 'zucker-' should be adopted for ideas to do with surveillance capitalism and #enshittification. I.e.,
- zuckerbox: a siloed social media/communication platform where links to outside are restricted and access to your friends is gatekept by engagement-maximising algorithms
- zuckerbots: systems that harvest data from user activity and communications to build ad-targeting profiles,
and so on.

2024-04-25 19:00:23

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@npub1psd…9sr7 also, German antifascists. A cursory survey of Antifa stickers in Köln and Hamburg this weekend suggests that they’re so stridently pro-Israel as to make Reaganite Evangelicals look like The Squad by comparison.

2024-03-02 13:42:26

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1tmp…awwt Every era gets the KLF it deserves

2023-12-14 14:38:48

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@npub1psd…9sr7 an actual ZX Spectrum or an ARM SoC running a Spectrum emulator on Linux?

2023-10-11 16:08:05

This is thoughtful design: Muji apparently released a flashlight that works with any combination of 2 AA and 2 AAA batteries, only more dimly with fewer batteries.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/217/244/970/953/479/original/a941968c2be94677.png

2023-10-06 13:06:53

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Would you rule out Labour or a unionist coalition taking power in Holyrood in 2026?

2023-10-06 12:29:05

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Though the magnitude of the win (two to one) looks like more than a simple swing. That looks like a hole below the waterline.

2023-10-06 10:28:57

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@npub1wnf…rmyg @npub1psd…9sr7 That argument won’t work on gammon with a crabs-in-a-bucket mentality (i.e. 52% of the country), as on one hand, traffic will be hell, but on the other hand, all the smug elites who’d otherwise be cycling or taking trains will be stuck in hell with you.

2023-10-04 17:09:07

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@npub1y9v…srds @npub1a46…a6zk @npub1dl8…4tsq @npub1psd…9sr7 It’s probably organised very similarly to a Russian troll farm, only rather than instructing them to be a Black radical, Christian homeschool mom or football-loving squaddie, the files on their workstation screen tell them that they’re the Taxpayers’ Alliance, European Research Group or LGB Alliance.