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Founder @OpenInnovates non-profit, mission-led, innovation with data. Co-founder @TheDataCity mapping the world's economy with data. Also #MDANT Life is for living - let's get on with it.

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AI’s ‘memorisation’ problem: the novels it can’t forget Research that shows LLMs memorise more training data than previously thought raises questions about copyright infringement

‘The world’s top AI models can be prompted to generate near-verbatim copies of bestselling novels, raising fresh questions about the industry’s claim that its systems do not store copyrighted works.’
www.ft.com/content/e4b7...

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14 Tips That'll Trick Others Into Thinking You're A Mesopotamian

14 Tips That'll Trick Others Into Thinking You're A Mesopotamian

14 Tips That'll Trick Others Into Thinking You're A Mesopotamian
1st Jun 2016
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23.02.2026 14:00 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
Zlatan Just Got So Real About What It's Like To Live With Acute Cauliflower Cheese Anxiety

Zlatan Just Got So Real About What It's Like To Live With Acute Cauliflower Cheese Anxiety

Zlatan Just Got So Real About What It's Like To Live With Acute Cauliflower Cheese Anxiety
4th Jun 2016
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27.02.2026 06:00 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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DfE HE Open Data Competition A series of briefing and innovation sessions to help people ahead of the Higher Education Open Data Competition.?

If you are interested in Open Data and Higher Education outcomes

We @open-innovations.org did a nice piece of work on 2018, with a tiny bit more £ the tools everyone is asking for would probably exist

open-innovations.org/events/dfe/

26.02.2026 18:23 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

@tomforth.co.uk 👇🏻

Theme for your next blog

26.02.2026 14:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Amazing work ✊🏼

25.02.2026 20:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Remembering Mark Hollis, who died on this day in 2019. One of music's absolute legends.

25.02.2026 12:00 — 👍 23    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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OpenSAFELY news: you can apply to do non-COVID research, from today! | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science We are delighted to announce that - from today - you can submit applications to the OpenSAFELY service for non-COVID-19 studies.

OpenSAFELY is open from today! Huge thanks to all who supported this vast collaboration: whole population GP data; in a productive platform; innovative privacy protections; unprecedented support from professions, privacy campaigners; &c

Now it's over to users!

www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...

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British Growth and the Graduate Premium Britain's economic problems will not be solved by more graduates.

Great piece from @tomforth.co.uk on the shrinking graduate premium in the UK.
The UK's skills problem is not a problem of supply, it's one of demand; our regional economies are not complex & successful enough to absorb the number of graduates we produce.
tomforth.co.uk/graduateprem...

22.02.2026 10:40 — 👍 8    🔁 7    💬 3    📌 0
British Growth and the Graduate Premium Britain's economic problems will not be solved by more graduates.

British Growth and the Graduate Premium. tomforth.co.uk/graduateprem...

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Stealing Sheep are so so good

But their records
Go see them

22.02.2026 00:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great pic.

The Kings Nonce-dar seems to be working.

19.02.2026 18:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why wouldn’t we do this ?

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Sheesh

19.02.2026 06:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mad Hatter

18.02.2026 20:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

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Ours sounded like they were sucking lemons….

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💥

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Case in point, @pengzell.bsky.social just sent me 5 papers proving that there’s not actually any evidence for a loneliness epidemic. My mind is highly changed

17.02.2026 03:34 — 👍 91    🔁 6    💬 5    📌 3

A thread worth reading

17.02.2026 07:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I remembered that I recorded Edge of Darkness series over Christmas…

Just watched episode 1,

So, so good and somehow still relevant.

16.02.2026 22:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Yes,,, your boy has taken a ride in the 4 man bobsled,,, but im an adrenaline junkie and needed to try skeleton. And now I’ve officially joined the team and am gonna try to start competing.

66 years old going 66 mph.

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Two maps, one showing Sweden's porn preferences by region, the other showing radiation fallout density from Chernobyl. The areas with the highest radiation density seem to correlate with preference for hentai porn.

Two maps, one showing Sweden's porn preferences by region, the other showing radiation fallout density from Chernobyl. The areas with the highest radiation density seem to correlate with preference for hentai porn.

for all you map-porn loving nerds

14.02.2026 02:43 — 👍 577    🔁 122    💬 8    📌 15

@ojgarling.bsky.social 👇🏻

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TLDR - Sir Howard Bernstein.

15.02.2026 18:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I think it’s a fake

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Once you start looking up pictures from Demis Roussos photo sessions, you can never stop.

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The other day Manchester United’s co-owner Jim Ratcliffe said the UK had been "colonised by immigrants"….today there’s this billboard outside of Old Trafford 🔥….way to go Manchester 💪!

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Jim Ratcliffe can f**k right off

13.02.2026 21:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Spoke to my mum about all this Jim Ratcliffe stuff tonight, she went to United all through the 60s and as I’m sure you know took me to United in the womb, “ remember Paul all these owners were never United and we all need to remember that “

✊🏼

13.02.2026 21:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0