The compliance script in hybrid fraud
It helps a scammer if the victim thinks they would never be the kind of person who falls for scams….
Self hosting solutions
Describe the problem. Follow the instructions, jeez. Learn a totally new syntax to describe the problem again. Okay, don’t follow…
The contradiction at the heart of higher education: prepare for disappointment
We want to be useful to society. But any attempt to show that or to have it guide us either…
Writing a grant? Tell us the stuff
Many grants have I reviewed, grasshopper. This blog post is meant to give some advice on how to frame a…
AI assumptions to be wary of
Tech doesn’t kill people, over capitalised techbros kill people. We are in the tail end of the AI hype/panic cycle….
Characterising ‘harm’
At the current moment there is growing concern about the role of digital systems in creating and furthering ‘harm’ across…
In order to disrupt criminal organisations, jail innocent people
One of the ways in which trust is signalled in criminal groups is the fact of having been in prison….
Is crime still seductive when it is rationalised? The return of the early modern gang to the crime labour process
Is crime in competition with being law abiding? For rational choice theorists the answer is mostly yes. The decision to…
Dishwashers not vital war industry after all, in one sense
There is a spike in exports of household white goods and consumer electornics to former Soviet Central Asia and the…
Politics and technology is a struggle over seratonin and dopamine
It is difficult to understand the appeal of Ardern, Sturgeon, Trump and Johnson without recognising that politics is about providing…
