Penny Wright
@pennywright.bsky.social
Tea drinker, work in digital and data law, live in Scotland.
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Penny Wright
@pennywright.bsky.social
· Nov 13
It's true this place really is nicer, and perfectly timed to fill the big US politics-sized space in my brain now that I can't look at that anymore. No dog pics from me until I get a dog, but here's a photo of the northern lights from near my house
Watched the excellent Adolescence this weekend, so good but extremely sobering. Ella Baron's cartoon captures it perfectly. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ella Baron on Adolescence and the dangers social media pose to teenage boys – cartoon
Keir Starmer and Gareth Southgate have both recently warned about internet safety
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March 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Watched the excellent Adolescence this weekend, so good but extremely sobering. Ella Baron's cartoon captures it perfectly. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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National Rosie the Riveter Day is observed in America #OnThisDay to recognise the important role women played in the WWII war effort. These cotton Bell Aircraft coveralls, made by Hattie Snow Uniforms, were worn by Evelyn DeLong Parris in c. 1943–45. SFO Museum. #fashionhistory
March 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
National Rosie the Riveter Day is observed in America #OnThisDay to recognise the important role women played in the WWII war effort. These cotton Bell Aircraft coveralls, made by Hattie Snow Uniforms, were worn by Evelyn DeLong Parris in c. 1943–45. SFO Museum. #fashionhistory
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THREADINBURGH: The thread about the Calton Hill Naval Telegraph and the Forth coast's Napoleonic communication system threadinburgh.scot/2023/07/14/t...
The thread about the Calton Hill Naval Telegraph and the Forth coast’s Napoleonic communication system
A 1797 painting of Edinburgh showing the Calton Hill includes a curious feature; what appears to be an enormous flag pole on its summit. So what on earth was this pole, why was it there and what wa…
threadinburgh.scot
March 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
THREADINBURGH: The thread about the Calton Hill Naval Telegraph and the Forth coast's Napoleonic communication system threadinburgh.scot/2023/07/14/t...
Techdirt and Wired are doing some of the best reporting and journalism right now.
Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog).
This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)
While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…
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March 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Techdirt and Wired are doing some of the best reporting and journalism right now.
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As the Musk coup rampages through DC, most Americans don't understand there's a method to the madness that's even more terrifying
They want to replace "outdated" democracy with AI, in a power grab that empowers billionaires with a lie about efficiency
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
They want to replace "outdated" democracy with AI, in a power grab that empowers billionaires with a lie about efficiency
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
What Elon Musk wants is worse than you think | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, a new breed of journalists just might save America.
www.inquirer.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
As the Musk coup rampages through DC, most Americans don't understand there's a method to the madness that's even more terrifying
They want to replace "outdated" democracy with AI, in a power grab that empowers billionaires with a lie about efficiency
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
They want to replace "outdated" democracy with AI, in a power grab that empowers billionaires with a lie about efficiency
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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Effective and creative data visualization in the form of a full page piece in the WaPo today to show how Trump/Musk are dismantling government.
February 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Effective and creative data visualization in the form of a full page piece in the WaPo today to show how Trump/Musk are dismantling government.
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If you want a long, but very thorough, read on just how crazy dangerous the situation is with Elon, @brockm.bsky.social has laid it all out in a single article. Please read it.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis
There are twenty-four hours in a day. This isn’t a matter of political opinion or technological disruption—it’s as immutable as the fact that two plus two equals four. No amount of geni…
www.techdirt.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
If you want a long, but very thorough, read on just how crazy dangerous the situation is with Elon, @brockm.bsky.social has laid it all out in a single article. Please read it.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
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If you’ve been wondering what Elon Musk and his lackeys are up to since taking control of the US government, look no further. Our latest story names six 19- to 24-year-olds working with his DOGE organization, which now has access to sensitive federal systems. wrd.cm/4jzpiSN
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
wrd.cm
February 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
If you’ve been wondering what Elon Musk and his lackeys are up to since taking control of the US government, look no further. Our latest story names six 19- to 24-year-olds working with his DOGE organization, which now has access to sensitive federal systems. wrd.cm/4jzpiSN
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the tariff trade war stuff is pretty complicated but one way you can think about it is that in this scenario the United States is basically Drake and Canada is Kendrick Lamar
February 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
the tariff trade war stuff is pretty complicated but one way you can think about it is that in this scenario the United States is basically Drake and Canada is Kendrick Lamar
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January 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Indigenous Australian artist Alma Nungurrayi Granites paints the great Warlpiri story of 7 Sisters Dreaming, about the ancestral Napaljarri sisters who are found in the night sky in the star cluster Pleiades #womensart
January 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Indigenous Australian artist Alma Nungurrayi Granites paints the great Warlpiri story of 7 Sisters Dreaming, about the ancestral Napaljarri sisters who are found in the night sky in the star cluster Pleiades #womensart
Beautiful
Blue hour at Bamburgh. I could also have called it “false dawn” as the anticipation created by that slither of light dragged me down to the beach in excitement only for nothing to happen. Nice to have a blether with @paulgsphotos.bsky.social which made up for the lack of colour. Apart from blue.
