Tom Stoneham
@tomstoneham.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy
Academic philosopher at a UK university.
Likes: #Linux, #GrapheneOS and #e2ee
Cares about: #DataPrivacy #AIEthics #ClimateChange #DigitalDivide […]
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Likes: #Linux, #GrapheneOS and #e2ee
Cares about: #DataPrivacy #AIEthics #ClimateChange #DigitalDivide […]
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Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #digitalsovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #digitalsovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation […]
Have I misunderstood the #australia #socialmediaban? If it is *accounts* not *access* which is age-gated, surely platforms can just change their apps to carry on working without the user logging in to the account? They can easily reidentify users by device fingerprinting so 90% of functionality […]
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dair-community.social
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Have I misunderstood the #australia #socialmediaban? If it is *accounts* not *access* which is age-gated, surely platforms can just change their apps to carry on working without the user logging in to the account? They can easily reidentify users by device fingerprinting so 90% of functionality […]
Am I the only one to see the #irony here? By inviting readers to share via social media, you encourage the habit of getting news via social media, rather than directly from the source, and thus create the conditions for the spread of #misinformation […]
[Original post on dair-community.social]
[Original post on dair-community.social]
December 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Am I the only one to see the #irony here? By inviting readers to share via social media, you encourage the habit of getting news via social media, rather than directly from the source, and thus create the conditions for the spread of #misinformation […]
[Original post on dair-community.social]
[Original post on dair-community.social]
December 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
There is so much that is truly terrible about this as a piece of journalism, but I am going to set that aside to focus on the latest, utterly mind-bending, move in the project of forcing AI on an unwilling world: it is like a highly infectious virus. i. e. Some sort of natural phenomenon […]
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dair-community.social
December 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
There is so much that is truly terrible about this as a piece of journalism, but I am going to set that aside to focus on the latest, utterly mind-bending, move in the project of forcing AI on an unwilling world: it is like a highly infectious virus. i. e. Some sort of natural phenomenon […]
Today someone I know slightly was sentenced to 30 months in prison, and sent to a high security facility. Their crime was disrupting traffic - they and others climbed a gantry on the M25, the major orbital round London, to drop banners protesting at government inaction in climate change.
If a […]
If a […]
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dair-community.social
December 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Today someone I know slightly was sentenced to 30 months in prison, and sent to a high security facility. Their crime was disrupting traffic - they and others climbed a gantry on the M25, the major orbital round London, to drop banners protesting at government inaction in climate change.
If a […]
If a […]
I am generally a fan of #HIGNFY but tonight's episode felt nasty and left a bad taste. Mainly because of the 'romantic poetry' question, but also a few other points where the joke was based or an assumption of racial or cultural superiority. The saving grace - literally I guess - was Richard […]
Original post on dair-community.social
dair-community.social
December 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I am generally a fan of #HIGNFY but tonight's episode felt nasty and left a bad taste. Mainly because of the 'romantic poetry' question, but also a few other points where the joke was based or an assumption of racial or cultural superiority. The saving grace - literally I guess - was Richard […]
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December 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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I attended the #techuk #digitalethicssummit yesterday and had a few thoughts.
tl;dr - for 'leaders', AI adoption has become a moral project
#ai #aiethics #hegemony #growth
https://listed.to/@24601/67774/digital-ethics-summit-2025-trust-risk-and-blame
tl;dr - for 'leaders', AI adoption has become a moral project
#ai #aiethics #hegemony #growth
https://listed.to/@24601/67774/digital-ethics-summit-2025-trust-risk-and-blame
Digital Ethics Summit 2025: Trust, Risk, and Blame | Tom Stoneham
I attended the TechUK Digital Ethics Summit on 3 December and found it an odd and unsettling experience. It was very informative and I am grateful to TechUK for...
listed.to
December 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I attended the #techuk #digitalethicssummit yesterday and had a few thoughts.
tl;dr - for 'leaders', AI adoption has become a moral project
#ai #aiethics #hegemony #growth
https://listed.to/@24601/67774/digital-ethics-summit-2025-trust-risk-and-blame
tl;dr - for 'leaders', AI adoption has become a moral project
#ai #aiethics #hegemony #growth
https://listed.to/@24601/67774/digital-ethics-summit-2025-trust-risk-and-blame
I attended the #techuk #digitalethicssummit yesterday and had a few thoughts.
