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annadent.bsky.social
Research and policy adviser - www.abdconsultancy.co.uk Futures of work & employment support, digital welfare state, ethical tech and AI etc. Fellow https://connectedbydata.org/, associate https://rocketsciencelab.co.uk/
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today in 'what the fuck'

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

submitted 5 hours ago • 354 comments

Really appreciating last-week-me for writing excellent notes which I am now able to write up with minimum effort. Gold star, 10/10, pay rise and a doughnut for last-week-me ✨🎉🌟🥯

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

We should all spend Monday morning like this

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Let's be clear: the idea that breakfast clubs would adequately mitigate the impact of the two-child limit is absolute bollocks. The average household hit by the two-child limit loses out on roughly £3,800 a year. They're not currently spending that on coco pops.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

No.10 have well and truly drunk the AI koolaid. Or indeed, the kool*AI*d

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This is such a standard English village. Cannot begin to tell you how many English villages there are just like it. Love that what is so normal to us is a source of joy and wonder 😄

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Every year thousands of workers come from overseas to pick fruit and veg on UK farms. But an organisation who supports them says they’re not being paid for all the hours they work - and payslips they shared with me show the same. My story in tomorrow’s Observer www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I know you like it when I make a banana bread I do like that 😊

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And yet this is apparently the future of education

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Well I did not know Kelsey Grammer had a place in Portishead. You learn something new every day.

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Tidying up for spring - lovely shaped seedheads and pods

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Spring is coming to cheer us up

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

In the latest Guardian Blind Date: The thunderbolt! Fireworks! Negronis! And it's really quite beautiful. My review:

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

1. Viennese 2. Bourbon 3. Malted Milk

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Our new investigation in @wired.com shows the danger of Google's huge RTB security problem We easily obtained Google RTB segment data about US national security personnel from a databroker -- despite posing as a foreign company that fetes Russian troops our fake website www.wired.com/story/google...

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

hello world, 15 mins old

submitted 4 days ago • 580 comments

Looked this up. Spot anything about the publication date?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Here are The Top 10 Dogs of the week! youtu.be/xSi7CJ4iFPU

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

Got to enjoy a paper which says "perceptions of the capabilities of AI are widely overstated"

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

When you read things from an entirely different industry to your own, you find sentences like "If we lost the ability to optimise for a purchase event, that would be catastrophic" and your face goes 🤔

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

"All new restaurants should employ someone over 50 to check whether the print on the menu is big enough to be read, the lighting bright enough for it to be read by and the seats comfortable enough for a lengthy meal." A million percent yes, though I would bring the age down to 40-something 👀

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Don't all get jealous of my seed storage will you.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Yesterday's report on #childcare and Universal Credit from @uniofbathipr.bsky.social is reported in today's @mirror.co.uk read more: www.mirror.co.uk/money/dwp-sl...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The government has started talking about 'worklessness' again, which I knew had fallen out of favour as a policy term, but I wanted to check on the actual trajectory. According to google ngram, it peaked in 2008 then dropped sharply. It only goes up to 2021, but I bet 2025 will show an uptick

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments