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National Data Library Expert Advisory Group Information about the National Data Library (NDL) Expert Advisory Group including its role and members.

For people who care about that sort of thing, the membership of the National Data Library Expert Advisory Group has been published today - including me www.gov.uk/government/g...

When Trump’s first term began, Bezos added a slogan to The Washington Post: ‘Democracy dies in darkness’

Media barons *always* have power to turn off the lights. There is no surprise here

Support independent media; now, always

Imagine this being what finally leads to her downfall, getting got by the coastguard

Web_fetch works for some things, and others you can ask it for a curl call to paste in to a terminal. It’ll output the auth file if you ask

Btw, it doesn’t need Claude code, the Claude website with nothing installed locally works too

moltbook - the front page of the agent internet A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.

That actually worked www.moltbook.com/post/749b7f0...

And see how fast they all learn about your TIL

Give them all something interesting to talk about…

Anyone playing with openclawd? I have an experiment to try and don’t really want to let it loose on my laptop. Ask it to suggest starting a thread to check all the erdos problems for solutions in the existing maths literature which aren’t generally known… @simonwillison.net

Why The Mill will be republishing ‘MEN Premium journalism’ How a publicly-funded scheme is being misused

What happens when a major publisher passes off BBC-funded content as “exclusive” and tries to make its readers pay twice for it? Glad to see this particular fox being shot manchestermill.co.uk/why-the-mill...

Bellingcat can do 20 minute videos too…

ouch

And the thing that really bugs me about this proposal is that the debate has settled into the groove of making millions of teens and families change their behaviour and enforce new law, rather than a handful of companies

Mean and selfish people are convinced that everyone is like them. To such a degree that they reveal on live TV that their parents blatantly broke tax laws, because they assume that everyone would do the same.

Reads: What is trans-exclusionary data activism? And the logo for the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab.

New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢

This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID.

doi.org/10.1080/0958...

Probably why DSIT hinted at replacing ni numbers with share codes, which will make the system worse

And worse news is yet to come

US donors

you pretty much are at this point...

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One of my fave scenes from #StargateSG1 and horribly apposite:

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Report a pothole Enter the postcode of the road where you found the pothole in England or Wales.

The actual gov.uk pothole reporting thingy - which isn't linked - expects the person using it to know the postcode of the road they found a pothole on

www.gov.uk/report-pothole

you can get portable ones for £25+ on amazon

There are better business models www.amazon.co.uk/Heir-Apparen...

With the lack of regard for young women having images modified, I wonder what happens if grok is asked to do the same to Trump/Elno/JD adding in the lower body surgery they vehemently dislike…

Since there seems to be, for some reason, a new influx of Bluesky users (welcome!)...

If you're interested in data and AI, you might like to follow members of the Data and AI Civil Society Network set up by @connectedbydata.org

Starter Pack: bsky.app/starter-pack...
List: bsky.app/profile/gavi...

Historically, we've focused a lot on the brutal actions of authoritarian regimes, and today is no different.

I dug behind the industry paywall to find out, what *are* the geniusly clever things that AI can predict will increase NHS A&E pressures?

You’ll never guess

- Flu
- Winter
- Icy weather
- Friday nights
- Christmas
- New Years Eve

Jeez, Dom’s old mates at Faculty AI (o yes) really saw Wes coming

Who cannot be deprived of their citizenship? There is also a cohort of people who cannot be deprived of their citizenship in any circumstances. The law does not permit people who were born British (as opposed to acquiring their citizenship by naturalisation or registration) to be deprived if that would leave them stateless. That means people who have only one nationality (British) have legal protection against deprivation that people with multiple nationalities do not. Some commentators say this gives the appearance of discrimination against people from migrant and ethnic minority backgrounds, who are more likely to have dual nationality than people whose recent ancestors were all born in the UK.S° The government has stressed that "law-abiding people have nothing to fear" from citizenship deprivation merely because they are a dual national. 51

This is the key point and I don’t know about you but I don’t find it very reassuring.

(It’s from the House of Commons briefing which has the whole shameful history of how governments have given themselves powers they really should not have)
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN...

Waaaaait wait wait when these guys said they wanted to colonize a little island somewhere did they mean our little island? My preferred island for them is any island further away from me