Alan Smith 

Research student in psychology, not an English footballer
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If you have a numpad, hold the Alt key and type 0151

It is almost 2025, and still the fastest way to write an em dash on Windows is to Google “em dash” and then copy/paste the first one you find.

Politics is the mind-killer. It is the little death that precedes total obliteration. I will face the hot takes and I will permit them to pass over me and through me. And when the thinkpieces and quips have gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the dunks have gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Fraudulent Participants

So for various reasons I haven’t posted in several months, yet somehow my subscriber count has doubled.

So anyone who thinks subscriber count is a measure of quality of work, maybe rethink that?

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Effectiveness and Impact of Microtargeting

Without going into detail, there are topics in which I am similarly unable to be reasonable or rational on the topic, while recognising that I am in fact being unreasonable/irrational, basing it on a few isolated examples rather than broad principle or general trends. And it’s really, really easy to see how this can go badly - if I was r…

This is a slightly different point than what I think Freddie is getting at with this piece, but I think this a point that people in the privacy space have to grapple with. You can do Youtube or TikTok videos and have great reach and help inform people (to some extent, I remain unconvinced of the degree of changing people’s minds who aren…

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Did you guys know protons are Catholic?

They have mass.

Added PGP public key to my About page, so if you want to reach out to me somewhat privately, feel free to use it!

The address listed will probably change occasionally because scraping and spam is a Thing.