Tom Stoneham / is on Nostr

Academic philosopher at University of York.

Likes: #Linux, #GrapheneOS and #e2ee

Cares about: #DataPrivacy and #ProportionalRepresentation

Learning: 🇩🇪

Currently thinking about value alignment, data privacy and the digital divide.

Would like to ground ethical critique of tech in political consensus at local levels (as opposed to global approaches like human rights).

Last Notes

2024-07-14 15:27:14

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 Potato lattices. You can buy them under that name in Tesco. Also sometimes lattice fries in fast food outlets.
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/286999595

2024-05-26 07:42:50

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@npub15zu…s7lx He probably hasn't realised that women aren't a minority group. Like umbrellas and contactless payments, this is all outside his lived experience.

2024-02-06 20:27:41

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A 2019 i5 in excellent condition for £199 on Backmarket seems too good to be true.
But maybe they are pricing them for people who *want* Windows 11 🤣

2023-12-26 18:23:05

Long story, but ended up buying a Vodafone SIM card to use as a hotspot for four days. It has masses of data left (~100gb) which I have no use for. Expires 22 Jan.
Happy to post anywhere in UK to someone who genuinely needs it (do you know a refugee or homeless person who could use it?).
DM me.

2023-09-17 06:04:18

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 Focuses on Mesopotamia but does some comparison

2023-09-16 19:50:38

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 Have you read James C Scott's *Against the Grain*?
If not, I cannot recommend it more highly for an exceptionally well informed 'anarchist squint' on this period of history.
TL;DR it isn't 'civilisation' but the forced domestication of human labour.

2023-08-24 12:47:13

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@npub15zu…s7lx Given there are so few democracies on the list, I wonder if they will make the mistake of implementing a voting-based decision-making procedure or look for something less divisive?

2023-08-24 12:27:35

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@npub15zu…s7lx What I find *really* striking about this is the political/ideological diversity of this emerging economic bloc. So different from the EU where it is assumed that economic co-operation requires alignment of economic (and thus political) policy. It almost feels de-colonial and de-centring in its ethos.
Imagine Iran and Saudi Arabia around the same table!

2023-08-24 06:22:49

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 I assume the real reason is that for home workers, work is a part of their life, not a separate activity entirely under control of their employer. This means:
1. They work to live, not live to work.
2. When they take a break, they are with people / in an environment external to the company, thus providing the basis for a critical perspective on their employer.
So homeworkers are harder to exploit and manipulate. They are not wage-slaves (well, not as much ...).

2023-08-19 14:02:21

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@npub15zu…s7lx
You forget. Because it didn't happen immediately on Brexit Day, it isn't caused by Brexit. Simple.

2023-07-04 16:31:00

We have spotted quite a few students using generative AI in their essays this summer and applied standard academic misconduct proceedings, though in most cases the work was so bad they would've failed anyway.
Today I learned of one whose use was sufficiently extensive that they will fail their degree.
I am wondering if this is *the first time a student has failed a whole degree for using AI*? Would love to hear about other cases. If you want to tell me in confidence, my Session ID is in my Bio