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Tom Stoneham
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Academic philosopher at a UK university.

Likes: #Linux, #GrapheneOS and #e2ee

Cares about: #DataPrivacy #AIEthics #ClimateChange #DigitalDivide […]

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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]
December 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
December 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
April 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Another #owngoal from #google. Does no one in that business have a good enough grasp of the English language to know that 'thinking hard', like 'playing hard' or 'practicing hard', is a good thing, that it has positive connotations?

They are clearly […]

[Original post on dair-community.social]
March 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Just digest this for a moment. If the difference to the income of *one* website from serving personalised rather than non-personalised adverts to *one* user is £5 per month, then work out how much money you make for people by simply browsing the internet every day and getting exposed to those ads.
March 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
#notebooklm has landed hard and fast in the HE sector this month and will have a serious impact on student learning (the reason we ask students to read things is not because we think that is an efficient method of information upload! Reading is a form […]

[Original post on dair-community.social]
February 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
My (belated) prediction for 2025: the word 'quisling' will make a comeback.

Maybe we should keep a list?

#quisling
February 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
In case you ever doubted that maps are political. Or needed a reason to de-Google your life.

#google #mapsarepolitical #degoogle
February 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
What is it that people don't get about #DataPrivacy? Don't ask for a date of birth when all you actually need is a rough age for EDI analysis. People will give you that information and now you have something which can be stolen, which would hurt […]

[Original post on dair-community.social]
January 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Maybe not ...

(Transparently exploitative business model for domain names in action.)
December 27, 2024 at 4:35 PM
About 20 minutes later there was a classic, dramatic teal and orange sunset, which made everyone 'Wow!', but to my mind, this captures better a winter in #yorkshire.
December 24, 2024 at 5:56 PM
None of those with green ticks from my user page are actually appearing in the BlueSky bridged profile:

https://bsky.app/profile/tomstoneham.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy
November 25, 2024 at 5:15 PM