Mark Foden

“‘You may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’”

Essay by Katie Mack, discovered through her new newsletter @AstroKatie@mastodon.social

https://aeon.co/essays/our-cosmic-horizon-is-both-unreachable-and-closer-than-ever

"The power of the precedent is huge here ... the UK would be first to implement a law [that would allow the scanning of] every message you sent before you sent it"

"It [then] becomes easy for any other country to point and say the UK did it and the UK certainly is a democracy so how can you say this is a move towards authoritarianism?"

Part of a well worthwhile interview with Meredith Whittaker (President of Signal) @Mer__edith@mastodon.world

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Sft9LJlN2lb0Q7pJil8T9