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Posts by Anna Dent

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Exclusive: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture ​mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its ‌artificial-intelligence models, part of a broad ...

Meta will begin keystroke logging US employees at work -- complete with mouse movements and periodic screenshots -- to train better AI agents.

This comes after Boz posted about a future in which AI will "primarily do the work" at meta.

It's a new era for tech labor. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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Learning to use mail merge was one of my personal triumphs as a temp in the early 2000s. Pretty much wore it as a badge of honour.

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Without stating your age post a film that was released when you turned 18.

Not a stellar year so I've gone with the campest option.

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I'd say between knees and belly button

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Going again today?? Madness 😁😁

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Last year was a hard one, but in the end my tax spreadsheet tells me I didn't do terribly badly.

Kind of need the global insecurity to naff off so that this year is equally not-terrible.

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Started my tax return. Who am I??!?

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They are among the least annoying magicians to be fair

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Hard agree. I find magic annoying and magicians smug and tedious.

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Emily's goes long again for Jane Tomlinson Appeal Help Emily Macaulay raise money to support Jane Tomlinson Appeal

I’m on a train to Bath. I’m going to get off there and run back to Bristol 😬🤞

Today is the first proper day of my training to run an ultramarathon in September and so launches my fundraising effort for this year.

www.justgiving.com/page/emily-2...

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Ooh good luck, lovely day for it!

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whoever this is, they are amazing

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The ‘Sovereign AI Fund’, which invests UK taxpayers’ money, announced its first portfolio of 6 companies .

Some of them seem to train AI on copyrighted work without a licence.

UK taxpayer money should not go to AI companies that exploit creatives.

Suspect this won't go down well

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kermit the frog is looking at a green object Alt: kermit the frog is looking nervous and biting his fingernails. If frogs have nails

About to try a big reordering/merging of sections in the big thing I'm writing. Wish me luck

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Life is a mystery
Everyone must stand alone
I hear you call my name
And it feels like home

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Also, how is the Pope like Mariah Carey - the Pope doesn't think about Trump, Mariah didn't know who JLo was. This may be a bit niche.

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Shoe companies pivoting to AI?

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If the FT says so then definitely yes

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This is really not going to help our vaccine coverage - 'bring your kid for their jabs and the border agency will turn up at your door'
I was unaware of this until 5 mins ago.
No data sharing opt-outs apply.
We really need to object to and reverse this.

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NHS England » National Vaccination Programmes NHS England » National Vaccination Programmes

www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/p... "Personal data will be shared with the National Crime Agency where this data is needed for law enforcement purposes and is for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties."

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WTF is even going on anymore, damnit it's kind of banger

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The 2 times I've been through the system were before 1 Apr and I didn't actually realise you had to do it on exit as well as entry as both airports weren't using it for exit at all. Tenerife was chaos but not terribly slow, Munich very speedy.

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It is a bit windy though

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In London again, in the glorious sunshine. Crowds of folk happily queuing for Madame Tussauds. People strolling past trees in full blossom. Polite young men letting me off the bus in front of them. Truly, a city on the brink.

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Good luck. I had an incident free journey on X Country from Bristol to Edinburgh recently and was amazed! The train was grotty as hell of course

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So noble 😄

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I'm not fussed about football but I'm sad for everyone who is and will either boycott the WC and miss it all, or watch while feeling deeply conflicted. No judgement either way, just seems like it will be very hard to enjoy 😕

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Reserve tickets – 'A Public Sociology of Platforms, Algorithms, and AI' with Karen Gregory – CenSoF - Room 1.01, 13 Berkeley Square 'A Public Sociology of Platforms, Algorithms, and AI' with Karen Gregory – CenSoF - Room 1.01, 13 Berkeley Square, Thu 23 Apr 2026 - A Public Sociology of Platforms, Algorithms, and AI (a joint Techno...

Really looking forward to this talk in Bristol later in the month:

www.tickettailor.com/events/esrcc...

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