Notice of Platform Severance: Departing the Rage Economy
We are consolidating all studio communication into channels where discourse can be curated responsibly, and signal takes precedence over noise:
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THE GREAT DIGITAL EXTORTION
"SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE" IS A EUPHEMISM FOR DIGITAL SERFDOM."
The Rage Economy: What the Numbers Actually Say About the Fight on Meta
If the vitriol on Instagram genuinely reflected a mass migration away from the platforms people say they hate, we'd expect to see it in the numbers. We don't.
The Most Radical Thing You Can Do On Meta Is Leave
Surveillance capitalism has a single requirement: that you stay. The model does not care what you think about it. It cares that you're here to be measured thinking it.
The Architecture of Displacement: A South Wales Case Study on Walled Gardens
Platforms must be forced to state explicitly and unambiguously that content is permanently at risk. The current user agreement model hides reality behind legalese.
Instagram Purges Practical Guide
Work through this in order. Do not skip steps. Do not wait.
Social Media in 2026: A Case for Contempt
Social media platforms are infrastructure you don't own, operated under terms you didn't negotiate, subject to unilateral changes you'll find out about after the fact.
Pinterest Called Our Human-Made Art AI. Here's What That Actually Means.
On 30th April 2026, Pinterest labelled a human-made 3D portrait "AI modified." No appeal. No methodology. No accountability. This is what unvalidated classifiers do to skilled digital artists. We documented it.
The IndieWeb Is Right. But Should We Trust It?
I'm aligning with IndieWeb principles. The geography problem is real and I'm naming it. The class problem is real and they know it. The institutional gravity problem is real and it hasn't gone away just because there's now a meetup in Edinburgh. Then I tried to actually join. Seven updates follow.
There Is No Exit
There is no ethical consumption under monopoly capitalism. There is no clean tech under surveillance capitalism. There is no exit available to everyone — because exit requires resources, health, technical capacity, and time that are not equally distributed.
The New Common Room: Why We’re Opening a Discord
The problem with platforms like X and Substack Notes is that they encourage you to perform. You write a comment hoping for likes. Discord is different. It’s a chat. It’s a messy, real, flowing conversation. It’s the difference between giving a speech and sitting in a pub.
On Not Leading With Letters: A Reminder About Assumptions
Jane Goodall was dismissed for anthropomorphising chimps. Barbara McClintock was marginalised for her "feeling for the organism." Outsider scientists often see what institutional frameworks are designed to miss, not despite their outsider status, but because of it.
All Noise, No Soul: Why We Hold The Line Against Influencers and Gurus
The plastics are pitch-invading. They nicked the tactics, but they can’t replicate the roar. Here is how this AOF Subscriber’s Crew handles the vampires.
The Internet Is Disappearing — and You’re Not Supposed to Notice
"When was the last time you clicked from one independent website to another, following a chain of human curiosity rather than an algorithmic suggestion? When was the last time you felt lost online in a good way?"
THE SUBSTACK SMILE MASK
When you amplify a demographic, you amplify its worldview. On Notes, that worldview is unmistakable: neo-Victorian moralising in the language of neutral observation.
SuperGrok cancellation: a help guide, and a UX crime scene
I grabbed this screen to prove the point. The billing controls weren’t in the modal. They were hiding beneath it, off-frame, like buttons on a sunken UI layer. Cancellation opens via pop-ups through the payment owners: either Stripe or your X account page at X (formerly Twitter)