Tony Roberts
@phatcontroller
Emeritus Fellow of Digital Rights. Editor of book series on all aspects of digital citizenship and digital authoritarianism. Free typo with every post.
Mikel Merino defeats Ronaldo's Portugal and Trossard defeats Trump's USA. A good day for the Champion's Arsenal.
When Sam Altman says he is offering 5% of OpenAI shares to Trump "to clear political obstacles" he is confirming that the Administration is a protection racket. But if he used social media at all he would know that Mob Boss Trump's protection fee is 10%.
Imagining an open source intelligence research project tracking supply lines of essential tech for data centres having it data leaked to organised crime
Arsenal save Brazil and Germany from early World Cup exits. Martinelli and Havertz to the rescue.
New Trolley Problem: What if pulling the lever saved one human being but meant that 100 fascists died?
AI for Good is now the official policy of the ITU Thought Police. No rigorously evidenced critique will be tolerated - just like last year.
The internet is sooooo annoying! I really, really, really hate those bloody repeated Captcha tests with the sodding traffic lights or bicycles. I simply don't want to use your website that much. Bye!
45.7% of 7,600 respondents from 14 countries, had experienced at least one form of tech-facilitated abuse in the past year. Among those who experienced it, the average person encountered not just one isolated incident, but 2.7 different types of abusive behavior. lp.kaspersky.com/global/tech-...
Digital ID systems often exclude ethnic groups that already face other forms of discrimination and disadvantage, effectively automating inequality. Virginia Eubanks presenting oral history testimonies at IFIP conference in Nepal.
Virginia Eubanks is delivering the keynote at IFIP on the programmed exclusions being created by the automation of the welfare state across the world. Oral histories from 9 countries in her new book "Not a Number".
Now on the overnight train back to England after a fantastic sunny week in bonny Scotland spotting golden eagles and white tailed wages (not pictured!).
You know that surveillance capitalism was invented in Silicon Valley by Facebook and Google, right? You have at least read Shoshana Zuboff?
The "tech only a tool" argument has been debunked endlessly in the literature. No technology is neutral. All data sets are inevitably biased. All technologies necessarily reflect the priorities and values of those designing and funding their development.
These two things *should* disqualify Wes Streeting as Labour leader, but in practice being an asset of the oligarch press, US health and tech corporations (and I would add being funded by the Israeli lobby) are exactly what secure you the top Labour job nowadays.
Poundshop Trump makes electoral gains in UK. www.noosphere.app/farage-camps...
Birds of Choma in Zambia's Southern Province: a lilac-breasted roller
The first swallows of summer have today arrived in Cornwall on England's South West tip. Not caught on camera, so please accept my two dogs as a substitute.
Main takeaway from Gorton and Denton by-election is that the anti-Reform vote is double the size of the Reform vote despite the very best efforts of the mainstream media to constantly platform and amplify their hateful message.
Are evangelical leaders now distancing themselves from the pedophile in chief? a57.foxnews.com/static.foxne...
If shooting and killing protesters was the reason the US invaded countries then Israel and Tanzania would be his targets. There must be another reason why these oil-rich nations are being targeted by the US.
Musk literally throttles speech he disagrees with and boosts the reach of speech he likes. Digital censorship and digital propaganda is not equal to free speech.
Trump Virtually Confesses to War Crimes. Genocide funding President threatens to sanction the International Criminal Court unless it promises not to prosecute him. Totally unnecessary step if he was innocent.
Did Karl Marx Predict Artificial Intelligence 170 Years Ago in his 'fragment on the machine' in the Grundrisse? An almost-unknown piece of his writing offers insight on robotics and AI in today’s world. medium.com/@MichaelMcBr...
The Digital Africa series of collected edition books by African activist scholars is rapidly expanding into the most comprehensive body of open access digital rights scholarship on the continent. 4 more titles are scheduled for publication in 2026. #DigitalRights www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/di...