Emeritus Fellow of Digital Rights. Editor of book series on all aspects of digital citizenship and digital authoritarianism. Free typo with every post.
Tony Roberts
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Get the #Flock outta town!
Every billionaire is a failure of taxation policy
Planes should board window seats first
Police use AI to fabricate evidence, proving the rule that if a technology can be used as a tool of oppression, it will be used as a tool of oppression.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"...case echoes growing resistance to tech infrastructure across US. Whether it is data centres straining power grids or rockets cracking foundations, the pattern is the same: communities absorbing physical costs of tech industry’s ambitions are organising, no longer willing to absorb them quietly."
"Capture moves at the speed of power. Accountability moves at the speed of law."
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That the ultimate goal of our culture is the hoarding of wealth is humanity’s final indictment.
We are broken. And each of us is certain it is only the others who are broken. But it’s important to remember that given the chance, we can all become monsters.
Tony Roberts
Tony Roberts
Now Britain gets higher bills, ruined high streets, scapegoating and rage.
Warm enough? Or do you want to vote the temperature down? #VoteRejoin
I'm sick of listening to people sanewashing his enormous wealth, built on the backs of people struggling to survive. F#ck him.
#USDemocracy
Tony Roberts
Robert Reich has the answer…
The ceiling on income subject to Social Security payroll tax must be raised. If all income in excess of $400,000 were subject to Social Security payroll tax, solvency would be guaranteed forever, and also expand SS benefits.
robertreich.substack.com/p/they-dont-...
Unidentified officer removed from frontline duties in the first known case of its kind in the UK
If you were to count out a million seconds, it would take you 11 and a half days.
A billion seconds would take you 31.7 years.
But a trillion seconds would take 31,700 years — to reach that point today, you would have needed to start counting around the time that neanderthals went extinct.
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Get #Flock out of Mount Vernon, WA! ✍️
"Flock is truly a dystopian vision in which any neighborhood camera can be weaponized to track people, wherever they go. We plan to use your petition signature to show Mount Vernon elected officials how unwanted these devices are in our town."
#deflock #alpr
The name went up in hours. Workers on scissor lifts, done overnight. Taking it down required scaffolding, took all day, and still missed the court deadline. That asymmetry is structural. Capture moves at the speed of power. Accountability moves at the speed of law. One is always faster.
