Sarah Clarke

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Data related governance, risk and compliance, plus some politics - purely personal views here

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in the center of this historic photo, lying face down & paralyzed by a bullet, is reagan’s press secretary james brady. he would die from that wound 33 years later—but in that time, he dedicated his life to fighting for gun control w/ the brady campaign. a redemption and a life worth remembering.

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The image on the cover of the Joy Division album "Unknown Pleasures" is from a plot that radio astronomer Harold Craft made for his PhD dissertation, using data collected at Arecibo while studying the pulsar discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born #OTD in 1943. As a Cambridge grad student in 1967, she discovered an entirely new type of celestial object: Pulsars! In 1974 the Nobel was given to her advisor; she was left off. 🧪 👩‍🔬 🔭 Photo: National Science & Media Museum

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EXCLUSIVE: The Information Commissioners Office has written to the Conservatives to remind them "of the need to comply with the law" after they sent out thousands of fake driving charge notices designed to trick voters into handing over their personal data bylinetimes.com/2024/07/12/c...

Conservative Party ‘Reminded of the Need to Comply with the Law’ After Sending Fake Sadiq Khan ‘Driving Charge’ Noticesbylinetimes.com Conservative Party Rebuked by Information Commissioner's Office Over Fake 'Driving Charge' Notices About Sadiq Khan

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Terrifying journalistic bullshit from @nypost, which posted an article claiming that the shooter was a “Chinese man” (thanks @paulayoo for grabbing), then replaced it with a version that the shooter was “identified only as a white male” shortly thereafter — WITHOUT flagging the correction.

I for one have about 17 different incredibly offensive ways to express what this lot can do with that attitude on behalf of all of our sisters, mothers, cousins, daughters, grandmothers etc etc etc

In case you would like to evaluate how accurate a paraphrase image 1 is, I give you image 2. I, for one, find the emphasis on working fathers to be fairly clear.

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it's important for outlets to explain that when we talk about AI "posing a threat to humanity," we're talking about the rushed implementation of half-cooked automation killing your grandma with an auto-rejection of her medicare claims, not sentient industrialized planet-scouring murderbots (for now)

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit allegesarstechnica.com For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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I spent my early research career studying human growth and implications for public health and my jaw dropped when I first started hearing about these height data coming out of the UK.

14 years of Tory rule gives us this utterly horrifying graph:

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This is an awesome discovery! The planet is tidally locked to its star, so the same side always faces the sun. That's why it'd have that 'eyeball' look--the sun's concentrated heat would melt the ice there that otherwise blankets the world.

YOU GUYS THEY FOUND AN EYEBALL PLANET

'Eyeball' planet spied by James Webb telescope might be habitablewww.livescience.com Located 50 light-years from Earth, the beady-eyed exoplanet LHS 1140 b could be a perfect candidate for discovering liquid water outside the solar system, new research suggests.

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So I want to talk about this from the perspective of someone who does professional fact checking as part of my work. For some years now I have been paid to check TV and written content themed around animals to make sure it is factually accurate. Chat GPT & AI has made that job so much harder.

Uhhhh… this is probably bad 😬😬

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Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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Everyone watching any Bond movie: this is utterly unrealistic, no one would stand there and say exactly how they were going to do some awful thing, the Incredibles even made a joke about monologuing. Everyone experiencing reality: Oh. Oh, I see.

Sorry for what? In detail

Rishi Sunak has officially stepped down as the UK's prime minister. Follow our live blog for updates: www.politico.eu/article/uk-e...

Seems it's also my Bluesky birthday today. Many stars aligning

One perspective on making your choice today. I know someone who won't vote. That breaks my heart. Many political animals tend to cynical pragmatism, but it does matter They couldn't find me on the voter roll for the locals. It started to dawn on me what not having my vote would feel like

It’s General Election day in UK. A couple of websites for anyone deciding if they should vote tactically or with their heart for change: 1) stopthetories.vote & 2) votecompass.uk

StopTheTories.Votestopthetories.vote Your vote is your power. Use it tactically to get the Tories out, then influence your new MP and the next government.

Interactive poll of polls showing a 20 point Labour lead as of Monday, plus Reform on 16%. Anecdotally my teen has seen Reform related posts flooding Instagram which conflicts directly with what she sees and hears in college. It was a rapid change

Greetings America … Here in Britain, your snaggle-toothed former overlords are having an election this week. Here's what you need to know 👇

An American’s guide to the 2024 UK electionwww.politico.eu We can’t give you a felon and an old guy on July 4 — but we do have a gambling scandal. And Nigel Farage.

