(untitled)
📵
Laurence Warner's Far from Social
Latest posts
(untitled)
📵
This blog is not suitable for kids
2 years ago I wrote an op-ed of that title for a prominent Lib Dem blog * , arguing that even liberals should support what Labour has announced today: namely banning under-16s unrestricted internet access. To celebrate Britain’s brave move today, I’m releasing an audio narration I recorded for myself before sending off the article: “The internet is not, and probably cannot be,…
(untitled)
📵 this month on smartphone detox: a BURNER for a William Turner 💷 📚 Vassal State by Angus Hanton
(untitled)
📵 this month on smartphone detox: I lost my Punkt MP02! What should I replace it with? I’m thinking a rugged CAT phone
(untitled)
📵 this month on smartphone detox: I accidentally wiped my Light Phone!
(untitled)
📵 this month on smartphone detox: we’re complacently letting Big Tech monopolies team up vs. humans 💀
(untitled)
📵 this month on smartphone detox: I heard BTC fell (let’s hope the CO2 can too)
(untitled)
Del: LinkedIn Alt: LaurenceWarner.com/cv Ctrl: your job-search too with a clean, printable resumé page. Copy my Code: save styles.css & script.js, add your imgs, and edit index.html (leaving a link to mine pls!). NoCode? Try a Profile template on Carrd
(untitled)
📵 FirstWeek FlipPhone: The Smartphone Detox continues into 2026: ps see my journey last year from Punkt MP02 to going Light Phone III full-time: all 12x 1min vlogs from 2025 together on my article ..(thanks to M.b Studio!)
Ben's Polar Express
1.7 thousand pounds + 8 bags of toys delivered to The TOY Project via 120 Metro Light Rail stations (+ lizzie line) Future donations -> TheTOYProject.co.uk YES BEN Photo Highlights Rizzle Kicks' Jordan Stephens loves “legend” Ben’s Polar Express Light Phone 3 for mental health treading the boards with Tamzin Outhwaite. V. entertaining play to celebrate Ben finishing his…
📵 light III is my phone
all the month round! First Week Flip Phone is dead, long live Smartphone Detox Unboxing video: it ain’t that Light, and it definitely ain’t Free so when you do order yours use my ref ! All 2025 Vlogs Half the year doing FirstWeek on Punkt MP02, before going light: all the month round! 12 x 1min vids: Jan - back to Punkt MP02 til the Light Phone III arrives in Spring. I may start…
🎙️Fulbrighter pod: "Can Music Remake the Internet?"
Podcast interview on the Outinis *Date Keepers* fallback: hit audio below audio | on Spotify | on YT
How to get tracks onto Streaming
Do you want to be an artist who reaches audiences directly, independent of Big Music / Big Tech? Are you sure? (2026 update) AI Companies will be able to rip off your style IsThisWhatWeWant.com And then claim you ripped off them ( eg ) For their lizzie OK You’ll need: 🎧 Music Distribution 🔊 You need to upload your .wavs to a distributor, who will send out your tunes to stores like Spotify,…
My top blogposts of 2023/4
based on the time you folks spent on them (according to my publicly available SimpleAnalytics.com/blog.laurencewarner.com ) Most Popular Posts from the period covered in these books I just got printed via DayOne: arts 2024: Ben in Daily Echo ( micro orig newspaper link ) 2023: A Pandit & Warner Musical about climate (micro) tech 2024: 📧 “Sent overnight via Proton” - Explaining my…
Jan (+ every other month 👋) off SOCIAL
In reverse order: \5. IG - deleting! Printed book via DayOne: which they couldn’t scrape til a minute ago :P I hope Threads users will get to follow this blog via ActivityPub at some point. \3. YT - no new videos! Left most videos Unlisted, and small handful as a Public showcase. leaving the only one of the 7 deadly SOCIAL I’m actively updating: \1. LinkedIn It started the highest…
Dec in SOCIAL
SOCIAL New Year, Less Seers 1- LI new job! 3- YT no new music, haven’t decided whether to continue digi detox vlogs, but will be doing a minimalist curation for sure 5- IG closed to public, printing via Day One. I’ll just rely on Threads.Net people being able to follow me across the fediverse eventually
Hello fellow bloggers,
In the last of 10 BigTech diss-tracks Ctrl-Alt-Rap , instead of piling on your new “ president ”, I instead celebrate some truly great American technologists, including @signalapp@mastodon.world president @Mer__edith@mastodon.world and M.b founder @manton : Thanks to Manton I can blog Thanks to Manton I can blog The Web is OURSS with Micro.blog Yay! Pro social! Pls consider supporting my efforts…
Ctrl-Alt-Rap album out now.
Time to clean up the tech industry.
Ctrl-Alt-Rap spelled out
During FirstWeek Nov I recorded an album in my hometown of Eastleigh. Having banked a Colombian collab, I had 9 more Big Tech companies to speak to on the South Coast of England. An ocean away from where tech bros were politicking and getting rich. So I’m getting a message to each of them loud & clear. Ctrl-Alt-Rap, that’s Cookies toney rename lizzie -old skool skit- Amusing 💀…
"Nanos Gigantum Humeris Insidentes" - my students
some code above & beyond Couple animated websites by my tech students (2024 2nd fortnight): 💀 Sans 😏 Bart Simpson Skating Dark Mode web-design done right Another exceptional responsive & interactive site about a character from Undertale - a 2-d video game with a similar retro dark-mode style. After last session ’s site standout site for Alphys, one student was inspired to go one better…
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of web design
just because you can code it, doesn't mean you should Student research task before designing their 2 week website . GOOD (UI/UX) to the Moon NASA Spotify - Web Player: Music for everyone Fender Guitars | Electric, Acoustic & Bass Guitars, Amps, Pro Audio Google Slides: Online Slideshow Maker | Google Workspace Official Rolex Website - Swiss Luxury Watches Netflix United Kingdom – Watch TV…
2 week websites
Websites by my tech students (2024 1st fortnight) I’m back teaching my Intro to Websites course to Oxford summer school sixth-formers applying for Computer Science university programs. What better text to include in a personal statement than a url to hand-coded website! To lower privacy concerns and raise enthusiasm, the personal site’s topic is not themselves, but their fave fictional…
rap beef gets techie
May in SOCIAL : It seems all 7 deadly socials were aflame this month - and the last - over an American & Canadian rapper slugging it out over .wavs. Whole thing not really my style - rap or life wise. Some pretty serious claims of criminal-type behavior were made, which I’d hope would be actually reported if any evidence is held. But some legal aspects were played out in public. I’ll…
📧 Sent overnight via Proton
Explaining my email signature tl;dr if you got an email on the hour-mark from me today, I probably wrote it yesterday; and if you aren’t using Proton, our words have already been AI-scraped 1. Private with Proton Email is a decades-old interoperable system that has unfortunately been cornered in a near-monopoly by our biggest surveillance capitalist outfit: g00gle. Fortunately some CERN nerds…