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It was my 10th anniversary of joining Twitter last week; it’s the only social media platform I’ve ever really engaged with. But I guess when it’s time to go, it’s time to go.
You can find me @drsamaki.bsky.social
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Tom Fisher
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Tom Fisher
@TomSamaki
OfDIA/DSIT. Ex- Privacy International. African Studies PhD; writes on #digitalID. GoodID community champion. Views my own. @drsamaki.bsky.social
London, UK Katılım Kasım 2014
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@virginmedia You are completely unreachable through Chat on your site! Or WhatsApp. So: with my contract expired, I can just leave you, right?
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Depends on the nation state. He might mean we're going to invade and take all their stuff.
@emryss.bsky.social@emrys_s
Britain must treat tech giants like nation states, minister warns The white flag of surrender thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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@PaulbernalUK Why are we worried about such constitutional matters, when there are people in this world suffering from the likes of pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism and pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?
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I need a nice, easy guide to the Philosophy of recent developments in AI that’ll stop me worrying about all of this, as I know enough for it to bother me but not enough to reach any conclusions. Any pointers? 4
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But: what does it then mean for the status of a conversation with a chatbot? It doesn’t seem to reach any kind of standard of reference to the world (real or imaginary). So is there nothing going on here except the user anthropomorphising the chatbot? 3
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While the trolley problem took off in the public imagination, it seems that there are many thought experiments in the Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Language that seem relevant to our current situation; with a lot of ants doing a lot of caricatures of Winston Churchill. 1
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@PrivacyMatters There's not a way to do this kind of age verification 'nicely', despite what the AI age estimation people say.
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@TomSamaki Quite. + also this cannot be done, imo, without creating an ID of everyone ..
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I'm not convinced a ban will do much to stop young people from accessing social media; but it will make it far harder to make sure they do so safely.
Privacy Matters @PrivacyMatters
It’s an unworkable idea and one that restricts young people’s freedoms, inc access to information and resources and yes, even friendships. Resist.
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Wouldn't worry too much if you'll be in London that day, as they're heading out of the city.
Otto English@Otto_English
Are they planning to rearrange the entire landscape of the city?
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When the starting point of your DPI is identity and identification: you’re running the risk of these types of harms at every stage of the system.
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The injustice of requiring identification to attend school: it takes a societal harm falling upon the broad shoulders of the state(‘ghost children’ and corruption in schools) and makes it an individual harm (kids from marginalised backgrounds can’t attend school).
The Guardian@guardian
School-leaver at 11, domestic slave at 12, gang member at 15: how a missing birth certificate derailed a life #Echobox=1730700890" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/global-develop…
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All went well. Two big Morton’s neuromas removed.
Found a perfect book for recovery time out .. plotting wanderings …
Privacy Matters @PrivacyMatters
A year later. And again, the need for surgery tomorrow to remove Morton’s Neuromas from both feet that developed in new places 🤷♂️ So today, a last walk for a month or so with the office assistant .. so did some ‘forest bathing’ - it was a fabulous spot 🐾🐾🥾🥾
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I don't know if @Suitpossum is still around Twitter, but it's interesting to note that Sweden and Norway are starting to do the right thing (not least, for the hundreds of thousands excluded from these systems); all it took was an unprecedented global crisis to do it.
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Sweden and Norway are realising that their cashless systems are vulnerable to Russian cyberattacks, and so are back to encouraging the use of cash.
theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…
In other news: the push for DPI around the world continues regardless.
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Tom Fisher retweetledi
Please join me for the @SOASHistory seminar where I’ll be presenting the findings of our recent project to explore whether a reframing of the Windrush Scandal as an international statelessness crisis will help to develop new modes of resistance & advocacy soas.ac.uk/about/event/ac…
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This is unbelievably lazy and dangerous, especially from a former solicitor running to lead the Conservative Party
Robert Jenrick gets the charges wrong then launches into "cover-up" dogwhistle while surely knowing how the law limits what information can be released before trial
Robert Jenrick@RobertJenrick
The public had a right to know the truth straight away. I am seriously concerned that facts may have been withheld from the public. Keir Starmer must urgently explain what he knew about the Southport attack and when he learned it.
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@NoraMbagathi Congratulations! That’s great news. Hope we get to work together in the future!
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In some personal news, which I’m very excited about. Come see me in Nairobi!
Katiba Institute@katibainstitute
Appointment: Katiba Institute’s Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Nora Mbagathi as the organisation’s Executive Director. katibainstitute.org/katiba-institu… Welcome to KI @NoraMbagathi!
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@TomSamaki The DVS section is unsafe as it has too many ministerial powers. I suggest amending DVS so an independent party (@ICOnews??) develops a statutory Code of Practice to incorporate the officially approved identity principles into the DVS section. See gov.uk/government/pub…
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