Timandra Harkness
@TimandraHarknes
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Author @BigDataSizeBook & @TechintProblem Radio e.g. Five Knots https://t.co/fZyaIznyP0 Steelmanning https://t.co/N08sfLk77k live events https://t.co/Vf9ibC71yn etc.
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Joined September 2010
"Technology is not the problem - you are!" In which I explain the book's title at the @techintproblem launch event at the British Library. Full highlights video at https://t.co/xWjG9CzcPc
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Last weekend, live facial recognition (LFR) vans were rolled out in Surrey and Sussex for the first time. But they’ve been around in the UK for some time, and – the chances are – they’ve been scanning you. Read @TimandraHarknes to find out why👇 https://t.co/0wmVWlXGd3
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The end of anonymity in public? - me for @UnHerd on Live Facial Recognition technology and what we risk losing when our faces identify us everywhere:
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Live Facial Recognition technology - the end of privacy in public places? I wrote for @unherd on the quiet advance of LFR in the UK: https://t.co/yoMKlf0QUU
Over the past decade, live facial recognition (LFR) technology has crept into common usage, much as CCTV did in the Nineties. Read @TimandraHarknes on what this means for our civil liberties👇 https://t.co/0wmVWlXGd3
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Ah, they’re playing the Solidarity Song on @BBCRadio3 - as featured in @TechintProblem
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Who says crypto has to be complicated? Meet our cutest educators yet: Cross River kids! They're helping us explore crypto concepts with clarity, curiosity, and a lot of charm! Watch the video to learn from the experts!
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There are over 900 amendments to the terminally ill adults bill. We’ve been asked what we should make of that. Perhaps it’s a badly written bill ??
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Very good, rounded and well-grounded piece:
The Art of News: Many of the BBC's defenders this week seem to think the BBC is not biased enough. That's a dangerous proposition.
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Looks like the new Woolwich Leisure Centre has appointed a leader
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Replacing the monarchy with Paddington Bear would be a vote-winner.
“If you want to know who rules over you, just look for who you are not allowed to criticize.” So that's the BBC, the NHS and Paddington Bear, apparently.
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I refuse to believe this is real, because if it was true there is NO WAY this would not be a Hollywood film by now.
The Book Boat Women of the Mississippi 1904 In 1904, when river towns along the Mississippi had little access to schools or libraries, a small group of women brought knowledge to the water. They were known as the Book Boat Women educators, widows, and dreamers who turned old
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Woman of the Day Scottish teacher Mary Moffat, born in 1822 in South Africa, the first woman to cross the Kalahari (she did it twice while pregnant). Without her, we might never have heard of the bloke she married. In fact, the locals always referred to him as “Mary Moffat’s
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“So the salties, the guys in the oceans, they all laugh about the Great Lakes until they’re on them. And they stop laughing pretty quickly.” Fifty years ago today, the Edmund Fitzgerald went down with all hands lost.
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A massive freighter carrying thousands of tons of iron ore disappeared in Lake Superior, setting shipping on a new course
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That’s why I wrote this shortly before the BBC’s director of news and DG resigned
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The BBC has a young, progressive, workforce and an older management that has tried, often in vain of late, to maintain old standards of impartiality. Not only *can* these two things be true at the same time but this divide is central to the current crisis
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Spent the evening at the @coronettheatre watching Faustus In Africa! - distinctive performance with puppets, film, text and music. Recommended. Did I miss anything?
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In her place I would also have felt exasperation with the poor editorial standards applied to the script.
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Impartiality is important: good journalism is about giving readers/viewers a truthful account so they can make up their own minds what to think. In this case, the quoted scientist’s words had been changed (from ‘woman’ to ‘person’) altering their meaning. That alteration also
Martine Croxall broke rules over 'pregnant people' facial expression, BBC says
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…and Plato. Did he approve of birthday celebrations?
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Yeah but wait till we hear his Budget
🎆 Remember, Remember the 5th of November, well it may have taken some 420 years but Guy Fawkes now has a higher net-positivity score from Brits than any of the party leaders we tested, though a surprising number are 'neutral' on the man who tried to blow up the House of Lords
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