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Dear Mims Davies, I write to express my disgust at the Prime Minister hiding behind Sue Gray’s enquiry. He may have spent his over privileged lifetime being able to pay people off, or litigate his way out of trouble. But he can’t pay off the British public, and litigation won’t work this time around. Nobody […]
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Tags: johnsonout
Bespoke realities
TL;DR My ad blocker has been hiding things from me. Mostly things that I don’t want to see. But what we do see, and what we don’t see, is all part of crafting bespoke realities. Background My friend Ben Ford frequently says “What we perceive as reality is an internal simulation of our interaction with […]
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Tags: ads, bespoke, blocker, reality, simulation, social media, surveillance capitalism
Letters to Craig Murray #6
###Letter #6 Delivered 19 Sep 21 Hi Craig, Heeding your words about not getting research done I’ve decided to keep to a weekly cadence. I’m now wondering which Lord George Murray you’re researching, as a quick search brings up a few of them over the years? It’s good to hear that books are making it […]
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Tags: books, culture wars, dead cats, journalism, reshuffle, Sturgeon
Letters to Craig Murray #5
Here begins a new series for this blog… I’ve been writing to Craig Murray whilst he serves his prison sentence for contempt of court arising from his reporting of the Alex Salmond trial. I don’t recall how I first came across Craig, and his first book Murder in Samarkand, but I’ve been a keen follower […]
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Tags: Craig Murray, crypto, politics
Open Source and Export Controls
This is the blog version of a Twitter conversation with my colleague Graham Chastney. Huawei, and the war on trade POTUS #45 has been pursuing a ‘trade war’ with China, as this appears to be popular with his base, even though it makes stuff more expensive for them and will ultimately harm the US economy. […]
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Tags: amazon, android, AOSP, ARM, export, google, government, hardware, Huawei, open source, RISC-V, software, trade
TL;DR If you can persuade people that their side is going to win without their vote, then perhaps just enough of them won’t bother to show up that you can steal the win. Background The two countries that I spend most of my time in (the UK and US) continue to recoil from the effects […]
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Tags: politics, referendum, social media, vote, voter
Wage Slaves
I recently had the good fortune of meeting Katz Kiely and learning about the Behavioural Enterprise Engagement Platform (BEEP) that she’s building. After that meeting I listened to Katz’s ‘Change for the Better‘ presentation, which provided some inspiring food for thought. Katz’s point is that so much human potential is locked away by the way […]
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Tags: culture, empowerment
Racist, abusive or foul language
In my last post ‘The Surveillance Party‘ I wrote about how the UK Labour Party used their ersatz SIGINT operation to exclude me from their leadership election process. I was told ‘You posted inappropriate comments on social media on 5 July 2016’, so let’s take a look at my tweets and see what might have […]
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Tags: #ChickenCoup, #LabourPurge2, abusive, blacklist, Blair, Brexit, Chilcot, Corbyn, disabled, Labour, old, politics, racist, RMT, SIGINT, swearing, Union
The Surveillance Party
TL;DR The UK Labour Party has been running an ersatz signals intelligence (SIGINT) operation to identify and exclude members and supporters that they don’t want voting in their leadership election; people who under some sort of criteria are identified as enemies of the party. This should be terrifying, as the difference between enemy of the […]
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Tags: #LabourPurge2, Corbyn, enemy, exclusion, Facebook, Labour, politics, purge, SIGINT, Snowden, social media, state, twitter
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