Gareth Cooper
@strangecolours.bsky.social
Earth, Technoethics, Mental Health, Urban Communities • 🇪🇺🇺🇦 • GCU (eccentric)
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December 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Quite the chart. www.ft.com/content/30a4...
December 20, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Quite the chart. www.ft.com/content/30a4...
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The titans of artificial intelligence have fired the first shot in a regulatory battle poised to dominate the 2026 midterms, and the industry’s prospects for victory are already looking good.
AI Billionaires' 2026 Intimidation Campaign Is Already Working
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The titans of artificial intelligence have fired the first shot in a regulatory battle poised to dominate the 2026 midterms, and the industry’s prospects for victory are already looking good.
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“Parking in the garage means agreeing to the company’s terms and conditions, which includes collecting license plate data and, its privacy policy states, possibly biometric data, from its users.”
Two of the city's largest parking garages are now using artificial intelligence to recognize your car
The city and the new operator, Metropolis, promise a smooth experience from the technology, but customers in other cities have filed class-action lawsuits over the system.
www.cvilletomorrow.org
December 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
“Parking in the garage means agreeing to the company’s terms and conditions, which includes collecting license plate data and, its privacy policy states, possibly biometric data, from its users.”
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In the last decade, Britain's nine-million-strong nighttime workforce has become increasingly reliant on migrants like Leandro Cristovao from Angola, who has worked at a south London market for seven years.
u.afp.com/S8iA
u.afp.com/S8iA
December 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
In the last decade, Britain's nine-million-strong nighttime workforce has become increasingly reliant on migrants like Leandro Cristovao from Angola, who has worked at a south London market for seven years.
u.afp.com/S8iA
u.afp.com/S8iA
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Jeffrey Epstein & David Walliams leading all the bulletins but Kemi Badenoch knows that only men from ‘different cultures’ pose a threat to women.
December 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Jeffrey Epstein & David Walliams leading all the bulletins but Kemi Badenoch knows that only men from ‘different cultures’ pose a threat to women.
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🚨🚨 Russia is trying to "bully, fearmonger & manipulate" the UK & its allies with attacks under the threshold of all-out war, says head of MI6.
"This is not a temporary state or a gradual evolution. Our world is being actively remade with profound implications for national & international security."
"This is not a temporary state or a gradual evolution. Our world is being actively remade with profound implications for national & international security."
December 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🚨🚨 Russia is trying to "bully, fearmonger & manipulate" the UK & its allies with attacks under the threshold of all-out war, says head of MI6.
"This is not a temporary state or a gradual evolution. Our world is being actively remade with profound implications for national & international security."
"This is not a temporary state or a gradual evolution. Our world is being actively remade with profound implications for national & international security."
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This is a good time to talk about the TRUE genetics revolution brought in by sequencing the human genome:
The genetic underpinning of traits is not simple, will never be simple. Complex gene-gene interactions are the rule, not the exception 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The genetic underpinning of traits is not simple, will never be simple. Complex gene-gene interactions are the rule, not the exception 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Biobanks reveal genetic complexity in human evolution
Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.
www.nature.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This is a good time to talk about the TRUE genetics revolution brought in by sequencing the human genome:
The genetic underpinning of traits is not simple, will never be simple. Complex gene-gene interactions are the rule, not the exception 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The genetic underpinning of traits is not simple, will never be simple. Complex gene-gene interactions are the rule, not the exception 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Large language models like ChatGPT have hardly stopped hitting the headlines over the past couple of years.
But one topic that hasn’t received enough attention is what impact they have on our privacy.
But one topic that hasn’t received enough attention is what impact they have on our privacy.
Large language models and data protection
IntroductionThe emergence of large language models (LLMs) in late 2022 has changed people’s understanding of, and interaction with, artificial intelligence (AI).
privacyinternational.org
December 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Large language models like ChatGPT have hardly stopped hitting the headlines over the past couple of years.
But one topic that hasn’t received enough attention is what impact they have on our privacy.
But one topic that hasn’t received enough attention is what impact they have on our privacy.
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Academics now need a section of their cv for heavily cited papers by them that they did not actually write.
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Academics now need a section of their cv for heavily cited papers by them that they did not actually write.
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We previously examined metadata revealing that nearly three minutes of footage were cut from what the DOJ and FBI described as the “full raw” surveillance video from the only functioning camera near Epstein’s cell the night before he died. www.wired.com/story/the-fb...
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
www.wired.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
We previously examined metadata revealing that nearly three minutes of footage were cut from what the DOJ and FBI described as the “full raw” surveillance video from the only functioning camera near Epstein’s cell the night before he died. www.wired.com/story/the-fb...
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Yo @safety.bsky.app are you all just deleting every single account from Gaza on sight? Because this person hadn’t even heard of Bluesky when I started talking to her- made an account yesterday and made ONE POST. She’s a published journalist by the way.