January 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Beautiful
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![Denise Paolucci (rahaeli on Bluesky) cofounded blog site Dreamwidth and previously worked in trust and safety at LiveJournal. She has a ton of experience with every possible form of social media bad actor and regularly posts on Bluesky about trust and safety. Lately, she's been writing about our bot friends.
Paolucci thinks this particular wave of "reply guy as a service" bots are test runs by a spambot maker, who hopes to rent the bots out to other bad actors as a service: "It's common for spamming software to be pitched as social media management." [Bluesky]
Bad actors want to sort out what bot styles get the most responses for engagement farming. Bluesky is light on algorithms that filter what you can see, but spammers got in the habit of exploring how the algorithms work on Twitter, Facebook, and Threads so they could exploit them.
Some bots are being run to establish what can lower the quality of discussion on a platform. These bots may be political or commercial in intent. Twitter has long been overrun with this style of bot.
The bots also join followback and follow-for-follow hashtags. Content-scraper accounts are grown in the hope of selling the account to a spammer Bluesky has a large number of followback
accounts. Some of these accounts have already](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreidx5saezlmhms642lmv4eyzn637wqjd36zct7lrehnvos2vzfq7vu@jpeg)
January 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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This is such a great mesage abt jorunalism and kind of the Anti Daily Bugle, Busiek cooked again
January 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
This is such a great mesage abt jorunalism and kind of the Anti Daily Bugle, Busiek cooked again
January 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Turner's watercolours at the Mound. #Turner #art #Edinburgh
www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/t...
www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/t...
Turner in January | Ireland's Vaughan Bequest | National Galleries of Scotland
In 2025 the National Galleries of Scotland will commemorate the 250th birthday of beloved British artist JMW Turner with a once-in-a-lifetime, free exhibition. For the first time, visitors will be abl...
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January 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Turner's watercolours at the Mound. #Turner #art #Edinburgh
www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/t...
www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/t...
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Georgia O’Keeffe,
Light Coming on the Plains, III, 1917 #WomensArt
Light Coming on the Plains, III, 1917 #WomensArt
December 30, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Georgia O’Keeffe,
Light Coming on the Plains, III, 1917 #WomensArt
Light Coming on the Plains, III, 1917 #WomensArt
This is a great 'And finally' from Thames's Reporting London in 1983 on the South London Goth Scene at the Batcave
Check Out This 80s Footage Of A London Goth Club-Night Called The Batcave
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Check Out This 80s Footage Of A London Goth Club-Night Called The Batcave | That Eric Alper
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December 28, 2024 at 8:47 PM
This is a great 'And finally' from Thames's Reporting London in 1983 on the South London Goth Scene at the Batcave
Three Bridges #Fife
Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train.
A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin
@tomduffinphotos.bsky.social.
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A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin
@tomduffinphotos.bsky.social.
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December 19, 2024 at 3:42 AM
Three Bridges #Fife
Can't wait to play this
December 18, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Can't wait to play this
Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train.
A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin
@tomduffinphotos.bsky.social.
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A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin
@tomduffinphotos.bsky.social.
Please repost with your own caption.
December 16, 2024 at 11:49 PM
December 10, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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Vlado Chernozemski, who assassinated King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, belonged in his youth to a club that was devoted to a game of regicide.
In the game, known as "chess," contestants subtly maneuver into a position that allows them to topple the opponent's monarch.
In the game, known as "chess," contestants subtly maneuver into a position that allows them to topple the opponent's monarch.
December 10, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Vlado Chernozemski, who assassinated King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, belonged in his youth to a club that was devoted to a game of regicide.
In the game, known as "chess," contestants subtly maneuver into a position that allows them to topple the opponent's monarch.
In the game, known as "chess," contestants subtly maneuver into a position that allows them to topple the opponent's monarch.
This is the coverage we need
I keep saying i'm korean but it's moments like this that remind me im a korean american. I simply have no idea what the fuck is happening here
December 3, 2024 at 6:56 PM
This is the coverage we need