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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 16h

Better yet, go get yourself one or get one for a friend. This is hands-down the BEST way to get people thinking about data safety and tech ethics that I’ve ever seen. And who doesn’t love a fun evening around a board game?!

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Privilege, ego and power-tripping. Privilege because they don’t perceive that what’s good for them isn’t necessarily so good for anyone else, ego because they think they know better about how things ‘should’ be, power-tripping because privilege and ego tell them it’s their due

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Eh, ICE just needs a butthurt billionaire to bring legal action against Amnesty to suppress the report, and it’ll get withdrawn with a craven apology to those poor misrepresented patriots.

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Per Axbom @axbom.com · 25/09/2026

New post/newsletter: Harms of the AI ecosystem – infographic A visual aid for discussions and learnings about the impact of AI development on everything from individual to global to planetary wellbeing. #DigitalEthics #AIEthics axbom.com/aieco/

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Harms of the AI ecosystem – infographic

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I absolutely agree, though the hard part of this is the extra cognitive effort required to design, build and maintain ethical tech. People assume that good intentions are enough to prevent harm so they don’t do the work of learning, analysing and making informed choices

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Per Axbom @axbom.com · 24/09/2026

'll be offline for some days so here's my shoutout for Petrov Day on September 26. Remembering Stanislav Petrov's act of defiance reminds us that surviving when machines are calling the shots means building the skills to resist artificial urgency… knowing better… And rewarding people who do.

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Three lessons from a man who averted nuclear war by not trusting a computer

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

“So I think one of the reasons the entire tech industry is so eager to fit these passive surveillance devices into the same kind of mental framework as smartphones is so that no one has to question whether there should be a new social etiquette for these devices.”

theverge.com

What Mark Zuckerberg needs to answer about Meta Glasses, Muse, and teen safety

It’s a big week for Meta, and for Mark Zuckerberg. Here’s what we think the CEO of Meta needs to answer about the company’s product strategy.

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seldondance.bsky.social @seldondance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The confident output wins because the review seat is built that way: one click from done, doubt starts from zero. Oversight inverts the default: trust earned per action, disproof at the decision point. #ai #aiagents seldondance.substack.com/p/the-tier…

Article card for The Tiered System Real-Time Human-Agent Collaboration Actually Needs: tiered separation of the synchronous data plane from the durable substrate, with a transition layer turning live agent action into a durable shared record. One Context series, Seldonian Dance.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/09/2026

*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing.

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have a story about automation bias… Many years ago, I took a trip to St Lucia, which has a very small airport with only 2 baggage carousels. The carousel marked “1” was cordoned off and in pieces - obviously out of service. The one marked “2” was happily trundling around and around….

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Automation bias is a helluva drug And this is the toolset that’ll be deciding whether or not your medical condition is worth spending money for treatment on

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/09/2026

okay, today’s spicy hot take because I’ve seen this three times already this morning: The U.K. does not have any such thing as a ‘legal name’ this is a good thing! unequivocally! this means it also applies to people we don’t like

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah, no - this isn’t about money since the restriction will cost more to administer than the scheme could save. It’s about manufacturing consent for unlimited trawling of banking and retail data under cover of moral outrage, and private sector profit potential for selling analytics services

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Talking about the apocalypse means *not* talking about copyright abuse, about privacy invasion, about the creation of misinformation and the destruction of truth, about political manipulation, about CSAM, about economic devastation and about environmental destruction. The real problems.

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Tony Roberts @phatcontroller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ban Racial Recognition Technology. No! That's not a typo.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

While this *might* be relatively innocent tinfoil-hattery, it could also be an amazingly cost-effective example of asymmetric warfare (target the most gullible minds with a conspiracy theory that gives them an incentive to vandalize transport infrastructure).

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Bryan Cursèd @chucklebot314.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Older people are more dangerous (and endangered) online that people under thirty. They turbo-charge disinfo, memes, AI slop, obvious grifts and scams, Islamophobia, there's NOTHING so nakedly false or obvious they wont swallow it.

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Re-reading Asimov’s robot stories for the sheer joy of his witty prose - but also because there are so many profound points made in those stories that apply just as much to today’s tech, particularly to the dangers of ceding agency to tech, and of magical thinking about tech’s capabilities

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sousveillance tech (wearables, dashcams, ‘smart’ devices etc) brings unique and complex difficulties in data protection. It’s relatively easy to figure out Controllership for *surveillance* activities but far less so when everyone is recording everyone else and posting footage online

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#IrregularVerb: to terrorise I exercise my democratic right to be heard You join a menacing pseudo-paramilitary march We cause peaceful disruption to get our point across Those Bastards Over There are bringing down civilisation

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'Ai psychosis' is so powerful and so quick to take hold because the models are literally built to justify superstition and magical thinking. That is why they exist, full stop.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 07/09/2026

Big fan of how Russia can shut down a major UK port for half a day with just 5kg of cocaine and 100 severely divorced men.

