Jaana Pinnick
@datafinn.bsky.social
Data governance professional, digital decarbonisation. Music and dog-lover, knitter. Chair of the IRMS. Based in Nottingham, UK 🇫🇮🇬🇧🇪🇺
Autumn scenes from Derbyshire.
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Autumn scenes from Derbyshire.
The exhibition of Nottingham Victoria Railway Station runs from 31 May to 6 June and features about 150 photographs, along with maps, plans, artefacts from the station and the line which it served. The only remaining part of the station today is the clock tower at Victoria Shopping Centre.
Nottingham's 'lost giant' station recalled on 125th anniversary
An exhibition is being held to celebrate the opening of one of Nottingham greatest lost buildings.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The exhibition of Nottingham Victoria Railway Station runs from 31 May to 6 June and features about 150 photographs, along with maps, plans, artefacts from the station and the line which it served. The only remaining part of the station today is the clock tower at Victoria Shopping Centre.
Gone for big tech and AI hook, line and sinker, uncritically, or following future opportunities? Time will tell.
Minister accused of being too close to big tech after rise in meetings
Exclusive: Technology secretary Peter Kyle had 28 meetings with people in or close to tech sector in six months
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Gone for big tech and AI hook, line and sinker, uncritically, or following future opportunities? Time will tell.
A lovely spring walk at Skylark Nature Reserve spotting chaffinches, wrens and chiffchaffs.
March 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A lovely spring walk at Skylark Nature Reserve spotting chaffinches, wrens and chiffchaffs.
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Love this - I'm pretty sure that geologists will agree, yes? @seismatters.bsky.social
xkcd.com/3068/
xkcd.com/3068/
March 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Love this - I'm pretty sure that geologists will agree, yes? @seismatters.bsky.social
xkcd.com/3068/
xkcd.com/3068/
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We are now estimating carbon dioxide emissions from all vessels at sea! Learn more here: globalfishingwatch.org/article/mapp...
Mapping industrial vessel emissions at sea
Pilot study first to estimate the greenhouse gas emissions of all large industrial vessels operating in the ocean
globalfishingwatch.org
March 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
We are now estimating carbon dioxide emissions from all vessels at sea! Learn more here: globalfishingwatch.org/article/mapp...
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Brexit will reduce UK trade by 15% in the long term, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility
March 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Brexit will reduce UK trade by 15% in the long term, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility
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Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Not sea glass but fragments of plastic car tail lights, indicators and brake lights, probably washed into storm drains after heavy rain, eventually making their way to the sea. #oceanplastic
March 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Not sea glass but fragments of plastic car tail lights, indicators and brake lights, probably washed into storm drains after heavy rain, eventually making their way to the sea. #oceanplastic
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NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
March 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
The impact of #AI on creative industries if no restrictions are placed on what data is used to train the models.
“Artists release silent album in protest at AI copyright proposals”
“Artists release silent album in protest at AI copyright proposals”
Kate Bush and other artists protest AI copyright laws with silent album
Music stars including Kate Bush and Damon Albarn say law changes would damage people's livelihoods.
www.bbc.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The impact of #AI on creative industries if no restrictions are placed on what data is used to train the models.
“Artists release silent album in protest at AI copyright proposals”
“Artists release silent album in protest at AI copyright proposals”
Anthropocene and future fossils - what do you think will survive?
‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones
Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientists
www.theguardian.com
February 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Anthropocene and future fossils - what do you think will survive?
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The key drivers for this ongoing #sinkhole incident are still to be resolved…but we can perhaps suggest that this is an example of what happens when we don’t use, engineer, and/or map the Earth in the best possible way…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Godstone: Huge sinkhole swallows up more of Surrey street
A second sinkhole has appeared in the street, with a car teetering on the brink.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The key drivers for this ongoing #sinkhole incident are still to be resolved…but we can perhaps suggest that this is an example of what happens when we don’t use, engineer, and/or map the Earth in the best possible way…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“I’m working really carefully with the tech sector so that we can produce the reassurance they need, that there will be technical solutions to things like transparency and making sure that those remarkable people, who create remarkable pieces of art, are respected for it.”
But not paid for it?
But not paid for it?
UK copyright law consultation ‘fixed’ in favour of AI firms, peer says
Exclusive: Beeban Kidron says plans will lead to ‘wholesale’ transfer of wealth from creative industries to tech sector
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“I’m working really carefully with the tech sector so that we can produce the reassurance they need, that there will be technical solutions to things like transparency and making sure that those remarkable people, who create remarkable pieces of art, are respected for it.”
But not paid for it?
But not paid for it?
