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Toni Lassila

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
“A growing number of NHS staff are refusing to work on Palantir’s health data platform over ethical concerns about the controversial US tech company” Good www.ft.com/content/dbb6...
ft.com
NHS staff boycott Palantir’s data platform over ethical concerns
Controversial US tech group was awarded a £330mn contract in 2023 to collate hospital and patient information
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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This a great piece of investigative journalism. @rollingstone.com This should be required reading for scientists and ethicists. Ethics matter, especially in science. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
rollingstone.com
New Documents Reveal a Controversial Vaccine Study's Unusual Path to CDC Approval
A new investigation has found irregularities in the ethics review of a grant to study effects of a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau.
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Orius @orius.eurosky.social · 09/02/2026
These age verification initiatives is a privacy nightmare. Terrible policies hastily put out without a second thought to wider implications is endangering safety while offering no real protection in the way it is intended. This will drive people deeper into the darker pits of the net.
techcrunch.com
Discord to roll out age verification next month for full access to its platform | TechCrunch
All users will be put into a "teen-appropriate experience" by default unless they prove that they are adults.
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 13/01/2026
Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals. What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Figure 1 from a paper published in Nature (linked in post). The figure purports to be an infographic depiction of the "Overall working of the framework" for 'explainably' diagnosing autism spectrum disorder. The infographic is plainly nonsense, containing many spelling errors, nonsense words, meaningless images and graphs. Clearly created using generative AI and (crucially) NEVER CHECKED AT ANY STEP OF THE WRITING OR PUBLICATION PROCESS.
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Toni Lassila @wolftree.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Really cool that the Windows 11 news widget shows Charlie Kirk conspiracy headlines from IBTimes, an outfit run by members of "The Community" cult.
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The Other David Harper @theotherdavidh.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
A digital ID system already exists for foreign residents of the UK. It's called the eVisa, and it has major flaws. The Open Rights Group published a report a year ago, warning of a digital Windrush scandal: www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...
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Broken e-Visa scheme could lead to digital Windrush scandal
A new report by digital rights campaigners, Open Rights Group, has warned that the Government’s e-Visa scheme could lead to a digital Windrush scandal where people who have the right to be in the UK a...
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Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦 @d-macphee.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
“Antiscience has gone beyond U.S. borders to Europe, Australia, and Africa. Defeating it will require unprecedented commitment and international cooperation, not only between scientific organizations, but also their host governments.” 🧪 #Disinformation #AntiScience time.com/7317436/scie...
time.com
Antiscience Is an Existential Threat
The ideologically-motivated assault on science threatens us all.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
This is an urgent and important question from @adambienkov.bsky.social Again this summer, British citizens are being terrorised by the organised far right and the silence of mainstream media and our political leaders is astounding and dangerous bylinetimes.com/2025/08/20/w...
bylinetimes.com
Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain?
The silence of senior mainstream politicians and media organisations against the rise of a new well-organised far-right movement on Britain's streets is a disgrace, argues Adam Bienkov
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/06/2025
The EU is pushing a plan to give police "lawful access" to encrypted messages. But there’s no such thing—without breaking the encryption.
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The EU’s “Encryption Roadmap” Makes Everyone Less Safe
EFF has joined more than 80 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts in signing a letter urging the European Commission to change course on its recently announced “Technology ...
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Hi, sending people to El Salvador, if they're not from El Salvador, is not deportation. It's human trafficking, and this entire regime is complicit in crimes against humanity. I hope I live long enough to see them all stand trial with the whole world arrayed against them.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/04/2025
The Trump administration is committing crimes against humanity right before our eyes. They are disappearing people who are in this country legally and sending them to El Salvadoran prison camps to be tortured. Every official involved deserves nothing less than to be tried at The Hague.
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Toni Lassila @wolftree.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Watched Nuremberg (2000) last night for no particular reason. Highly recommended, great feel-good ending.
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Toni Lassila @wolftree.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
This garbage is what the BBC consider "US politics unspun". You understand more about US politics if you never pay attention to it than you do following the BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Trump 2.0: Confident, organised and still freewheeling
Donald Trump’s first week in office shows he has returned with a plan - and knows how to avoid some of the chaos of his first term.
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Toni Lassila @wolftree.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The US media discourse on "homeless people" is going to look very different for a couple of weeks.
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Toni Lassila @wolftree.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Holiday travel is the one time of year you get a chance to be groped by a bloke in a Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer costume.
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Toni Lassila @wolftree.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
People who "reply all" to an email telling people to stop replying all
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