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Written by Wendy M. Grossman on 2025-01-28 at 12:00

London's Prince Charles Cinema is under threat from a break clause its new landlord is demanding. It has a petition here to save it: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-the-prince-charles-cinema #London #film

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Written by Wendy M. Grossman on 2025-01-26 at 22:13

Interesting Signal glitch: Friend downloads it for 1st time. Signal remembers messages we sent in 2020. But attributes them to someone else. I'm guessing mixup when Signal and SMS parted ways on Android?

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Written by Wendy M. Grossman on 2025-01-24 at 11:23

This week's net.wars, "The AI moment" goes to UK Govcamp 2025 to watch modern civil servants wrangle digital stuff in the face of an old culture: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/01/24/the-ai-moment/ #NetWars @ukgovcamp

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Written by Wendy M. Grossman on 2025-01-20 at 10:17

Ego: Will be performing Feb 4 at Dartford Folk Club: http://www.dartfordfolk.org.uk/index.htm #FolkMusic #Folk

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Written by Wendy M. Grossman on 2025-01-17 at 14:38

RIP veteran UK technology journalist and lover of folk music Martin Banks: https://diginomica.com/memoriam-martin-banks-mr-enterprise-tech

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Written by Wendy M. Grossman on 2025-01-17 at 14:21

This week's net.wars, "Banning TikTok" watches two US presidents go from "Oh my God! The kids are using TikTok!" to "Oh, my God! The kids are using TikTok!": https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/01/17/banning-tiktok/ #NetWars #SocialMedia #TikTok #FreeSpeech

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Written by Wendy M. Grossman on 2025-01-10 at 15:45

This week's net.wars, "Disharmony", finds Meta allegedly engaging in piracy and changing its content moderation policies, and network neutrality dying (for now?) in the US: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/01/10/disharmony/ #copyright #eu #OnlineSafety #NetWars

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Written by Wendy M. Grossman on 2025-01-08 at 11:23

RIP Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul, and Mary. I listened to them a lot as a teen. Little-known: he was president of hte Cornell Follk Song Club when a student in the early 1950s.

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Written by Wendy M. Grossman on 2025-01-03 at 15:27

This week's net.wars, "The lost Internet", misses functioning technology, notes the rise of age verification, and nods at independent journalism. If generative AI were a psychic we'd say what it does is cold reading: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/01/03/the-lost-internet/ #NetWars #AI #privacy

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Written by Wendy M. Grossman on 2024-12-28 at 15:43

As the Guardian has a piece on the 25th anniversary of Y2K, here's the piece I wrote for the Daily Telegraph as it was heating up in 1997: https://web.archive.org/web/20020605224005/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/1997/12/30/ecanal30.xml

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Written by Wendy M. Grossman on 2024-12-27 at 16:19

This week's net.wars, "Non-playing characters" finds Spotify's push into fake music; drops in on a fine technical debate at the soon-to-be-reformed House of Lords; and records the death of John "JI" Ioannidis, who was "severely undercredited" for the invention of mobile IP: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/12/27/non-playing-characters/ (with thanks to @jef ) #NetWars #music #spotify #copyright #UK #AI

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Written by Wendy M. Grossman on 2024-12-24 at 18:40

This is an awesome hack. #BBC https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/dec/24/50-years-the-bbc-somali-service-theme-tune-anti-colonial

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Written by Wendy M. Grossman on 2024-12-20 at 08:04

This week's net.wars, "Government identification as a service", sees the first casualty of the Online Safety Act and listens to Edward Hasbrouck @ehasbrouck claim he's an optimist: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/12/20/government-identification-as-a-service/ #NetWars #OnlineSafety #Privacy #HumanRights

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Written by Wendy M. Grossman on 2024-12-14 at 12:17

By me @ Skeptical Inquirer, on Dorothy Bishop's resignation from the Royal Society in protest against Elon Musk's continued membership: https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/resignation-at-the-royal-society/ #science

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Written by Wendy M. Grossman on 2024-12-13 at 11:12

This week's net.wars, "Loose ends", marks the passing of 13-year-old Do Not Track, GM Cruise's robotaxis, and "bias" at the LA Times: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/12/13/loose-ends/ #NetWars #journalism #AI #privacy

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Written by Wendy M. Grossman on 2024-12-06 at 14:14

This week's net.wars, "This week's net.wars, "Playing monopoly", reviews the options the DoJ has proposed for remediating Google's monopolistic behavior: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/12/06/playing-monopoly/ #NetWars #Google #AntiTrust

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Written by Wendy M. Grossman on 2024-11-29 at 15:07

This week's net.wars, "Return of the Four Horsemen", goes to the first Scrambling for Safety in some years to help debate chat control, encryption, AI in government decision making, and the innards of the Online Safety Act: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/11/29/return-of-the-four-horsemen/ #NetWars #HumanRights #UK #censorship #encryption

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Written by Wendy M. Grossman on 2024-11-22 at 13:12

This week's net.wars, "Blue", watches as millions join Bluesky in one week, and offers advice to those seeking a new online home: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/11/22/blue/ #NetWars #BlueSky #SocialMedia

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Written by Wendy M. Grossman on 2024-11-21 at 17:07

Concerned about the UK's direction of travel wrt online safety, AI, government decision making, and so on? Come to the Foundation of Information Policy Research's first Scrambling for Safety in ten years, this Thursday, November 28, at Friends House, Euston Road, London and online: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1046698221557 #HumanRights #TechPolicy #UK

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Written by Wendy M. Grossman on 2024-11-15 at 13:20

This week's net.wars, "What's next", collates predictions for the coming few years, reviews two years of Musk-owned Twitter, and says all hail The Onion: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/11/15/whats-next/ #NetWars #birdsite

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