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Last week I worked on identifying systemic issues with a process, and at the same time on figuring out how to render cultural tropes impacting the experience of the process into tangible data points. Now to simplify it all into an algorithm ready for devs, which is not a simple thing to do at all…

Attended Amazon Cloud Day this week, interesting and informative. It left me feeling I somehow missed the AI transformation boat 2 years ago, and now everyone is adding AI to their work but on their own, by asking ChatGPT, and don’t want to bring in specialists.

Soent the day at #AWSCloudDay and I feel inspired and antsy to get playing with some of the tools I saw. I’d love to join a team that is doing some serious implementation of AI agents…

Model-Dependent Moderation: Inconsistencies in Hate Speech Detection Across LLM-based Systems Neil Fasching, Yphtach Lelkes. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025. 2025.

💻 Hate speech detection gaps

A study comparing 7 major LLM systems shows the same content can be flagged as hate speech by one model but not another, raising fairness concerns.

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#SciComm #GenAI #AI 🧪

And now we understand why people over 50 all seem to adopt funky large colourful glasses, it’s absolutely not about personality, only findability.

Someone is trying to convince me to sign up for something by showing me only things that are not part of the package on offer, and not even open to discussion. Spoiler alert, it’s not working, but I deeply admire their confidence while respecting the delusion.

Exactly what Erika says.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts ! Much appreciated

I'll have another discussion with management see if I can move them into something that's fit for the scale they're at... and away from the comfort of having only 1 platform to check...

I've seen integration through a 3rd party called ChatterBridge that take what's on the WA channel and push it to a Slack Channel, and Slack becomes view only - for orgs where the clients are WA users, great to ensure no message of theirs is missed, allowed record keeping on Slack - not bad.

I'm thinking of a half-half solution, keeping a read-only WA channel to highlight key messages and 📢 "send your invoice" and "enter your availability", with every message ending with a specific Slack channel link for replies - annoying for admins but only way to get some control, order etc. No?

Thanks for the input! There's no Slack currently, it's 100% WA because the org works daily with a lot of 3rd on-demand workers, they're in a country where WA rules, internet can be patchy and slow and overall they believe they can't get workers to adopt another platform for work (am working on that)

Team uses WhatsApp extensively "because that way people see messages" - but it's a mess, things get repeated and forgotten, there's no knowledge repository, and people treat it casually. Any advice on splitting comms across Slack (for structure) and WA (for reminders to check Slack)?

I’m seeing everywhere this lesson begging to be learned: exiting a toxic situation is always an acceptable solution.

Seems like 1st September is like January 1st, and all my bad habits will miraculously get under control starting today but it’s not true so am trying to rein it all in and instead do small yet sustainable tweaks. Anyone else?

I believe institutions decided that trust is not a business model a long time ago and it's only now becoming highly visible that trust is what they dictate either for compliance or to protect themselves legally, so the very common confusion between trust and safety.

There is a long standing belief that advertising absolutely always brings in tons of money at low costs and no problems, whereas subscriptions bring in some money and lots of problems starting with subscribers wanting specific things for their money so bringing in cost. Yes, stupid is enduring.

YouTube video by Film at ATU Donegal Frances Maguire — Echoes of an Irish Lifetime (2025)

Take 4"30 to slow down and watch this gorgeous short film on life through the eyes of 93 year old Irishman Owney McGoldrick.
Frances Maguire — Echoes of an Irish Lifetime (2025)
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Interesting how @linkedin.com think users come to its platform, as revealed in this interception user survey I took today. Clearly I’m a naive flower to think LI is meant for sharing and learning.
Also « feel connected with my network » feels… wrong - or is it just me?

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Hi! 👋. I’d be happy to join your community of curious, self-reflecting women. 😀

It's Saturday, a great day to link in to a webinar on building AI Agents. Anything to avoid having to do the house chores I actually lined up.

I thought “releasing” was the entire point of yoga, with the conservative discreet option to do it in a heated room to hide the tears amongst the sweat. Did I miss a memo? You’ve got it fine tuned, clearly. Now pass me the tissues, please.

So I learned that the request was actually to turn off “reply to all” only, and that subtle difference got lost at the first relay point. Which tells me there is an information stability problem in that organisation and I’m not surprised as they exchange primarily through WhatsApp audio messages.

Give me good reasons why a business should turn *off* their out-of-hours email auto response. Serious ask. Alternatively send me all your white papers and case studies on why such an automated response is best practice. Thanks.

a person is pushing a large rock up a hill Alt: animated cartoon on a loop of a person pushing a very large rock up a very steep hill, as soon as they’ve made some gains they and the rock slide down to where they began.

Exercising is like doing the dishes. As you as you’re done, you have to do it again. Don’t do it for too long? Oh boy. Then, like a pot of boiling water on the stove, any fitness gain disappears if you don’t top it up consistently. It’s soul crushing to be honest. Why yes, I just finished a session.

Oh no! Am here if you want to rant senselessly, just call. For what it’s worth, #BalancedTeam yesterday was the highlight of my week, seriously.

Thanks! Passing it on, they’ll mention me!

Hey Martin, this is great news, congratulations! As someone who did a stint in a UK ministerial department's "born-out-of-GDS digital team", I salute the effort! Would you know if there's any recruitment ? I know good highly experienced people in Berlin looking to contribute meaningfully...

THANK YOU for sharing that little gem of joy!