Mar 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Facebook scandal shows that the rules of the internet need to be written by ordinary people, not corporations Facebook’s reckless vanity has made the headlines again, with the revelation that data it held on about 50 million users was exploited commercially...
Mar 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
We’re always told to diet and tone – to take up less space, rather than more. Now I’m pumping iron and proud to be expanding I remember the first time I tried to pull a bar off the floor loaded with two big weights. Unease pooled in my stomach. My trainer was patient,...
Nov 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Workers in the US tech sector are organising. They, not their billionaire bosses, provide hope that technology will improve the lives of the many De-industrialisation and the Reagan-Thatcher years made trade unions seem like a 20th-century artefact. But evidence of a...
Jul 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
We act as if technology were neutral but it’s not. The challenge now is to highlight and remove the gender bias “Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, cosseted and naive, despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit,” wrote former...
Jan 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
With Amy McQuire – Our national holiday fails to recognize a legacy of genocide. Every year on Jan. 26, at the height of summer, Australians pull out their flags and barbecues, and raise a glass for Australia Day. But as the nationalism rises with the...
