🤷🏽‍♀️ Yet another way LLMs damage the social fabric hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

Open Data Camp 10 in Edinburgh was excellent; my first #ODCamp and my first unconference. Thank you, @odcamp.uk! Now enjoying a quiet moment at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social, drafting a blog post of my thoughts.

Added to the list! This looks fascinating.

My dissertation made this point. Technology is in the hands of two movements (Christian Nationalism and TESCREAL) who are both guided by apocalyptic eschatology. These are people for whom everything is a battle for the final end. Which *they want*. Law, policy, regulations, and you are in their way.

Just a reminder that tech is political and putting your money into projects run by problematic people says quite a lot.

Here's your period reminder that "Luddite" does not mean "hates technology/progress". It means "hates how technology/progress benefit only the bosses while the workers get the shaft".

This is very good.

I'm amazed how thin the boundary is for many people between "I think" and "I know"

This is an undervalued take.

Some books I recommend: ‘Freedom is a Constant Struggle’ - Angela Davis ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’ - Walter Rodney (this one is a tad dense) ‘How We Get Free’ - Keeanga-Yamahatta Taylor

This is a good analysis, I think. Notwithstanding the general trash fire, there are some poor decisions being made in US tech policy around AI (and also crypto) that the UK is choosing to lock itself into by taking this C20th view of progress

Definitely adding 'The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny' to the to-read list.

"The profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art ... Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art."

I'm excited to run the #Cardiff10k today!

Unlike past “moral panics” over music or TV, today’s AI risks involve real-time coaching of vulnerable users.

The contract follows a pilot in the council’s children’s services dept, “including using AI for case-note transcription and to summarise social workers’ records. The council is planning to extend the Palantir system to processes for providing support to children with special educational needs.”

This article is an excellent explanation of the notoriously tricky big O notation, complimented by lovely data visualisations to ease understanding. I'd expect nothing less from @samwho.dev.

Life, living in all this, is absurd.

He asked Gemini if he could publish its short story. Meanwhile women would very much like some of this consent culture, please and thank you.

AI has always promised to help people spend more time doing valuable work by automating the manual, repetitive, toilsome tasks so that software developers can be free to use their time on "something better". That's not what's happening.

This is brilliant. I write marginalia in pencil and can't quite bring myself to dog-ear pages to this extent, but this is the way I have a conversation with a book.

Terrifying. "…a team of computer science researchers at Penn State demonstrated that transcriptions of phone calls can be generated from radar measurements taken up to three meters, or about 10 feet, from a phone."

UK users are cut adrift from current events by the Online Safety Act. Platforms must moderate content that’s ‘harmful’. A term that bursts the banks of porn to submerge news, advice and debate… it’s online censorship. Write to your MP ⬇️ action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp...

Google Maps is critical for navigation, writes Nidhi Singh Rathore. It is essential to question the role this technology plays in our lives and recognize that such essential services should be treated as public infrastructure, not private commodities, she writes.

Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...

Well this is bad. Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations exposing sensitive user data I tried a few quick searches. I found someone's chat where I can see their api key I found some building their resume. Their name, email and phone numbers are exposed. www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo...

“Imagine a billionaire’s digital boot stamping on a human face — forever.” That’s the future Silicon Valley is building, writes astrophysicist Adam Becker in his blistering takedown of tech’s most delusional prophets. www.truthdig.com/articles/the...

I'm quoted in this piece. In short: do not use ChatGPT or any generative AI as a “therapist.” It’s not sentient. It doesn’t care. It may even lead people toward harm. And nothing shared is protected by HIPAA or real privacy standards; it's fodder for the machine. www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

As the UK government celebrates OpenAI’s plans to open more offices or data centers, it seems to ignore mounting warnings about ceding more power to tech giants, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Megan Kirkwood.

Another excellent article from @joshwcomeau.com about one of my favourite technologies.

Hey #GISChat, who's going to @uk.osgeo.org's #FOSS4GUK in Leeds in October? Trying to decide whether to go.

This was an excellent talk and well worth reading if you missed the live event.

I have been back and forth over the span of 5 years about whether to publish this article. All opinions and experiences in this post are my own, or from people I personally know, backed up with recent reports and statistics.

I'm looking forward to this in 5 mins. There's still just enough time to sign up!

A must-watch talk.

I just got my tickets for Open Data Camp 10 in lovely Edinburgh this September. Thoroughly looking forward to it; it'll be my first time attending. Get in touch if you're going and let's meet up! #ODCamp #OpenData www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-data-...

“The combination of DEI and immigration is politically lethal,” Andreessen wrote. “When these two forms of discrimination combine, as they have for the last 60 years and on hyperdrive for the last decade…” 60 years ago was the civil rights movement, in case anyone was confused about his message.

I can’t get over the fact that the richest and most accomplished guys in Silicon Valley have decided the biggest problem facing America is too many non-white people getting ahead and they’re ready to burn it all down because of that.

Some billionaires getting very nervous as more and more of these studies start to get published www.reuters.com/business/ai-...

I'm going to start Technoskepticism by @disconetwork.bsky.social. Really looking forward to it!

this means no llms in classrooms

Waiting for the pop.

Many thanks to this week's @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast for the heads-up that Helen Nissenbaum's book "Obfuscation" - in the context of the resistance against digital surveillance - is free on open access. direct.mit.edu/books/book/3...

Precisely my thoughts.

"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process." organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...

I'll be continuing with @nadiehbremer.com's brilliant CHART.

Yes web and digital accessibility matters a lot. But disability rights is not about cherry picking whatever you want to serve the narrative of your corporate marketing. Health care is a human right, affecting disabled, trans, BIPOC, and marginalized people most.

After listening to the @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast episode with @dupatton.bsky.social, I've dedicated some of my life to finding joy despite some difficult times. I recommend it. www.techpolicy.press/through-to-t...

Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language. Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.

This was an excellent talk. I made loads of notes; now to go back through them. I can't wait to read both 'The AI Con' and 'Empire of AI'.