Techno-Politics
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How pornography broke our online reality.
“I’m going to show you some magic.” It’s Tom Cruise on a TikTok video. He’s talking to the camera, holding up a vintage coin while flashing his pearly whites. “It’s the real thing,” he reassures the viewer, before making the coin disappear in the palm of his hand. “It’s all the real thing,” he says,…
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Book Club – ‘This Is Not Propaganda’
It’s been a while since the first entry into the inertia book club, but we are back with a cracker that looks at modern use of propaganda and disinformation. We’d highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in politics or Russia, as it is a large focus throughout. The full title of the…
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The internet is dead. Long live the internet.
From a Scottish perspective, I can’t imagine a place so culturally opposite, so fundamentally different in weather and attitude than the 90s in Silicon Valley. The place served as a focal point for big ideas, with tech visionaries and computer wizzes swarming to the San Francisco Bay Area and dreaming up all kinds of software-based…
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