Dr Alex Bowyer

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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

Hear, hear. Couldn’t agree more!

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI releases web browser to rival Google ChatGPT Atlas was unveiled as the company seeks new ways to corral users to its online offerings.

There can only be one reason they are doing this IMHO - to spy on you and collect more data for insight gathering, profiling and targeting. #surveillanceeconomy

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Snapchat and Duolingo among major apps down in Amazon Web Services outage - live updates Many of the world's biggest apps including Snapchat, Duolingo and Roblox have gone down, in what appears to be an issue affecting Amazon Web Services.

It's disturbing how much of an integral part of internet life / infrastructure Amazon AWS is becoming...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

Mozilla Firefox feature gets special mention in TIME's Best Inventions of 2025 Firefox has landed a spot in TIME Magazine's Best Inventions of 2025, thanks to a new feature that remains exclusive to iOS users.

Can't decide if i love or hate this idea..

"Shake to summarise" - shake your phone to use LLMs to summarise the current website

handy tool? gimmick? dumbing down of society? 🤔

www.neowin.net/news/mozilla...

blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/s...

I still remember first watching the latest pop videos come out by watching The Chart Show on Saturday mornings on ITV growing up in the early 90s - before the Internet and before any of us had Sky and fancy things like MTV

MTV to axe its music TV channels in the UK The broadcaster will stop showing music videos in December, but its main channel will remain on air.

First video killed the radio star, and then YouTube and TikTok killed the music video star...

I know there are other music video channels, but it's kind of sad to see this dying out.

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In Spain, what once seemed impossible is now widespread: the young are turning to the far right | María Ramírez Migration is barely mentioned – instead, failed policies on housing, wages and employment are driving young voters into the arms of Vox, says María Ramírez, deputy managing editor of elDiario.es

Bit of a disturbing trend, I really hope it's not a canary in the coal mine for other countries, God help the world if so - was kind of hoping the younger generation would be the ones to save us from the rise of the far right #politics

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Ah that sucks, I’m sorry to hear that

I’ve found Evri pretty reliable and good for tracking too. What issues are you experiencing with them?

Snapchat to start charging users for Memories storage It has not said how much the storage plans will cost UK users, only that they were part of a

Not a huge surprise that Snapchat is going to start charging for storage.

I wonder if users are aware they do have an option to request copies of their data under #gdpr if they don’t want to pay?

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Inspiring words from James Felton Keith at #mydata2025

Employers (and the public should start fighting for the fact that) personal data is labour, it is work that deserves recompense. People understand that companies owe them something for proving their data but can’t receive it.

Fascinating workshop on death and digital legacy by @cubicgarden.com at #mydata2025.. letters of wishes can be machine readable and even automated according to #mydata principles - but you have to keep a human in the process as an approver.

A call to arms from Malik Lakoubay at @radxchange.bsky.social - independent news media are at existential risk from AI. Trusted data intermediaries such as Syft offer a solution.

#mydata2025

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A call to arms from Malik Lakoubay at @radxchange.bsky.social - independent news media are at existential risk from AI. Trusted data intermediaries such as Syft offer a solution.

#mydata2025

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A couple of great insights from ex-MP, ex-chair DCMS select committee Damian Collins at #mydata2025

“Powered by data shouldn’t mean working in the interests of the platform against the interests of the individual citizen or gig worker”

“AI must not become a scapegoat to remove company liabilities”

Excellent overview of the opportunity and risk of personal agents by Jogi Poikola at #mydata2025

Great set of principles too, drawn from the history of #mydata and #VRM thinking

#personalagents #ai

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Excellent overview of the opportunity and risk of personal agents by Jogi Poikola at #mydata2025

Great set of principles too, drawn from the history of #mydata and #VRM thinking

#personalagents #ai

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#mydata2025 founder Jogi reminding us of 1999 prediction by John Hagel III & Marc Singer

“Buyers are losing patience, and you’re losing their trust. It’s only a matter of time before they hire agents to represent them in many of their commercial transactions.”

That time is now.
#personalagents

Eric Pol opening the #mydata2025 conference at Aalto University in Finland:

“We are not here to tweak the status quo, we are here to leap past it and shape the human-centric future”

#mydata

Just arrived in Helsinki for the international #MyData2025 conference - about 14 hours later than planned due to flight delays ✈️

Looking forward to 3.5 days of discussions with cool people on the future of human-centric data!

conference.mydata.org
@mydataorg.bsky.social

What the seeker shouts at the start of hide & seek in five languages...

*Ready or not, here I come (English)
*I’m searching (Polish)
*Whoever didn't hide is a donkey (Croatian)
*Who’s ready, good, who isn’t, I don't care (Italian)
*The one who isn't ready, I will take him with the shovel (Romanian)

Yeah absolutely! Funnily enough the original business owners are apparently keeping the WHSmith brands for airports and train stations which are the most profitable!

Does anyone else feel a disproportionate pang of sadness at the WHSmith name disappearing from UK high streets?

(I think it’s because I have many fond memories of browsing for magazines and CD singles here and Woolworths as a young teen)

Great North Run medals show Sunderland instead of Newcastle Medals given to participants use an image of Sunderland, which has no connection to the event.

How does a designer make a mistake like this? I'm thinking they must have used AI...

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Nice to see some practical advice on how businesses can break down silos... princetheba.com/breaking-dow...

Speaking of #enshittification (last repost) am I right in understanding that the new #Spotify T&Cs forbid you from using the service while travelling or holidaying overseas?!?!?

enshittification Enshittification is an informal word used to criticize the degradation in the quality and experience of online platforms over time, due to an increase in advertisements, costs, or features. It can als...

Slang & Trending:
'Enshittification' - When a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits www.merriam-webster.com/slang/enshit...

Thought provoking quote from Louise Ankers and Tom de Bruin at #bbcdevelop2025

“Feelings are data. Surface them early.”

Can be applied to lots of things - staff morale, user satisfaction, web science…