From January 2025 to April 2026, Laura and I, through We Are Open Co-op worked on researching, planning, implementing, and evaluating a community platform for Amnesty International UK. One of the decisions we made was to host the site outside the UK.
…A follow-up to [this note] given Anthropic's recent announcement that they're going to require government-issued ID to use "certain features" of their models. They're using none other than Peter Thiel-backed Persona for this. Ugh.
…Signal: Surveillance Is Not Safety
So our (probably) soon to be ex-leader, Keir Starmer, has announced that the government is mandating encryption backdoors in the name of "child safety". Signal, my messaging app of choice, has responded with a blunt one-page PDF which finishes like this:
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