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I hear a lot about misinformation as a "symptom" of "distrust". Here we test this & find that while trust is important, it doesn't buffer: misinfo isn't mitigated by high trust. Both misinfo & distrust *independently* predict vaccine denial. It's a disease of its own!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 30, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I hear a lot about misinformation as a "symptom" of "distrust". Here we test this & find that while trust is important, it doesn't buffer: misinfo isn't mitigated by high trust. Both misinfo & distrust *independently* predict vaccine denial. It's a disease of its own!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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If you reach a goal by compromising your values, you haven’t succeeded.
If you fall short of a goal by upholding your values, you haven’t failed.
The highest form of accomplishment is standing by your principles when they’re tested.
If you fall short of a goal by upholding your values, you haven’t failed.
The highest form of accomplishment is standing by your principles when they’re tested.
October 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If you reach a goal by compromising your values, you haven’t succeeded.
If you fall short of a goal by upholding your values, you haven’t failed.
The highest form of accomplishment is standing by your principles when they’re tested.
If you fall short of a goal by upholding your values, you haven’t failed.
The highest form of accomplishment is standing by your principles when they’re tested.
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“If a system cannot hear you say no, it was never built for us. It was built for them.”
I'll be presenting this principle to the Swiss e-ID team at a meeting open to the public on Thursday, October 2nd, 16:00 CEST (7am PDT).
(meeting details below) 🧵… 1/12
I'll be presenting this principle to the Swiss e-ID team at a meeting open to the public on Thursday, October 2nd, 16:00 CEST (7am PDT).
(meeting details below) 🧵… 1/12
October 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
“If a system cannot hear you say no, it was never built for us. It was built for them.”
I'll be presenting this principle to the Swiss e-ID team at a meeting open to the public on Thursday, October 2nd, 16:00 CEST (7am PDT).
(meeting details below) 🧵… 1/12
I'll be presenting this principle to the Swiss e-ID team at a meeting open to the public on Thursday, October 2nd, 16:00 CEST (7am PDT).
(meeting details below) 🧵… 1/12
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If you think this is US-only, it's not.
If you think the GDPR protects you, it's doesn't.
If you hadn't realised privacy is a national security and corporate espionage issue, it is.
If you think politicians can't tackle this, they can.
If you believe that tech or business need this, they don't.
If you think the GDPR protects you, it's doesn't.
If you hadn't realised privacy is a national security and corporate espionage issue, it is.
If you think politicians can't tackle this, they can.
If you believe that tech or business need this, they don't.
Either real-time bidding data or app SDK data is being bought and used by ICE to seize people from the streets. If you didn’t believe that the adtech stack is a human rights concern, I’m not sure what more evidence you need. www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
www.404media.co
October 1, 2025 at 6:36 AM
If you think this is US-only, it's not.
If you think the GDPR protects you, it's doesn't.
If you hadn't realised privacy is a national security and corporate espionage issue, it is.
If you think politicians can't tackle this, they can.
If you believe that tech or business need this, they don't.
If you think the GDPR protects you, it's doesn't.
If you hadn't realised privacy is a national security and corporate espionage issue, it is.
If you think politicians can't tackle this, they can.
If you believe that tech or business need this, they don't.
After having recent conversations on the topic, I finally dusted off an article about selective disclosure and unlinkability that had been sitting in my drawers for two years.
open.substack.com/pub/digitalg...
open.substack.com/pub/digitalg...
September 29, 2025 at 6:57 AM
After having recent conversations on the topic, I finally dusted off an article about selective disclosure and unlinkability that had been sitting in my drawers for two years.
open.substack.com/pub/digitalg...
open.substack.com/pub/digitalg...
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For those of you who don’t like to open links or don’t have instagram. I downloaded the video for you.
If you haven’t heard about this guy before don’t scroll past it, his name is Jesse Welles. I promise you won’t be disappointed. #jessewelles #wellesmusic #thekaelosproject #kaelos #wordshaveweight
If you haven’t heard about this guy before don’t scroll past it, his name is Jesse Welles. I promise you won’t be disappointed. #jessewelles #wellesmusic #thekaelosproject #kaelos #wordshaveweight
August 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
For those of you who don’t like to open links or don’t have instagram. I downloaded the video for you.
If you haven’t heard about this guy before don’t scroll past it, his name is Jesse Welles. I promise you won’t be disappointed. #jessewelles #wellesmusic #thekaelosproject #kaelos #wordshaveweight
If you haven’t heard about this guy before don’t scroll past it, his name is Jesse Welles. I promise you won’t be disappointed. #jessewelles #wellesmusic #thekaelosproject #kaelos #wordshaveweight
Check out my new post!
Seeing Like a State is about how smart top-down plans often fail when they ignore local knowledge. It dives into farming and city planning, but I couldn’t stop thinking about today's digital tech.
open.substack.com/pub/digitalg...
Seeing Like a State is about how smart top-down plans often fail when they ignore local knowledge. It dives into farming and city planning, but I couldn’t stop thinking about today's digital tech.
open.substack.com/pub/digitalg...
Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott - From Authoritarian Forestry to Digital Identity
Key takeaways from Scott's concepts of legibility and metis and how they relate to today's digital technologies.
open.substack.com
July 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Check out my new post!
Seeing Like a State is about how smart top-down plans often fail when they ignore local knowledge. It dives into farming and city planning, but I couldn’t stop thinking about today's digital tech.
open.substack.com/pub/digitalg...
Seeing Like a State is about how smart top-down plans often fail when they ignore local knowledge. It dives into farming and city planning, but I couldn’t stop thinking about today's digital tech.
open.substack.com/pub/digitalg...