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8 Oct 2019
What is Big Data? And why should you care?
My 5 minute answer for @guardian
theguardian.com/science/vide…
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Timandra Harkness retweeted
31 May 2024
Obviously a LOT about microtargeted political campaigns in @TechintProblem - much of it about why the problems of personalised politics go back long before the internet.
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Timandra Harkness retweeted
31 May 2024
Delighted that the Conservative use of microtargeted campaigning in 2015 got a mention - I wrote about that in @BigDataSizeBook before it was fashionable to care (I.e. before Trump/Brexit votes). Paperback edition got a new chapter with lots on digital politics!
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Timandra Harkness retweeted
27 May 2024
Love this photo by @paul_clarke of @tiffanyjenkins and me at the launch of @TechintProblem.
Caption competition?
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Timandra Harkness retweeted
25 May 2024
I asked my daughter what she thought about this exchange (not mine). She solemnly warned that it was probably a scam. She has a nose for this kind of thing.
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Timandra Harkness retweeted
23 May 2024
Please read it before doing any stories about how technology is changing politics:
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Timandra Harkness retweeted
23 May 2024
Again, if you're interested in how technology affects political campaigning:
1) read @TechintProblem (especially chapter 3)
2) follow these guys⤵️
23 May 2024
Trying to work out if the algorithm that assigns volunteers to seats is more refined than "target seats less than 100 miles away"...
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Timandra Harkness retweeted
23 May 2024
on publication day, read this edited extract in @Quillette on the digital mirror of Narcissus:
23 May 2024
"The problem is not technology, but our own obsession with how others see us, and our insatiable need to be reassured that we are the person we want others to see."
@TimandraHarknes for @Quillette
quillette.com/2024/05/23/the…
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26 May 2024
My younger sibling going cheap this weekend!
25 May 2024
You can get @TechintProblem with 40% off this weekend via this link - use code BANKHOL40 at checkout harpercollins.co.uk/products…
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26 May 2024
now yesterday's event - but may still be copies in the @hayfestival bookshop
25 May 2024
Both @BigDataSizeBook & @TechintProblem on sale at @hayfestival - I will happily sign both after today’s event
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19 Apr 2024
My baby sibling is due on May 23rd!
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Timandra Harkness retweeted
23 Nov 2023
I am reconsidering my opinion that LLMs know nothing and could never convincingly impersonate a human being.
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Timandra Harkness retweeted
27 Nov 2023
Congratulations to our Director @carlykind_ on her appointment as the new Australian Privacy Commissioner. We wish her the very best in her new role.
We are now looking for a dynamic, forward-thinking and inclusive leader to become our next Director⬇️
adalovelaceinstitute.org/job…
27 Nov 2023
Delighted to share that I've been appointed as the new Australian Privacy Commissioner. I'll be farewelling London for a while and relocating to Sydney to take up the role in February 2024.
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Timandra Harkness retweeted
29 Nov 2023
glorious
28 Nov 2023
🧵 Enjoying the trend of AI-generated Lego for cyber stuff 😃
First up - The Good Guys
h/t @snyff
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Timandra Harkness retweeted
9 Feb 2023
Ted Chiang has the best way to think about ChatGPT: newyorker.com/tech/annals-of…
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Timandra Harkness retweeted
25 Nov 2023
Do you have a data fanatic in the family? Buy them a personal subscription to Significance this Christmas: ow.ly/zC0R50QaXv6
#statistics #data
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Timandra Harkness retweeted
1 Dec 2023
This week I have mainly been getting inside the life of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (the company that gave us ChatGPT).
Listen from 7pm Saturday on @BBCRadio4 or @BBCSounds
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001t2t…
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Timandra Harkness retweeted
4 Dec 2023
and this, my children, is why I don't do consumer DNA tests. Once your genetic data is out there, it's out there. You can't pull it back. And remember, if you do a DNA test, you're also uploading at least some of your family members' DNA too. techcrunch.com/2023/12/04/23…
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Timandra Harkness retweeted
5 Dec 2023
“We all share the same values, the real question is about the best means to achieve them” is the ultimate technocratic power move. It’s deeply undemocratic because it puts out of contestation the key judgment about values and their prioritisation.
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Timandra Harkness retweeted
5 Dec 2023
New age check guidance published today by @Ofcom for consultation: ‘Implementing the #OnlineSafetyAct : Protecting children from online #pornography’ #OnlineSafety #OnlineHarms #eSafety #OSA2023 #OnlineSafetyAct2023 #AgeAssurance #ChildSafeguarding ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/202…
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