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Nick Cave, advice columnist and agony uncle
Highly recommended. Go read: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/
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Yes populism is on the rise around the globe, but freshly enabling it with the tools of totalitarian surveillance will be totally worth it if we save just one child – John Carr, child safety activist
Paraphrased; here is what he actually said, with which I disagree > The mistrust of state institutions and Big Tech is entirely understandable, not only but particularly in those countries in the EU which had very bad experiences in their not-too-distant totalitarian pasts. But we cannot let pre-internet history condemn children to a nightmarish internet…
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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks | Reuters
This speaks volumes about the nature of government bureaucracy everywhere: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-declares-victory-effort-end-government-use-floppy-disks-2024-07-03/
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The more I read from them the more I believe that the worst thing ever to happen to the Internet was its discovery by Law Professors
I wonder what Henry V would have thought about airline regulation? The NetChoice Decision Shows the First Amendment Is Out of Control The reasoning in the decision in the NetChoice cases marks a new threat to a core function of the state. By presuming that free speech protections apply to a tech company’s “curation” of…
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Voices, some calling Macron a Cameron-style fool for “handing France to the fascists,” others think him astute for forcing the issue, the centrists, & the left to pull their shit together at speed. Which is it?
A lesson from British politics is that if you let right-wing weirdoes present themselves as unrepresented victims then they can & will slowly grow their base¹ by engaging those who mindlessly hate all politics, or who want to stick up a finger at the establishment. So in the wake of the European elections (which I…
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Labour plans to make tech giants liable for reimbursing victims of online fraud, report | …what could possibly go wrong?
It also proposes expanding the Economic Crime Act to include an offence for tech companies that fail to prevent scams on their platforms. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4329608/labour-plans-tech-giants-liable-reimbursing-victims-online-fraud-report
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Is there anything about life in Europe which requires one to go around proving one’s identity at regular intervals?
Here in the UK I have hauled out my passport once this year to close a bank account, and I will need a driving licence in a few days to vote. Therefore I’m not aware of a great “digital” convenience to be had here, and I view this as another identity scam. > The EU…
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Conservative party mailshot adopts look and feel, passing itself off as HMRC circular
It’s quite an impressive piece of misrepresentative misinformation and it doesn’t even involve the internet:
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Polymorphic LLMs? | llama.ttf is both a font AND an LLM, usable in WASM browsers
Authoritarian “Safety” people who expect to be able to control / broker access to models are going to flip out. https://fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/
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UK politicians still do not understand the Streisand Effect
1/ You wrote something we don’t like 2/ We will ignore you so you don’t get a story 3/ We will gloat about doing so 4/ You will now have a story
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From @camwilson on Mastodon | … more evidence that Australia is a land of online safety contrasts
> As both the prime minister and the opposition leader signal their support for under 16 social media ban, the eSafety Commissioner just published a report on 14-17yo LGBTIQ+ children using the internet can be “a doorway to supportive, like-minded communities ?” https://mastodon.social/@camwilson/112674917483003755