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UK folks, super important. Photo ID will be required to vote for the next election, but University IDs won't work, risking the silencing of young voices. Students can now get a suitable photo ID for FREE from @nusuk 👇Please RT nus.org.uk/photo-id
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No. Board structure/governance much discussed when Trust abolished - Tories wanted unitary board because “like private sector.” Wholly unsuitable for BBC but mine was a minority view. 1/2
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A supervisory board which is remote from day to day editorial and appointments but strategic and can act as conduit to political discussions much more appropriate .
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In other words, Netfix used #AdversarialInteroperability (AKA #CompetitiveCompatibility or #ComCom) to launch its business:
eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/ad…
Today, Netflix is on the vanguard of the war to
abolish adversarial interop. 56/
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They helped lead the charge to pervert @W3C web-#standards, creating a DRM video standard called #EME that made it a crime to build a full-featured browser without getting permission from media companies and restricting its functionality:
blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts… 57/
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If your furry, feathered or scaly friends find fireworks a bit distressing, we've got the perfect tonic.
Join Katie @Breathwick on Classic FM for music to calm your pets this New Year's Eve. 🎶
Classic FM's #PetClassics | 7-10pm on New Year's Eve | Listen on @GlobalPlayer.
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AI generated text here sounds exactly like SEO stuffing for landing pages. GOSH I WONDER WHY?
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Sorry to everyone being unceremoniously fired by Twitter. You helped make a remarkable platform, and you deserve better than this.
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Years ago, before verified accounts were a thing, back when I was on Eastenders, I was contacted multiple times by parents of children who had been “conversing” with me online. 11-15 year old children that had been talking with a fake me.
I was informed one of these children-
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Did you know about Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund? sovereigntechfund.de/en.html
It's finally doing something about the problem illustrated in this xkcd: so much of our digital infrastructure is reliant on open source tools that are only kept going through good will.
ALT xkcd cartoon showing stacks of bricks of various sizes balanced delicately on top of each other, labelled "All modern digital infrastructure". There is one small piece at the bottom that, if removed, would cause the whole stack to collapse. This brick is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003".
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How can you decide on a role or career without knowing what the day-to-day work looks like? I analysed what an average week in my role as a Principal UX Researcher looks like lisakoeman.nl/blog/calendar-…
ALT Overview of calendar week showing which activities relate to evaluative research, and which activities relate to generative research (a more of less 50/50 split)
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A long time ago, I promised to write a long review of the Arc browser by @browsercompany.
It's long overdue, but here's my take on Arc, and why you probably shouldn't be too excited about it.
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This language also does not imply end to end encryption. “Your data is your data” until we decide that it isn’t. #arcbrowser
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In a textbook case of "why What3Words is not fit for purpose", @russss figured out the actual address should be "keen.lifted.fired" instead of "keen.listed.fired" and someone clearly misheard over the phone
Tell me again how this What3Words is suitable for search-and-rescue
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Digital nomads have rejected the office and now want to replace the nation state. But there is a darker side to this quest for global freedom theconversation.com/digital-… via @ConversationUK
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We can also reveal text messages from Uber’s former CEO, Travis Kalanick. Urging staff to stage a protest in Paris with Uber drivers – despite warnings they might be attacked – he wrote: “violence guarantees success”. theguardian.com/news/2022/ju…
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We've been leaked a trove of more than 124,000 confidential files from the tech giant Uber. If you have the app on your phone, you might want to discover the methods that enabled its global expansion.... theguardian.com/news/2022/ju…
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We will soon be on the 4th Tory Prime Minister in 6 years. Maybe the problem isn't with who leads them.
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One interesting thing to notice about "data-driven" companies is which decisions don't need to be data driven. Who has the power to do that? What worldview might explain why some acts need justification while others don't? Why doesn't preserving the status quo need justification?