December 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Yo @safety.bsky.app are you all just deleting every single account from Gaza on sight? Because this person hadn’t even heard of Bluesky when I started talking to her- made an account yesterday and made ONE POST. She’s a published journalist by the way.
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🔴Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit?
Keir Starmer’s decision to exclude Russian interference in the EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in UK elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/r...
Keir Starmer’s decision to exclude Russian interference in the EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in UK elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/r...
Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit?
Keir Starmer's decision to exclude Russian interference in the 2016 EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in our elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
🔴Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit?
Keir Starmer’s decision to exclude Russian interference in the EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in UK elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/r...
Keir Starmer’s decision to exclude Russian interference in the EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in UK elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/r...
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CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Year
theonion.com/cia-realizes...
theonion.com/cia-realizes...
December 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Year
theonion.com/cia-realizes...
theonion.com/cia-realizes...
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💔🕸 This video shows how war is changing: you can now measure the intensity of fighting not by ruins, but by the number of fiber-optic lines.
Recon pilots of the 63rd brigade show Lyman, Donetsk Oblast slowly wrapped in this “spider web” of drones.
📹 63ombr/Instagram
Recon pilots of the 63rd brigade show Lyman, Donetsk Oblast slowly wrapped in this “spider web” of drones.
📹 63ombr/Instagram
December 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
💔🕸 This video shows how war is changing: you can now measure the intensity of fighting not by ruins, but by the number of fiber-optic lines.
Recon pilots of the 63rd brigade show Lyman, Donetsk Oblast slowly wrapped in this “spider web” of drones.
📹 63ombr/Instagram
Recon pilots of the 63rd brigade show Lyman, Donetsk Oblast slowly wrapped in this “spider web” of drones.
📹 63ombr/Instagram
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Cars are now being programmed to violate traffic rules. What could go wrong?
Me, in @fastcompany.com. (no paywall)
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Me, in @fastcompany.com. (no paywall)
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Tesla’s ‘Mad Max mode’ points to a big problem for self-driving cars
Mad Max mode exposes a risk for AV innovation. To stay competitive, computer-powered cars are emulating human drivers.
www.fastcompany.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Cars are now being programmed to violate traffic rules. What could go wrong?
Me, in @fastcompany.com. (no paywall)
🧵
Me, in @fastcompany.com. (no paywall)
🧵
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Since the European public is largely unaware of what #EUCO Council is (despite it being the most powerful EU institution), helpful to remind that it had an EPP majority for decades.
But now with the entry of the far right, that right-wing majority is shared with Meloni & Orban.
But now with the entry of the far right, that right-wing majority is shared with Meloni & Orban.
December 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Since the European public is largely unaware of what #EUCO Council is (despite it being the most powerful EU institution), helpful to remind that it had an EPP majority for decades.
But now with the entry of the far right, that right-wing majority is shared with Meloni & Orban.
But now with the entry of the far right, that right-wing majority is shared with Meloni & Orban.
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A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas.
Be a love, and pay it today.
Be a love, and pay it today.
December 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas.
Be a love, and pay it today.
Be a love, and pay it today.
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"Counterintelligence specialists were asked to drop nearly all of their other work to process the Epstein documents, two people said, but some lawyers declined to participate."
www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/p...
Exclusive: Frustration mounts at Justice Department as it races to redact some Epstein files, sources say | CNN Politics
Frustration is mounting inside the Justice Department as it races to redact thousands of pages of files related to Jeffrey Epstein before they must be released Friday, multiple sources familiar with t...
www.cnn.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
"Counterintelligence specialists were asked to drop nearly all of their other work to process the Epstein documents, two people said, but some lawyers declined to participate."
www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/p...
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Divergent projections of future African biome shifts with process-based and species distribution models vist.ly/4j5k3 #SDM #Biomes #ClimateChange
December 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Divergent projections of future African biome shifts with process-based and species distribution models vist.ly/4j5k3 #SDM #Biomes #ClimateChange
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UK regulator Ofcom refuses to say whether any of the Online Safety Act fines have been paid so far www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...
I think we can guess the answer to that really
#FOI #censorship #openweb #techpolicy
I think we can guess the answer to that really
#FOI #censorship #openweb #techpolicy
December 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM
UK regulator Ofcom refuses to say whether any of the Online Safety Act fines have been paid so far www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...
I think we can guess the answer to that really
#FOI #censorship #openweb #techpolicy
I think we can guess the answer to that really
#FOI #censorship #openweb #techpolicy
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Am reminded of a gruesome passage in Gulliver's Travels in which a doctor attempts to cure a dog of colic by inflating the animal with bellows, applied to its backside.
And when the dog dies, he tries again.
And when the dog dies, he tries again.
December 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Am reminded of a gruesome passage in Gulliver's Travels in which a doctor attempts to cure a dog of colic by inflating the animal with bellows, applied to its backside.
And when the dog dies, he tries again.
And when the dog dies, he tries again.