Academic Services Manager. CPD25 Task Group chair. Photographer. GenX 90s throwback…ellipsis lover…privacy advocate…and more. All views my own. (he/him)
Joined January 2023
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28 Jun 2023
Given encryption is going up the agenda again in the UK, a good time to re-up my article from 2016 on encryption technologies, digital inclusion and the role of library workers. journal.radicallibrarianship…
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21 Sep 2023
Train has had a makeover.
ALT Interior of a train: dark and light blue seats, black and blue striped carpet and black tables in the middle of a four seat formation.
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21 Sep 2023
Nice, but not as nice as having that area to myself in the morning.
No people plus Kid A in the ears makes for a very chilled start to the day.
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21 Sep 2023
(note: southeastern was renationalised a while back, so it is possible to have nice trains run by the state, who knew.)
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21 Sep 2023
“It is not enough to warn simply of what generative AI spits out, it is critical to understand how and why it has produced the information to answer our queries, not least in the context of efforts to embed decolonial methodologies across the academy.”
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19 Sep 2023
Let me be clear @thetimes @oliver_wright: #libraries are a statutory duty. Changes to services must be based on evidence of local need & impartial Equalities Impact Assesments. Financially-motivated closures will likely be subject to Judicial Review thetimes.co.uk/article/44b94…
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21 Sep 2023
RT @Abebab: questions that are simplistic, naive, and uninformative:
should big tech self-regulate?
can we debias data?
does AI pose an e…
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20 Sep 2023
Signal will never undermine our privacy promises & the encryption they rely on. Our position remains firm: we will continue to do whatever we can to ensure people in the UK can use Signal. But if the choice came down to being forced to build a backdoor, or leaving, we we'd leave.
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18 Sep 2023
Artifical Intelligence and Information Literacy: New Problems, Same Solutions? rawclarktexts.medium.com/art…
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Today we published our report on the Office for Students, the regulator of higher education in England. We found that the OfS must do better and that the sector faces a looming financial crisis. Read on to find out more 👇 [1/8] committees.parliament.uk/com…
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13 Sep 2023
These are concerning figures.
The NHS Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing Hubs have shown that psychologically-led mental health support for staff can play a crucial and cost-effective role in workforce retention.
But, urgent investment is needed to support staff.
#FundNHShubs
Around 1 in 3 UK medical students plans to leave the NHS within 2 years of graduating says BMJ. @DrLatifaPatel warns: “It is not too late to fix [this increasingly untenable situation], but the power to do so rests with the Government.” bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/…
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13 Sep 2023
TikTok revolutionising my PowerPoint game. Now there’s an algorithm that truly delivers…
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8 Sep 2023
Perhaps Arif Ahmed can have a word with the government about Prevent and the Investigatory Powers Act then...
8 Sep 2023
"Students must be able to explore views which others find offensive" telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09…
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8 Sep 2023
This is excellent guidance and a great template for further work to be done in the HE and library sector @ciliplgbtq @CILIPinfo
7 Sep 2023
News | Leicester experts are behind ground-breaking new guidance which will support museums, galleries, archives and heritage organisations to be more ambitious and confident in advancing trans inclusion. 🏳️⚧️
👉le.ac.uk/news/2023/september…
#CitizensOfChange | @LeicsMusStud
ALT View from behind of two people bending over to examine a display case in an exhibition.
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The Campaign's director Maurice Frankel is speaking at a half day in-person FOI workshop at the Central Library in Cambridge on September
19, 13:00 to 16:30 Book a free place buff.ly/3r5ovCt #supportCFOI
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7 Sep 2023
Being a bit of a Naomi Klein fanboy, looking forward to her latest book...
🧵 Leftist author and climate activist @NaomiAKlein got confused with far-out Covid truther Naomi Wolf so often, it almost broke her sense of self. To find it again, she wrote a whole book about losing touch with reality. wired.trib.al/UHklN3k 1/5
📷: Kamil Bialous
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6 Sep 2023
Actually your report says: ‘Officials have now privately acknowledged to tech firms that there is no current technology able to scan end-to-end encrypted messages that would not also undermine users’ privacy.’ So the tech does exist but it’s flawed? Or it doesn’t exist at all?
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6 Sep 2023
Security and privacy experts were saying for ages that "accredited technology" didn't describe anything that exists today.
I don't think this should be of much reassurance to @signalapp and @WhatsApp.
6 Sep 2023
Exclusive: the government has conceded that technology to scan encrypted messages does not currently exist and powers in the online safety bill could not be used until “technically feasible” w/@AnnaSophieGross on.ft.com/486YC67
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6 Sep 2023
Exclusive: the government has conceded that technology to scan encrypted messages does not currently exist and powers in the online safety bill could not be used until “technically feasible” w/@AnnaSophieGross on.ft.com/486YC67
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5 Sep 2023
If you go to chrome://settings/adPrivacy you can turn off the spyware that got inserted into the latest version of Chrome.
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