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Heather Burns

@WebDevLaw

Gigging UK tech policy wonk + author, Understanding Privacy + 2022 Internet Society Mid-Career Fellow. Personal tweets. IANAL.

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Lizzie Dearden(@lizziedearden) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm sure I'm not the only woman who recognises the tone of this carefully crafted email

The need to dress up a reasonable and urgent point in layers of self-deprecation, jokes, apologies and non-threatening punctuation (!) so your competency isn't perceived as aggressive

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@rachelcoldicutt@assemblag.es(@rachelcoldicutt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I do absolutely think that inviting Musk shows Sunak is treating the AI Safety Summit as a pre-graduation milk round - a chance to meet his next employer, not a serious policy forum. While I hope to be proved wrong by the outputs of the ext few days, my hopes aren't high.

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Chapeau to the poor Sky News producer who had to interrupt the coverage every time an obscenity-laden WhatsApp was read out loud

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David Pegg(@davidtpegg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A good example of what not to do. A woman is found dead, and an AI-generated poll polls readers on how she might have died. Either there was no human in the loop, or the human was a psychopath. theguardian.com/media/2023/oct…

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Heather Burns(@WebDevLaw) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There are policy shifts, and then there's pivoting from insisting that big tech bosses must be imprisoned to giving them the VIP seat at your global conference, in a week.

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Folks, you have two days left to get my book plus 15 others for a silly low price in a charity bundle. Can we get it to 4000 moved by Monday? Maybe 5000? 😁humblebundle.com/books/web-desi…

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Kate Bevan(@katebevan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So basically the women around you did the actual work: your secretary, the tea lady, which meant you could arse about doing fuck all and earning loads more. Technology has, among other things, shifted work on to men, who had to write their own emails and get their own teas.

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Mozilla(@mozilla) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The UK's online ad industry is capitalizing on women's reproductive 'milestones' like menstruation & conception to make billions in micro-targeting, & thwarting reproductive rights while they do it.

More from Sr. Lucy Purdon here⤵️
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Heather Burns(@WebDevLaw) 's Twitter Profile Photo

For some odd reason, I'm remembering this brilliant SF short story, where all the SV AI microdosing tech bros depart to Mars to live in their own SV AI tech bro meritocratic/Darwinian colony. You can guess what happens back on earth. amazon.co.uk/dp/B07VFMFPP4

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