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exploring NABU in 2025, a Canadian cable TV network from 1984
One of the networks Lori Emerson wrote about in Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook is the NABU Network (or the Natural Access to Bi-Directional Utilities Network). This was the only instance of a two-way network that operated over cable television. Users could rent or purchase a NABU Network PC, which used their home cable…
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Open Social Skillshare!
On Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, we host(ed) a skillshare session around open social media. This post will be updated post-facto with relevant documentation on the session, but for now here are some pertinent links: Ethical Alternatives:https://alternativeto.net/https://ethical.net/resources/https://european-alternatives.eu/ Alternative Social Media Platforms:What is Mastodon?A beginner’s guide to MastodonA beginner’s guide to BlueskyWhat is Bluesky? “Migration” Tools:https://openportability.org/en/auth/signin Some…
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November Book Club!
This month we’ll be reading Xiaowei Wang’s Blockchain Chicken Farm. As always, share your thoughts about your reading here or on our social media accounts using the #MALbookclub hashtag. ABOUT In Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them…
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August Book Club Post!
This month we’ll be reading Mar Hicks’ Programmed Inequality. As always, share your thoughts about your reading here or on our social media accounts using the #MALbookclub hashtag. ABOUT THE BOOK In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening…
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