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James Ball writes Techtris, a personal blog at jamesrball.com about politics and culture. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “I Built the Torment Nexus (Political Podcast Edition)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-08, and you can follow it by feed.

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A weekly(ish) newsletter on technology, policy and society, from James Ball.

Most-linked posts?

  1. I Built the Torment Nexus (Political Podcast Edition)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted I Built the Torment Nexus (Political Podcast Edition) as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted A teen social media ban is an admission of utter failure to govern online spaces as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted I Built the Torment Nexus (Political Podcast Edition) as a story · 2 points

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