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Human centred and responsible strategy, data & innovation Loves teaching and transformation Founding partner, Corrick Wales & Partners External lecturer, digital innovation, Grenoble Ecole de Management #opendata #netzero France https://kathryncorrick.fr
To every poltician pushing back on electrification and decarbonisation we should say: Why do you want to make Europe dependent on others? Why do you want Europeans to pay higher bills?
“Instead of producing what looks like a generic critique from a nameless LLM,” Wired reported last week, Expert Review “lists a number of real academics and authors available to weigh in on your text. To be clear: Those people have nothing to do with this process.”🤬
The hereditary peers go out in the most British way possible: a step towards democratising the state is achieved only by taking a half step backwards at the same time.
Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."
Only just catching up on this. Great news and well done to @bengoldacre.bsky.social and team!
Should you wish to know how the AI at @thedatacity.bsky.social works, but not so well you can copy us, please do come to Applied AI at Parallax in Leeds on 17 March at 6pm where I'll be giving a talk on exactly that! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/applied-ai...
This summary post is so tame, compared to the details in the article. This is bleak, bleak, bleak.
Usually timber buildings have a 'dirty secret' or let's say remnants of the old world, concrete stairs, floors etc. See here how a wooden elevator shaft is going in fast like it's nothing: www.linkedin.com/posts/markus...
Spotlight on Migration, a report by the @womeninmigration.bsky.social is out!
spotlightreportmigration.org/wp-content/u...
I wrote about crucial issues on the use of surveillance tech against people on the move and to learn about migrant communities choosing to resist, and care for each other.
on May 01, 2003, George W Bush gave a "Mission Accomplished" speech on an aircraft carrier:
"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed"
the actual Iraq war ended in 2011
The BIG problem is because of massive car manufacturing influence, most media and political energy is going to EVs, with not NEARLY enough going to fewer cars and less driving. But the priority HAS to be the latter, since it’s the part of the solution that will actually do much more public good.
Are you a young academic working on climate and feel ready for a move? We are recruiting two Assistant/Associate Professors @granthamicl.bsky.social at Imperial College London @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social (1/6)
A good investigation, not surprising to anyone who's been following these companies or UK gov AI policy, but nevertheless, infuriating:
Dr Kat Jones, director of charity APRS, said the claimed plans for 1GW of on-site renewable energy “are total pie-in-the-sky. Where is this going to come from?”
The first amendment, to the Crime and Policing Bill, would empower any senior government minister to amend the Online Safety Act near unilaterally for the purposes of "minimizing or mitigating the risks of harm to individuals" presented by illegal AI-generated content. The second amendment, to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, looks to go even further, giving ministers the ability to alter any piece of primary legislation to restrict children's access to "certain internet services." The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has said it wants to act "at pace" in response to the findings of its consultation, the "key focus" of which is whether to ban social media for under-16s, a policy idea which has picked up momentum in multiple countries since Australia introduced a ban at the end of last year.
Coverage of measures highlighted last week in my posts above:
UK eyes sweeping powers to regulate tech without parliamentary scrutiny www.politico.eu/article/uk-e...
("Regulating tech" = blocking content and discussion)
#OnlineSafetyAct #socialmediaban #genAI #censorship #openweb #techpolicy
LORD HANSON OF FLINT 429B★_ After Clause 212, insert the following new Clause— "Power to amend Online Safety Act 2023 Power to amend Online Safety Act 2023: AI (1) The Online Safety Act 2023 is amended as follows. (2) After section 216 insert— “Power to amend Act: illegal AI-generated content etc 216A Power to amend Act in relation to illegal AI-generated content etc (1) Subject to subsection (14)(b), the Secretary of State may by regulations amend any provision of this Act for or in connection with the purposes of minimising or mitigating the risks of harm to individuals in the United Kingdom presented by— (a) illegal AI-generated content; (b) the use of AI services for the commission or facilitation of priority offences. (2) In this section, “AI service” means an internet service that is capable (or part of which is capable) of generating AI-generated content (no matter what proportion of content on the service is AI-generated). (3) The provision that may be made by regulations includes provision securing that any or all of the duties set out in subsection (4) are imposed on providers of AI services in relation to— (a) illegal AI-generated content; (b) the design, operation or use of AI services so far as relating to illegal AI-generated content; (c) the use of AI services for the commission or facilitation of priority offences.
