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The creative and intellectual pursuits of Ruby Justice Thelot. Ideas, works-in-progress, and research on culture, technology and design.
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Were Your Notifications Silent or Silenced? (opens the original)
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Our phones were supposed to be tools for connection but they’ve become tools for addiction, so overwhelming that we need means to constrain the distraction they cause. Precious moments, important meetings and intimate conversations are disrupted by the never-ending onslaught of notifications. Every app requests upon first launch the ability to “Notify” us. This implies, in 2025, with an average of 80 apps per phone, that the average smartphone user receives an estimated 146 notifications on aver
Why Are iPods So Popular? (opens the original)
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My first MP3 player was an RCA Lyra.<img alt=" - RCA Lyra RD2212" class="sizing-normal" height="225" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QKhW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fi
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