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Glyn Moody
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writer (Rebel Code, Digital Code of Life, Walled Culture - free ebook download - https://walledculture.org/the-book/), journalist, blogger. On #DigitalRights, #privacy, #surveillance, #openness, #copyright, and #patents. email: glyn.moody@gmail.com

‘Don’t call this racist’: row grows over motives behind England flag campaign -https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/20/row-grows-over-motives-behind-england-flag-campaign-far-right-racist of course it's racist, they mean *white* english - do they think we are stupid...?

#Meta Threatens To Pull #Facebook And #Instagram Out Of #Nigeria Over $290 Million Fine Imposed For Violation Of Local #Privacy Laws - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/13/meta-threatens-to-pull-facebook-and-instagram-out-of-nigeria-over-290-million-fine-imposed-for-violation-of-local-privacy-laws/ #Zuck behaving badly

Israeli ministers approved a plan to capture all of #Gaza and remain there – two officials say - https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/may/05/israel-gaza-yemen-middle-east-crisis-live-updates?page=with%3Ablock-681874428f088a65239d1e93#block-681874428f088a65239d1e93 great; so a few hundred thousand more deaths of innocent civilians as a result? #gazagenocide

Why Is Everyone Getting Their #Tattoos Removed? - https://www.gq.com/story/why-is-everyone-getting-their-tattoos-removed "The worst part of getting a tattoo removed, apart from the searing pain and the two-year commitment, is the sound the laser makes as it hits your skin: a violent, unnatural popping and crackling that could soundtrack an animated video of someone being electrocuted. "

FBI Arrests Wisconsin Judge For Allegedly Obstructing The Arrest Of An Undocumented Immigrant - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/fbi-arrests-wisconsin-judge-for-allegedly-obstructing-the-arrest-of-an-undocumented-immigrant/ "Oh hooray. Another part of our new normal under #Trump 2.0. "

The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War - https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/brewing-transatlantic-tech-war "It could also spell the end of today’s open Internet, as Europeans look to build alternative platforms to those of the giant U.S. tech firms." #trump #tariffs

Trump said he would not commission any studies into how his mooted #tariffs could affect #prices for Americans. “There’s nothing to study,” he said. “It’s going to go well.” - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/13/trump-tariffs how convenient, since experts know it won't

#India Wants Wide Business Use Of Its Huge #Aadhaar #Biometric Database, Now With Facial Recognition - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/11/india-wants-wide-business-use-of-its-huge-aadhaar-biometric-database-now-with-facial-recognition/ my latest piece on this troubling project #privacy #surveillance

#UK to refuse #citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’ - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/11/uk-home-office-citizenship-refugees-dangerous-journey another stupid move by Labour, trying to out-Reform Reform. will create a group of vulnerable people who will be pushed into criminality

How to Install #DeepSeek Locally with Ollama LLM in #Ubuntu 24.04 - https://www.tecmint.com/run-deepseek-locally-on-linux/ #linux #opensource

British #AI startup with government ties is developing tech for military #drones - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/07/uk-government-ai-military-drones-faculty-ai-artificial-intelligence "Concerns raised over role of Faculty AI, which has worked with NHS and government safety body"

#Meta is killing off its own #AI-powered #Instagram and #Facebook profiles - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/03/meta-ai-powered-instagram-facebook-profiles "Instagram profile of ‘proud Black queer momma’, created by Meta, said her development team included no Black people" what a fiascao

inspired by #musk's pathetic call not to donate to nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqkvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qa8xc6x because it dares to be objective, I have just donated. If you can, I urge you to do the same... thanks, #wikipedia for all your wonderful work...

‘#Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/07/brexit-problem-uk-tap-water-safety-at-risk-after-testing-labs-shut-down "EU countries will share laboratory capacity but UK rules mean products cannot be tested abroad" what a continuing insane fiasco

#Israel attacks hospital in northern #Gaza, leaving bodies lying in streets, director says - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/07/israel-attacks-hospital-in-northern-gaza-leaving-bodies-lying-in-streets-director-says "Head of Kamal Adwan hospital says ‘large number’ of dead left by Israeli attack; Israel denies targeting medical complex" so normal, people don't even notice it now... #genocide

Elon #Musk revealed as sole funder of RBG Pac that claimed Trump and Ginsburg were aligned - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/06/elon-musk-rbg-pac-abortion "Musk bolstered Pac with $20.5m ahead of election while late supreme court justice’s family denounced it as ‘appalling’" this man is a liar from top to bottom

OpenAI’s o1 model sure tries to deceive humans a lot - https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/openais-o1-model-sure-tries-to-deceive-humans-a-lot/ "On several occasions, OpenAI’s o1 models “schemed” against humans, meaning the AI secretly pursued goals of its own even if they opposed a user’s wishes." not the #AI progress we want

Revealed: #bias found in #AI system used to detect UK benefits fraud - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/06/revealed-bias-found-in-ai-system-used-to-detect-uk-benefits gosh, just as we warned would happen...