Dr J
@j7son.bsky.social
Writer of Wrongs / Technologist & technology cynic / Dr (not necessarily the useful kind) / Artist / also ja5on@mastodon.social @jasonjcrouch for tweets / he|him
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I would love to play Carcassonne with tiles like these
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I would love to play Carcassonne with tiles like these
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Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
Manchester Metrolink marketing by, it seems, Phil Dunphy …
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Manchester Metrolink marketing by, it seems, Phil Dunphy …
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October 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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OK, by this logic...the surveillance of every facet of life--from comms to movement to social relationships to etc--which has become the norm over the last decades c/o the surveillance biz model, makes LE surveillance MORE possible than it's ever been in history.
But somehow e2ee is the problem?
But somehow e2ee is the problem?
The problem with digital speech activists’ one sided framing of this debate is that they don’t acknowledge that digital architecture has shifted what is possible. End-to-end encryption makes it impossible for law enforcement to do targeted surveillance, just as lack of it makes filtering trivial.
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
October 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
OK, by this logic...the surveillance of every facet of life--from comms to movement to social relationships to etc--which has become the norm over the last decades c/o the surveillance biz model, makes LE surveillance MORE possible than it's ever been in history.
But somehow e2ee is the problem?
But somehow e2ee is the problem?
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🔔 freelance researcher call
At @carefultrouble.bsky.social we're looking for freelance researchers to deliver a literature search on the impacts of AI adoption, looking at worker safety, infrastructure resilience, and environmental safety
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...
At @carefultrouble.bsky.social we're looking for freelance researchers to deliver a literature search on the impacts of AI adoption, looking at worker safety, infrastructure resilience, and environmental safety
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...
Freelance Researchers: Safe Adoption of AI — Careful Industries
We are looking for freelance researchers to conduct literature searches on the impacts of AI on worker safety, infrastructural safety, and environmental safety.
www.careful.industries
September 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🔔 freelance researcher call
At @carefultrouble.bsky.social we're looking for freelance researchers to deliver a literature search on the impacts of AI adoption, looking at worker safety, infrastructure resilience, and environmental safety
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...
At @carefultrouble.bsky.social we're looking for freelance researchers to deliver a literature search on the impacts of AI adoption, looking at worker safety, infrastructure resilience, and environmental safety
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...
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Everyone should sign up to Holly's newsletter because this is an absolute delight. Everything about it is excellent.
Okay I wrote up my trip to the WORLD TRAMDRIVER CHAMPIONSHIPS buttondown.com/holly/archiv...
cannot stress enough how much this newsletter issue is just a list of things that happened at the world tramdriver championships, please use your own judgement regarding whether that is of interest to you
cannot stress enough how much this newsletter issue is just a list of things that happened at the world tramdriver championships, please use your own judgement regarding whether that is of interest to you
The World Tramdriver Championships
Heya, Whoops, it’s been a while! But how better to start sending these again than to tell you all about the WORLD TRAMDRIVER CHAMPIONSHIPS in Vienna, which...
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September 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Everyone should sign up to Holly's newsletter because this is an absolute delight. Everything about it is excellent.
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Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know)
Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you
Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you
September 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know)
Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you
Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you
You mean, create things from whole cloth without any guaranteed market or ROI? What do you think this is? Art?
I don’t think it seems to be a secret, but *you can have your own ideas*.
Not everything has to be based on pre-existing IP.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
Not everything has to be based on pre-existing IP.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
‘Most important, most beautiful, most musical’: Bagpuss set for big screen return
Stop-motion animation voted the UK’s all-time favourite kids’ show will be rebooted with the ‘saggy old cloth cat’ now busy mending in modern Britain
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
You mean, create things from whole cloth without any guaranteed market or ROI? What do you think this is? Art?
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This is a really great thread on generative AI use.
I respect Anil so I want to talk seriously about harm reduction and public health messaging.
First let me acknowledge that yes, many regular, not-super-online people are trying out AI tools. Of course they are! It's been aggressively pushed into everything and given heavy institutional support.
