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Technologist for the humans and misanthrope for the machines. Works on digital safety and information security for media and good orgs via Internews. Opinions are my own and subject to drift. NOTE: My skeets are ephemeral and self destruct after a while.

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Published: September 7, 2024 21:09

Stop giving Aaron MatƩ or Roger Waters a microphone at these events, it's an embarrassment and damaging to the credibility of anyone they share the stage with. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Published: September 7, 2024 11:13

Normalizing impunity and vastly expanding executive power during the Bush/Cheney years played no small part in the U.S. now sitting on the teetering edge of losing its democracy. We've spent too long avoiding the hard work and now barely recognize what itā€¦

Published: September 7, 2024 08:51

We've reached the story arc in a TV show when the protagonist is fighting such an evil baddie that their adversary from an earlier season comes back and is now some kind of strategic ally. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Published: September 6, 2024 10:46

The things we do for the economy. We'll kill ourselves and everything around us for it. When the next emergent sentient species replaces us in the far future their archaeologists will marvel at our quarterly GDP growth projections. [contains quote post orā€¦

Published: September 5, 2024 21:15

Imane Khalif is winning Olympic medals, taking on hateful internet trolls like JK Rowling and inspiring a whole generation of women at home. Amazing. https://apnews.com/article/algeria-boxing-imane-khelif-567f5ea9f008642010e6cf8fef7245c4

Published: September 4, 2024 20:09

There are no marathons where the organisers say "run... or, you know, just ride an e-scooter." Climbing the mountain is not the same as taking the gondola to the top. The key problem with NaNoWriMo's take on AI is that it cheapens the beauty of theā€¦

Published: September 4, 2024 12:26

"A princĆ­pio o STF chegou a exigir que a Apple e o Google bloqueassem os usuĆ”rios brasileiros de baixarem VPN das suas lojas de aplicativos. Mas depois reverteu essa decisĆ£o." Isabela Fernandes, Executive Director of the Tor Project on keeping privacy andā€¦

Published: September 4, 2024 10:13

In the bid for Conservative party leadership in UK, Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick are neck-and-neck with 13/8 odds on the bookies sites, and I'm assuming this is bad news for Kemi who's been in the lead for a long time. I've got no horse in that race.ā€¦

Published: September 4, 2024 10:03

If only there were some kind of examples of what may have previously happened in Germany when it started flirting with far-right and nationalist philosophies. ĀÆ\_(惄)_/ĀÆ [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Published: September 3, 2024 12:52

Daniel Levy, president of USMEP and former Oslo advisor: "Instead of waiting for Washington to change its policies, he stressed, both Palestinians and the Israeli left need to recognize the different geopolitical realities around them, and abandon theā€¦

Published: September 3, 2024 07:14

The Israeli spokesperson on Times Radio about the UK ending some of its weapons exports to Israel: 'losing your small amount of arms is inconsequential and has no effect but how very dare you stop sending them.'

Published: September 1, 2024 23:17

When you work on censorship circumvention and digital safety with communities of people who are targeted by states (and others) that employ both right wing and leftist justifications to carry out the same kinds of acts of repression, you see the world in aā€¦

Published: September 1, 2024 13:57

Some good points by Carole Cadwalladr. By all means, fine, arrest and/or take the Elons and Pavels of this world to court for their various crimes, call out their hypocrisies, etc., but it won't fix disinformation. And I'll die on this hill: Telegram šŸ‘ isā€¦

Published: September 1, 2024 11:10

You only start to get shifts like this from a political candidate when you make sure they feel they need to do it. Getting the Harris campaign to make sounds about a disagreement with the Biden administration over its handling of Israel's war on Gaza isā€¦

Published: August 31, 2024 15:53

The U.S. is generally getting less tolerant of the kind of press that any liberal democracy requires as a prerequisite to exist: One that is adversarial to and independent of political power. There should be no discussion of "unfavourable coverage" becauseā€¦

Published: August 31, 2024 14:22

It's instructive to know which ways the different power structures will or won't allow mass killing to happen. https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-polio-vaccinations-who-042fcd390bda4bb84d429ae3239c5883

Published: August 31, 2024 13:38

When my kid was in primary school I told him there aren't that many bad words really, just appropriate and inappropriate situations to use some of them. So chapter 6 in that book is an appropriate context to use 'fuck,' for example. Many American parentsā€¦

Published: August 31, 2024 12:59

"Any donations that might have been made through anonymous LLCs to PACsā€”perhaps with attached quid pro quosā€”are likely to remain opaque, due to the Supreme Courtā€™s Citizens United decision." Citizen United is a NatSec issue. Anyone in Congress not workingā€¦