Leek is a superb writer. After reading this piece yesterday, I sent it to half a dozen people and then read everything else in Leek's newsletter archives. Not only is it all brilliant, but I also realized that she'd written one of the most memorable articles about cities and platforms I've read in the last year, "How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it":
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates
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Cory Doctorow
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