First let me acknowledge that yes, many regular, not-super-online people are trying out AI tools. Of course they are! It's been aggressively pushed into everything and given heavy institutional support.
this is the really ineffective head-in-the-sand reaction a lot of folks on Bluesky tend to have if you talk about any harm reduction-based approach to the reality that millions of people are using AI tools today. The current approach to critiquing AI is obviously not working, but they don't care.
September 8, 2025 at 5:43 AM
This is a really great thread on generative AI use.
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Aside from how on earth this will play out in the three countries that aren't England, what I find quite weird about this is how quickly senior politicians seem to forget what everyday life is like and how to use everyday words.
September 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Aside from how on earth this will play out in the three countries that aren't England, what I find quite weird about this is how quickly senior politicians seem to forget what everyday life is like and how to use everyday words.
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New blog post from
me on what AI is and isn't, and why we all have a democratic duty to do some myth busting before the dreaded management sci-fi comes to get us www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...
me on what AI is and isn't, and why we all have a democratic duty to do some myth busting before the dreaded management sci-fi comes to get us www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...
What we talk about when we talk about AI — Careful Industries
Can AI really do all of the things people want it to do — and what exactly are people actually talking about when they talk about AI? Yutong Liu & The Bigger Picture / https://betterim...
www.careful.industries
April 29, 2025 at 6:44 AM
New blog post from
me on what AI is and isn't, and why we all have a democratic duty to do some myth busting before the dreaded management sci-fi comes to get us www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...
me on what AI is and isn't, and why we all have a democratic duty to do some myth busting before the dreaded management sci-fi comes to get us www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...
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Women's appearance and behaviour is about to get even more highly policed in the UK, with a few people doubtless being emboldened to "take action". This whole billionaire-funded enterprise dials back gender equity by decades.
April 20, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Women's appearance and behaviour is about to get even more highly policed in the UK, with a few people doubtless being emboldened to "take action". This whole billionaire-funded enterprise dials back gender equity by decades.
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The UK paperback of "The Husbands" is out! Today!! May I buy your momentary attention for it with a beautiful cat
(yellow is the US/Canada edition, out last week; blue is UK, turquoise is a UK indie bookshop special edition)
(yellow is the US/Canada edition, out last week; blue is UK, turquoise is a UK indie bookshop special edition)
March 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The UK paperback of "The Husbands" is out! Today!! May I buy your momentary attention for it with a beautiful cat
(yellow is the US/Canada edition, out last week; blue is UK, turquoise is a UK indie bookshop special edition)
(yellow is the US/Canada edition, out last week; blue is UK, turquoise is a UK indie bookshop special edition)
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6ft 4 cis woman loses her job at Walmart because of trans witch-hunt.
Woman was followed into the staff bathroom by an anti-trans male, who called her names and threatened violence. When Wal-Mart found out, they fired HER.
Woman was followed into the staff bathroom by an anti-trans male, who called her names and threatened violence. When Wal-Mart found out, they fired HER.
March 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
6ft 4 cis woman loses her job at Walmart because of trans witch-hunt.
Woman was followed into the staff bathroom by an anti-trans male, who called her names and threatened violence. When Wal-Mart found out, they fired HER.
Woman was followed into the staff bathroom by an anti-trans male, who called her names and threatened violence. When Wal-Mart found out, they fired HER.
