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UK AI medical transcription is dangerous and doesn’t work
but it sure saves on staff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKx4y9sC008&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260903-uk-ai-medical-transcription-is-dangerous-and-doesnt-work - podcast
time: 5 min 17 sec
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/03/uk-ai-medical-transcription-is-dangerous-and-doesnt-work/ - blog post
The iconic Selfridges building at the Bull Ring shopping centre in Birmingham.
Designed by Future Systems and completed in 2003. The building features around 15,000 discs, inspired by a 1960s chainmail dress designed by Paco Rabanne.
📷 iPhone (1x / 24mm)
💻 Lightroom
#blackandwhite #monochrome #architecture #photography #shotoniphone
For all my spreadsheet error enthusiasts like @Felienne - this one is a doozy. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-gas-royalty-budget-error-9.7328419
'"A formula was incorrectly dragged across cells," said a ministry representative.’
The fact this is still a thing in 2026 is entirely on Microsoft.
Oh, shit.
Two simultaneous events revealed an extraordinary overlap between allegations about political funding and proposals for cleaning it up | East Anglia Bylines
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/as-channel-4-investigated-reforms-funding-bylines-was-debating-how-to-clean-up-politics/?fsp_sid=12082
📅Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) Days 2026 — Oct 17–23
WDQS is migrating from Blazegraph to QLever. If you run maintenance queries or maintain tools/services on it, this affects you!
Join us for updates, hands-on workshops on query rewriting, demo on the query rewriting tool and Q&A's with the dev teams. Sessions will repeat across time zones, all recorded for later or repeat viewing.
Co-organized by Wikimedia Deutschland + WMF's Wikidata Platform team.
Register: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Query_Service_Days_2026
Immer öfter sind Termine, Speisekarten, uvm. nur noch auf Instagram ersichtlich. Direkt raus, wasn los mit den Leuten?
Gegen Faschos, Techbros usw. sein aber nur dort informieren. WTF 😡
@urlyman nonetheless, if anyone does come up with new opportunities for me to have an impact then I’m all ears. 👍
@theolodian same :)
The first fundraising one shot I'm DMing for is live for ticket purchases.
This one is a Dungeons & Dragons game in which you'll be questing through a dungeon to collect the parts of a wheelchair for a disabled Queen.
We're running online using Foundry & Google Meet.
Grab your tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/d-and-d-one-shot-fundraiser-the-quest-for-the-throne .
I learnt something recently about fsync - how fsyncing a file isn't always enough to make sure your data is durable. And I felt like I should have known it already, so I wrote it up. 🙂
WE DID IT. WE WON. 💜✊
Wikimedia Foundation workers voted 158 YES to 14 NO: 91.9% of ballots cast, with 81% turnout.
We’re so proud of everyone who built this union, and this win belongs to our whole community. We could not have done it without the solidarity of Wikimedia volunteers.
This is just the beginning. We stand with our UK siblings in their recognition process now, and with future organizing efforts across WMF’s global workforce. 🌍
[union needed]
Forgot to post about it, but RIP feminist leader Gloria Steinem. 🕊😔
Goodbye Nigel Farage.
British journalist Louis Wilson now has him on camera funneling illegal foreign capital into British politics.
This is a crime.
He's still going in email. "I've been nothing but polite! You should be better than this".
I think this ends up with pistols at dawn.
So basically senior members of Reform gloated on camera to undercover reporters who posed as foreign donors about how they would violate electoral law and get away with it. As in, they routinely do. They carried on trying to solicit illegal payments for weeks/months, *after* the £5m allegations.
They clearly are chumps who did zero due diligence and have zero idea of discretion while continuing to be corrupt while under investigation.
The video is extremely incriminating and basically goading the authorities to do something. So it is extremely unlikely they will not be charged with crimes. Farage’s complicity and knowledge appears confirmed in one video but I am not a lawyer.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/117197170740352177
After 14,000 views, there are almost no Ukrainians seeing this very Ukraine related and very hopeful video.
Does anyone know how to get this in front of the Ukrainian audience?
Would it require Ukrainian subtitles?
@randahl Indoubitably.
From Accra to Linz.
A few reflections on my time in Accra - and more to see in Linz. If you're heading there too, see you next weekend at STWST84x12 and Ars Electronica!
https://versorgerin.stwst.at/artikel/09-2026/haunted-by-debris-of-loving-machines
(and here is the original German version for the German speaking:
https://versorgerin.stwst.at/artikel/09-2026/heimgesucht-von-den-trummern-liebender-maschinen)
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![NLRB Citation. Recognition Timeline: Day 38 since WMF declined voluntary recognition July 27, 2026.
US Workers voted YES. 158 YES, 14 NO, 91.9% YES among counted votes, 8.1% NO among counted votes
172 ballots counted, 213 eligible voters, 81% turnout
Reference: [1] NLRB Case-20-RC-391740, tally of ballots, Region 20, San Francisco, CA
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