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Lindsay Clark

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Myopic biped. Reporter @theregister.com covering enterprise applications, databases and analytics. Also, a bit of science here and there. Many former lives.

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 10h
I know there is a lot of news going on right now and I have only the vaguest understanding of financial markets but I think the general concensus is this is really bad.
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Paul Watson 🌍 @paulmwatson.com · 12h
The AI-LLM has made shadow IT even harder to control, we're inunduated with scarelines about "rogue" agents "escaping containment", and then Microsoft says; Everyone is a Fabric developer now. 🤦🏼 www.theregister.com/applications...
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Redmond to millions of Power BI users: You’re Fabric app devs now
Software giant expands audience for agent coding of data apps by an order of magnitude
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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 18h
Someone seems to have stolen a large part of September. Give it back.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 20h
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Final point on this. There’s nothing new to HO wanting lower numbers and HMT wanting higher numbers. Was ever thus (eg May vs Osborne). What is more surprising is that Mahmood never gets asked about this and the relative silence of Govt ministers (other than Rayner) on positive side of immigration.
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This extraordinary image was created by reprocessing & merging 16 frames from Voyager 1's flyby of Jupiter in 1979. Just right of center, you can see the Great Red Spot, a huge storm system. ➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20062... Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/A. Tranchandon 🔭🧪⚛️ #histsci #planetsci
Voyager 1 view of Jupiter. Banded clouds wrap the planet in beige, cream & pale brown. Just right of center sits the Great Red Spot, an oval storm flushed orange-red. Lower left, the bright disk of Europa is visible. Upper right, a round dark patch marks Io’s shadow on the cloud tops.
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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It was nice to see Mr Brown appointed to a ministerial role after all of his hard work in politics.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/09/2026
Climate defiance are legends. Amazon are a fossil fuel company. Why are do they get climate week invites??
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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jim Henson was born on this day in 1936.
Edward Hopper's 'Nighthawks', but the man and woman at the counter of the diner are now Fozzie and Miss Piggy. The guy with his back to us is now Bert, but Bert is being operated by Frank Oz, who is crouched down in front of the counter. The waiter/server is now Jim Henson who is looking intently at Kermit, and Kermit, who is occupying half of Jim's right arm, is looking intently at Jim. The diner is now called "JIMMYS".
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
'Central Park Reservoir, Boy + Fence', circa 1954 Photographer Ruth Orkin.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
really hope this can be replicated across every single meta office around the world
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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As a matter of fact, I bought this fucking record some time around 1987, I think
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 23/09/2026
no it fuckin won’t
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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hoe vinden Meta-medewerkers hun eigen Meta-bril? (Samen met @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social)
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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Terminator Says 'Who, Me?'
ALT: Terminator Says 'Who, Me?'
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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
Equinox on 23rd September
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northbnd @northbnd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Woke to an inversion #pennines
View across fields to a cloud inversion in distant valleys.
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Tor Books @torbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
First one to guess the title based on the edges gets a copy — good luck 🫡💙
a hardcover book with blue sprayed edges is displayed
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Some people seem to think I'm referring to, I don't know, Coldplay's later works not hitting the same way, no, I mean this. This objectively sucks!
A chart showing GPD per head in the UK flatlining after the financial crisis.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 21/09/2026
Did he by any chance say we should believe him?
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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Not really surprised that Tom Watson has joined Palantir, given his previous role advising them and, as previously reported by me and @iainoverton.bsky.social in 2025, the fact that his firm, Lodestone, had them as a client in '24 bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s 24 years since the sheriff’s department in Coldwater, Michigan heard that Al-Qaeda was carrying out telemarketing fraud, and issued a statement warning people—only later discovering that their source was... perhaps not to be relied upon
Onion story: Al-Qaeda Allegedly Engaging In Telemarketing. It is illustrated with a photo of (apparently) Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden’s second in command, wearing a headset while sitting in a work cubicle. The story reads: WASHINGTON, DC—In a chilling development, the CIA announced Monday that it has acquired a videotape showing suspected al-Qaeda operatives engaging in what appears to be telemarketing. "This video, obtained from a credible third-party source, features grainy footage of a group of men strongly believed to be al-Qaeda members making phone solicitations for vacation-home rentals, long-distance phone service, magazine subscriptions, and a vast array of other products and services," CIA Director George Tenet said at a press conference. "Many of these calls have occurred, unthinkably, during the dinner hour." Added Tenet: "We had known about al-Qaeda's practice of raising money through drug trafficking and money laundering, but it seems the full scope of their depravity had barely been imagined." The video is not the only evidence of telemarketing activity within al-Qaeda. According to Tenet, CIA agents tracking the terrorist organization over the past 12 months made steady progress infiltrating its communications network, eventually gaining access to transmissions to and from al-Qaeda operatives. These transmissions included a number of telemarketing "cold calls" to randomly chosen U.S. citizens.
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The Register @theregister.com · 18/09/2026