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Thinking about why public services should
not be designed in the same way as private-sector ones. I've 5 points so far:
(1) CHOICE: with v few exceptions, we get to choose the private-sector digital services we use but most public services need to be universal at the point of access
(1/n)
not be designed in the same way as private-sector ones. I've 5 points so far:
(1) CHOICE: with v few exceptions, we get to choose the private-sector digital services we use but most public services need to be universal at the point of access
(1/n)
March 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Thinking about why public services should
not be designed in the same way as private-sector ones. I've 5 points so far:
(1) CHOICE: with v few exceptions, we get to choose the private-sector digital services we use but most public services need to be universal at the point of access
(1/n)
not be designed in the same way as private-sector ones. I've 5 points so far:
(1) CHOICE: with v few exceptions, we get to choose the private-sector digital services we use but most public services need to be universal at the point of access
(1/n)
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Yesterday a group of us put our heads together to think about the questions that should be asked of Starmer's plans for AI in government - you might have seen this nod to it in Politico this morning. These are for journalists, politicians, and anyone with an interest in pro-democracy tech (1/3)
March 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Yesterday a group of us put our heads together to think about the questions that should be asked of Starmer's plans for AI in government - you might have seen this nod to it in Politico this morning. These are for journalists, politicians, and anyone with an interest in pro-democracy tech (1/3)
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Going through the National Museum in Oslo, I came across this doorway in the modern art galleries. It stood out from the classic “white cube” gallery and hinted at some kind of immersive installation piece.
When I got closer, I saw it was by an artist I’d wanted to see for a long time: Ilya Kabakov
When I got closer, I saw it was by an artist I’d wanted to see for a long time: Ilya Kabakov
March 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Going through the National Museum in Oslo, I came across this doorway in the modern art galleries. It stood out from the classic “white cube” gallery and hinted at some kind of immersive installation piece.
When I got closer, I saw it was by an artist I’d wanted to see for a long time: Ilya Kabakov
When I got closer, I saw it was by an artist I’d wanted to see for a long time: Ilya Kabakov
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I really liked this guy noticing that Dua Lipa is great at interviewing authors. youtu.be/QN1rULxGHCA
Why Dua Lipa is so good at asking questions
YouTube video by Below the Fray
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March 13, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I really liked this guy noticing that Dua Lipa is great at interviewing authors. youtu.be/QN1rULxGHCA
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Great piece, and I love to see it covered on a video game site!
I wrote a feature for @eurogamer.bsky.social about my experience at the Disco Elysium LARP, 97 Poets of Revachol!
www.eurogamer.net/surviving-a-...
www.eurogamer.net/surviving-a-...
Surviving a Disco Elysium LARP
Have you ever had to admit to your boss that your gun got stolen because you were distracted writing poetry with your f…
www.eurogamer.net
March 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Great piece, and I love to see it covered on a video game site!
Choose 20 plays that have stayed with you or influenced you. One play per day for 20 days, in no particular order
No explanations, no reviews, just a cover or poster.
#TheatreSky
Day 1
No explanations, no reviews, just a cover or poster.
#TheatreSky
Day 1
January 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Choose 20 plays that have stayed with you or influenced you. One play per day for 20 days, in no particular order
No explanations, no reviews, just a cover or poster.
#TheatreSky
Day 1
No explanations, no reviews, just a cover or poster.
#TheatreSky
Day 1
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🌈☎️🩷THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE cover reveal!🌈☎️🩷
I can’t wait for readers to meet the women who worked & called the Lesbian Line, & discover the brilliant, ordinary queer women who found community & joy in its service & who helped me figure out what being a lesbian means to me 🩷 #booksky
I can’t wait for readers to meet the women who worked & called the Lesbian Line, & discover the brilliant, ordinary queer women who found community & joy in its service & who helped me figure out what being a lesbian means to me 🩷 #booksky
December 18, 2024 at 8:56 AM
🌈☎️🩷THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE cover reveal!🌈☎️🩷
I can’t wait for readers to meet the women who worked & called the Lesbian Line, & discover the brilliant, ordinary queer women who found community & joy in its service & who helped me figure out what being a lesbian means to me 🩷 #booksky
I can’t wait for readers to meet the women who worked & called the Lesbian Line, & discover the brilliant, ordinary queer women who found community & joy in its service & who helped me figure out what being a lesbian means to me 🩷 #booksky
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Truly brilliant and awful
December 17, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Truly brilliant and awful
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Video games as Simpsons screenshots. A thread…👇
December 11, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Video games as Simpsons screenshots. A thread…👇