I finally offered links to reasoned critical takes on the announcement. Result? Banned in less than 10 hours. I bet this is the new take of "had enough of experts" 3/

I explained that there were so many lies that even the half truths were unreliable, that I could tell because I worked on it, and that while nobody can tell what it will look like yet, we know enough about what's possible to rule Black Mirror out. 2/

If you're ever tempted to write about what kind of complete clusterfuck is on the Horizon, and the kind of damage that could be caused by the collision of digital identity and genAI/agents, happy to provide pointers. Every time I try to put pen to paper my will to live dies!

All true, except, I would argue: it is a take on politics - which oftentimes overlaps with the bad-faith conflation 🙃

That bill is the perfect example of flawed policy-making based on moral panic-driven solutions. If the UK is to make a success of "credentials as infrastructure", policy-makers will have to be educated on data minimisation principles and their implementation (like zero-proof knowledge).

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(...) the dereliction of neuro-symbolic systems in favour of statistics on steroids, the drain on academia and on innovation, the illusion of "intelligence" and the marketing arms race fuelled by sci-fi. Not many books manage to report *and* educate at the same time.