In todays' “we live in a totally normal island” news. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq6188775g5o

@marianods @openrightsgroup The ICO had a bunch of privacy concerns with Google's in-browser adtech system, "Privacy Sandbox", but somehow ended oversight when CMA did, as soon as Google shifted their work to a different text at the same organization. I don't know enough UK politics to […]

1. Today, brave brave John Edwards ran away. To thank the UK Information Commissioner for all the fish, here are FIVE EPIC FAILURES he's made during his tenure. Or, to paraphrase his own words, the five best attempts at humor that were inappropriate. Thread below 🧵 […]

“Understand this: rage against AI is white fucking hot, entirely justified, bipartisan, often indiscriminate, and inextricably woven into soaring disgust at the authoritarian-coddling extraction class.” […]

1. The UK Information Commissioner stepped aside from his role this February. Under John Edwards' tenure, the ICO performed so badly that nobody noticed his absence until late April. This is why @openrightsgroup are launching a campaign to reform it. 🧵 […]

"Be especially sure to burn the books. We must do whatever we can to make light until the sun comes back. I hope it comes back soon." https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/02/trump-administration-science-climate-change/686008/?gift=jQN1t1D1nkO2TQodBiz5KMP8Py8mIi9ecTfebuxWBXo

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Pretty accurate progression so far. #charliekirk

BBC Breakfast this morning had a long segment about the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. So what vintage computer did they put in the studio as a handy prop? #windows95

‘nearly two-thirds of the world’s servers are estimated to run on open-source #linux. That has still left a big market for #windows, but it has greatly limited the overall size of the commercial software pie, while also preventing operating systems from being used as a chokepoint’ […]

Keir Starmer is keeping Britain safe from encyclopedias. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62j2gr8866o

Waiting for the first calls for #vpn restrictions. First on UK providers not enforcing age checks, then requiring ISPs to block non-compliant foreign providers... '“This is what happens when people who haven’t got a clue about technology pass legislation,” Anthony Rose, a UK-based tech […]

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ChatGPT bots, talking to each other about how to improve their B2B sales on LinkedIn, is not the future I expected. #ai #chatgpt #linkedin #scifi #science #fiction #dystopia #b2b

I love it! Seen in a post by @bruces Added alt-text

We're used to computers being good at math, reasonably hard facts, and looking up information in vast databases. #llms suck at exactly all of the former, and do none of it as part of their answer generation process¹. The general public is not prepared. I see even very smart people struggle […]

Nice, thank you @robin for these remarks: "If you create authoritarian #infrastructure, you will get an authoritarian society," and "Tech #Monopolies were not made by innovation and they won't be broken by #innovation."

When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left? All the shifts are in just one direction. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

Sorry, how could I forget the useful idiots in the UK government and security services who have so enmeshed the two countries' intelligence and surveillance apparatuses that -- as one friend who worked at #gchq on secondment told me -- you can "barely tell where one ends and the other begins"

As we see the authoritarian chaos unfolding in the USA, I am wondering if all those people who have been campaigning for decades to undermine the EU's strict constitutional laws on data protection -- in the service of enabling virtually unrestrained transfers of Europeans' personal data to King […]

Today in other news, the most secure energy source ever will be leaking radioactive water until 2050. But fear not! Thanks to AI and nuclear-powered datacentres we will have 10 times more nuclear reactors and radioactive leaking and AI will... check notes] help us solve the climate crisis [ […]

1) Today, the Data (Use and Access) Bill is back to the House of Lords for another round of ping-pong. This is not the important news for today, though [thread below]

The technology doesn't work. It *feels* like it works, so they keep doing science to see whether it does or it doesn't. But when you look at it with science instead of vibes, it just doesn't. https://fortune.com/2025/05/18/ai-chatbots-study-impact-earnings-hours-worked-any-occupation/

> „The only moral thing Palestinian civilians can do apparently is to die. The only legal thing the rest of us can do is to watch them die. And be silent. If not, we risk our scholarships, grants, lecture fees and livelihoods.” — Arundhati Roy, 15th of December 2023 in _The Hindu_

So we're back with a live commenting of the Data Use and Access Bill, aka the infamous UK data protection reform, live on parliament tv now! https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/30309471-1205-4bcd-a3b7-99fb9bf01b50

I just wanted to tell Peter Kyle that there's a fortune teller in Nags Head market that can give him better advice. I don't know their rate, but I bet it's cheaper than ChatGPT as well. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472068-revealed-how-the-uk-tech-secretary-uses-chatgpt-for-policy-advice/

Should we try turning the Labour government off and on again, and see if they stop being so effing useless?

I find Trump as repulsive as most people here, but as a German, one thing I want to push back on is focusing on one man. Hitler's rise was possible because he was able to exploit the racial hatred and conspiratorial thinking that already existed. It's MAGA acolytes that see Trump as an […]

Good morning everyone. Today the Data Access and Use Bill will be discussed in second reading in the House of Commons. This is (always) the infamous UK data protection reform, i.e. an initiative to deregulate the GDPR in the UK

The hypocrisy.

Seen on a train.

After stealing copyrighted works for #llm #ai training from journalists, writers and everybody else who produces text for years in what amounts to probably the biggest thefts of such works in history, #openai now complains that #deepseek might have used its “intellectual property”.

«This is perhaps the hole that AI fills for the Labour government; having long abandoned any substantive belief in the transformative power of socialism» «Decomputing argues that, wherever AI is proposed as "the answer", there is a gap for the self-organisation of people who already know […]

"That immediately makes people who aren't in that central Whitehall office think that this is something which is not going to be empowering and not going to be helping them." I will reveal you something right here right now: the UK Govt AI assistant will not be empowering and will not help […]

#search engine = You go to the market and at the entrance a person shows you the way to the various shops. #AI / #LLM-based search = You go to the market and at the entrance a person sells you all the items they stole before from the various shops. #capitalism #genai #bigtech #Copyright

Beautiful stuff: "It’s not really enjoyable to make music now… it takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice, you have to get really good at an instrument... I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of time they spend making music." […]

Once upon a time, colonizers exploited the rich resources of the Americas by trading valuable gold with mirrors, alcol and other garbage. In today's news, the UK is re-enacting history, but this time they're the ones buying garbage https://www.bbc.com/news/live/crm7zwp18n9t