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First impressions of #LineageOS on a #Google #Android phone looks solid. Installation was relatively simple, wasn't bothered to log into some third party service on set up, and p…

De-Google Android with LineageOS
Google services are powerful, but they come with some major baggage; telemetry, proprietary systems, and vendor lock-in. This install guide is your roadmap...

I had the opportunity to write a chapter for the handbook *The Global Business of Education*, edited by Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Sieglinde Jornitz, and S. Karin Amos.
“People Farming in Academia” analyzes how the increasing datafication of academia is increasingly modeling it after the platform economy as we know it - with all the accompanying phenomena: vendor lock-in, precarity, ghost work, geopolitical interference, and an increasingly questionable relationship with factual accur…

Computing before 2000: "a bicycle for the mind"
Modern computing: "a cybertruck for the mind"
all the implications of this metaphor hold up
- public safety
- cardiac health
- availability to ordinary people
- traffic congestion
- home repair
- vendor lock in
- climate change