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Lift the Ban: Why People Seeking Asylum Should Have the Right to Work - Refugee Action This report presents arguments for allowing asylum seekers the right to work, debunking common counter-arguments and highlighting the benefits of such a policy change.

Seeing members of the Iranian women's football team get asylum in Australia reminds me of this in the UK: Lift the Ban: Why People Seeking Asylum Should Have the Right to Work - Refugee Action www.refugee-action.org.uk/lift-the-ban...

I use "Hot corners" for this - Settings > Desktop & Dock > Hot Corners. If I need the Mac to stay awake I shove the pointer into the bottom left corner. If I want to lock it, I shove it into the bottom right corner.

caffeinate - A Terminal Command to Tempor… - Apple Community Based on my Reply to this thread: Mac sleeps during Netflix despite sleep settings - Apple Community

If you ever need to keep a Mac awake (e.g. so a download or backup can complete), the 'caffeinate' command might be just what you need. The only issue is remembering how to spell 'caffeinate'

More info: discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250...

Making breakfast on a burning planet: a parent’s perspective on a GenAI future – Education Express Tags

So much in this on expertise, learning, the importance of libraries... 'Making breakfast on a burning planet: a parent’s perspective on a GenAI future' educationexpress.uts.edu.au/blog/2026/03...

London doctor carries out first UK remote robotic surgery The milestone procedure went well, with patient Paul Buxton saying he felt "fantastic".

London doctor carries out first UK remote robotic surgery: A surgeon in London says he has performed the UK's first long‑distance robotic operation on a patient located 1,500 miles (2,400km) away in Gibraltar.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Doesn't even know what a screen is! Though she can accidentally press buttons with her nose or paw

A tan whippet with a black snout and chocolate brown ears sleeps blissfully in a nest of blankets

Doesn't have email, has never heard of 'the news'

#whippet #DogSky #sighthounds

A digital illustration of a brain composed of electronic circuits with a central microchip labeled "AI" in vibrant colors. The background is dark, emphasizing the glowing neural network pattern.

David Girling from @developmentuea.bsky.social has co-authored a report that warns the potential reputational damage of charities using AI-generated images in their campaigns is more complex than organisations realise.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4ubWhld

#ResearchMatters

Something Fishy This Way Comes If you’re missing the unity and hope we shared during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, do not despair. There’s still a tiny little bit of it left on the web, courtesy of the Dutch.  I recentl...

Great news!!!

Fish Doorbell is back and CC people will especially love it! 😷

Check it out and save a fish or two! 🐟 🐠

guinesspig.ghost.io/something-fi...

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...

Interesting interview study about AI in the labor process. Best possible atmosphere (well-paid, autonomous) still results in more work, not less, because AI helps you multitask, work during nonwork time, extend your capability into other people's turf (experts then need to clean up vibejobs)

House of Lords: UK govt should 'issue a clear public statement setting out an expectation that commercial AI developers operating in the UK should obtain appropriate licences when using copyrighted works to train generative AI models.' publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

How Big AI Developers are Skirting a Mandate for Training Data Transparency We need better visibility into what data AI developers are using to train their models, write Dick Blankvoort, Harshvardhan Pandit, and Maximilian Gahntz.

This work is timely and is already being covered by media:

www.techpolicy.press/how-big-ai-d...

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Despite their declared assurances or signing of codes of conduct/practice, no big provider has provided a summary. Only 4 providers have explicitly done so – and all are small orgs or open source developers. This sinks arguments against the obligation being burdensome or excessive.

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ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

New paper from team @aial.ie! aial.ie/research/gpa...

EU's AI Act Article 53(1)(d) is an obligation for GPAI model providers to publicly provide a 'summary' on their model’s training data. The team assessed published summaries along 6 dimensions & found that all big providers failed on all 6.

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Tech companies have until August 2026 to comply with the EU AI Act's rule requiring public summaries of AI model training data.

New analysis shows that the big AI players (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Microsoft) have so far neglected this requirement for GPT, Gemini, Claude, and other models.

Now for a keynote from @emmahowardboyd.bsky.social and Bob Ward. Bob reminds the audience that is is free to join the London Climate Ready Partnership if you care about climate change. climatelondon.org #ukculture #climateresilience

Link to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee report on 'AI, copyright and the creative industries': publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

- the government’s mixed public messaging on AI & copyright is hindering licensing
- the government should make a clear public statement that AI companies operating in the UK need to license their training data (which is the law)

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Unforgettable In spring 2026, the MSK offers the chance to discover the fascinating works created by women artists in the Low Countries.

These are two of around 150 paintings by 40 female artists who may have been forgotten or overlooked which are to be displayed at this exhibition at the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts. It looks worth the trip!
www.mskgent.be/en/exhibitio...

MacOS and iOS updates are released with bugs, small things that don't work as solidly as they used to. That's even before the 'glass' OS updates...

In a few months, I'm doing a talk about how computing has lots its way, and I'm looking for input.

What irks you about working with computers (be it laptops / desktops / smartphones / ...) today?

For example: "every software is a subscription now, and we own nothing."

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

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The issue with updated OpenRefine on Macs is fixed! github.com/OpenRefine/O...

For the "everything is online" crowd in the back:

Important to consider that "everything" cultural heritage related that is accessible online represents only 1% (one percent) of archives, libraries, and museum collections worldwide.

The Women's Prize for Non-Fiction longlist is out! Explore this extraordinary collection and support independent bookshops. @womensprize.bsky.social 🏆 uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-20...

🧵There’s a very obvious problem with withdrawing support from asylum seekers: what happens next? Let’s consider some non mutually exclusive possibilities…

Trying to imagine the looks on the faces of the people I worked with at Google in 2018 if you’d told them that in 7 years their flagship product would be sending users to commit terrorism at airports

and that no one will do anything about it

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – ‘Urgent rescue curation of space heritage in a time of world crisis’ with The Science Museum Group and University College London at Universi... PhD Project - AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – ‘Urgent rescue curation of space heritage in a time of world crisis’ with The Science Museum Group and University College Lond...

We have a 4-year AHRC-funded PhD studentship on 'Rescue curation of space heritage' advertised!

Supervision by me, space scientist Lucie Green (@luciegreen.bsky.social), and curators of space and engineering at the Science Museum, Doug Millard and Ben Russell

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist! Join us as we reveal the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction longlist on Wednesday 4 March at 2pm GMT.

We are thrilled to reveal the 2026 #WomensPrize for Fiction longlist. 16 titles that showcase the profound force, resonance and scale of fiction writing: from tackling turbulent global issues to examining the intensely intimate. Discover the longlist here: youtu.be/fyPfDaHddLg