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On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: "The Master's Tools" in Tech Discourse
Somewhere between Audre Lorde's 1979 speech and contemporary tech discourse, the "master's tools" became a meme. This essay traces what was lost in the translation.…
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The FCC is coming for BGP, what about the EU?
If DNS is the internet's address book, BGP is its motorway, and it has run on trust for decades. As the FCC moves to regulate it, a look at whether the EU should follow.…
What I Learnt from What We Learnt from the xz-utils Incident
Not the xz-utils backdoor, but the month everyone spent talking about it. On the attention economy of a security incident, and what the conversation revealed that the vulnerability didn't.…
SconePro with Network Jam and Clotted Streams
Notes from an IETF working-group-forming session where internet providers and video platforms tried to make traffic shaping work a little better, and what that cooperation means for net neutrality.…
Hello W- nah just messing with you 🤣
The first post back after a long silence. Where the old archive went, how the internet I used to write about turned out to be fiction, and why it feels so good to be writing anyway.…