LONG GONE was featured in the #gamescom ONL preshow! Wishlist the game on Steam and check out the new trailer! #zombie #pixelart #longgonegame

Scientists recorded in 3D and in real time the exact moment a human embryo implanted itself in an artificial uterus, opening new avenues for treating infertility. www.wired.com/story/the-ex...

Just announced: Solid World – 16 Sept 4:00–5:30. Free webinar with updates on Solid including highlights from across the Solid community and insights from the Linked Web Storage Working Group. Book now buff.ly/rPCOP36

The volunteering system is diverse and complex. It encompasses volunteers, the organisations they support, and the organisations who work to make volunteering work. Investing in building a data culture, enabling data sharing, and fostering innovation could transform volunteering.

The Open Data Institute has published a manifesto to guide European Union data and artificial intelligence policy formation.... 👉 [read]

Have you seen this article in Computer Weekly all about our European Data and AI Policy Manifesto? It’s a great summary of all the key points - read on to find out more!

Join Ramon Abraham Sarmiento as he takes a deep dive into the pressing issue of today’s data-driven world - the collection and use of personal information and the complex ethical challenges this raises. buff.ly/6nrNaG9 #Data #Ethics

If you are responsible for your organisation’s data or AI strategy our Data Ethics Professional course for you. You’ll learn how to evaluate the risks and impacts of data and AI tools; embed responsible, ethical practices into your work & understand transparency Book now buff.ly/Jsphhwb+

We're hiring: Policy Researcher (Data, AI & Health Policy) Are you passionate about the intersection of health policy, data, and AI? Looking to drive real-world impact through interdisciplinary research that informs public policy in the UK and globally? Interested? Find out more here

#TheWeekinData: Ghost in the machine * Lies, damned lies, and labour statistics * AI in politics * Ozzy f-AI-l There are lies, damned lies, and labour statistics. Well, if you’re President Donald J Trump that is. Find out more…

"But the “fear of being left behind” argument is particularly dangerous: it suggests that you should pick a technology first and then find problems for it to solve. That’s always backwards." In case you missed it, how I think about AI - in terms of vendors, tech, and power: werd.io/evaluating-ai/

Bluesky historians (who might also be on Substack) take note: www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-e...

Thinking about moving my #substack to @beehiiv.com after reading yet another well researched shocking article on the lenient handing and even promotion of far right and fascist promotion on the former:

Join Ramon Abraham Sarmiento as he takes a deep dive into the pressing issue of today’s data-driven world - the collection and use of personal information and the complex ethical challenges this raises. buff.ly/9DWZa6m #Data #Ethics

It's Wednesday again! Show off your projects 👇

Anne Applebaum: "If American media can’t convey how dangerous this behavior is—for our prosperity, for our health, for our democracy—then American media will eventually cease to exist." More from our convo in @status.news: www.status.news/p/anne-apple...

Harry Weatherill, a tailor who draws portraits on cloth using tailors chalk (1955)

If you enjoyed the story about Hey Geraldine, the healthcare chatbot in The Week in Data on Friday, then check this out! #Data #AI

We recently launched our European Data and AI Policy Manifesto - a timely intervention as Europe stands at a crossroads on the road to shaping its digital future. Find out what was discussed at a webinar on the topic.

We put out this preprint a couple months ago, but I really wanted to replicate our findings before we went to publication. At first, what we found was very confusing! But when we dug in, it revealed a fascinating neural strategy for how we switch between tasks doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.29.615736 🧵

85% of Gaza is on the brink of death due to starvation. Israel could let aid in at any moment. And some people (like these men tried to do with me on Friday) are still trying to justify this atrocity. There is no justification. This could stop at any moment. End the blockade now.

Discover the latest news from our Research team including our latest publications: A framework for AI-ready data & Mapping the role of data work in AI supply chains, and webinars: Unveiling AI-Driven Collective Action for a Worker-Centric Future & Local Authorities, Data, and AI. buff.ly/RI6f4ww

#TheWeekinData: Spud-u-like * OpenAI deal with UK government * AI to identify child migrants * The ODI European Data and AI Policy Manifesto The government announced this week that it has signed a deal with OpenAI to use AI to increase productivity in public services across the UK. buff.ly/gUXeQbY

I want to know if the President of the United States is a pedophile. And I know the American people do too. I'm shocked that Republicans would rather shut down Congress than stand up to a dead pedophile. So why not release the files?