No AI tool is perfect, they are all designed by humans.
We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan
The AI app soared up the Apple charts and rocked US stocks, but the Chinese chatbot was reluctant to discuss sensitive questions about China and its government
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
No AI tool is perfect, they are all designed by humans.
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Climate psychologists are often the first to say: ‘information alone doesn't change green behavior’ ❌
Particularly where big cost/convenience barriers exist
But 85% of us report knowing little about how to be green 📉
🔁 Follow this 🧵 for 11 climate comms hacks ⬇️
My blog on this ➡️ bit.ly/3VdcFlO
Particularly where big cost/convenience barriers exist
But 85% of us report knowing little about how to be green 📉
🔁 Follow this 🧵 for 11 climate comms hacks ⬇️
My blog on this ➡️ bit.ly/3VdcFlO
December 1, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Climate psychologists are often the first to say: ‘information alone doesn't change green behavior’ ❌
Particularly where big cost/convenience barriers exist
But 85% of us report knowing little about how to be green 📉
🔁 Follow this 🧵 for 11 climate comms hacks ⬇️
My blog on this ➡️ bit.ly/3VdcFlO
Particularly where big cost/convenience barriers exist
But 85% of us report knowing little about how to be green 📉
🔁 Follow this 🧵 for 11 climate comms hacks ⬇️
My blog on this ➡️ bit.ly/3VdcFlO
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"We are leaping outside the normal operating space of our planet, and if scientists are to be believed, things will be getting pretty ugly pretty fast."
If you're like me and are paralyzed by the enormity right now, here's an idea on how to move forward:
slate.com/technology/2...
If you're like me and are paralyzed by the enormity right now, here's an idea on how to move forward:
slate.com/technology/2...
A Solution to One of the Biggest Issues of Our Time Has Been Right in Front of Us All Along
We have to start opting out.
slate.com
January 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"We are leaping outside the normal operating space of our planet, and if scientists are to be believed, things will be getting pretty ugly pretty fast."
If you're like me and are paralyzed by the enormity right now, here's an idea on how to move forward:
slate.com/technology/2...
If you're like me and are paralyzed by the enormity right now, here's an idea on how to move forward:
slate.com/technology/2...
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It’s also Elvis’s birthday today. Which means we get to post what are the second best Ampelmännchen in Germany - in Bad Nauheum, Hessen, where The King was stationed 1958-60.
January 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
It’s also Elvis’s birthday today. Which means we get to post what are the second best Ampelmännchen in Germany - in Bad Nauheum, Hessen, where The King was stationed 1958-60.
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Our Thursday afternoon selection is another stunning set of winter wonderland landscapes around Finland.
Photos shared on IG by huulari85, saaras. pics, sropponen, and hhhenriikka:
www.instagram.com/p/DEm8_B3sa2p/
Photos shared on IG by huulari85, saaras. pics, sropponen, and hhhenriikka:
www.instagram.com/p/DEm8_B3sa2p/
January 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Our Thursday afternoon selection is another stunning set of winter wonderland landscapes around Finland.
Photos shared on IG by huulari85, saaras. pics, sropponen, and hhhenriikka:
www.instagram.com/p/DEm8_B3sa2p/
Photos shared on IG by huulari85, saaras. pics, sropponen, and hhhenriikka:
www.instagram.com/p/DEm8_B3sa2p/
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This such nonsense. Computers are not people. And I think it’s dangerous to start talking about them as if they were.
‘Virtual employees’ could join workforce as soon as this year, OpenAI boss says
‘Virtual employees’ could join workforce as soon as this year, OpenAI boss says
Sam Altman says tools that carry out jobs anonymously, known as AI agents, could transform business output
Virtual employees could join workforces this year and transform how companies work, according to the chief executive of OpenAI.
The first…
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This such nonsense. Computers are not people. And I think it’s dangerous to start talking about them as if they were.
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Suella Braverman releases pictures of her trip to the wall between Italy & Turkey.
January 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Suella Braverman releases pictures of her trip to the wall between Italy & Turkey.
Merry Christmas to everyone! 🎄🎅🏻🎁💝
December 25, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Merry Christmas to everyone! 🎄🎅🏻🎁💝
Exciting #biodiversity: 172 new plants and fungi named by scientists at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew. Every year thousands of new species are found and named across the globe.
Toadstool with teeth and ghostly palm among plant and fungus finds of 2024
Scientists race to discover new species before destruction of natural world drives them to extinction
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2024 at 7:51 AM
Exciting #biodiversity: 172 new plants and fungi named by scientists at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew. Every year thousands of new species are found and named across the globe.