tl;dr - for 'leaders', AI adoption has become a moral project
#ai #aiethics #hegemony #growth
https://listed.to/@24601/67774/digital-ethics-summit-2025-trust-risk-and-blame
tl;dr - for 'leaders', AI adoption has become a moral project
#ai #aiethics #hegemony #growth
https://listed.to/@24601/67774/digital-ethics-summit-2025-trust-risk-and-blame
Digital Ethics Summit 2025: Trust, Risk, and Blame | Tom Stoneham
I attended the TechUK Digital Ethics Summit on 3 December and found it an odd and unsettling experience. It was very informative and I am grateful to TechUK for...
listed.to
December 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I attended the #techuk #digitalethicssummit yesterday and had a few thoughts.
tl;dr - for 'leaders', AI adoption has become a moral project
#ai #aiethics #hegemony #growth
https://listed.to/@24601/67774/digital-ethics-summit-2025-trust-risk-and-blame
tl;dr - for 'leaders', AI adoption has become a moral project
#ai #aiethics #hegemony #growth
https://listed.to/@24601/67774/digital-ethics-summit-2025-trust-risk-and-blame
https://microsoft.ai/news/towards-humanist-superintelligence/
I *wanted* to like this because I agree that the future of #ai, what will be left when the #aibubble bursts, is problem-oriented and domain-specific.
BUT a manifesto for Humanist Superintelligence ought to have had some input from […]
I *wanted* to like this because I agree that the future of #ai, what will be left when the #aibubble bursts, is problem-oriented and domain-specific.
BUT a manifesto for Humanist Superintelligence ought to have had some input from […]
Original post on dair-community.social
dair-community.social
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
https://microsoft.ai/news/towards-humanist-superintelligence/
I *wanted* to like this because I agree that the future of #ai, what will be left when the #aibubble bursts, is problem-oriented and domain-specific.
BUT a manifesto for Humanist Superintelligence ought to have had some input from […]
I *wanted* to like this because I agree that the future of #ai, what will be left when the #aibubble bursts, is problem-oriented and domain-specific.
BUT a manifesto for Humanist Superintelligence ought to have had some input from […]
Reposted by Tom Stoneham
tl;dr - the only effective digital sovereignty is digital socialism
https://listed.to/@24601/67437/digital-sovereignty-or-digital-socialism
https://listed.to/@24601/67437/digital-sovereignty-or-digital-socialism
Digital Sovereignty or Digital Socialism? | Tom Stoneham — Ra...
Some of the issues around conflicting approaches to digital sovereignty can be understood by thinking about "digital socialism". For present purposes, socialism...
listed.to
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
tl;dr - the only effective digital sovereignty is digital socialism
https://listed.to/@24601/67437/digital-sovereignty-or-digital-socialism
https://listed.to/@24601/67437/digital-sovereignty-or-digital-socialism
tl;dr - the only effective digital sovereignty is digital socialism
https://listed.to/@24601/67437/digital-sovereignty-or-digital-socialism
https://listed.to/@24601/67437/digital-sovereignty-or-digital-socialism
Digital Sovereignty or Digital Socialism? | Tom Stoneham — Ra...
Some of the issues around conflicting approaches to digital sovereignty can be understood by thinking about "digital socialism". For present purposes, socialism...
listed.to
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
tl;dr - the only effective digital sovereignty is digital socialism
https://listed.to/@24601/67437/digital-sovereignty-or-digital-socialism
https://listed.to/@24601/67437/digital-sovereignty-or-digital-socialism
There is much in this to be alarmed about if you use #whatsapp, but what shocked me most was that Nitin Gupta, VP of engineering at WhatsApp described the data scraped as "publicly available". It was name, phone number, and profile image/text. So now we know #meta regard that as *not private […]
Original post on dair-community.social
dair-community.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Very cool research tool called Little Sis allows you to map the economic and institutional relationships between major power brokers and wealthy individuals. ht @emmalbriant
https://littlesis.org/database
https://littlesis.org/database
LittleSis
LittleSis is a free database of who knows who in business and government
littlesis.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Very cool research tool called Little Sis allows you to map the economic and institutional relationships between major power brokers and wealthy individuals. ht @emmalbriant
https://littlesis.org/database
https://littlesis.org/database
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Has anyone looked at doing large scale newsletter type distribution over signal (not admin-only groups)? I know @thecontinent does it, but I'm not sure if they're using a third party client or what.
