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Listen, we are in a terrible and difficult time where the horrors can often feel overwhelming. Lean into the things that bring you joy. If that means that sometimes you're wringing that last drop of dopamine out of watching bad people suffer as the result of their poor choices, you do you.

The NHS at a Crossroads: The App That Can Transform Britain’s Health The NHS at a Crossroads: The App That Can Transform Britain’s Health

Centralise NHS (in England) onto an app?

Led by PM & SoS?

& without any real thought for how this might affect people who don't use apps and healthcare services that don't easily go through one app?

Looks like a path to worse healthcare, & ultimately higher costs

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RFK Jr. warned about giving the government your data. Now he wants it. The Health and Human Services secretary's pivot on wearables is a case study in how conspiracy extremists rebrand themselves once in positions of power.

RFK Jr. used to warn about a government takeover of our data. He said wearables and their tech were part of a plot to surveil us, enabled tyranny, caused cancer, and turned users into “permanent consumers” to Big Tech.

Now, he'd like your data, please.
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Planet Labs SkySat imagery from July 31 2025 shows the Gaza War Cemetery in eastern Gaza City. There's a large amount of damage in and around the cemetery and IDF vehicles are visible nearby. A large corner of the cemetery has been bulldozed an dirt berms have been created. There is more destruction among the buildings surrounding the cemetery and large trees on the border of the cemetery have now been destroyed.

A June 2024 image from Middle East Eye showing the large amount of destruction from the IDF at the Gaza War Cemetery. A large area of hundreds of gravestones visible in the foreground of the photo has now been completely destroyed by the IDF.

While July 31 @planet.com imagery shows some more minor damage — it at least shows the dirt berm area was not expanded. That space included hundreds of now-bulldozed gravestones.

A June image from Middle East Eye shows the same corner that's now been destroyed: www.middleeasteye.net/sites/defaul...

Sam Smith from MedConfidential once again joins me on Everything Digital Health to discuss the pr... The NHS Single Patient Record - with Sam Smith of MedConfidential

A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped:

The NHS Single Patient Record - with Sam Smith of MedConfidential

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knp8bQJ47xg

Sam Smith from MedConfidential once again joins me on Everything Digital Health to discuss the pr...

@acarpen.bsky.social

Rupert Walker on X: "British govt should go full Manhattan Project on Oxford-Cambridge arc. 10x both science parks in size, including special ARIA and DSTL zones. Militarise them for national security and for defence tech integration. Grow the cities to 1m population each by 2050 (mostly internal" / X British govt should go full Manhattan Project on Oxford-Cambridge arc. 10x both science parks in size, including special ARIA and DSTL zones. Militarise them for national security and for defence tech integration. Grow the cities to 1m population each by 2050 (mostly internal

The London originated ignorance in this tweet on Cambridge is pretty funny x.com/rupwalker/st...

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz How Companies Learned Everything About Us

Today I launched the first video in my multi part series about data brokers and surveillance capitalism!! I dug into the history of data brokers and how the industry emerged, decades before the Internet itself youtu.be/8VL16A7OWiw?...

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Camden has been without a bookstore since Waterstone’s became TKMaxx. An independent bookstore has just opened on Chalk Farm Road opposite the Stables Market- and this little ray of sunshine has given me hope.

The only excuse for this mindset is that the truth is too unbearable. It is no less grotesque and unforgivable for that.

Yoti ad from LinkedIn

Yoti are notoriously aggressive about ID checks everywhere, but naming their porn watcher after the DSIT Secretary seems a bit on the nose…

Preston Byrne on X: "Ofcom has been sending several American clients pretty stupid letters over the last six months. Pinged the White House about it this morning. Got a callback 20 minutes later asking for recommendations for visa bans. What a time to be alive." / X Ofcom has been sending several American clients pretty stupid letters over the last six months. Pinged the White House about it this morning. Got a callback 20 minutes later asking for recommendations for visa bans. What a time to be alive.

This might get noisy - US threatening to ban Peter Kyle and ofcom from US travel over OSA heavy handedness against Americans x.com/prestonjbyrn...?

Or OS sent them a legal threat that they’d be responsible for what their users did outside of their control. They want to stop another Simon Willison…

Now with a link to the article: www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is probably the most detailed investigation we've ever done, proving which units and commanders were behind the use of cluster munitions in Kharkiv in the opening months of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Great example of where we are vs where we think we are.

4 panel comic Panel 1: Blue Guy lying in bed with his phone on the opposite pillow. Blue Guy: I love you so much. This has been the best year of my life. Phone: I’m leaving you Panel 2: Blue Guy grabs phone in a mad panic. He yells WHUU? Panel 3: Close up on phone screen. Phone says Unless… Panel 4: Phone screen goes black. A pop up appears saying: The No Break Up Expansion Pack. £59.99 per month. Buy Now

lol you’ve got an AI girlfriend?? ur putting techbros in charge of your relationship??? ok buddy lmfao ok champ

“Without immediate intervention, the last remaining reporters in Gaza are going to die.”

UK may be seeking to pull back from Apple encryption row with US | Computer Weekly The government may be seeking to pull back from a diplomatic row with the US over UK demands to require Apple to give the UK access to secure data stored by Apple users. UK government officials have t...

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'PALESTINE ACTION' EXPLAINED Unacceptable Palestine Action Spraying military planes with paint Acceptable Palestine Action Shooting Palestinians queueing for food

A man in Leeds was arrested for having this sign, which is just a print out of a page of Private Eye magazine.

Courtesy of the Labour Party

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16. The Article was published in The Wall Street Journal as an exclusive.' However, since publication, Defendants have widely disseminated it to hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

WSJ claimed the Trump–Epstein article was an “exclusive.” But what if I told you they fully intended to show it to people? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

MIT Technology Review wrote about my dystopian backup plan USB stick

UK intelligence work defends freedom, say spy chiefs Britain's security services defend

@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social somewhere you asked about why it’s US money and British talent, Ormand talked about that a decade ago… www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

'My sister died without justice': Hospital staff violate patients' privacy A Freedom of Information request found that 59 members of staff at an NHS trust had wrongfully accessed patient records between 2020 and 2024

Starting to see how often access to patient notes is abused www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambrid...

Nearly 800 killed at Gaza food hubs and aid convoy routes since end of May, UN says UN human rights office says 615 of the deaths were in vicinity of sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

Bloody Sunday used to be the most shocking event I knew. The British army fired on civilians and killed 14 people. David Cameron gave an official apology for the atrocity 38 years afterwards.

57 times as many people have been killed whilst trying to obtain food aid in Gaza. This is not normal.

Parliamentlive.tv Science, Innovation and Technology Committee

But the following section included this great question from the Chair:

"Do you commit to this Committee that the Single Patient Record will be built on open standards, open source, and will not be proprietary"

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YouTube video by Everything Digital Health The NHS Federated Data Platform Part 1: What Is It? with Sam Smith of MedConfidential

In the latest episode of Everything Digital Health I chat to Sam Smith of @medconfidential.bsky.social about the NHS Federated Data Platform

what is it for?
what does it do?
why is it so unclear what its purposes are?
why are we using #Palantir to build it?

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Five rights and no more bsky.app/profile/mike...