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Thanks for getting in touch! Before you write, here's a few things I'm already getting emails about:

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  • Please don't send Lateral questions here! The right place is on the Lateral web site.
  • I am not planning to return to any subject to do with computing (electronic voting, artificial intelligence, or privacy) and cannot offer further opinions or debate on them.

For anything not covered on my main contact page or on here, my email address is 📧 tom@tomscott.com.

My team and I do try to reply to messages if we can, but unfortunately workload and time limitations mean that it’s often not possible to send personal responses — I’m sorry about that.

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