Jim Collinson
@jii.im
Chief Strategy Officer at Autonomi. The giant hard drive, built from everyday devices. The alternative future the cloud never had. Privacy by design.
Call it a hunch but:
AI and robotics will only make everyone fabulously wealthy *if* it's all built on open models and open, accessible infrastructure.
AI and robotics will only make everyone fabulously wealthy *if* it's all built on open models and open, accessible infrastructure.
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Call it a hunch but:
AI and robotics will only make everyone fabulously wealthy *if* it's all built on open models and open, accessible infrastructure.
AI and robotics will only make everyone fabulously wealthy *if* it's all built on open models and open, accessible infrastructure.
What if all data was self-encrypting? And what if we did it with LEGO?
Join me as I smash some things up in the name of cryptography, and a better kind of cloud.
youtu.be/rwinVk5QD8k
Join me as I smash some things up in the name of cryptography, and a better kind of cloud.
youtu.be/rwinVk5QD8k
Data That Encrypts Itself (with LEGO)
YouTube video by Autonomi
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
What if all data was self-encrypting? And what if we did it with LEGO?
Join me as I smash some things up in the name of cryptography, and a better kind of cloud.
youtu.be/rwinVk5QD8k
Join me as I smash some things up in the name of cryptography, and a better kind of cloud.
youtu.be/rwinVk5QD8k
It’s about time we all acknowledged the real architect of surveillance capitalism.
Santa. 🎅🏻
Santa. 🎅🏻
December 24, 2024 at 6:33 AM
It’s about time we all acknowledged the real architect of surveillance capitalism.
Santa. 🎅🏻
Santa. 🎅🏻
Where is the Bluesky of Instagram?
Anyone doing that?
If not… shall we do it together? Who's in?
Anyone doing that?
If not… shall we do it together? Who's in?
November 30, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Where is the Bluesky of Instagram?
Anyone doing that?
If not… shall we do it together? Who's in?
Anyone doing that?
If not… shall we do it together? Who's in?
Indeed! In fact, a did a follow-on that describes just that, and why it's bad news — and the benefits of the alternative!
November 22, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Indeed! In fact, a did a follow-on that describes just that, and why it's bad news — and the benefits of the alternative!
Ok, so I had a go at this!
What is a protocol?
What is a protocol?
November 22, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Ok, so I had a go at this!
What is a protocol?
What is a protocol?
I actually raised this with David Anderson when he was advising the UK government on the "Anti-Terror" legislation which now requires ISPs to retain all user internet history for years… on just how big an attack surface this creates.
He had made the same point to ministers, and it fell on deaf ears
He had made the same point to ministers, and it fell on deaf ears
It never ceases to baffle me that the national security implications of the surveillance economy never seem to spur lawmakers into action.
And the industrial espionage risk is just as bad.
Bad for security and for business, you'd think conservatives wouldn't shut up about it.
And the industrial espionage risk is just as bad.
Bad for security and for business, you'd think conservatives wouldn't shut up about it.
Billions of coordinates sold by a US data broker exposed the movements of thousands of US military & intel personnel—from nuclear vaults and NSA hubs to their homes and brothels. The DoD knows the data is out there but can’t stop its sale. It’s putting everyone at risk
www.wired.com/story/phone-...
www.wired.com/story/phone-...
November 22, 2024 at 2:07 PM
I actually raised this with David Anderson when he was advising the UK government on the "Anti-Terror" legislation which now requires ISPs to retain all user internet history for years… on just how big an attack surface this creates.
He had made the same point to ministers, and it fell on deaf ears
He had made the same point to ministers, and it fell on deaf ears
Reposted by Jim Collinson
It never ceases to baffle me that the national security implications of the surveillance economy never seem to spur lawmakers into action.
And the industrial espionage risk is just as bad.
Bad for security and for business, you'd think conservatives wouldn't shut up about it.
And the industrial espionage risk is just as bad.
Bad for security and for business, you'd think conservatives wouldn't shut up about it.
Billions of coordinates sold by a US data broker exposed the movements of thousands of US military & intel personnel—from nuclear vaults and NSA hubs to their homes and brothels. The DoD knows the data is out there but can’t stop its sale. It’s putting everyone at risk
www.wired.com/story/phone-...
www.wired.com/story/phone-...
Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany
More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.
www.wired.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:39 PM
It never ceases to baffle me that the national security implications of the surveillance economy never seem to spur lawmakers into action.
And the industrial espionage risk is just as bad.
Bad for security and for business, you'd think conservatives wouldn't shut up about it.
And the industrial espionage risk is just as bad.
Bad for security and for business, you'd think conservatives wouldn't shut up about it.
Ok, so who's building the Bsky equivalent of Instagram?
Somewhere that can be owned by photographers and artists, and not advertisers?
Somewhere that can be owned by photographers and artists, and not advertisers?
November 21, 2024 at 11:21 AM
Ok, so who's building the Bsky equivalent of Instagram?
Somewhere that can be owned by photographers and artists, and not advertisers?
Somewhere that can be owned by photographers and artists, and not advertisers?
I realise this isn't a binary choice, it's an "all of the things" situation…
But we must also be building collectively owned, resilient infra from the grass routes, up. We have the raw materials… encrypted, p2p, distributed systems + the ingenuity. And now, as Bsky shows is, the impetus too.
But we must also be building collectively owned, resilient infra from the grass routes, up. We have the raw materials… encrypted, p2p, distributed systems + the ingenuity. And now, as Bsky shows is, the impetus too.
We'll keep running in circles if we don't seriously raise the question of public ownership of key tech infrastructures.
The year is 2027 and after exhausting its appeals Google loses and has to sell Chrome to a DOJ-approved owner. As defined in the suit, "Chrome" includes all backend systems essential to the browser. This means Sync.
Elon Musk buys Chrome. He now has the full browser history of 3 billion people.
Elon Musk buys Chrome. He now has the full browser history of 3 billion people.
November 21, 2024 at 11:17 AM
I realise this isn't a binary choice, it's an "all of the things" situation…
But we must also be building collectively owned, resilient infra from the grass routes, up. We have the raw materials… encrypted, p2p, distributed systems + the ingenuity. And now, as Bsky shows is, the impetus too.
But we must also be building collectively owned, resilient infra from the grass routes, up. We have the raw materials… encrypted, p2p, distributed systems + the ingenuity. And now, as Bsky shows is, the impetus too.
We just let the web become an oligarchy.
We just watched as drifted away on a tide of ads, trackers, bait and switch.
Oh how we need the vision back now. Of small places, and web gardens, and home grown.
A place to be proud of.
A place to call our own.
We just watched as drifted away on a tide of ads, trackers, bait and switch.
Oh how we need the vision back now. Of small places, and web gardens, and home grown.
A place to be proud of.
A place to call our own.
November 17, 2024 at 3:58 PM
We just let the web become an oligarchy.
We just watched as drifted away on a tide of ads, trackers, bait and switch.
Oh how we need the vision back now. Of small places, and web gardens, and home grown.
A place to be proud of.
A place to call our own.
We just watched as drifted away on a tide of ads, trackers, bait and switch.
Oh how we need the vision back now. Of small places, and web gardens, and home grown.
A place to be proud of.
A place to call our own.
Forget the side hustle. Invest in family.
October 28, 2023 at 10:24 AM
Forget the side hustle. Invest in family.
Very nearly ran over Joe Dart on Byres Road. Apologies Joe!
October 10, 2023 at 7:20 PM
Very nearly ran over Joe Dart on Byres Road. Apologies Joe!
Reposted by Jim Collinson
I absolutely see this in my research on censorship. Any tool that can be used to censor *will* be used to censor, if not right away then years later, & it will be used to censor things 90% more broadly & beyond the intended scope. We see this from the Inquisition to Australia to USSR to USA. Always.
October 5, 2023 at 1:03 PM
I absolutely see this in my research on censorship. Any tool that can be used to censor *will* be used to censor, if not right away then years later, & it will be used to censor things 90% more broadly & beyond the intended scope. We see this from the Inquisition to Australia to USSR to USA. Always.
Reposted by Jim Collinson
Bluesky: for people who don’t want innovative ways of socializing online they just want Twitter circa 2007
October 6, 2023 at 2:59 AM
Bluesky: for people who don’t want innovative ways of socializing online they just want Twitter circa 2007