Janis Wong

St Bartholomew the Great with a framed chart

Last night's @alphaville.ft.com Art of the Chart in the very beautiful St Bartholomew the Great 💙

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Workers in the middle of an intersection clearing something underground at the Blackfriars intersection with Farringdon. Two cyclists stream past in a blur.

Night time in the City

14.02.2025 12:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Serena Williams!

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Panel speakers

Data trust experiment in art programme brochure

Curators talk about the exhibition

The Call exhibit

Wonderful evening yesterday at the Serpentine for the Choral Data Trust panel 🎵 Congratuations to Jen Ding, AWO & team - white paper on the project coming soon and see the exhibition while you can! Ends 2 Feb www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/hol...

15.01.2025 13:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Libraries thread!! 😍

15.01.2025 13:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We are doing some work @royalsociety.org on researcher access to social media data for use in analysing and combating disinformation.

If you are working in this space or have recommended reading / people to look up, please get in touch.

15.01.2025 09:58 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

Oh no, I don't send anything! Past and present as in even when I was in tech I was sent things 🙈

14.01.2025 23:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Lawyers do, both present and past (me and them)

14.01.2025 21:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Arrested by AI: Police ignore standards after facial recognition matches Confident in unproven facial recognition technology, sometimes investigators skip steps; at least eight Americans have been wrongfully arrested.

Brilliant reporting @washingtonpost.com on wrongful arrest facilitated by facial recognition. In 8 cases explored, police didn't check alibis in 6, relied on problematic witness statements in 6 & ignored suspect's physical characteristics in 3 (1 was pregnant) www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

13.01.2025 23:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Picks & Shovels: Marty Hench at the dawn of enshittification The standalone origin story of Marty "Red Team Blues" Hench (read by Wil Wheaton), a tale of weird PCs and tech's first enshittifiers

Cory Doctorow's new kickstarter campaign for his new book is live! Enjoyed the first Marty Hench novel and no better way to support DRM-free e-publishing 📖 www.kickstarter.com/projects/doc...

12.01.2025 17:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Adobe has officially jumped the shark. Their AI remove feature in lightroom just added a bitcoin to my gull bird in flight photo. A bitcoin!?!

Image 1 is the raw file.

Image 2 is the result of removing three circle highlights in the water.

Image 3 is a 100% crop. Bitcoin. WTAF.

#photographers

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Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.

Gravy train leaving a lot of residue behind, scroll through to find the link to the very, very long list of apps 🚂 www.wired.com/story/gravy-...

11.01.2025 16:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New

The coming battle between social media and the state

Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength

By me, in todays @financialtimes.com

www.ft.com/content/917c...

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Sad to see the (hopefully temporary!) end of @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social's fantastic digests for @connectedbydata.org 😢 A real treasure trove and brilliant effort to make sense of all things data policy 💚

10.01.2025 16:55 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

BAILII logo and the text 'Thank you! and 'Celebrating 24 Years of Free Online Access to the Law!'

Thank you to everyone who supported BAILII's December campaign and our efforts to provide free access to the law.

If you were unable to donate at this time, BAILII welcomes contributions at any time of the year: cafdonate.cafonline.org/24984#!/Dona...

Or, visit www.bailii.org/bailii/appea...

09.01.2025 15:04 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A wonderful evening yesterday celebrating Professor Hamed Haddadi for his inaugural, someone who truly embodies the values he reminded us about, of compassion, integrity and kindness 🧡

09.01.2025 18:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Getty Images and Shutterstock are merging into one stock photo powerhouse Stock photo megamerger.

Getty Images and Shutterstock are merging. Seeing as Shutterstock has an agreement with OpenAI, will this agreement have an effect on Getty's ongoing litigation against Stability AI?

08.01.2025 20:03 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0

I made a Cyberlaw one back in the day.

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You might just have to be bored Or: How to fix an attention span.

Time to be more bored in 2025! Great piece by Embedded on reclaiming your attention embedded.substack.com/p/you-might-...

06.01.2025 16:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it . Alt: a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it .

A map!!

05.01.2025 19:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Might also need to do this for pubs!

05.01.2025 17:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Bao Borough Taiwainese restaurant, one of the places suggested in An Opinionated Guide to London Food by David Paw, with pencil scribbles.

Not usually one for food books as they can get outdated quick, but picked up a copy of David Paw's London food guide to pencil in when I've been where and most importantly with who 🍴

04.01.2025 13:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Storygraph 2025 pages goal, set to 20,000 pages at 0% completion

New year, same me with a new @thestorygraph.com pages goal, and an attempted new profile!

I prefer spending more time offline than on these days, but do miss social media chattering. Let's give this a whirl 💫

03.01.2025 18:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0