KPMG tech cuts come with a severance sum some staff call insulting
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KPMG tech cuts come with a severance sum some staff call insulting
AI, Cyber, SAP and Testing teams caught in latest reshaping of Big Four consultancy's Advisory arm
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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I was looking for a job, and I found a job...
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 17/09/2026
This is extremely grim
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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mad dash to London and back to meet work colleagues. Some for the first time. Coming home tonight on the overnight train, probably a bit pissed
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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Cabinet Office ➡️ DSIT ➡️ DCMS: this is the journey of the Government Digital Service in little more than two years. It had also recently absorbed the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), which is where all the back-end action happens. Confused? Everyone is.
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 17/09/2026
The government has zero idea what to do with tech and GDS is collateral damage
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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Or a dark JG Ballard version
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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.theregister.com/saas/2026/09...
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Salesforce suffers global outage amid Dreamforce shindig
As thousands attend annual conference in San Francisco, customers get 'severe delays, intermittent errors, and inability to access services'
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bravery.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
File under: not good. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I arrange calls well in advance to ensure they fall at the most inconvenient times
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Paul Watson 🌍 @paulmwatson.com · 15/09/2026
We’d do better to take advice on the real benefits and risks of AI not from those who are making or selling it but from thoughtful commentators. www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
Coxon’s and Hubinger’s tweets “have gained huge coverage because these kinds of things always do”, says Kate Devlin, professor of AI and society at King’s College London. “It taps into our very primal fears – and our decades of watching dystopian sci-fi.” But Devlin adds, what’s “more mundane, but potentially very destructive, are AI agents let loose due to human carelessness or incompetence, hacking or taking control of insecure systems.” AI could do catastrophic damage if entrusted with things like nuclear arsenals or bioweapon design. But that doesn’t require superintelligence, just human stupidity.
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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 13/09/2026
I've been checking the source of quotes for my forthcoming book, and the performance of Gemini is extraordinary. I paste the quote into Google, and Gemini will barge in with the wrong answer over and over again. It's not an occasional thing - it's reliably wrong. Very odd.
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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
View from Hayle Beach to St Ives this morning
Open sandy beach, sea and blue skies with St Ives peninsula in the background
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Warwick Smith @warwicks1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Make a band edible; And You Shall Know us by the Trail of Bread
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John Lettice @vulturemedia.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Buns and Roses.
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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Make a band edible: The Justified Ancients of Muesli
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Everyone of a certain age has their own 9/11 story. Here's mine. www.zdnet.com/article/copi...
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Coping with September 11 2001 on the Internet - ZDNET
On September 11, 2001, I was already working with ZDNet. Here's a version of the story I filed that day on what was happening and how the Internet helped me, and millions of others cope with it.
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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.
A small machine, the front resembles a smiling face, and its back reflected in the mirror behind it resembles a horrified face.
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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Britain's technology brief is now everyone's job and nobody's responsibility
Whitehall has scattered science, AI, and digital government across a thicket of competing ministerial portfolios
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The Register @theregister.com · 10/09/2026
Ministers rejected NATS reimbursement plan before 2,000 UK flights were cancelled
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Ministers rejected NATS reimbursement plan before 2,000 UK flights were cancelled
Government orders independent review as carriers demand boss's resignation
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
JPM ups $META: “.. We have long believed that Meta is well-positioned to deliver consumer-driven AI products to its base of ~4B users .. Meta’s Muse AI agent has strong early traction, reaching as high as #3 in the US app store on its second day ..”
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 10/09/2026
www.theregister.com/public-secto... Public Sector procurement continues to be a deeply abstract exercise in linguistic philosophy.
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UK government says Fujitsu won't use framework places to chase new customers
Procurement officials promise to police the scandal-hit supplier's voluntary bidding moratorium
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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
When I see a headline like this, I always think of this www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...
screenshot of official video for hardcore classic Guns don't kill people rappers do by Goldie Lookin Chain
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Take a minute to really absorb the scale of what you're seeing. This is 'Cueva de los Cristales', the Cave of the Crystals, near the city of Naica in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The crystals are selenite, a type of gypsum. They formed over the last 1 million years. (📷: Javier Trueba, MSF)
A man stands in a cave filled with white crystals, many of them much taller and larger than he is.  The scale is hard to even understand.

CREDIT:  Javier Trueba

From the C&EN article I'm citing below:
"For millennia, conditions within the Cave of Crystals (290 m underground) were perfect for the growth of gypsum crystals, allowing them to grow to their massive size.  Credit: Javier Trueba/MSF/Science Source"
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