Nadine Dorries' DM column today, titled I kid you not 'I Googled my name, and learnt all about Big Tech!', is her proud account of her leadership on the Online Safety Bill. You want to laugh at it as a joke. But you can't, because it wasn't.

Autumnal Monday (or any day) listening in BBC Radio 3 Unclassified: on Tokyo’s Narita Express w/ Artificial Owl Recordings, Sufjan Stevens plays Neil Young, atmospheric GAIKA, hymnal James Heather, sunlight in 🎶 by Modern Nature / Jack Cooper, herbaceous @SimeonWalk750 🎧 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Hey BBC Radio 6 Music how about a track from Brian Eno’s superb The Ship (@dark_shark ) - I suggest I’m Set Free - esp as he is currently touring an orchestral version and I get to see it in London. #NP6Music Also, greetings, Tom - you were great in Cambridge!

As ever, @[email protected] speaks sense. Like spin speed on my washing machine, it seems the hype cycle has a ‘turbo button’ designed to remove the last bit of common sense from the debate.

I'm often struck by how little straightforward common sense is applied to AI policy. At a talk I did yesterday, someone asked 'which human rights' should be respected by AI developers, as if it's a pick and mix situation, when the obvious answer is 'all of them, all of the time'

Look at this thread. On basis of this made up figure plucked from self interest, the runner of this campaign is not only 1 of 100 ppl invited to the AI Safety Summit but also wasted time of the HL Enquiry into AI. Meanwhile real evidence backed, representative voices excluded.

Kay Burley should have made the apology.

'Privacy manager' with 112 'legitimate interest' toggles tucked away in a separate tab, all of which have to be turned off one by one. Absolutely fuck you, The TLS. And they wonder why people adblock.

Over in the day job, the @bbcrd Advisory Team has just published a really fascinating piece of research into tech trends, with the great title 'Things are not normal' h/t to Henry Cooke, the main author and cat juggler. bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-1…

Final tickets released at 10am this morning for the AI and Society Summit, an urgent gathering of civil society changemakers ahead of the AI Safety Summit. Come and help us write an alternative agenda for Bletchley Park aisocietyforum.net

Last few tickets for the AI and Society Forum on sale at 10am. This is what a tech conference should look like in 2023. Really looking forward to hosting all of these wonderful people on 31/10 and listening and learning. aisocietyforum.net

This is so much a sub-tweet/skeet/sky/thread: when the old white man with a reputation turns up late and hasn't even bothered to think about the brief but just wings it and ends up moaning about how it's not as good these days… it's annoying.

NepoAd: Did you know that the wonderful team at Cambridge Gin Lab do a 2hr 'molecular cocktail class, using equipment and techniques of molecular gastronomy? or that it's taught by my son Max? I've been - it's great fun book your place for this Friday.. cambridgedistillery.co.uk/pages/laborato…

TaylorLorenz.Substack.com Quick FYI - Marc Andreessen’s latest post about tech culture quotes approvingly the Futurist manifesto. It’s in section seven of the piece below. Section 9 and 10 call for celebrating war, militarism, and the destruction of museums, libraries and feminism.

Erin Grody Hi Erin, I just wanted to draw this to your attention. Marc’s most recent post quotes approvingly the Futurist Manifesto. One has to assume he read it before deciding to quote it.

🌟 Get up close with the visionary director Asif Kapadia at #CFF42 Sat, 21st Oct, as we screen his exhilarating documentary, Senna. 🎬🏎️

🎉 Join us as Asif receives the Cambridge Film Festival Outstanding Achievement Award and takes aprt in a lively Q&… instagr.am/p/CyYPqRoopVk/

🎬 Oct 19 is the grand opening of #CFF42 with the warm-hearted 'Typist Artist Pirate King'! We are thrilled to have Director @carolmorleyfilm , Producer @cairocannon, and Star #MonicaDolan for an exclusive Q&A. Book your seat for a true festival night… instagr.am/p/CyYV8AeI-4E/

Q: How can we build internet tech that is architected, designed and deployed to meet the requirements of public service orgs?

Bill Thompson emphasised that even though we may want good public service outcomes, we’re unclear what they would be online where there are many dift. actors.

The foul miasma over what is supposed to be the online public square is not the consequence of Elon Musk’s neglect. It is the inevitable result of his deliberate decisions. theneweuropean.co.uk/twitters-fake-…

Happy #AdaLovelaceDay to all my darling feminazi wokerati in science, tech, engineering and maths.
Particularly *high five* today to @suw, the force of nature behind ALD LIVE celebrations - looking forward to joining the party at Royal Institution (remotely) with Science Grrl later.