This August under 16s can travel on local buses for FREE. 🚌 You can enjoy more days out together for less, whether it's to museums, theme parks or the cinema. We're giving families room to breathe from the cost of living squeeze. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Free bus travel for children in England starts today for an entire month

Children aged five to 15 can travel free on most local buses across England throughout August as part of the Government's Great British Summer Savings scheme, aimed at easing cost-of-living pressures ...

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Anthropic shredding millions of rare books should be a crime. It’s also a perfect encapsulation of what utter shit generative AI is and how it fundamentally makes the world worse.

Leeds residents don't want a Microsoft datacentre climatewithbrian.com/2026/07/21/o...

Outrage from Leeds residents as planning is approved for new Microsoft Datacentres

Proposed site Almost 7,000 people have now signed a petition against a Microsoft datacentre in Leeds.The petition states that ‘This proposed megasite, which has already been given conditional plann…

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www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Alarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firm

Doctors and MPs urge more scrutiny of £300m deal for company behind system used by most GPs in England

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I'm loving using @mattpocock.com's /teach command to learn music theory & ear-train! Learning bits of music theory for >40 years has left me with gaps, & books repeat what I already know. /teach targets the GAPS 🎯 github.com/mattpocock/s... (my setup: opencode / zed / GLM-5.2 / Ollama cloud)

Microsoft wants to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!

Microsoft want to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.

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I knew Iain and he *definitely* despised Musk! (Joliet Veppers in "Surface Detail" is a brutal caricature of Musk. Musk either skipped that Culture novel or didn't recognize himself ...)

pacharanero.github.io/recipes/brew... A long time ago I spent a bit of time figuring out a simple way to brew all-grain DIY beer with the minimum of equipment at home. I wrote a little pamphlet on how to do it, now finally I put it somewhere I can more easily share it, and in a better format.

Stats watchdog prescribes stronger caveats for NHS Palantir claims www.theregister.com/public-secto... @datadictum.bsky.social @theregister.com

Stats watchdog prescribes stronger caveats for NHS Palantir claims

Health service told to ensure ministers don't mistake before-and-after comparisons for cause and effect

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Unlike ordinary citizens in Nazi Germany, Americans will have no excuses. They cant say they didnt know. Everything is livestreamed.

Charles Keener@charleskeener.bsky.social · last mo.

The collapse of the USA will ultimately be a story of extreme greed & selfishness. A people that allowed capitalism to strip it of humanity & empathy. A people who failed to hold their leaders accountable in the face of such grotesque corruption & forgot when all else fails the buck stops with them.

Stats watchdog prescribes stronger caveats for NHS Palantir claims www.theregister.com/public-secto... @datadictum.bsky.social @theregister.com

Stats watchdog prescribes stronger caveats for NHS Palantir claims

Health service told to ensure ministers don't mistake before-and-after comparisons for cause and effect

theregister.com

SNOMED CT tools for the rest of us! `sct` is free, open source, and comprehensible by humans. openhealthhub.org/t/sct-change...

`sct` CHANGELOG and release announcements

Hi Open Health Hubbers, sct has moved quite quickly since I first posted about it, so I am starting this topic as a plain-English changelog. I will add a reply here whenever a new release has somethi...

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osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/nhs-eng... Worth a read. It is a sad testament to the culture at NHS England that they would deliberately mislead the public and the profession by claiming causal relationships between FDP and 'benefits' that may not exist.

SNOMED CT tools for the rest of us! `sct` is free, open source, and comprehensible by humans. openhealthhub.org/t/sct-change...

`sct` CHANGELOG and release announcements

Hi Open Health Hubbers, sct has moved quite quickly since I first posted about it, so I am starting this topic as a plain-English changelog. I will add a reply here whenever a new release has somethi...

openhealthhub.org

Medical Markdown lets clinicians write clinical notes as free text while producing structured data for safer, more usable records. I demonstrate the open-source project in the latest episode. #ClinicalInformatics #DigitalHealth https://youtu.be/bgVkNkyH7E8

Medical Markdown

Medical Markdown lets clinicians write clinical notes as free text while producing structured data for safer, more usable records. I demonstrate the open-source project in the latest episode. #ClinicalInformatics #DigitalHealth

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Medical Markdown lets clinicians write clinical notes as free text while producing structured data for safer, more usable records. I demonstrate the open-source project in the latest episode. #ClinicalInformatics #DigitalHealth https://youtu.be/bgVkNkyH7E8

Medical Markdown

Medical Markdown lets clinicians write clinical notes as free text while producing structured data for safer, more usable records. I demonstrate the open-source project in the latest episode. #ClinicalInformatics #DigitalHealth

youtu.be

#NHSEngland seem to think they can fluff the figures on #FDP adoption and nobody will notice. Vague notions like "Trust X are signed up for FDP" is not evidence of *benefit* from #FDP. But FDP comms, driven by politics not science, doesn't care www.medact.org/2026/resourc... @medact.bsky.social

Again, an excellent episode, & bolstered by: • @petergeoghegan.bsky.social - *always* worth listening to, & • a phrase taught to me by @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social: 'Sovereignty as a service', or, 'We will sell your nation's functionality back to you at a price that satisfies our shareholders'. 😑

Quiet Riot@quietriotpod.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW B-SIDE: THE PALANTIR FILES We are joined by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social to understand: 🩼The taxpayer value from the £330m contract 🇺🇸 Why we're so hooked on US tech 🌹 Can Burnham find an alternative platform? 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4c1x... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta trying to destroy whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, US senator says

Republican Josh Hawley accuses Mark Zuckerberg’s firm of relentlessly pursuing and attempting to bankrupt her

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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺@margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 4w ago

Next book to begin reading. I expect it will make me very, very angry.

Democracy is a system where everyone's voice should an impact. but is this really the care when when governments win huge majorities with only 34% of the votes? We believe that First Past the Post undermines democracy - do you? Tell us what you think: digitallibdems.typeform.com/fix-politics

My interview today on Sky News about our Green Party plans to end Rip off Britain. news.sky.com/video/burnha...

Burnham 'looks a lot like Keir Starmer with a different face', warns Polanski

Burnham will be taking over from Sir Keir Starmer as Labour leader today.

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We are living in challenging times—and EFF was purpose-built to fight for the future of your privacy and free expression. It's a future protected through openness, creativity, privacy, security, and fundamental rights. Support the mission when you donate today. eff.org/summer

EFF Summer Membership Drive

Let's cut through AI hype and fight for the people. Join EFF for the future of privacy & free expression.

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This is what is happening on the OUTSIDE of these holding facilities, in the public eye. Imagine what these employees are doing on the inside, and then abolish ICE.

If the Epstein (Zionist) class is above the law, nobody should obey the law. Eat the rich.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 6mo ago

From 1975 to 2023, $79 trillion in wealth was transferred from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

YOU CAN'T TELL ME NOT TO DRINK FROM THE BROAD STREET PUMP

Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fox host Brian Kilmeade dismissed the advice of the network’s own senior medical analyst, Dr. Marc Siegle, by saying there is “not a chance” he will wear a KN95 mask.

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

This is absolute gold and a must read. Bravo @gilesyb.bsky.social!

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 3y ago

Magic Spad Theory, the Axis of Anecdotes and the Pyramid of Indifference. Why has it taken me so long to discover this Policy 101 note from Giles Wilkes? www.civilservant.org.uk/library/Wilk...

What a graphic. @cnn.com $NVDA $TSLA $AEO