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We bemoan doing terrible in Eurovision yet in the middle of a random Dr Who episode the BBC drop this??? www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR30...

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Did I mention that the data broker industry must be destroyed?

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

There is genuinely a new one of these stories every few hours. Think how many women are being abused by transphobes who don't feel safe to speak out, or who just silently change their appearance to be more stereotypical in the hope that it won't happen again?

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Ahead of the 10 year plan medconfidential.org/2025/ahead-o...

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I think you have to say that the mission to create legal clarity had mixed results at best

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

1) I'm pretty sure that people with a GRC can get a new birth certificate, so this doesn't even work 2) if you present every gym in the country with the guidance "unless your service is unisex you need to impose this embarrassing and legally risky process" guess what's going to happen

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

there are people (and members of the House of Lords) who think it's big tech's job to raise their kids: bsky.app/profile/saml...

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trying to imagine what reasonable person would see this lawsuit and blame porn sites, not the mom who threw a laptop in the closet, kept it charged, didn't put a password on it, but also still cares this much if her teenager looks at porn www.404media.co/kansas-lawsu...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

This is a proper wake-up-screaming nightmare for officials and ministers.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

People treat health apps with the same trust as their diaries or their GP and that trust is willingly abused by authorities. This is chilling.

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With a politically-controlled central medical record they could ask the Government who would be obliged to hand the data over bsky.app/profile/pete...

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"Police have been issued guidance on how to search women’s homes for abortion drugs and check their phones for menstrual cycle tracking apps after unexpected pregnancy loss" "...police could bypass legal requirements for a court order to obtain medical records..." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

submitted 6 days ago • 127 comments

So a patient known to be unable to speak being sent repeated telephone appointment letters. Number to call on the letter is of course not correct. Given an alternative that just rings out. No email address. This is simple stuff that magnified across the NHS has huge impact.

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

Hey Siri, what is the simplest illustration of @siracusa.social and @liss.bsky.social’s argument that Apple think less money is the most critical harm… www.techmeme.com/250515/i16.jpg

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

If you give your credit card, I can be your robot pal / I’ll be really friendly, you can pay me twenty pounds (twenty pounds)

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

submitted 11 days ago • 489 comments

Another one for the digital identity crowd... The government’s GovUK One Login digital identity system has lost its certification against the government’s own DIATF trust framework for digital identity systems. Read the full story here: www.computerweekly.com/news/3666238...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/30/d... You wot? I See No Way In Which This Could Possibly Go Wrong.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

I can't recommend @dsquareddigest.bsky.social The Unaccountability Machine strongly enough as an explanation of how systems work and when they don't - now available in the US - press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... - (and I believe blurbed by Brian Eno for the UK paperback which I haven't seen).

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

This is like reading one of those horrific VAW miscarriages of justice from 30 years ago www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

Family project for a bank holiday - if your grandparents/similar are still alive, ask them about their first house and what it cost, and then look it up on rightmove and compare with today

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

What’s oddly missing from NHSE’s press release today about Palantir’s Cancer360 product being mandated on Trusts is who made it and whether there can be competitors on NHSE’s FDP platform (both from Palantir). Here’s a good talk about the tech itself youtu.be/XcIsSHFplPo?...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

You receive a call on your phone. The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraudulent payment. "Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right? The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank." 🧵 1/4

submitted 21 days ago • 18 comments

may god forgive me for my transgression but I do question the integrity of the regulator

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Doctors personally liable if mandatory NHS AI transcriber gets it wrong pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/30/d... - text www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RWd... - video

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

Listening to DSIT talk about fundamental reform of copyright for AI. DWP would force anyone doing pre-revenue creativity off of UC for not looking for work enough. It can be fixed with a DWP policy change to enhance low level creativity, but DSIT/DCMS have no teeth #aiforum

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

New from 404 Media: we've published the full internal Palantir wiki in which it argues why it is working with ICE. It is rare for outsiders to get insight from a tech company on why it might decide to work on a project like this. Spelled out acronyms but left unedited www.404media.co/this-is-pala...

submitted 25 days ago • 9 comments

Medical textbook is pulled from shelves after an extract found stating the line – "It is important to note that as an AI language model, I can provide a general perspective, but you should consult with medical professionals for personalized advice." pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/12/1...

submitted 36 days ago • 24 comments

This is a field progressing talk, but the third cambridge disinformation summit should be promoted using photos of MIT bsky.app/profile/elio...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

OK, its not a question of whether the phone is compromised. If you are the spy chief of a major country's intelligence service and your people have not compromised this phone, you should resign and find some other line of work

submitted 29 days ago • 63 comments

The “anti-big-tech” wing that hate Zuck for AI/copyright have realised that they can work with those who hate Zuck for not parenting their children better, and one wing taught the other what tech could be argued to do even if it doesn’t www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

The effect of the shenanigans to get approval for the Palantir business case - taking money from everywhere else (inc research infrastructure) and shovelling it to Palantir: www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/nh...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I like how Twitter now is a mix of pornography, Russian troll farmers, Elon Musk having a ket breakdown, and half a dozen people from political thinktanks still trying to tweet about regional growth

submitted 34 days ago • 12 comments

Obviously a court doing this is deranged and also making some kinds of lesbians illegal brings a whole new valence to "be gay do crimes"

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

I finally snapped and made a-non Google search engine my default on mobile and I’m posting this because if you have also been considering this, it was really easy and you can do it

submitted 37 days ago • 7 comments

Palantir: "We build to dominate". Certain people in the UK: "Yes please, we'd love you to get more involved in the NHS. The future is shiny!"

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment