Wes Streeting wants us to trust him on Palantir. But how can you trust a man who suggests GPs can ignore their legal duties to patients?
https://goodlaw.social/1i14
ah... the ackitsthattimeagain festival has anno. dates for tickets...
<all the geeks/hackers set alarms>
This letter signed by 371 (so far) security and privacy academics from around the world is great www.politico.eu/article/age-... They call for a moratorium on deployment plans until scientific consensus settles.
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
🧵 1/4
(i think that its also interesting how the more academic survey'ing sites have absolutely not even offered up this sort of thing, so everyone doing this is going for volume responses with a very clear aim, and doing it in the screening out of the informed response way, alongside the steering lang.)
and whilst i mostly do digital turk stuff for money, i also find that getting to keep an eye on this sort of thing, um, 'interesting' from a policy-wonk pov.
some of the surveys are flagged as being data collection for ukhmg departments, others meta or similar, and then there's the third chunk who are more clearly shielded from identity behind the market research agency/platform. All of them do the screening out on 'wrong' / 'incompatible to aim' answers
further to this, another similar post from a fortnight ago, from me: bsky.app/profile/litt...
interesting. there's been A Lot of things on the market research sites in the past 10 days, but as soon as you provide any sort of 'no AI training use of my material as a pupil' or 'no immediate ban for under 16's' type answers, you get screened out...
plural of the whole, treating as a single word/title, not as sep. ones. So will be BoneyM's
i suppose i now know to also avoid Up for the time being...
possibly pass. ag. but yesterday i could just pay for a thing (within my means to/o) to avoid asking a potentially distressing question of someone, so i did.
and then ds2 mainlined the toy story soundtracks this morning and i feel guilty for taking the easy way to the info.
argh.
blagh stuff today, much cheered by shiny FTTP internet connection happening, and finding a Nina Allen book on a bookshop clearance shelf.
ok. now underway. had to head off a 'across the garden wildly' (there's a straight route already there, but it was being ignored) digging session, but otherwise... see you on the other side!
and still not here, and the internet/phone is about to go off (cos the port is set for today, and it happens at any point from 10am onwards) and the number that is being switched off... is the number that they would call on if they were to attempt to call and say 'hey there's a problem' etc.
they've been sending me emails for a month reminding me of the appt. date/time and in the last week Every Day... but on the day of, so far? nada!
for an appt. that was supposed to be at 8am, gone 9am and still not here seems sub-optimal (and no, no way to chase them up, at least not easily, as its a sub contract situation... gah.)
0-0 that's almost 2/3rds of what they advertised that role at 15 years ago!
I have (temporarily) run away to a bookshop that does coffee, because I am flailing in still-unemployable and doing digital turk things has finally got to me do the week even though it is only Tuesday. I found a EF benson book in the clearance bin for a quid, so now I’m imagining a trip (back) south
Some enterprising nerd needs to find some intersection of protocols or piece of code that only "smart glasses" depend on, and develop a piece of tech that fucks them up good.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
argh. may today be less ghastly. and etc...
(but also, its been the case for A Long Time that the 'HV' that visits, isn't a health visitor at all. usually (if we're lucky) they've got nursery nursing qualifications, but they're a non-registered support staff (or equiv. title). which adds further to the access to vax. issues!)
yes. we could also have HVs that visit at job-friendly times? especially shift work!!
(yes, its written to a well worn/taught formula, but even then its... got a whiff of 'something'... i mean, its Too True to the formula, like a cut and paste job that could be applied to almost any topic, and has a 'call to action' baked right in. and a link. oh, and now i look... genAI artwork too?
reading a post on a lit soc fb group, and all my 'AI' spidy-sensors are going. that its from a 'page' rather than posted by an individual just makes me more suspicious of it, not less...
tl:dr i aint biting. even if this is probably 'biting'.
and yes. i turned replies and quote posts off.
(this will wander away to a locked thing shortly. but first i make a note of the 'return to form' being almost instant the moment any sort of actual communication is attempted)
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
oh indeed. but to usher in/support a new small business, do they need to? Doula' is more about being with someone in the process, than signposing. So they'd help someone using those or developing those systems with the other knowledge they'd need to put their specialist knowledge out there.
as a noun, its a cry or cheer or salute.
(makes me think of an interstella echo, sort of thing.)
