Want to run a fake London estate agency and repeatedly scam people out of thousands of pounds through rental scams? The good news is that for £250 you can join all the official renters' protection schemes and do it with a UK government badge of approval! www.londoncentric.media/p/london-ren...

Fake estate agents are buying the government's seal of approval

London's scammers find a new tactic • "I felt sick... They’re doing everything except for actually having a flat." • What happens when the scammers get inside the systems?

londoncentric.media

Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...

Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless

Independent research identifies few learning gains

economist.com

X | Bluesky

1. What are these objects? 2. Are they supposed to be edible? 3. What exactly makes them Christmassy? So many questions

Easily the most thoughtful take on AI in education I’ve read

Carl Hendrick@carlhendrick.substack.com · 9mo ago

Are we approaching a Turing Test for Teaching? A deep dive into the evidence on AI tutoring. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-algori...

Encountered quite a convincing scam tonight. Nice Geordie lady called, apparently from my credit card company - flagging suspicious activity and asking me about transactions and logins that sounded off. Nice and detailed, professional tone. She read me the last 4 digits of my card number.

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky

Jukesie@jukes.ie · last yr.

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky

Big news this evening This EU ruling has been 7 years in the making www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis

EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and ...

iccl.ie

Chairing #whitehallgovsec again today. Stuart Frost observes that organisations’ lack of action on supply chain security means we’ve accepted the risk without even knowing anything about it

Lol

Get off social media and do more of this sort of thing. The world would be a better place if we did

Richard Wells@slipperyjack.bsky.social · last yr.

Spent the day following a walking hedge. Bristol Jack in the Green, innit..!

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR).

a close up of a woman wearing a necklace and a pink shirt smiling .

ALT: a close up of a woman wearing a necklace and a pink shirt smiling .

media.tenor.com

Jukesie@jukes.ie · last yr.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR).

By @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social

Mitigate this risk by not owning one

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · last yr.

A Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western AI tools with Russian propaganda: AI chatbots — including OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o, xAI’s Grok, Mistral’s le Chat, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, & Perplexity’s answer engine have been affected. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-fun...

Trying to solve the wrong problem can have really terrible consequences

steve the skeptic@policyskeptic.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out my latest article: Queues, not demand are the biggest problem in NHS A&E departments www.linkedin.com/pulse/queues...

Due to the layoffs I am afraid that we have had to take over the running of the US National Parks. We are updating the park regulations but for now the most important thing people can do before visiting a national park is to marinade themselves for 12 hours in olive oil, lime juice & garlic.

Let's not

Turns out that tech is geopolitics

I've absolutely had it with LinkedIn

More good things!

Good things 👇 Please now can we finally stop the 15 year old arguments about ID and data sharing www.gov.uk/government/p...

Fantastic

Alexander Martin@alexmartin.bsky.social · 2y ago

This might end up being one of the most significant and long-lasting consultations the British government ever runs.

Ouch

"Payouts by private companies will have to be reported to the government and could be blocked if they are made to sanctioned groups or foreign states. Reporting ransomware attacks will also be made mandatory if the proposals become law." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Ministers consider ban on all UK public bodies making ransomware payments

Prohibition would bring the NHS, schools and local councils into line with government departments

theguardian.com

Testing my new wheels by taking the double bass for a festive run round the block

A machine to cure cancer? Right.

That is a lot of limbs

Peter Labuza@labuzamovies.com · 2y ago

here's a Sora generated video of gymnastics

This is a disaster. And from the tech industry and its users, deafening silence.

Hannah Daly@hannahdaly.ie · 2y ago

Spoiler: the impacts are large.