Heather Burns

Fitting that our new National Security Strategy is basically cribbed from Camp of the Saints, the super-racist 1970s novel that is all the rage amongst contemporary fascists around the globe, like Steve Bannon.
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What an interesting coincidence.

For all the talk of Andrew Tate and Adolescence, I wrote about the more dangerous phenomenon we’re all choosing to ignore: the radicalisation of middle aged men

For the @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

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A pleasure to burn by Ray Bradbury

My used bookstore win for the year was this anthology of the iterations that became 451, including published short stories and discarded side quests, which makes it a wonderful portrait of the refining and editing process. There’s something healthy about being reminded that greatness takes time.

The Liz Truss Show will confront the big issues of the day. For example: who on earth would watch Liz Truss? | Marina Hyde Everyone’s favourite former PM is back! Her mission? To save Britain from its current ‘doomloop’ with, you guessed it, a YouTube talkshow, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Marina Hyde was brilliant www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Liz Truss Show review – hapless ravings from a cupboard Britain’s briefest PM kept her fans waiting before launching her latest plea for Maga attention in the form of a ham-fisted YouTube talk show

Because you need a laugh.

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trump admin reaction to EU fine of X is illuminating. it shows a few things:

1. they are trying to distract from its own massive censorship of americans.

2. they are worried about losing a propaganda and disinformation platform to support racist anti-migrant parties in europe.

…enter the dual eschatologies of Christian Nationalism, which seeks the end times and Jesus emerging from the cloud, and TESCREAL, which seeks AGI emerging from the Cloud, as key drivers of US policy.

Abe's thread is worth reading in full, but I want to surface this point.

We're three decades into an American experiment to use the internet for (literal) world domination. It was initially to push neoliberalism and now it's to push nativist authoritarianism, but same difference really.

KK and, erm, KK’s former students get this, and it’s terrifying that so few do www.techpolicy.press/author/konst...

So (see @klonick.bsky.social last night) today may be the day that the EU Commission fines X for breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA). Busy day for me, and I expect many questions if it happens, so here's an explanation thread in advance.

First of all, a reminder of the provisional decision

For those struggling without alt-text: just imagine a mansplainer with an opinion rocking up next to you.

You really are not missing anything without alt text. It’s repetitive hyperbolic word vomit.

More word vomit.

It’s not online, because slow news is a good thing, but a Scottish Sunday paper ran a heartful op-ed about real journalism in the age of AI, alongside an AI-generated article. It amused me.

“Censorship” is a thought-terminating cliché. These people want you to believe that:

- labeling is censorship
- fact-checking is censorship
- transparency is censorship
- research is censorship

What they’re doing is redefining anything that might inconvenience a hard-right populist as censorship.

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

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a black and white photo of a group of men with the website depechemode.gifs.tumblr.com in the corner Alt: Greatest album ever

PSA: if you worry that you’ve not been the best parent to your child that you could have been, please know that someday your child will grow up and show you that their #1 album on Spotify Wrapped was Violator. Your work will be complete.

I say bring back the chatelaine. I want to walk around with dainty women’s tools at my waist which are really for covert guerilla activity.

so hear me out I have a thirty-year-old travel embroidery thread cutter which contains a small razor blade but which can be worn as a pendant, and if I was wearing it you wouldn't know

What she said

You requested it, now it’s here - introducing Proton Sheets! The privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets.

Spreadsheets form the framework of modern businesses, and with Proton Sheets, you can ensure your data is private and secure.

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Border Patrol’s Digital Playbook: Hack iPhones, Raid iCloud Accounts A CBP search warrant shows how it relies on data raids on iClouds when its forensics tools can't get enough information from iPhones.

Border Patrol’s Digital Playbook: Hack iPhones, Raid iCloud Accounts

You know what to do baby ❤️

(pedant voice) can I just say that AI generated illustration is the Death Star destroying one of its own ships

I keep thinking that the millions of honorable US military veterans who devoted their lives to the flag and the uniform are going to run out of patience watching those things being pissed on, and that something is going to snap.

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Superb.

This is the doomsday scenario of digital exclusion from US based tech which we glimpsed in the sanctioning of Wikileaks back in Assange days, but can now be used capriciously and silently.

I wish digital rights organisations were as proactive and enthusiastic about replying to job applications (even if it’s a no) as they are about sending around Giving Tuesday fundraising emails.