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This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. It’s time to either fork NaNoWrimo, or just put a fork in it. The National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) has been an online event each November since 1999, spurring would-be and wannabe authors to bang
encryption
This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. Tl;dr: Telegram is not an encrypted messaging app. Or it’s not especially encrypted in a way that it’s somehow a feature. If you read no further, then that’s the walk-away message from
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This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. I’m a slow blogger. Perhaps it’s one of the few aspects about this site to act as an indicator that the words here are in fact typed by human fingers. AI-powered sites are running
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This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. “You should not be afraid of AI. You should be afraid of the people building it.” Jessica Matthews, founder of Uncharted Power Tl;dr: The incorporation of AI into weapons needs to be banned in a
adtech
This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. Tl;dr: Surveillance is a natural outcome of the internet as it was created. Surveillance capitalism isn’t an innovation, but a resource extraction industry, and states don’t need to make fancy tools to get
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This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. Tl;dr: Automattic, the owner of of Tumblr and WordPress.com, is negotiating with Midjourney and OpenAI to sell them AI training data which would be scraped from platform users’ posts unless they opt out. It’
blogging
This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. I’m slowly working on another rambling blog post, this time about real-time bidding over your web browsing habits. It’s about how in spite of all the sophisticated spyware and NSA data harvesting tools we
abortion
This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. Here are more things I saw, read, tooted, skeeted, clicked or blogged on from the last week or so… give or take, and possibly breif attempts at sarcasm or humour when describing them. Or not. Managing
democracy
This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. Tl;dr: A long, rambling and not very “tech” related post this week, looking at the recent ICJ ruling about evidence of acts of genocide in Gaza, defending a rules-based international order in a world that
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This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. Three weeks running and still doing a Weekly Roundup! Is it remotely newsletter worthy as a format or in substance? Would anyone actually subscribe to this? Is the content even martingally monetisable? I’m especially dubious
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This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. What’s the stronger force, inertia or outrage? When Elon Musk took over Twitter and promptly set about demolishing it, there was a cacaphony of bleetings on the platform threatening a mass exodus. I can be
podcasts
I’m making an effort in 2024 to broaden my media format intake. I’m more of a reader. Articles go at your own pace. You can read faster than people talk, skip the boring bits, skim, search for the interesting bits, etc. Youtube is worse than I remember old