Bill Thompson
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Hack and pundit. BBC Research & Development. Formerly Digital Planet.
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Parker Molloy
about 22 hours ago
Dying in office because you insisted on clinging to power until the very end instead of letting a new generation of leaders rise should be seen for the shameful, egomaniacal act that it is.
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Marie Le Conte
2 days ago
good, productive feminism explains that gender isn't innate and the patriarchy can be deconstructed; essentially telling young women that all men are creeps and predators and will never change is actually just weirdly reactionary and purposeless
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Rachel Coldicutt
2 days ago
Good policy should always begin by considering the needs of the most vulnerable and excluded people. I'm also interested in how this plays with tentative proposals in the digital ID consultation to introduce digital ID from either birth or at the age of 13.
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elia ayoub
4 days ago
Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. Theyāre so arrogant and self-confident they donāt seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether.
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Because we get asked a lot. by @PalantirTech(Palantir) | Twitter Thread Reader
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affir...
https://twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398573453312
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Mark OāNeill š»
9 days ago
Lads, is there anyone in the Labour Party willing to call out Starmer and Mahmood or are you all just going to sit there and watch the party die?
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Anil Madhavapeddy
9 days ago
I was in Chennai today for the launch of FP Launchpad, a new centre at IIT Madras dedicated to crafting efficient, reliable and trustworthy software with mathematical guardrails. Having a well-funded, long-horizon centre of excellence in India is a big step forward!
anil.recoil.org/notes/fpl-la...
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The FP Launchpad takes off at IIT Madras
https://anil.recoil.org/notes/fpl-launch
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Rebecca Solnit
10 days ago
This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at
Ghost.org
and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.
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Dan Hon
13 days ago
Sorry I can't respond to your email I'm currently surrounded by plasma
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Rory Cellan-Jones
14 days ago
The latest from the exciting innovative world of crypto.,,,
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Hari Kunzru
17 days ago
People are asking
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it's charloh! (it/its)
19 days ago
what do we want? OBJECT PERMANENCE when do we want it? WHEN DO WE WANT WHAT
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Itās a bright cold day in April.
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QT š
23 days ago
While folks are still going "I never thought it would go that far". Just a heads up all the trans stuff is gonna be used to prevent cis women from experimenting with cross-sex behavior like working, owning property and voting
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The moon rising over Stonesdale. Watching the Artemis II launch, which will take four people there. And remembering Apollo 8.
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Charles PM
25 days ago
Made the call a while ago that I wonāt be writing much about the series itself, but it was important to spell things out now that Warner Bros. is cranking the hype machine up
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Tade Thompson
27 days ago
"Cleared" after one year. A year is a long time in boxing. And these are her prime years because age/time is undefeated and undisputed. They have done her harm.
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Alexander Chee
27 days ago
This is what Potter money pays for. Why pay money to watch pretend heroes when youāre propping up a villain in real life?
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Rob Manuel
27 days ago
Looking forward to seeing this as the front page of the Daily Mail. Because that's how it works, right?
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Alex Hanna
about 1 month ago
Brother just because you have no soul doesn't mean you have to project on it on everyone else
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Hari Kunzru
about 1 month ago
āI have zero introspectionā¦400 years ago it would never have occurred to anyone to be introspectiveā. Andreessenās combo of neurodivergence, vast wealth, airport book executive summary knowledge and intense white guy sense of personal centrality should be studied by future historians
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The Associated Press
about 1 month ago
Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the worldās most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96.
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Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96
Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the worldās most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died.
https://bit.ly/4ltUtzX
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Paolo Sandro
about 1 month ago
An intellectual giant has died. It is impossible to discuss constitutional democracy without discussing Habermas' reflections on it. We will continue to do so for a long time
www.jstor.org/stable/3072601
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Jason Koebler
about 1 month ago
torrents are undefeated:
www.404media.co/the-removed-...
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The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet
On Friday a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.
https://www.404media.co/the-removed-doge-deposition-videos-have-already-been-backed-up-across-the-internet/
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Paging
@doctorow.pluralistic.net
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Emily M. Bender
about 1 month ago
The wait is (almost) over!