We're looking for talented individuals to join our team as we accelerate our exciting work on the Solid project. We want a proactive and organised Community Manager to support and expand a global open-source community focused on decentralised web technologies. buff.ly/ezQrYNT

Making sense of geological data describing how the Arctic has responded to past climatic changes is essential for understanding how the region will evolve in the coming decades.

this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day

please take a moment to appreciate the new #logo #designs for the #SEN sub projects I just did, using @grok AI image generation and my own thoughts and initial logo. They all resemble the knot but adapt to the topic of the sub project... (there was also quite some progress in code:)

Today, at the summer #solstice (northern hemisphere here), I'm closing a long circle and finally added UI support for creating #relations in Tracker with SEN.💪 simple but powerful, next up: labels and context.

I wrote a quick application note on Tomtom-lite, a Python implementation of the Tomtom algorithm for comparing PWMs against each other. This implementation can be 10-1000x faster and, as a Python function, can be integrated into your workflows easier. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Never forget that the same man who called the January 6th insurrection a “beautiful day of love” and refused to lift a finger for 187 minutes to stop the horror unleashed on our Capitol has deployed the National Guard to intervene in Los Angeles to “address the lawlessness in California.”

AI "reasoning" models just memorize patterns really well. This is why I call them poetry machines behind closed doors. machinelearning.apple.com/research/ill...

In Trump's first reign General Mark Milley stopped him from using combat troops against the American people. Milley was deeply worried about Trump's fascist tendencies. Now there are no more checks and balances. Be careful my American friends.

Here's the latest variant picture with a global scope, to late May. The NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" variant has continued to grow, reaching 29%. Growth of the XFG.* variant accelerated to 19%. #COVID19 #Global #NB_1_8_1 #Nimbus #LP_8_1 #XFG 🧵

Indigenous resistance is rising. Doug Ford's grifter government has passed Bill 5 allowing companies to ignore duties to consult or carry out environmental assessments. Indigenous communities will not go along with the steal. Get set for Idle No More 2.0 charlieangus.substack.com/p/resistance...

Knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit. 🍅 Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

It's been 12 years(!) since the first document leaked by Edward Snowden was published — a classified FISA court order requiring Verizon to hand over phone metadata on a daily rolling basis.

“Without me, Trump would have lost the election." Donald Trump and Elon Musk are going to war—and giving everyone a front row seat. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Academics are naturally drawn towards platforms that facilitate communication within their domain. The original motivation behind building the internet -- ARPANET -- was specifically to connect researchers. Reducing communication friction accelerates research progress.

🤗 In May, we brought the #SchoolOfData community together again for a special training session, equipping trainers to deliver the #OpenDataEditor course locally. Their courses are expected to reach an estimated 500 people worldwide in June. 👉🏾 Learn more: buff.ly/NVayLsR

I want to remind everyone that without Elon Musk, we wouldn't be in this situation where our academic institutions, science enterprise, and democracy are being dismantled, and millions of additional people around the world are going to die. We want both of them to lose horribly in this fight.

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To be clear this is what killing it @wired.com looks like!

The demo for Strange Antiquities by ‪@badvikinggames.bsky.social is out today! Manage a store filled with occult antiquities in the same gloomy town that Strange Horticulture takes place in. thinkygames.com/game...

The Digital Renaissance: How Bluesky Is Reimagining Social Media. A decentralized social networking project that’s rewriting the rules of online interaction. #bluesky #atprotocol digitaldatastories.it/2025/06/05/t...

Seating priority is: Charlie Chaplin, Doctors with giant syringes, People who emit wifi radiation, and conjoined twins with a size difference.

For no reason at all, I feel the need to remind folks that Node.js is not in competition with other runtimes like Deno or Bun. Companies compete. For profit entities compete. Private equity competes. Non-profits do not compete. Non-profits just exist. Use Node.js, use Deno, use Bun, use what works..

It's awesome when you meet people who inspire you not because of their achievements, but because of who they are as people.