November 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Has anyone looked at doing large scale newsletter type distribution over signal (not admin-only groups)? I know @thecontinent does it, but I'm not sure if they're using a third party client or what.
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Chatting with a friend about Cloudflare's intermittent outages today, they brought up an interesting point: How many organizations have started relying on Cloudflare to do basic security blocking and tackling stuff, like stopping SQL injection attacks at the edge? Maybe your devs were lazy at […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Chatting with a friend about Cloudflare's intermittent outages today, they brought up an interesting point: How many organizations have started relying on Cloudflare to do basic security blocking and tackling stuff, like stopping SQL injection attacks at the edge? Maybe your devs were lazy at […]
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![XKCD Webcomic:
[Cueball finds a computer tower with a wire leading away from it.]
Cueball: What's this?
Off-screen: The Cloud.
[Cueball looks behind him. The wire leads to an outlet in the wall next to where Black Hat sits at a desk with a computer. Another wire leads from that outlet to Black Hat's computer.]
Cueball: Huh? I always thought "The Cloud" was a huge, amorphous network of servers somewhere.
Black Hat: Yeah, but everyone buys server time from everyone else. In the end, they're all getting it here.
[A close-up of Black Hat.]
Cueball: How? You're on a cable modem.
Black Hat: There's a lot of caching.
[A close-up of Cueball, looking down at the tower at his feet.]
Cueball: Should the cord be stretched across the room like this?
Black Hat: Of course. It has to reach the server, and the server is over there.
[Cueball turns back to the Black Hat, still sitting at the computer.]
Cueball: What if someone trips on it?
Black Hat: Who would want to do that? It sounds unpleasant.
Cueball: Uh. Sometimes people do stuff by accident.
Black Hat: I don't think I know anybody like that.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vtgt6rnut7pmlyu2ki2hdm56/bafkreihxpknyamjjwilfsqcnymqqylluy3c3ogqfnzuwj2cgqew6abo4ea@jpeg)
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Maybe #cloudflare should have a fediverse account. That way people can still reach them when cloudflare is down.
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Maybe #cloudflare should have a fediverse account. That way people can still reach them when cloudflare is down.
I was renewing an #insurance policy this morning and they said they no longer accept @protonprivacy emails addresses because 'they are associated with fraud'. WTAF?
They used my #protonmail address happily for 3 years. Where has this change come from? Is this #bigtech selling #cybersec products […]
They used my #protonmail address happily for 3 years. Where has this change come from? Is this #bigtech selling #cybersec products […]
Original post on dair-community.social
dair-community.social
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I was renewing an #insurance policy this morning and they said they no longer accept @protonprivacy emails addresses because 'they are associated with fraud'. WTAF?
They used my #protonmail address happily for 3 years. Where has this change come from? Is this #bigtech selling #cybersec products […]
They used my #protonmail address happily for 3 years. Where has this change come from? Is this #bigtech selling #cybersec products […]
"underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education"
It is only a *challenge* against the background belief that there is a future where genAI in education is a good thing for anyone other than the bullshitters selling the technology.
Governments, universities, schools around […]
It is only a *challenge* against the background belief that there is a future where genAI in education is a good thing for anyone other than the bullshitters selling the technology.
Governments, universities, schools around […]
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dair-community.social
October 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
"underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education"
It is only a *challenge* against the background belief that there is a future where genAI in education is a good thing for anyone other than the bullshitters selling the technology.
Governments, universities, schools around […]
It is only a *challenge* against the background belief that there is a future where genAI in education is a good thing for anyone other than the bullshitters selling the technology.
Governments, universities, schools around […]
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For me it's even worse, because i not only got that in the 90's, i also grew up in the 70's during the oil crisis. Speed limits were lowered to 55 mph to save gas, fuel efficiency standards were first introduced, President Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed […]
[Original post on chaosfem.tw]
[Original post on chaosfem.tw]
October 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
For me it's even worse, because i not only got that in the 90's, i also grew up in the 70's during the oil crisis. Speed limits were lowered to 55 mph to save gas, fuel efficiency standards were first introduced, President Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed […]
[Original post on chaosfem.tw]
[Original post on chaosfem.tw]
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if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
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Educated minds for all Halloweeners 👻
October 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Educated minds for all Halloweeners 👻
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