Lindsay Clark

Lindsay Clark

@datadictum.bsky.social

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

I wrote one cybersecurity story yesterday because our reporter who covers that beat is on holiday. I don't plan to do any more so please stop sending emails about PHP please

Lindsay Clark
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Worth noting OpenAI encourage retail investors to get involved pre-IPO via some deal with the banks

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

Joined @stephruhle.bsky.social on MSNOW to talk about the AI bubble, its differences to the Dot-Com Bubble, and how if AI "doesn't work out" it's everyone's problem, with retail investors making up 20% of the market's volume and having over $4.65tn in direct exposure to AI stocks.

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Randy Au
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Refreshing change of pace of watching news of shitty things happening get briefly replaced with news of all the shitty php happening

Lindsay Clark
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Yay! our local MP

George Greenwood@georgegreenwood.bsky.social

A second Labour MP has been suspended from the party over concerns he tried to wind up his company without repaying a taxpayer-funded loan. Perran Moon is the third MP to be suspended over questions about their use of pandemic bounce back loans. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

thetimes.comSecond Labour MP suspended over bounceback loan questionsThere are concerns Perran Moon tried to wind up his company without repaying taxpayer funds
Lindsay Clark
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Remember that, as a proportion of GDP, Gordon Brown handed a lot less debt to the Conservatives than the Rishi Sunak handed to Labour. The Tories had Covid and Brexit, the latter their policy. Brown had the financial crisis.

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Lindsay Clark
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OH and the two sons are away this weekend and I’ve got a long list of DIY jobs to do. But I plan to watch a movie on Saturday night. Any suggestions? I was thinking sci-fi or horror but I’m at a loss. Was gonna go for Alex Garland’s Civil War but the reviews were mixed

Lindsay Clark
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I’ve got it down to mad max Furiosa for the spectacle and Heretic (Hugh Grant) for the spookiness. Outside chance of The Substance. Are any of these complete turkeys?

Lindsay Clark
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This is a project by my friend's father and it is absolutely wonderful

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Cable and camera: selfies in 1970s Handsworth

theguardian.comCable and camera: selfies in 1970s HandsworthNearly 50 years ago in inner-city Birmingham, photographers Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon set up an impromptu studio in the street and invited their neighbours along. With no camera phones in 1979, long cable releases gave participants the power to decide how they wished to be seen and represented. The project’s original aim was to counter negative media images of Handsworth and its people. Now, in collaboration with Dewi Lewis Publishing, a Kickstarter fund has been set up to bring them together in book form
Lindsay Clark
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IT IS OCTOBER

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

A severe drought has been declared for parts of England for the first time since 1995, pushing the government to step up emergency planning as reservoir levels sink far below seasonal norms.

bloom.bgSevere Drought Hits Parts of England for First Time Since 1995A severe drought has been declared for parts of England for the first time since 1995, pushing the government to step up emergency planning as reservoir levels sink far below seasonal norms.

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Michael Warburton
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Kubrick's ‘The Shining’ and ‘The Muppet Show’ were filming next door to each other at Elstree Studios, and that’s how Danny Lloyd got to visit and hang with Kermit in 1979.

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Chris Stokel-Walker
@stokel.bsky.social

The rumours around the supposed disappearance of Russian bots this week - linked to the Yandex outage - highlights how suspicious we all are of everything online. We see conspiracies everywhere when there aren't any. My latest for @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/voices/russi...

independent.co.ukIf only Russia’s online bots had actually disappearedI’d love to tell you that malignant bots trying to divide society are behind everything bad online – but I can’t, says Chris Stokel-Walker

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Nereide
@drnereide.bsky.social

In 2021, an international team produced a census of everything we know within 10 pc (about 33 light-years) from the Sun. 540 objects in 339 systems: stars, brown dwarfs, white dwarfs and exoplanets. Animation: galaxymap. org 🔭🧪⚛️ #cosmology #galactic

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sianushka.bsky.social
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It’s simply not possible to do this and do what their voters want - people will still arrive and if you aren’t processing applications (see the IMA) you still need to house people before you deport them so it would mean hotels or large scale sites www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukReform would suspend asylum system for parliamentary term if in governmentAll asylum applications would be rejected and existing ones voided, with all claimants marked for deportation.

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Luke McGee
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Two most important facts: 1) since Trump became President, attacks on Ukraine have grown substantially in volume and scale. 2) Since Trump became President the US has committed zero (yes, zero) new dollars to support Ukraine.

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Ray Newman
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That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.

Lindsay Clark
@datadictum.bsky.social

In July, I asked Gartner’s John Lovelock how the price crunch would hit the AI infrastructure building program. It’s "the big open question," he said. "But it's not being investigated well or answered incredibly well." www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...

theregister.comTech sector pours $1T into AI and sends customers the billHistory's biggest infrastructure build-out is pushing up hardware and software prices, analyst says
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

Yeesh. 👀 (Bloomberg) - The most likely long-term outcome of the AI boom will be massive capital destruction in the US, with market share going to cheaper open-source Chinese models, according to Jefferies Financial Group Inc. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...