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Bluesky is rolling out age verification as part of the Online Safety Act, which aims to reduce the risk of children seeing harmful content.
We’ve heard that blind and partially sighted folks are unable to verify their age because it’s inaccessible. Have you tried?
Bluesky is rolling out age verification as part of the Online Safety Act, which aims to reduce the risk of children seeing harmful content.
We’ve heard that blind and partially sighted folks are unable to verify their age because it’s inaccessible. Have you tried?
July 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
📣 We’d like to hear from you!
Bluesky is rolling out age verification as part of the Online Safety Act, which aims to reduce the risk of children seeing harmful content.
We’ve heard that blind and partially sighted folks are unable to verify their age because it’s inaccessible. Have you tried?
Bluesky is rolling out age verification as part of the Online Safety Act, which aims to reduce the risk of children seeing harmful content.
We’ve heard that blind and partially sighted folks are unable to verify their age because it’s inaccessible. Have you tried?
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Arsenal win the Champions League!
May 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Arsenal win the Champions League!
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If you used 23andMe, go delete your data. If anyone in your family used 23andMe PLEASE make sure they delete that data, because it's your DNA data too!
Reminder: 23andMe has declared bankruptcy and all of its assets will be sold, including any data about you. If you have data with them, delete that data, right now.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Column | Delete your DNA from 23andMe right now
The genetic information company declared bankruptcy on Sunday, and California’s attorney general has issued a privacy “consumer alert.”
www.washingtonpost.com
March 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If you used 23andMe, go delete your data. If anyone in your family used 23andMe PLEASE make sure they delete that data, because it's your DNA data too!
My favourite part of this pile on is when someone called Jack a tech bro 👩🏻🍳 😘
Stop treating ‘AGI’ as the north-star goal of AI research
"Instead:
(1) prioritize specificity in engineering and societal goals.
(2) center pluralism about multiple worthwhile approaches to multiple valuable goals.
(3) foster innovation through greater inclusion of disciplines and communities."
"Instead:
(1) prioritize specificity in engineering and societal goals.
(2) center pluralism about multiple worthwhile approaches to multiple valuable goals.
(3) foster innovation through greater inclusion of disciplines and communities."
With Christopher Graziul, @struthious.bsky.social, Hananel Hazan, El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi, @evijit.io, @kat-heller.bsky.social, Jacob Metcalf, Fabricio Murai, @eryk.bsky.social, Andrew Smart, Todd Snider, Mariame Tighanimine, @taliaringer.bsky.social, @mmitchell.bsky.social and Shiri Dori-Hacohen.
February 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
My favourite part of this pile on is when someone called Jack a tech bro 👩🏻🍳 😘
Super happy to get my @ukgovcamp.bsky.social ticket in my inbox this morning 💌
I’ve never been before!
I’ve never been before!
December 4, 2024 at 10:34 AM
Super happy to get my @ukgovcamp.bsky.social ticket in my inbox this morning 💌
I’ve never been before!
I’ve never been before!
So good to see this live, after working on the first pilot a little while back - happy to see the emphasis on cybersecurity being a whole organisation collaborative effort!
Congrats @bforben.uk & team ❤️
Congrats @bforben.uk & team ❤️
Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) for local government
Guidance for councils in England to assess their cyber resilience.
www.security.gov.uk
October 11, 2024 at 8:52 AM
So good to see this live, after working on the first pilot a little while back - happy to see the emphasis on cybersecurity being a whole organisation collaborative effort!
Congrats @bforben.uk & team ❤️
Congrats @bforben.uk & team ❤️
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NHS England are recruiting patient and public voice partners for the National LGBTQIA+ Sounding Board.
The Sounding Board is a group of approximately 20 people with lived experience of NHS services and being lesbian, gay, bi+, trans, intersex, asexual and other queer identities.
Closes: 30 October
The Sounding Board is a group of approximately 20 people with lived experience of NHS services and being lesbian, gay, bi+, trans, intersex, asexual and other queer identities.
Closes: 30 October
NHS England » Application information pack for patient and public voice partners of National LGBTQIA+ Sounding Board
www.england.nhs.uk
October 2, 2024 at 10:19 AM
NHS England are recruiting patient and public voice partners for the National LGBTQIA+ Sounding Board.
The Sounding Board is a group of approximately 20 people with lived experience of NHS services and being lesbian, gay, bi+, trans, intersex, asexual and other queer identities.
Closes: 30 October
The Sounding Board is a group of approximately 20 people with lived experience of NHS services and being lesbian, gay, bi+, trans, intersex, asexual and other queer identities.
Closes: 30 October
I enjoyed this from @jenitennison.com about how we shouldn’t view tackling digital exclusion solely as how can we get everyone doing everything online, but instead to understand the different values people find in different tasks and interactions.
connectedbydata.org/blog/2024/08...
connectedbydata.org/blog/2024/08...
AI Adoption
I posted recently about the challenge of adoption of AI by the public sector.
There are two sides to this: how the public sector adopts AI itself, and how the public adopts AI-driven public services.
connectedbydata.org
September 30, 2024 at 1:39 PM
I enjoyed this from @jenitennison.com about how we shouldn’t view tackling digital exclusion solely as how can we get everyone doing everything online, but instead to understand the different values people find in different tasks and interactions.
connectedbydata.org/blog/2024/08...
connectedbydata.org/blog/2024/08...