Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 10hI 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. 020
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkPaul Watson 🌍 @paulmwatson.com · 12hThe 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...theregister.comRedmond to millions of Power BI users: You’re Fabric app devs nowSoftware giant expands audience for agent coding of data apps by an order of magnitude 231
Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 18hSomeone seems to have stolen a large part of September. Give it back. 010
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 20has a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind 952042703
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Final 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. 66321
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkNereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This 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 510944
Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It was nice to see Mr Brown appointed to a ministerial role after all of his hard work in politics. 010
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/09/2026Climate defiance are legends. Amazon are a fossil fuel company. Why are do they get climate week invites?? 9377112
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkCaptain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Jim Henson was born on this day in 1936. 513205552
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkDes @desdelboy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026'Central Park Reservoir, Boy + Fence', circa 1954 Photographer Ruth Orkin. 7878
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The 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. 10380522777
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026really hope this can be replicated across every single meta office around the world 4266101
Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As a matter of fact, I bought this fucking record some time around 1987, I think 010
Reposted by Lindsay Clark👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 23/09/2026no it fuckin won’t 3449449
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkRoel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hoe vinden Meta-medewerkers hun eigen Meta-bril? (Samen met @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social) 691929894
Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026static.klipy.comTerminator Says 'Who, Me?'ALT: Terminator Says 'Who, Me?' 020
Reposted by Lindsay Clarknorthbnd @northbnd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Woke to an inversion #pennines 0351
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkTor Books @torbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026First one to guess the title based on the edges gets a copy — good luck 🫡💙 10316
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Some 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! 1322144
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 21/09/2026Did he by any chance say we should believe him? 2933321
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkMax Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Not 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...theguardian.comFormer Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins PalantirPeer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan 44427
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It’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 419755
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkThe Register @theregister.com · 18/09/2026KPMG tech cuts come with a severance sum some staff call insultingtheregister.comKPMG tech cuts come with a severance sum some staff call insultingAI, Cyber, SAP and Testing teams caught in latest reshaping of Big Four consultancy's Advisory arm 021
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkTyler 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.”orlandosentinel.comDocs 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... 9555412154
Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Mad 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 250
Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Cabinet 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. 100
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkMark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 17/09/2026The government has zero idea what to do with tech and GDS is collateral damage 242
Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026www.theregister.com/saas/2026/09...theregister.comSalesforce suffers global outage amid Dreamforce shindigAs thousands attend annual conference in San Francisco, customers get 'severe delays, intermittent errors, and inability to access services' 010
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026File under: not good. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 611536
Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I arrange calls well in advance to ensure they fall at the most inconvenient times 010
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkPaul Watson 🌍 @paulmwatson.com · 15/09/2026We’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-... 001
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkTim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 13/09/2026I'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. 41498161
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkWarwick Smith @warwicks1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Make a band edible; And You Shall Know us by the Trail of Bread 021
Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Make a band edible: The Justified Ancients of Muesli 200
Reposted by Lindsay Clarksjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Everyone of a certain age has their own 9/11 story. Here's mine. www.zdnet.com/article/copi...zdnet.comCoping with September 11 2001 on the Internet - ZDNETOn 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. 022
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkJess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls. 2255421124
Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026www.theregister.com/public-secto...theregister.comBritain's technology brief is now everyone's job and nobody's responsibilityWhitehall has scattered science, AI, and digital government across a thicket of competing ministerial portfolios 030
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkThe Register @theregister.com · 10/09/2026Ministers rejected NATS reimbursement plan before 2,000 UK flights were cancelledtheregister.comMinisters rejected NATS reimbursement plan before 2,000 UK flights were cancelledGovernment orders independent review as carriers demand boss's resignation 002
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026JPM 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 ..” 158513
Reposted by Lindsay ClarkMark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 10/09/2026www.theregister.com/public-secto... Public Sector procurement continues to be a deeply abstract exercise in linguistic philosophy.theregister.comUK government says Fujitsu won't use framework places to chase new customersProcurement officials promise to police the scandal-hit supplier's voluntary bidding moratorium 121
Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026When I see a headline like this, I always think of this www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20... 010
Reposted by Lindsay Clarkc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Take 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) 13450107