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The Cultures Ep 247: Avengers, Boxycharm, Subscriptions, VCs Fund Our Lives
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No comments on The Cultures Ep 247: Avengers, Boxycharm, Subscriptions, VCs Fund Our LivesListen to episode 247 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Avengers: Infinity War (SPOILERS!) Boxycharm & Fabricating Excitement On Subscriptions How much of Naomi’s life is sustained by VC funding?
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Are Subscriptions Fair?
Subscription pricing, once the domain of newspapers, magazines, and cable bundles, is lately becoming much more common in everything from online video and movie tickets to razors and meal kits. One newish area that has been causing a lot of anguish has been subscription pricing for apps, as summarised on Metafilter. I was inspired to…
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Avengers: Infinity War, 2018 – ★★★½
Reminded me of Game of Thrones in its relentless action and the culmination of multi-film plotlines. An impressive achievement. Also, I liked the bits in Edinburgh. Vía Letterboxd – Adrian Hon
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Guardian comments are destroying civilisation, Part II
Becky Gardiner just published a fascinating and damning study on the endemic hostility towards women and minorities in Guardian comments: By using blocked comments as a proxy for abusive or dismissive comments, I found that articles written by women attracted a significantly higher percentage of com- ments that were subsequently blocked than those written by…
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TSB and Bank Account Number Portability
Even after the TSB banking debacle, it’s unlikely that many of their customers will switch to another bank, given that just 1-2% of UK consumers switch each year with most being put off due to the hassle. Yes, the new Current Account Switch Service has made the process easier, but it’s disappointing we never got the true “bank account…
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Spies, Cairo, and Cats on The New Yorker
I don’t know how I feel about rumours that Apple might buy part or all of Condé Nast – yes, their unlimited resources might boost journalism, but there is a long history of tech companies buying news companies and it usually doesn’t end well. Still, if Apple brought more readers to stories like these two from this…
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Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery forces you to pay – or wait – to save a kid from being strangled by Tom Phillips: You have a finite bar of energy you can hold at one time, and when this is depleted you’ll need to pay up or just wait it out and keep checking back before time…
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The Cultures Ep 246: Naomi’s Movie Premiere, Nintendo’s Approach to Creativity
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Listen to episode 246 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Naomi’s experiences on the movie premiere circuit Nintendo’s approach to creativity Note: No Andrea this ep
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The Cultures Ep 245: What Does It Mean To Be a “Friend”, Andrea Becomes a Redditor, Megagames
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Listen to episode 245 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: What does it actually mean to be someone’s “friend”? (Quinn Norton’s post, Jeremy Corbyn’s regrets) Andrea becomes a Redditor (/r/MakeUpAddiction) Adrian becomes a journalist in the Watch The Skies megagame
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