So good of former Amazon exec. Doug Gurr to do charity for the Competitions&Markets Authority when he's got a full-time job at the Natural History Museum. Love to see giving like this.

Today I waltzed around a data centre to see wtf it was all about. (I was kindly shown around a data centre owned by Redcentric by the director of facilities Paul Hone. Redcentric is a managed IT service provider that only operates in the UK.)

Exciting news for @opendemocracy.net www.opendemocracy.net/en/tech-repo...

I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...

Not to be unhelpful but @microsoft.com if you're only starting to be community-first now, are your previous developments community-second, community-third, community-nth? Sad face. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

I'm a fan of a dossier, particularly about AI developments & a company's actions over decades, both which can be such an information overload. From The Midas Project, a look into VC firm's a16z's "notorious" investments & efforts to shape AI policy: www.modelrepublic.org/articles/a16...

Why is seemingly any information about patient feedback withheld from patients? The Care Quality Commission, regulator of health & social care in the UK, denied a FOIA request I made for patient complaints about a hospital here. I wrote about it here: prdisaster.substack.com/p/who-do-our...

What are politicians doing on YouTube — and why is it kind of cringe? "Liberal technocrats — from Ottawa to DC to Berlin — are still trying to figure out what" being on platforms such as YouTube means, said Ben Grinspan, VP of Cultural Strategy at MSL Group. prdisaster.substack.com/p/what-are-p...

What are US cities doing to vaccinate people for mpox? It's hard to know. The CDC has stopped tracking vaccinations & nationwide communication has died down. With the arrival of another strain, here's what one city has been doing, in the @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/11/m...