Rae

@ravnervn.bsky.social

LARPer, singing synth fan, enthusiast of weird cult classic video games. 25+, white, UK. He/they. PFP: @ctrlkun

Age verification is often framed as a trade-off between child safety and privacy. But access matters too. People without passports, digital IDs or reliable verification methods may be denied access to online services, even as adults. How can age assurance prevent such exclusion?

Jillian C. York@jillian.bsky.social · 2w ago

I co-wrote this article with my amazing summer COMPASS fellow, @sheilalalwani.bsky.social, who is such a fantastic researcher: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Was watching Buffy’s Anya backstory episode. Friend asked why I sighed. “She’s not of a sufficiently high social class to have domesticated rabbits that far north in Europe in that century, but the writers couldn’t know, the paper was only presented at a conference yesterday.” Accuracy is fleeting.

Daniel@deargodwhaat.bsky.social · last wk.

Prompts a fun question: whats the most niche historical inaccuracy in a piece of work that annoys you Not like 'oh they were referring to the wrong king' , more 'they had the wrong king on a banknote in one scene'

I'm going to make a thread about what happened with the KAITO naming controversy because I don't think Westerners on my timeline realize it, but it actually had massive implications for both the status of Vocaloid as a whole and idol J-Pop's future

sorry. unfollowing now. i just wanted to support queer poc authors. i didn't know he committed seppuku after a failed coup to restore the emperor of japan.