Reading "Show Me The Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen." I was aware of a resident's WP dot com blog warning that a fatal disaster was going to happen. I was not aware that the housing association had blocked it as a nuisance.

This is an excellent analysis of Ofcom’s Illegal Harms Consultation. Ellen Judson Beatriz Kira @digitalspeechx #OnlineSafetyAct papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

"why should Majority World countries be expected to accept Big Tech platforms uncritically, as though these platforms are the sole harbingers of development and free speech?” h/t Mark Nottingham tarakiyee.com/suspending-x-b…

“Free speech deserves to be jealously guarded. But the ill-advised and off-base response to Durov’s indictment on platforms like X that encourage follower-chasing influencers to engage in performative moral outrage does not advance this cause” -R. DiResta theunpopulist.net/p/platforms-li…

Today, the UK-Ukraine Digital Trade Agreement enters into force, benefitting businesses in both our nations 👇

I’m guessing the dedicated email address where Parliamentarians could report threats is now also returning a poo emoji.

Not the worst thing to happen to Franz Ferdinand in a car

BREAKING following a disagreement in their first meeting about leninists praxis they have split into two groups, the people's independence alliance and the democratic people's alliance of independence

Our August newsletter just landed—with a focus on the UK Online Safety Act & its application in the recent riots + thoughts on next steps for civil society engagement in the UN Cybercrime Convention. Read it: mailchi.mp/gp-digital/is-… Subscribe: gp-digital.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=3f…

One of the more fascinating dynamics in UK politics is that the biggest advocate of secure communications, and the open internet, is the military.

New mischief from me: a provocative challenge for anyone who used to enjoy my privacy conference talks. I've given you what you need to spin your own. heatherburns.tech/2024/09/03/you…

This is apparently only playing in one arthouse cinema in London, but I desperately want to see it. It's an unscripted film of real US officials playing through a wargame of, well, Trump 2 escalating quickly. wargamefilm.com

At VICE News we built an extremism desk with some of the best beat reporters in the business who covered this topic in a way no other publication was even coming close to. Then the bosses paid themselves huge bonuses a day before firing everyone. Great industry.

It has come to my attention that my student email account was programmed by an American.

Quite sad that the Grenfell inquiry site has to have a "Leave Site" panic button. I deployed one only once, when I made a site for a domestic violence shelter, where users were at risk from even visiting the site. That tells you how much trauma the survivors still live with.

Just after 8 AM on 10 January 2016.

Sending longreads to Kindle remains the best focused reading hack I’ve ever come up with. No tabs, no ads, just glorious semantic formatting. (hi Kate)

Huge news that X’s last big name exec still there from the Twitter days is leaving, voluntarily, and he’s their head of global policy (so squaring off all the chaos with governments worldwide). Nick’s unique experience will be fascinating to see unfold techmeme.com/240906/p1#a240…

I stan Mallory at all times - nailing it here as usual - incompetence is not an act of bravery. overcast.fm/+ABGreHbPUxk

In my conference speaking days I always wanted to do a talk on “what you can learn from the adult industry”, partially because it would have been a good talk, but mostly to watch the organisers fainting like Victorian spinsters.