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Hi, I'm Heather Burns

— yes, that one.

NQ, MCR, 11/22

12 December 2022

Estimated reading time: < 1
Category: Privacy
Tag: good people
Street art, Northern Quarter, Manchester, autumn 2022

artist unknown.

 

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12 Jan 26

The worst fucking app idea ever

A page out of my Mphil project research. This is not a joke.

10 Jan 26

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Journos: if you are advising your readers on counter-surveillance measures but not dropping the adtech, you are not helping your readers. You are building a honeypot to trap them.

29 Dec 25

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26 Dec 25

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For 2025, only one dramatic achievement stands out. Yes, you all know what I'm talking about.

17 Nov 25

Throwing the Flying Spaghetti Monster at the Wall

God has entered the UK chat.

10 Nov 25

Time to start de-Appling

One for your to-do list.

27 Oct 25

Footnote privacy? Footnote privacy!

If you use a citations manager for academic writing, add it to your opsec to-do list.

22 Oct 25

Democracy and the open internet die in daylight

Same shit, different toilet.

20 Oct 25

Surveil and segregate and suppress and snitch

In which I take someone else's idea and expand on it. If only there was a term for that.

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