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Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

From "The AI Con," by @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social : "We can't delegate science to machines because science isn't a collection of answers. It's a set of processes and ways of knowing." Seriously everyone should read this book.

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#IrregularVerb: ‘non-legitimate’ protest I take a non-conventional righteous stand against evil Your tactics/values may be okay but your values/tactics are reprehensible We are imposing social consequences Those Bastards Over There are just trying to fuck things up for everyone else

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

One can legitimately exercise their right to peaceful protest even when the thing they are protesting is basic compassion and decency itself. There are legitimate reasons for peaceful protestors to want to conceal their identities - especially in the age of sousveillance, doxxing and dogpiling

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Jan @janhopis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The problem isn't whether the means are "legitimate" or not really. The problem is that they were fascists. To be honest, despite my initial reaction (and the obvious hypocrisy), I don't know if begging the police to be more aggressive will be as productive as people like.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

whoops

@rgegriff@masto.hackers.town
The US has neglected their industrial infra for so long they can't even manufacture consent anymore
Aug 31, 2026 at 12:52:21 PM

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Risk assessment is meaningless when you lack data on prevalence or consequence from which to derive probability calculations. Why waste your time making up useless numbers when you could adopt a practical, pro-safety approach instead? www.buymeacoffee.com/MissIGGeek/t...

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The Hazards & Harms Toolkit — Rowenna Fielding

Post by Rowenna Fielding

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Tech ethics isn’t just about not doing bad stuff on purpose, it’s also about considering wider & long-term consequences of applying tech. Protecting kids is a noble endeavour but automated age-gating has the opposite effect. Ignorant people are easier to confound. heatherburns.tech/2026/09/05/t...

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The age-gating of history – Hi, I'm Heather Burns

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ethelredaunready.bsky.social @ethelredaunready.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

UK media must be sorted out. Foreign owners with political agendas should be sacked.

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For me, it’s not the profit motive or any theoretical breach of rights that is the problem, it’s the REAL WORLD HARMS caused by unfettered surveillance & datafication - exclusion, discrimination, manipulation, that may go unnoticed at an individual level but add up to large-scale suffering and harm

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Spot-on satire; savage 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😂😂😂

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Always good to have a friendly face to talk to when recording data protection explainers! (Watch this space for exciting new project news)

A cuddly toy puffin is attached to a studio camera set among studio lights

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One of my pet hates is when people misuse the verb “to lay” when they should be using “to lie” - but I recognise that it’s likely due to not knowing any better. So here’s how it SHOULD go: english-grammar-lessons.co.uk/easily_confu...

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lay or lie?

The difference between lie and lay - Free interactive online grammar lesson

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Surveilling children, taking away their access to community, information, third spaces, and suicide prevention resources is a *really* weird approach to child safety.

Post on LinkedIn from the United Nations Human Rights Account that says "Children should have to wait for a lawsuit to be safe online. The design changes that Meta has now agreed to implement on its social media apps align with what my Office has been calling for. But we're not there yet.

Safe design should be applied across the industry. Governments need to step up rather than wait for courts and companies to act."

Un human rights chief Volker Turk

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026

the most striking aspect of meta's proposed changes is that they are all about restricting teens and not about making these platforms more healthier/better for all

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Nor will it end at ethnic cleansing. A machine built to eat people will keep eating people. Those who run it will always find a new category of unwanted humans.

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Isn’t this kind of like limiting the hours kids can spend at a facility where toxic waste is unsafely handled, rather than tackling the irresponsible handling of toxic waste itself? The problem of addictive platform design lies with the incentives and objectives of surveillance capitalism itself.

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Not only do these devices give abusers more power over their victims, they also provide the means for well-intentioned but anxious helicopter types to become abusive without realising. Healthy families with wholesome relationships don’t need and won’t use this tech. Only the problematic ones will.

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Let’s talk about the perverse incentives of industrialisation. Data protection was once a niche profession that people tumbled into by accident and stayed with because protecting human dignity and welfare became a vocation. Then the commercial market for compliance started to grow….

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Nazis were the first to industrialise data profiling of individuals - labelling, hunting down, and eliminating those who didn’t fit the Übermenschen criteria. Human rights law - which later gave rise to data protection law - was created in direct response. We need it now, more than ever

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

1. Why bother? It’s not like it’s being enforced anyway 2. The DUAA already did that 3. The GDPR does not protect privacy specifically, it requires *all* fundamental rights & freedoms to be protected & upheld in datafication. 4. Adequacy of data protection is essential to the UK’s ability to trade

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A good moment to recommend Angela Saini‘s Superior, which traces back the history of “race science” and shows the institutions that sustain this pseudo-research until today. These pursuits have nothing in common with the principles of academic inquiry www.angelasaini.co.uk/superior

angelasaini.co.uk

Angela Saini | Award-winning Science Journalist and Author

The website of British independent science journalist, author and broadcaster, Angela Saini. Her most recent book is Superior: The Return of Race Science.

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Make a band bigger: Derek and the Trivial Pursuits Alien Antelope Farm Garbage Truck Linkin National Park Savage Meadow Toolbox

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