And there we have it. "Shareholders’ anxiety about Musk’s threat to quit as chief executive if the proposal was rejected outweighed governance and societal concerns around the huge pay deal for the world’s richest man"

today in _spectacular_ communication & community management from @soundcloud.dev we see the classic "we've updated our terms but won't tell you what's changed, if it's better, or why, who knows! Give us your money, and let us do whatever we want to. We don't like to build trust and we don't care."

Owen is right to highlight this. As taxpayers, we already paid. All this will do is introduce higher prices to all consumers and businesses.

curious email from @spotify.com saying they're increasing monthly fees by 8% to "invest in [their] product, develop new features and continue to bring you the best experience." 1. Really? I'd love to see how $much is invested in it 2. Stop with the AI: it's sh*t 3. Please pay artists properly

Today in opting out of more "the default is AI" nonsense: @linkedin This link should take you right to it, change from "on" to "off" www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Can anyone explain to me why Google is breaking the concept of document permissioning by getting permission changes to cascade *up* a folder structure rather than down? workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/09/upco... cf www.linkedin.com/posts/gavins...

Has anyone set up a lettuce for the digitalID expiry? (digital ID will have as much impact on immigration as blockchain, or a potato) Judging by the 1.2M+ petition signatures, dozens of industry solutions, and media backlash ... a u-turn can't be far off?

reading this OKF report imo it's right to question the impact and role of openness + open licences.. ..and take an interest in other "modes of governance and ways of sharing value".. ..but I don't think it's useful to bend the definition of open to encompass those modes okfn.org/en/projects/...

Great example of where we are vs where we think we are.

Interesting observations here. There is a vast amount of activity around tech, ai and, now with the Data Act, on data sharing. We are in a moment of great opportunity and very material risk. More eyes across everything is absolutely essential to ensure the UK gets the outcomes we all need and want.

If this is a sign of things to come we can reasonably expect all ai investment to slow down, as trust evaporates: investors get nervous if they know they are wading into a mess. Imagine if we could address good governance and transparency up-front?! I wouldn't invest in any ai that doesn't.

In news literally no one could have seen coming...

Seems bizarre we need to remind us all to supprt science while reading & writing on devices that we couldn't make without it. "science" describes a process to make things, not a belief system or political viewpoint. Observe→Question→Hypothesise→Create tests →Test→Adapt→More tests→Generalise→Repeat↺

Today in news that no one could ever have foreseen or predicted* *everyone has been predicting since the inception of IoT

If you ever wondered if we're at the beginning of a journey... Here's the ai version of Internet tubes...

Updated reflections and ideas around data sharing (esp. in relation to the 'national data library'). All comments welcome, as always agentgav.medium.com/fair-weather...

Would be very good to hear people's opinions here.

"an early prototype for ministers as they draw up broader plans to sell anonymised public data...within 10 years" Peter Kyle told FT “a really good example of the kind of gathering of data together and the use of data that ...will ultimately be the National Data Library” www.ft.com/content/85d8...

Many moons ago, a friend joked we needed a service called 'kickstopper' to actively stop certain kickstarter projects from existing... I think something related is happening for Telsa? www.theguardian.com/technology/2... cc @yoz.bsky.social :)

I am at once both excited by people using ai to address systems challenges, and disappointed by the absence of systems thinking when people are looking at the many impacts of ai. (e.g. when people say ai will add $xx to GDP, I don't see much on where that extraction actually comes from)

lovely post on ai here bertus.substack.com/p/image-gene...

Congrats to the whole team here. A great example of data done well.

Useful set of questions to consider when thinking about ai (and other disruptive tech)

“Scopely will continue to share some player data from its games as part of a $50mn investment in Niantic Spatial” on.ft.com/3FnScpe

New Government amendments to the UK's Data (Use and Access) Bill publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi... Including: ● removal of AI and copyright clauses added by Baroness Kidron et al ● reinstating defence of reasonable excuse for creating a purported intimate image #DUABill #genAI #deepfakes

"We are now in an age where we need to start considering data ... as a strategic national asset...The government agrees it is essential that we ensure legal and policy frameworks are fit for purpose for the modern demands and uses of data." depositedpapers.parliament.uk/depositedpap...

Letter on open standards, open source & data sharing depositedpapers.parliament.uk/depositedpap... from UK minister Chris Bryant to Chi Onwurah MP #DUABill debate, 12 Feb hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025... Includes a bit on the National Data Library. #dataprotection #openstandards #datasharing

"We’re writing to inform you of the price change ... [which] reflects the significant added AI value" How about no? How we stop forcing AI into everything? To opt-out of Google's ai services, I had to speak to a human to get them to *switch on* the *ability to opt-out*. #monopolyBehaviours

Suspect that this might [still] help? www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8pD...

OPEN DISCUSSION: an open document to explore what position we should take in the governance of data around ‘ai’ (artificial intelligence, machine-learning, et al) [please share] ib1.org/2025/02/05/p...

Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week. The change was first spotted by Bloomberg. Read more here: tcrn.ch/4aKfIZa

Five discussion points for our data conversations: 1. What's your market architecture? 2. Hub vs Node? 3 Tech-led vs needs led? 4. Purpose vs technology? 5. What's your threat model? How can we best facilitate joined up debate --> www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

#AI2025 discussion topics include: 1. 'open as a weapon' vs 'castle & moat' 2. how the word "open" is used/applied 3. governance (code+data) 4. ai is different a. impact at pace b. web's lessons learned (parallels with 1990s) c. incomprehensible wealth of a few people www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thinking of friends in areas impacted by the severe gale, violent storm-11 and hurricane-force (100mph) winds hitting the country today. Don't travel. Stay safe. Look out for others.

I've always had Gemini "switched off for everyone" in the orgs I run. Now it's appearing in every document, every email, everywhere in all our stuff. If you wanted to build trust, this is the opposite of what I'd recommend. As a UX, it's also as bad as 'clippy'. How to get rid of it?

Google forcing ai into people's faces isn't how this should work... and doesn't provide the basic signalling I am looking for in the opinions I'm giving to decision-makers.

Am noticing the "time to bot" is very fast here: I have more fake accounts following me, more quickly, than I've noticed on other services. Do we know why? Or it's just how things are these days? Options?

New smart meter regulation in the water sector: "By smart mode we mean the individual meter is achieving... 85% hourly data completeness and 80% weekly data being received" ref: Ofwat final determination www.ofwat.gov.uk/wp-content/u... Is it just me, or do these feel like a very low bar?

Today in 'convincing scams' The email headers are convincing - "signed by microsoft.com" and it—by coincidence—tallied with a recent payment. All links go to M$ sites. So, tells that it's a scam? - My name/address are not in the body text - Not much else(!) answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...

Please input to @jackhardinges.bsky.social thread here if you can

I 💗 this research project and am working with my 14yo to collect as many ‘troubling AI’ screenshots as we can😹 and also 🤔in a good way

If you're wondering how the markets are thinking about the future of ai... NVIDIA market cap is 1.5x that of Google, and about the same as Apple, and Amazon. market cap, revenues aapl 3.45T, 94B amzn 2.1T, 158B nvda 3.48T, 60B goog 2.2T, 88B

New UX pattern (across so many things) "Click here to enhance our service with AI" [clicks no] "Are you sure? It's really cool" [I thought you were an ai? No means no] Upon next login "Click here to enhance our service with AI" ... (please stop pushing me to sign T&Cs that no one knows are okay)

"At the current rate of emissions, the Global Carbon Budget team estimates a 50% chance global warming will exceed 1.5°C consistently in about six years." news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

Experimenting

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