"It is obviously the case that we are creating information, culture, and benchmarks for society faster than we can figure out how we’re going to make sure they’re preserved." - Philip Bump @pbump.com, in a Q&A for the Vanishing Culture report. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/11/04/v... 🕳️ #VanishingCulture

Our next event has been announced! We'll be returning to Newspeak House on Wednesday, 23 July from 7 pm to 10 pm. RSVP here! lu.ma/15mefous?tk=... We're currently looking for shorter (5-15 minutes) and longer (15-30 minute) talks. Cool new project? Big new idea? We want to hear about it! DM us!

AI right to train versus creator’s copyrights- key points from recent legal wrangles netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/07/11/c...

www.globaltimes.cn/page/202501/... love this story about TikTok refugees joining a Chinese App and finding new connections 😍 #Friends #LiHuaLetters

Join #ArtsBirthday new Music party in #VR Cyberia Cafe 17th Jan 6.30 GMT cybersalon.org/arts-birthda...

Now that you opened your Xmas gifts, please check what private data your new airfryer or new voice controlled smart TV wants to gather! *New gadgets from Far East brands want to record yr voice calls, your post code data, gender and a lot more 😡 *ICO Stephen Almond aware #Surveillance #VoiceControl

Remember #browserWars of the early Internet? Courts orders Google to sell #Chrome , but in the Age of AI, are browsers going to matter ? this and more updates in new #Vort3X cybersalon.org/vort3x-35/ cc @mikebutcher.bsky.social @wendyg.bsky.social @billt.bsky.social @thersaorg.bsky.social

Can we prepare for low-probability extreme weather events? Are taxpayers prepared to pay for a wide range of mitigations? Is it possible to forecast low-prob weather events? Https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl9yk42rz7o

Nah shut up this is too good. Basic person: “Hur hur the Murdochs are acting just like an episode of Succession!!!!” Overly clever person: “Well actually it’s not that simple, there’s a lot of nuance.” The Murdochs, watching Succession: “We should copy that.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/b...

Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden calls on the civil service to embrace start-ups' test-and-learn culture in a major speech at @uclofficial.bsky.social East London campus. His comments follow Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's recent speech on public-sector reform www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/de...

Across the six countries featured in our recent report on AI, more respondents expected news produced mostly by AI to be less trustworthy (-17) and less transparent (-8), but more up to date (+22) and cheaper to make (+33) Read the report in full reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-does-pu...

TikTok faces a US ban after an appeals court on Friday rejected its challenge to a law requiring the video-sharing app to divest from its Chinese parent company by January 19 ➡️ u.afp.com/5Cnc

📌We are looking for our next lead author of the Digital News Report, the most comprehensive study of news consumption worldwide. CLOSING SOON: Expressions of interest needed by 10 December. Everything about the role and how to apply ⬇️ reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/reuters...

We *told* them at the time...

as a kid, i fixed my parent's computer. as an adult I fix my kids's computer. pretty sure we are the only gen that knows how computers work

As ‘brain rot’ is declared word of the year by the publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary, Tony Thorne, language consultant @kingsartshums.bsky.social reflects on what it means and what it tells us about evolving language today. #KingsQs 🧵⬇️

This week's net.wars, "Blue", watches as millions join Bluesky in one week, and offers advice to those seeking a new online home: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/11/22/b...

🎄💾🗓️ Day 2: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar brings us the TRS-80! 🎄💾🗓️

Is Industrial Strategy going to clash with Local Growth plans and Productivity Plans?

Creatives and their role in powering the city- g8 paper cc @thersaorg.bsky.social @uclpolicylab.bsky.social

How can arts and culture unleash community creativity and amplify civic voices? Join our expert panel to hear impactful insights and experiences from community-led projects. Book your spot: thersa.co/4ejbDLz #londonevents