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September 15

Dense Discovery

2 days ago

356 / Like a horse stung by a wasp

Dense Discovery – Issue 356 We expect more from technology and less from each other. What once would have seemed like ‘good service’ is now an inconvenience. – Sherry Turkle...

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September 8

Dense Discovery

9 days ago

355 / Big Tech’s subsidised empire-building

Dense Discovery – Issue 355 AI is not Artificial Intelligence, it’s Automated Inequality. – Adapted from Mike Zajko Featured artist: Calvin Sprague Welcome t...

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September 1

Dense Discovery

16 days ago

354 / Design’s reckoning: who really pays?

Dense Discovery – Issue 354 Designs who engage in ‘the design of dissent’ do exist, but design’s default position is to grease the wheels of capitalism with style and taste....

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August 25

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23 days ago

353 / Between less wrong and almost right

Dense Discovery – Issue 353 The trouble with most folks isn’t so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain’t so. – Josh Billings Featured artist: Hitoshi M...

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August 19

Dense Discovery

29 days ago

A quick favour (involves clicking things)

Dense Discovery Help me stop saying ‘smart people read this’ I’ve always tried to keep advertising in DD thoughtful and honest – no algorithmic tracking nonsense or data harvesting. But the flip side of asking very...

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August 18

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about 1 month ago

352 / The case for staying put

Dense Discovery – Issue 352 If you don’t know where you are, you probably don’t know who you are. – Ralph Ellison Featured artist: Simón Prades Welcome to Is...

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August 11

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351 / Imaginary lines, convenient blame

Dense Discovery – Issue 351 As a global community, we face a choice. Do we want migration to be a source of prosperity and international solidarity, or a byword for inhumani...

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August 4

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about 1 month ago

350 / Move fast, break democracy

Dense Discovery – Issue 350 The people who are running the tech companies aren’t trying to solve the problems of the future – they’re trying to escape them. – Adapted from D...

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July 28

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about 2 months ago

349 / The tyranny of being reachable

Dense Discovery – Issue 349 Reality is chaos, and we’ve created an algorithm that keeps us informed of as much of that chaos as possible, from the second we wake up to the s...

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July 21

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348 / Expertise as a status threat

Dense Discovery – Issue 348 We are social creatures, and almost everything puzzling and paradoxical about our species is downstream of this fact. – Dan Williams Featured...

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