John Ridpath

@johnridpath

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Joined March 2009
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  1. Mar 1

    Feb 2021 "album in a month" completed 🚀 Vague themes: lockdown, isolation, hibernation, house arrest... Hopefully all irrelevant in a few months time 🤞

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  2. Feb 3

    Wrote a piece about privacy labels and a data circus 🤡

    ‘To share or not to share …’ Designers are uniquely placed to navigate the ethical issues of our increasingly connected world. John Ridpath speaks to Clever°Franke about a speculative labelling system and Cirque du Data
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    Feb 2

    When you hear the phrase "free market," you probably think of "a market that is free from regulation" but that's the opposite of the phrase's original meaning! 1/

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    Feb 2

    Free on Thursday at 10? join me & for the 2nd Responsible Data event ✨ It’s a masterclass taster, & we’ll be joined by an excellent panel from regulator business & brilliant repping for the public sector

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    Jan 26

    The basically universal support for the Reddit guys in their war against the hedge fund guys is a nice throwback to the early 2010s era where people thought stuff like anonymous and Wikileaks and Reddit swarms were cool and good

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    Jan 16

    The right's war on municipal broadband was its biggest self-own of the 2010s. And while it's not true that "a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged," it might be true that "a municipal broadband activist is a conservative who's been kicked off Twitter." 37/

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    Jan 9

    Wow. Spineless fucks. Wow....

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    Jan 2

    This is fucking hilarious, and it literally looks like the circuit diagram for a Boss Metal Zone pedal -- the section they relabelled as "5G FREQ" is very obviously a sweepable bandpass midrange filter, and they left sections labelled "BASS", "TREBLE", and "FOOTSWITCH" intact

    Here in Italy people started to share this figure claiming that this is the diagram of the 5G chip that has been inserted in the covid vaccine. In reality it is the electric circuit of a guitar pedal and I believe that putting it in the covid vaccine has been an excellent idea💡
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    27 Dec 2020

    I wonder how much of UK-EU trade deal has been copy & pasted from old 90s documents 🤔 p921 refers to Netscape Communicator 4.0 as a "modern e-mail software package" (it was last updated in 2002) and recommends SHA-1 as a hash algorithm (deprecated by NIST in 2011 as insecure)

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    20 Dec 2020

    On this day in 1990, the day the world's first website and server went live at .

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  11. 19 Dec 2020

    Now? Not very excited, tbh

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  12. 4 Dec 2020

    Loving The Huddlecraft from and the community. Great distillation of the power of peer groups: "we can literally alter our perception of challenging things by surrounding ourselves with the right kind of relationships"

    Psst 🤫 Want to know a secret? We’ve distilled our learning from 3 years of pollinating peer groups into our new book . Discover our mysteries for free online: or buy a limited edition print copy through our crowdfunder:
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    13 Oct 2020

    In 1938 was the first person to demonstrate that global temperatures were increasing, using measurements from 147 locations around the planet. He linked this warming to the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

    How it started How it’s going.
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    10 Sep 2020

    "Extinction Rebellion protests threaten our way of life."

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  15. 2 Sep 2020

    I'd always thought of Arthur C Clark's tech + magic quote in terms of positive magic (e.g. a magic trick) Interested to read some darker possibilities in this thread + replies: is "5G causes covid" the modern equivalent of calling the old woman with the black cat a witch?

    I think Clarke's Third Law, ”Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” has emerged in full force during the last 10 years and its having a profound effect on the society. A thread:
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    27 Aug 2020

    I heard a good question today... Why is murder an appropriate response to property damage But property damage isn't an appropriate response to murder?

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    17 Aug 2020

    This is amazing. The future is here. ‘Fuck the algorithm’

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    29 Jul 2020

    Want a bike voucher but can't register? We didn't fix the government's broken website, but we did do the next best thing.

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    6 Jul 2020

    How to mask

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  20. 6 Jul 2020

    There's no future in England's dreaming

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