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bowbrickFinal act for the streamersNetflix introduced ads and now Amazon Prime too. It’s your fault.Jan 5Jan 5
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bowbrickSmart technologies for disciplining the poor(updated on 5 January 2024)Jan 23, 2023Jan 23, 2023
bowbrickReverse redistributionDuring the pandemic in the UK, innovators and opportunists improvised bold new ways to move money from the state into private hands—it was…Jan 4, 2023Jan 4, 2023
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bowbrickMonarchy: to care or not to care?Less than half of gen-z in Britain thinks we should keep the monarchy.Sep 24, 2022Sep 24, 2022