Incredibly wrongheaded. Automation in government isn’t about running around installing top down task templates but the ability to create bottom up tech in response to actual problems, framed locally: requires diffuse skill and capacity and maintenance and coordination.

some people will do anything to avoid confronting people who are enduring harm right now - even to the point of simulating or modeling imaginary people and privilege their imaginary needs - because imagining a billion future people is easier than listening to a single real person

"Government often assumes that its data is perfect and accurate, treating it as an “official truth” regardless of actual reality. In this context, data serves only to reinforce institutional fictions" medConfidential analysis essential reading medconfidential.org/2024/the-digit…

The idea that anti-trans fanatics are “women’s rights campaigners” is utterly ridiculous. They dedicate their efforts to abusing trans people and allies online, and concentrate their work solely on marginalising and demonising trans women, and stripping away their rights. I’ve

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I think what I'm least looking forward to from a UK perspective is liberal talking heads congratulating themselves that "at least we're not heading that way over here" when any clear-eyed analysis of the last election result will demonstrate that's *exactly* the path we are on.

So, this is happening. Start your privacy, data protection, and security planning. Start it now.

sleepy joe you’ve got two months. go crazy. eliminate all student debt. legalize marijuana. make tampons and condoms free. ban cybertrucks. shit in the oval office’s air vent. kidnap barron. the world is your oyster buddy

ICYMI I’m mostly doing my snark and ruminations on bluesky these days.

Does not bode well that highly error-prone LLMs, notable for the ease which data can be extracted and manipulated from, are being implemented in "Palantir Impact Level 6 (IL6)... reserved for systems containing data that’s deemed critical to national security."

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Good advice for using social media in general

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New scribble!! Explaining ‘purpose and means of processing’ buymeacoffee.com/missiggeek/gal…

Would someone like to explain to the former Minster of Defence that the military runs on secure encryption, or would you rather just smash your head into a brick wall. Same thing really

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