Taylor Spears
@tcspears.bsky.social
Lecturer in Financial Technology and Organizations
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📣 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.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
📣 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.
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7/The solution to the Brussels Defect might then be defection i.e. create diversity in technological systems that undermine the pressure points being used against Europe. The EuroStack is an important example i.e. if regulation isnt working, own the infrastructure.
www.wired.com/story/enshit...
www.wired.com/story/enshit...
The Enshittification of American Power
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.
www.wired.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
7/The solution to the Brussels Defect might then be defection i.e. create diversity in technological systems that undermine the pressure points being used against Europe. The EuroStack is an important example i.e. if regulation isnt working, own the infrastructure.
www.wired.com/story/enshit...
www.wired.com/story/enshit...
Interested in the intersection of fintech and regulatory evasion? Today @ 15:30, @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social will be hosting Sean Vanatta to discuss his book Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards and the End of Financial Control. Attend virtually or in person!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cas-colloq...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cas-colloq...
June 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Interested in the intersection of fintech and regulatory evasion? Today @ 15:30, @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social will be hosting Sean Vanatta to discuss his book Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards and the End of Financial Control. Attend virtually or in person!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cas-colloq...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cas-colloq...
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GREAT episode by @weisenthal.bsky.social and @tracyalloway.bsky.social (though they are actually silent!) platforming the always great Lev Menand and Josh Younger on the origins of the EuroDollar market
THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF EURODOLLARS
*SPECIAL ODD LOTS SERIES*
@weisenthal.bsky.social & I are super excited to release of a special three-part series hosted by Josh Younger and Lev Menand diving deep into the history of the eurodollar market.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
*SPECIAL ODD LOTS SERIES*
@weisenthal.bsky.social & I are super excited to release of a special three-part series hosted by Josh Younger and Lev Menand diving deep into the history of the eurodollar market.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Hidden History of Eurodollars, Part 1: Cold War Origins
Podcast Episode · Odd Lots · 01/14/2025 · 34m
podcasts.apple.com
January 15, 2025 at 3:04 AM
GREAT episode by @weisenthal.bsky.social and @tracyalloway.bsky.social (though they are actually silent!) platforming the always great Lev Menand and Josh Younger on the origins of the EuroDollar market
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Yes. This experiment will work if you make it your own. Customize your experience, build new ones, make a social network that can be controlled by the people who use it an idea we do not go back on.
The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.
December 6, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Yes. This experiment will work if you make it your own. Customize your experience, build new ones, make a social network that can be controlled by the people who use it an idea we do not go back on.