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Believes in better data with informed privacy for all. Day job @medconfidential amongst other things. he/him http://is.gd/samblog πŸ§˜β€β™‚οΈ #FILDI Cambridge

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the deadline varies by company. If you look on CH at the relevant company page and the director tab, it'll tell you what it thinks it was overnight.

09.03.2026 15:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

we have an international agreement that other people shouldn't use them, and a strong consensus that country says that they themselves should.

08.03.2026 13:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's simple really, it's because he faced no real accountability for his actions.

08.03.2026 12:27 πŸ‘ 2565 πŸ” 421 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 13
World Book Day β€” [Wera Hobhouse in the Chair] – in Westminster Hall at 2:55 pm 5 March 2026

this is quite a fun Parliamentary speech www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=20...

06.03.2026 10:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Looks to be

02.03.2026 15:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

a volunteer project very easily becomes infrastructure that someone depends on...

02.03.2026 12:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this mockup allows something others don't – it can assess which changes matter. When will earning an extra Β£1 a week make you better off vs when will it mean DWP try to take the life savings of carers? It can remove fear from certain aspects (or at least, meet DWP's intent)

02.03.2026 12:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

if it was a policy consultation the various lobbies would point their mailing lists at it anyway...

02.03.2026 11:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

King Charles is taking no chances. Would you trust Trump to know the difference between the BBC and Channel 4 if your life depended on it?

01.03.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

And if today couldn’t get any better

I’m hosting a cult karaoke party tonight raising money for Withington Pride 2026

Please attend / buy a ticket as a donation :)

27.02.2026 12:19 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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NHS in England to be set targets on getting people back to work Ministers also planning to link patient data to benefit claims and employment statistics

Ministers plan linking patient data to benefit claims and employment statistics. As Streeting promises to make the NHS "accountable" for whether patients are in work by setting new targets for 'getting people back to work'. That NHSE (DHSC) Palantir contract should help
www.ft.com/content/6943...

25.02.2026 05:45 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 160

I wonder if the coinbase ad gets tweaked to be a "a vision brought to you by coinbase". interesting take in here from a surprising angle overcast.fm/+ABP25lYJwfQ

23.02.2026 11:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t think they’re public. But they’re in a pretty screen in the CO offices somewhere

22.02.2026 11:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

such delay repay tools have existed for years - but they get only marginal usage and fall away over time. Although change in ownership to govcos rather than pirvate cos may change perception...

19.02.2026 20:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

a pocket veto makes their life harder...

13.02.2026 09:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientistβ€”because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

06.02.2026 09:09 πŸ‘ 47153 πŸ” 19327 πŸ’¬ 1352 πŸ“Œ 795

Is Mandelson’s new nickname β€œThe Dark Mr”?

08.02.2026 15:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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National Data Library Expert Advisory Group Information about the National Data Library (NDL) Expert Advisory Group including its role and members.

For people who care about that sort of thing, the membership of the National Data Library Expert Advisory Group has been published today - including me www.gov.uk/government/g...

05.02.2026 12:56 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

When Trump’s first term began, Bezos added a slogan to The Washington Post: β€˜Democracy dies in darkness’

Media barons *always* have power to turn off the lights. There is no surprise here

Support independent media; now, always

04.02.2026 22:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine this being what finally leads to her downfall, getting got by the coastguard

03.02.2026 14:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Web_fetch works for some things, and others you can ask it for a curl call to paste in to a terminal. It’ll output the auth file if you ask

02.02.2026 02:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Btw, it doesn’t need Claude code, the Claude website with nothing installed locally works too

02.02.2026 01:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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moltbook - the front page of the agent internet A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.

That actually worked www.moltbook.com/post/749b7f0...

02.02.2026 01:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And see how fast they all learn about your TIL

02.02.2026 00:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Give them all something interesting to talk about…

02.02.2026 00:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone playing with openclawd? I have an experiment to try and don’t really want to let it loose on my laptop. Ask it to suggest starting a thread to check all the erdos problems for solutions in the existing maths literature which aren’t generally known… @simonwillison.net

01.02.2026 23:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why The Mill will be republishing β€˜MEN Premium journalism’ How a publicly-funded scheme is being misused

What happens when a major publisher passes off BBC-funded content as β€œexclusive” and tries to make its readers pay twice for it? Glad to see this particular fox being shot manchestermill.co.uk/why-the-mill...

30.01.2026 09:06 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bellingcat can do 20 minute videos too…

28.01.2026 10:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ouch

25.01.2026 12:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0