Taking the selective quote apart. This is going to hit people who are or have been impacted by domestic violence, the same as many Trumpist narratives have 1/2

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US. Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare. The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it. Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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“ai” edtech company collapses after taking six million dollars from the Los Angeles school district to develop an “educational friend” platform.

A.I. ‘Friend’ for Public School Students Falls Flatwww.nytimes.com Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.

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53% of children followed from birth through age 15 experienced some form of (mostly temporary) housing insecurity. All children who experienced any level of - even temporary - housing insecurity had worse physical & mental health outcomes, with more housing instability correlating to worse health.

One of the things that sucks about actually being able to “do your own research” is how I’m constantly being shown the ways that my patients, people I care about, or in this case all American children, are suffering horribly from easily preventable problems that I am still unable to solve in any way

When little kids don’t have stable housing, it can affect their health laterwww.npr.org Researchers following a group of American children for decades found that even short periods of housing instability increased the chances of poor mental and physical health years later.

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Is this because Starmer has said he'll knock off at 6 on Fridays to spend time with his family? Good. He should. In fact, perhaps he should do that every day. We need a PM who's human and normal, not some kind of fucking sleep-is-for-wimps sociopath.

UK election latest: Conservatives repeat claims that Starmer will be ‘part-time prime minister’ https://www.ft.com/content/f8e58318-bc54-4442-9e41-c5480820a5ab

UK election latest: Conservatives repeat claims that Starmer will be ‘part-time prime minister’www.ft.com News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

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THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

I talk to a lot of US government types at the moment and over Chevron they sound like me trying to sound the alarm over the EU laws bonfire that Starmer still has to deal with, even if it's no longer the Northern Irish scale bonfire it started out as

The demise of Chevron is being widely interpreted as an expansion of judicial power. It is that, but it also and more profoundly an expansion of power of moneyed interests. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-money-...

The Money Coupdonmoynihan.substack.com What the fall of Chevron deference means for state capacity

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There's nothing normal about a 'business' that says its only asset, that it's been looking after for 30 years, is in decline & risk to public safety Privatisation has failed. Ownership in public interest may have its issues - shouldn't be as bad as this www.ft.com/content/a3a6...

Thames Water warns ageing assets pose ‘risk to public safety’www.ft.com Supplier to London and much of southern England says £19bn of assets are failing as Ofwat weighs approving hike in bills

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Government: make sure you don't fall for phishing scams from people doing fake HMRC letters. Conservatives: here's election material made to make you think it's an HMRC letter.

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Always happy to make this offer: if you are or you know someone who’d like to work in journalism and comes from a background underrepresented in the media, feel free to email me for a coffee at FT HQ/online chat: [email protected]. Please reskeet (or whatever it is we do here)

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Gotta love GOP hypocrisy. This MI lawmaker, who wants schools to teach the "Christian foundations" of the US got arrested at three in the morning while chasing a stripper down the street with a gun. Family values indeed! slate.com/news-and-pol...

A GOP Lawmaker Was Arrested After Chasing a Stripper With a Gun in the Middle of the Nightslate.com His defense belongs in the Crisis Response Hall of Fame.

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Exclusive report: a series of errors by HMRC let Paul Baxendale-Walker, probably the UK's most notorious tax avoider, escape a £14m penalty. He's threatening to prosecute me for harassment, sue me for libel and sue me for £500,000 if I report this. Here’s our report: taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/06/19/b...

HMRC errors let a notorious tax avoider escape a £14m penaltytaxpolicy.org.uk Paul Baxendale-Walker is probably the UK’s most notorious tax avoidance scheme promoter. He’s the former barrister and solicitor who helped create the “loan schemes” that cost the country £billions…

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Every since I read this ProPublica piece a few years ago, I use this "pretend we're talking about a guy named Bob" test all the time. (Here it's about antitrust, but it's useful everywhere.) www.propublica.org/article/yiel...

Massively underrated post. I co-sign this position. Absolutely knackered from talking folk off FUD ledges and shaving the shiny off feverish vendor pitches For me Recall was the nadir. A CEO fluffed but of holey data grabbing pluming pitched as the innovation second coming

That’s what AI was designed for. When it’s working correctly, that’s what it should be used for. Normal people aren’t complaining about AI because we think it’s the root of all evil, we just don’t like its implementation and lack of oversight.