@ghostdoc2026.bsky.social
is coming to audiences on March 27th! Screenings and rentals are available via Kinema, and the film will stream free on PBS and YouTube this fall. Details at:
notaidoc.com
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Dr Robert Bohan
about 1 month ago
The highest EU court & the European Court of Human Rights are both clear that trans ppl are entitled to >full< human rights. This clearly shows that the UK Labour govt are now in breach by removing vital trans healthcare in Northern Ireland & Britain. SF, UUP, DUP & Alliance are in breach in NI*
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Jason Koebler
about 1 month ago
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/
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Peter Geoghegan
about 1 month ago
The very best journalism prize in the business. Enter!!!
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Performative cruelty.
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 1 month ago
Watch this clip. Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.
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Antony Carpen
about 1 month ago
This via
@paulbernal.bsky.social
- the long term failure to regulate big tech firms properly remains astonishing. Reflects both their lobbying power & the collective lack of specialist knowledge with MPs & peers (despite the handful of honourable mentions)
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Open Rights Group
about 1 month ago
šØ BREAKING šØ The ICO and Ofcom are pushing for tech companies to strengthen age checks. It's disastrous that the ICO wants to somehow 'protect childrenās data' by compelling 13-18 year olds to use poorly regulated digital identification products that could put their biometric data at risk.
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Watchdogs call on big tech to āurgentlyā do more to protect children online
The regulators accused tech platforms of āfailing to put childrenās safety at the heart of their productsā
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/social-media-ico-protect-children-b2936462.html
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erin plasma
about 1 month ago
like, we've been over this. not that they care or that it's being argued on any real rational basis they just want us gone. but we know the truth
bsky.app/profile/juli...
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Ben Ansell
about 1 month ago
Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why wonāt the PM simply overrule her?
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Illuminations
about 2 months ago
A substantial, thoughtful response to the BBC Charter Review green paper from the BBC WAC Campaign (of which I'm a part), focussed on Written Archives Centre issues but more broadly address to questions of trust and transparency. Do please take a look.
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Dave Lee
about 2 months ago
Funny thing is, I bet internally Grammarly thought journalists would LOVE this.
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Kat Tenbarge
about 2 months ago
Literally as Iām arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity
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Janine Gibson
about 2 months ago
LIke reading that Jarndyce v Jarndyce has been settled out of court. Can it really be true?
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Axel Springer buys Telegraph in £575mn deal
[FREE TO READ] German media group has gatecrashed a proposed acquisition by the owner of the Daily Mail
https://as.ft.com/r/f4171c68-a714-4c27-a145-0ba5ef396543
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Kate Bevan
about 2 months ago
I caught a trailer for this a day or so ago and that literally starts with Armstrong saying "India is a land of contrasts", and truly it is time to nuke the "middle-aged-white-man-makes-cliche-laden-travelogue" format.
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Travelling via London KX? Intrusive privacy invasion in placeā¦
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Russell Garner
about 2 months ago
TIL end-to-end encryption is "controversial privacy tech" hahahahaha fuck off
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Wait⦠people who work at Palantir call themselves Hobbits not Uruk-hai? Are they ashamed of something?
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Ian Dunt
about 2 months ago
This is nothing. Just send Mahmood out again to announce some more anti-refugee policies and you can easily find your way to fifth place.
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#BruceSterling
about 2 months ago
*He's speaking Viktor-Orban, the favorite dialect of the European ethnonational-right, in which the European Union is a decliing maelstrom of sexual violence committed by Moslem rape-gangs
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J. Nathan Matias
about 2 months ago
A large number of privacy and infosec researchers have published a detailed letter calling for a moratorium on laws requiring age assurance technologies until there is a scientific consensus on the risk/benefit tradeoff of using them
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Resist ādangerous and socially unacceptableā age checks for social media, scientists warn
Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.
https://www.politico.eu/article/age-check-social-media-scientist-warning/
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So Mayer
about 2 months ago
Have fun typing "the government should regulate corporate platforms, not punish users" ten million times in this designed-to-catch-you-out "consultation" that they will not listen to, but do it anyway because they need to get the message.
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Sam
about 2 months ago
Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen. Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have āvotedā (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?
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James Ball
about 2 months ago
I do struggle to understand Shabana Mahmood: if this was what she came into politics to do, why was it the Labour Party that attracted her? Throughout most of the last 20 years, the Conservatives would've been a much more obvious fit. If it's not, why's she doing it so zealously?
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Steve Peers
about 2 months ago
In fact, the extract from the Home Secretary's comments suggests that her rationale is wholly dishonest - the settlement changes concern people who are here legally, not illegally
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