Paola Roccuzzo

I finally offered links to reasoned critical takes on the announcement. Result? Banned in less than 10 hours. I bet this is the new take of "had enough of experts" 3/

I explained that there were so many lies that even the half truths were unreliable, that I could tell because I worked on it, and that while nobody can tell what it will look like yet, we know enough about what's possible to rule Black Mirror out. 2/

My FB account was suspended for a violation of ToS (the type you get when you cause harm or provide a credible threat). My only interaction in the last months? Commenting on a delirious repost claiming all kinds of Black Mirror scenarios that the new digital ID will bring 1/

Dotcom on Steroids When the odds appear stacked against you

If you don't want to hear it from @edzitron.com you might trust investment analysts instead?
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A screenshot from LinkedIn, indicating that someone from Gavin Newsom's office has looked at my profile.

Gavin, just say the word.

If you're ever tempted to write about what kind of complete clusterfuck is on the Horizon, and the kind of damage that could be caused by the collision of digital identity and genAI/agents, happy to provide pointers. Every time I try to put pen to paper my will to live dies!

All true, except, I would argue: it is a take on politics - which oftentimes overlaps with the bad-faith conflation 🙃

Digital service ppl who're surprised that there's a proportion of people who actively use internet & still don't want to be age (or ID) verified on Bluesky in UK should attend more user research sessions that are designed to encourage users to talk about how they feel about sharing info online

That bill is the perfect example of flawed policy-making based on moral panic-driven solutions. If the UK is to make a success of "credentials as infrastructure", policy-makers will have to be educated on data minimisation principles and their implementation (like zero-proof knowledge).

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I’m Losing All Trust in the AI Industry As a supporter, I would love not to feel this way

Why the problem is the industry, not the technology
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Betting on Geopolitical Violence Back in 2003, a Pentagon office led by Admiral John M.

Familiar from Brexit

Betting on Geopolitical Violence

These are markets in which people with inside information can make a lot of money without risk of exposure, since the exchange is crypto-based and doesn’t have a know-your-client requirement

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Society of Hopeful Technologists: Survey Results 🥁 🥁🥁 The results are finally in: what do people want from the Society for Hopeful Techologists? 🥁🥁🥁 522 technologists based in the UK responded to the...

If in doubt, organise! The tech industry is a roaring bin fire, so brilliant to share the results of this survey of 522 UK tech workers who want sthg better buttondown.com/society-of-h... Help design the Society for Hopeful Technologists and give a voice to ppl who want to make a meaningful change

In much more important news, the first draft for Digital Credentials is out. www.w3.org/TR/digital-c...
Still slowly making my way through it, but the privacy/accessibility considerations are already looking quite comprehensive.

I knew it wouldn't be long before bumping into an exemplar of "vibe solutions engineering".
(ChatGPT apparently doesn't consider the front-end worth mentioning).

How do bills get authored and reviewed? Do they save a copy of a Word doc and pass it on? Did this provision appear on BigBeautifulBill-2025-v54.13b-rev43.doc?

(...) the dereliction of neuro-symbolic systems in favour of statistics on steroids, the drain on academia and on innovation, the illusion of "intelligence" and the marketing arms race fuelled by sci-fi. Not many books manage to report *and* educate at the same time.

It's an incredibly well-rounded essay covering history and problematic aspects , including its "philosophical" EA tenets, the open questions on environmental impact, the foregone conclusions on the extractive nature of data collection and annotation, (...) /2

Had @karenhao.bsky.social offered just some honest reporting into the genAI hype, and the role big tech played, that would've been more than enough reason to read Empire of AI - and to dedicate my first post to it. But it's way more than that: /1