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Heather Burns

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freelance UK tech policy x human rights / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde Law School, researching US tech policy x Christian Nationalism / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / 💬 on Signal / open to work, hire me pls / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently

I have an open support ticket on LI regarding their fake UX options not actually changing anything, even in account settings. Their ongoing responses to the ticket are, themselves, fake. So there’s a high chance the report AI slop option is also fake and does nothing, by design.

this is the age of idiocy when stupid chart outputs become organisational priorities because some manager wants to play with the software that makes stupid chart outputs

On the plus side, the first sentence finally popped into my head on a walk, which unblocked the other 19,985 words. Writer's brain is a blessing and a curse.

Mine is the 10th. I could write about MAGA geopolitics, or I could go to the food trucks and shove grilled halloumi in my face. This is my struggle.

⟳ Репост от Heather Burns

Researchers say Knights Templar imagery helps rebrand older far-right politics around the idea of men acting as defenders

The ex-BNP ‘Christian patriot’ raising international funding for Scottish ‘vigilante’ night patrolsFar right organisation Knights Templar International, whose frontman Jim Dowson has a long history of involvement with extremist groups, is now supporting Scotland’s new wave of night patrols.www.theferret.scot
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Two weeks ago, I reported that the CEO of SafeToNet, the government's favourite tech company, claimed that "God has created the safest phone in the world" and that only after finding God did SafeToNet become "fully funded" and the software properly work. This week, some FAQs have appeared... 1/

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🚨Exclusive🚨 Two ministers filmed a video for a child-protection software firm that lost £17m in three years, made just *£112* in the UK in 2024 and gets 90%+ of its income from overseas subsidiaries that haven't cooperated with auditors for three years. 1/ theuglygame.wordpress.com/2026/07/15/p...

I love the idea that the employees of California-based companies can be personally slapped with a financial enema for the coordinated harassment of people who have never gone anywhere near California, for no particular reason

I have spent my adult life in the blissful delusion that the solution to writer’s block is buying a lovely blank notebook. It never works, but I have many lovely blank notebooks. Many.

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