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Regulation

Trump, Parler, and the internet regulation fallout

The events of last week require no introduction. The world looked in shock as the QAnon-MAGA mob stormed the US Capitol, disrupting the certification process for the US election. Disbelief, anger, sadness, in some circles. In others glee at the decay of a once great democracy. For me it felt Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 2 weeks2 weeks ago
Image rights

Revamp image rights to fight deepfakes

If you are paying attention to technology news, you may have come across deepfakes. In case you haven’t, a deepfake has become an umbrella term for various types of image and video manipulation in which a realistic computer rendering of a person can be constructed, seemingly looking and sounding exactly Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 4 weeks4 weeks ago
Data protection

Make the Web Great Again

After the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the entire world changed the way in which airport security was conducted. Some of the features made sense: sturdier metal detectors and more baggage scanners. But we also started seeing an increase in often useless and baseless measures designed to look good Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 2 months2 months ago
Regulation

Time to decolonise the Internet

During my university years in Costa Rica, I used to be quite involved in student politics. You know, the usual stuff, marches, protesting, political parties, advocacy, but mostly sitting around talking about politics at the Law School’s cafeteria. I used to have quite a good collection of t-shirts, some with Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 4 months4 months ago
Off-topic

Diary of a Long Covid patient

So, I am a patient of what they are calling Long-Covid, I’m a long-hauler. If you follow some of my social media, this will not come as a surprise, but I haven’t been posting too much about my condition lately other than to provide a status check that I am Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 5 months5 months ago
Bitcoin

The stock market looks like the Bitcoin economy, and that’s not a good thing

I’ll get to the Bitcoin bit soon, but first let me explain what prompted this idea. Thanks to a Twitter thread by Cory Doctorow (archived here), I’ve been listening to this great interview with Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis. In the video, Varoufakis explains the historic decoupling between stock markets and the Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 5 months5 months ago
Hacking

The importance of the Twitter hack should not be missed

On July 15, 2020, a remarkable hacking attack took place. The Twitter accounts of prominent public figures such as Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Kanye West, and Bill Gates, amongst many others, started to transmit a message stating that if a person deposited some Bitcoin to a wallet, it Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 6 months6 months ago
Hacktivism

Beware the dangers of complacent clicktivism

By now you may have heard that there’s a new sheriff in town: K-pop fans, they’re are here to save the day! An army of online fans of Korean bands, particularly BTS, have been getting organised to lend their social media reach to tackle several problems. By now you may Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 7 months7 months ago
Off-topic

Red Pills and NPCs: How geek culture became political

It’s difficult to take anything coming out of Elon Musk’s Twitter account seriously, and I say this as a person who is quite fond of a bit of eccentricity online. Since the pandemic began, Musk has been trying to keep the attention of a bored world squarely on him. He Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 8 months7 months ago
Popular Culture

Zombies and killer robots: has our imagination failed to prepare us for a pandemic?

We have spent decades preparing for the end of the world. Well, more accurately, we have spent decades consuming media that tells us what the end of the world will look like. Aliens, zombies, killer robots, giant meteorites, a dying sun, catastrophic ice ages, an exploding moon, mutating neutrinos. We Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 8 months8 months ago

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