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“Severance”: Apple’s warped satire of… Apple?
Warning: abundant spoilers for the first season (and speculation about the second season) of Severance follow.
Apr 18, 2022
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Josh Cowls
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February 2022
Truth Social: App stores as a new front in the platform governance of Donald Trump
The launch of “Truth Social” is the latest episode in the sorry saga of Donald Trump and social media, but one which implicates new sites…
Feb 21, 2022
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Josh Cowls
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Truth Social: App stores as a new front in the platform governance of Donald Trump
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October 2020
A nervous onlooker’s guide to the 2020 presidential election, which will be fought in four…
On the evening of November 8th 2016 I was sitting with friends in a Somerville, Massachusetts apartment feeling nervous but hopeful. For…
Oct 31, 2020
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Josh Cowls
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A nervous onlooker’s guide to the 2020 presidential election, which will be fought in four…
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April 2020
Flattening the curve forwards: The new speed of politics and the new politics of speed
The slow, deliberative nature of representative democracy seems ill-suited to the present moment. Can it survive the new politics of speed?
Apr 19, 2020
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Josh Cowls
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Flattening the curve forwards: The new speed of politics and the new politics of speed
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January 2020
Brexit and the politics of subtraction
So that’s the end of that. After three-and-a-half years of bitter wrangling—an argument foisted on the nation, like a crying baby, after three decades…
Jan 27, 2020
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September 2019
Want to stop no deal and five more years of Boris? The only answer is a tactical pact
The year is 2024, and in his final speech on the eve of the general election, standing next to his wife Carrie Symonds, Boris Johnson…
Sep 4, 2019
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Want to stop no deal and five more years of Boris? The only answer is a tactical pact
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August 2019
Four Things I Wish I’d Known Before Starting a PhD
I’m coming to the end of my first year* as a PhD student at Oxford University’s Internet Institute. It has been a challenging year, in…
Aug 20, 2019
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Four Things I Wish I’d Known Before Starting a PhD
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March 2019
Deciding how to decide: Six key questions for reducing AI’s democratic deficit
Artificial intelligence (AI) has a “democratic deficit” — and maybe that shouldn’t be a surprise. As Jonnie Penn and others have argued…
Mar 22, 2019
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Josh Cowls
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Deciding how to decide: Six key questions for reducing AI’s democratic deficit
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December 2018
“Free Solo” Review: A human-nature documentary as grounded as it is gripping
The extraordinary new documentary Free Solo profiles lifelong climber Alex Honnold as he embarks on an unprecedented feat: scaling Yosemit
Dec 18, 2018
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Josh Cowls
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April 2018
Forget elections — the data sharing that keeps me up at night is much more fundamental
Several weeks on from the initial story breaking, we are still feeling the fallout of revelations that data gathered from unwitting…
Apr 5, 2018
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Josh Cowls
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Forget elections — the data sharing that keeps me up at night is much more fundamental
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August 2017
AI and the “Trolley Problem” Problem
The striking ascent of self-driving cars, from the stuff of sci-fi to a car dealership near you, offers one of the most transformative…
Aug 9, 2017
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AI and the “Trolley Problem” Problem
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July 2017
Laws of Unintended Consequence
There are many and varied reasons to be worried about Brexit: exiting the single market, inflaming tensions at the Irish border, and…
Jul 19, 2017
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