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NEW BOOK ALERT: Long term readers will recall that I recommended Gill Kernick’s “Catastophe and Systemic Change: Learning from the Grenfell Tower Fire and other disasters”” a few years ago, saying that it was “an extremely good and important book which deals with questions of accountability, complex systems and disastrous failure in exactly the sensitive and perceptive way that I was scared I…
Read on Substack → May 27, 2026I’m not exactly in summer re-runs, but the effects of the “heat dome” over Europe have me thinking about the passage at the end of a book review I wrote for Hypertext last year, where I tried to invent the concept of “degrowth Abundance”. “…concerned not with abundance at all but rather its opposite, bankruptcy. Greece’s Odious Debt, by Jason Manolopoulos, was a polemic published in May…
Read on Substack → May 22, 2026I was worrying about this on social media during the week, and thought I might get some interesting discussion … first, have a look at this story about Google’s plans to migrate its famous search product to an AI-driven “intelligent search box” . Lots of people are very much “gahh, enshittification, I just want my weblinks”, but I’m not - I do think this is potentially very useful. Being…
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