New OSA clause: the UK Government plans to give ministers a broad power to make regulations amending the Online Safety Act re "illegal AI-generated content" and AI services etc. – without further primary legislation bills.parliament.uk/publications... (pg 12)
#genAI #censorship #openweb #techpolicy
100%
I’m less of a literary fiction reader but that’s partly as I find the subjects written about very limited or too much like a concentration of a broken reality - often for the same reasons you describe. For the same reason I don’t particularly want to watch Mike Lee’s films.
Suggest you move sections and have a look in sci-fi and fantasy, where characters are everything but writers.
Tom Holt: solicitors, office clerks
Genevieve Cogman: librarians
Charles Stross: IT departments, civil servants
Jodi Taylor: historians, police
“Recent studies have shown that when satellites reach the end of their lives and burn up upon reentry, they leave behind metals like aluminum and lithium.
The consequences of this are not yet known. But that's [only one thing that] concerns scientists…”
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
It’s rather bleak out there, so here is a story of hope from the alps about our bearded vultures.
One of the earliest birds released back into the wild in the 1980s was found alive last year: www.bbc.com/future/artic...
“100 online users account for 68% of conspiratorial posts, capturing 90% of views and 86% of likes. The same users generally promote multiple conspiratorial claims, particularly about the deep state, election fraud, and media-elite collusion […] by posting around high-profile events.”
I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life.
I'm serious, read it all please
celebrating #IWD by reading a book about how women were forced out of tech in the late twentieth-century programmedinequality.com
A screenshot of World Monitor at 0945 CET, Sunday 8 March, filtering on MENA, under sea cables, oil pipelines and France 24. The map shows how many under sea cables cross the region near the Hormuz Straits, as well as many recent incidents and bombings across the region.
This is what World Monitor looks like at the moment filtering on:
- MENA
- Under sea cables (blue lines)
- Oil pipelines (red lines)
- France 24
www.worldmonitor.app?lat=29.3678&...
Elie Habib, its founder & CEO of streamer Anghami:
“I didn’t need a news aggregator,” he says. “I needed something that showed me how these events connect to each other in real time. The existing OSINT tools that did this cost governments and large enterprises tens of thousands of dollars annually.”
Delving into www.worldmonitor.app
Quite incredible.
More about it here: www.wired.com/story/world-...
First step I think is to look at the Electrification Staircase (I would say that). Rows A-C can largely be electrified now.
Aside. We really need to do a version of this Staircase with the relative energy consumption of each sector.
Tom here raises an interesting question while shouting into the void of social media. We have 8 months or so to destroy as much gas demand as possible in the least harmful way. Not a lot of time. What do you do?
ah the regular reminder that my work password is going to expire and I really wish my employer would read the NCSC guidance on passwords www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/p...
The Trump administration has drawn up tight rules for civilian artificial intelligence contracts that would require AI companies to allow "any lawful" use of their models amid a stand-off between the Pentagon and Anthropic. A draft of new government guidelines, seen by the FT, mandates that AI groups that want to do business with the government grant the US an irrevocable licence to use their systems for all legal purposes. The guidance from the US General Services Administration (GSA) would apply to civilian contracts and is part of a government-wide effort to strengthen procurement of AI services.
One of the things I'm working on at the moment is a foresight review on the safe adoption of AI, and I'm
pretty sure this move by the US govt busts any myth that it's possible to robustly assure general purpose AI giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
In Eurovision news, the UK entry is live.
See also, This Museum Is (Not) Obsolete which Sam runs, if you live near Ramsgate. Open on Saturdays and Sundays.
this-museum-is-not-obsolete.com