Pinboard (jm) https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm Microsoft accused of damaging Guardian’s reputation with AI-generated poll 2023-11-01T10:25:49+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/oct/31/microsoft-accused-of-damaging-guardians-reputation-with-ai-generated-poll jmMicrosoft’s news aggregation service published the automated poll next to a Guardian story about the death of Lilie James, a 21-year-old water polo coach who was found dead with serious head injuries at a school in Sydney last week. The poll, created by an AI program, asked: “What do you think is the reason behind the woman’s death?” Readers were then asked to choose from three options: murder, accident or suicide. Readers reacted angrily to the poll, which has subsequently been taken down – although highly critical reader comments on the deleted survey were still online as of Tuesday morning. Grim stuff. What a terrible mistake by Microsoft]]> ai guardian microsoft grim polls syndication news media https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:97ce18dd2720/ Revealed: the inside story of the UK's Covid-19 crisis 2020-04-29T22:04:12+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/29/revealed-the-inside-story-of-uk-covid-19-coronavirus-crisis jm uk government covid-19 omnishambles leaks guardian https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:bbd919b48b97/ No matter how you crunch the numbers, this pandemic is only just getting started 2020-04-17T09:07:19+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/16/number-coronavirus-pandemic jmThere have been more than 93,000 cases of Covid-19 identified in the UK. Let’s round that up and say it is 100,000. So if the reports from the BMJ editorial are accurate, the actual number would be that multiplied by five, in which case there would have already been half a million infections in the UK. If this really is the peak and we see as many cases on the way down as on the way up, that would total 1 million infections from the initial surge in the UK – hopefully all of those people would then be immune. That would leave about 65 million people in the UK still without immunity. I am going to be unusually optimistic here, and assume that everyone who has Covid-19 becomes fully immune (not a given), and that the virus is towards the less transmissible end of the range of estimates currently available. If this is the case, you would need half your population to have been infected to achieve a level of population immunity that would stop the epidemic continuing to grow and overwhelming healthcare systems. ]]> guardian health uk covid-19 pandemics herd-immunity future https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8ccaadae30f8/ Health expert brands UK's coronavirus response 'pathetic' 2020-03-13T17:37:13+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/health-expert-brands-uks-coronavirus-response-pathetic jmThere were no strategies for protecting the vulnerable and there had been a failure to engage the public. “We have a superficial prime minister who has got no grasp of public health,” Ashton said. “Our lot are behaving like 19th-century colonialists playing a five-day game of cricket. “This virus will find the weak points. You can’t just plan this from an office in Whitehall. It’s pathetic. The government doesn’t seem to understand classic public health. You need to be out and about. You need to get your hands dirty – though preferably gloved and using frequent gel,” he said. ]]> coronavirus covid-19 guardian uk health medicine herd-immunity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:84136aaf8587/ How the Guardian found 800,000 paying readers 2017-11-02T11:37:13+00:00 http://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2017/10/26/how-the-guardian-found-800000-paying-readers jmThe strategy to rescue the Guardian from financial oblivion has attained a landmark position by increasing its revenue from readers to a point where it now outweighs the paper’s income from advertising. This significant shift in the Guardian’s business model, making it less dependent on a highly challenging advertising market for media companies, results largely from a quadrupling in the number of readers making monthly payments under the title’s membership scheme, which has grown from 75,000 to 300,000 members in the past year. Wow. Good job Guardian!]]> guardian journalism subscriptions newspapers future membership donations https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2f72e7509f6f/ Ireland's staggering hypocrisy on climate change | Environment | The Guardian 2017-07-26T10:59:40+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/26/irelands-staggering-hypocrisy-on-climate-change?CMP=share_btn_tw jmThe national climate policy is a greenwash – the country is certain to miss its 2020 emissions target and still handing out drilling licences ]]> guardian green greenwashing ireland politics energy future climate-change nmp oil fossil-fuels https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:37bde18fd0b4/ The dark side of Guardian comments | Technology | The Guardian 2016-04-12T12:02:49+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/12/the-dark-side-of-guardian-comments jm comments data guardian journalism abuse twitter racism sexism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4e95eaaf6718/ Tech companies like Facebook not above the law, says Max Schrems 2015-10-12T09:54:37+00:00 http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/09/facebook-data-privacy-max-schrems-european-court-of-justice jm“Big companies didn’t only rely on safe harbour: they also rely on binding corporate rules and standard contractual clauses. But it’s interesting that the court decided the case on fundamental rights grounds: so it doesn’t matter remotely what ground you transfer on, if that process is still illegal under 7 and 8 of charter, it can’t be done.” Also:
“Ireland has no interest in doing its job, and will continue not to, forever. Clearly it’s an investment issue – but overall the policy is: we don’t regulate companies here. The cost of challenging any of this in the courts is prohibitive. And the people don’t seem to care.”
:(]]> ireland guardian max-schrems privacy surveillance safe-harbor eu us nsa dpc data-protection https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:15f2d35d9370/ How the banks ignored the lessons of the crash 2015-09-30T11:35:39+00:00 http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/30/how-the-banks-ignored-lessons-of-crash?CMP=share_btn_tw jmFirst of all, banks could be chopped up into units that can safely go bust – meaning they could never blackmail us again. Banks should not have multiple activities going on under one roof with inherent conflicts of interest. Banks should not be allowed to build, sell or own overly complex financial products – clients should be able to comprehend what they buy and investors understand the balance sheet. Finally, the penalty should land on the same head as the bonus, meaning nobody should have more reason to lie awake at night worrying over the risks to the bank’s capital or reputation than the bankers themselves. You might expect all major political parties to have come out by now with their vision of a stable and productive financial sector. But this is not what has happened. ]]> banks banking guardian finance europe eu crash history https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:de468fc8be8f/ Salutin' Putin: inside a Russian troll house | World news | The Guardian 2015-04-02T12:42:15+00:00 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-inside-russian-troll-house jm grim-meathook-future guardian russia trolls social-media media censorship livejournal ideology social-control https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f3ca0ac0165a/ David Cameron in 'cloud cuckoo land' over encrypted messaging apps ban | Technology | The Guardian 2015-01-13T22:17:07+00:00 http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/13/david-cameron-encrypted-messaging-apps-ban jmOne insider at a major US technology firm told the Guardian that “politicians are fond of asking why it is that tech companies don’t base themselves in the UK” ... “I think if you’re saying that encryption is the problem, at a time when consumers and businesses see encryption as a very necessary part of trust online, that’s a very indicative point of view.” ]]> business guardian david-cameron uk-politics crypto ripa messaging internet privacy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d4b2d0bade68/ Yes, Isis exploits technology. But that’s no reason to compromise our privacy | Technology | The Observer 2014-11-10T15:40:42+00:00 http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/09/isis-exploits-technology-no-reason-compromise-privacy jmFrom the very beginning, Isis fanatics have been up to speed on [social media]. Which raises an interesting question: how come that GCHQ and the other intelligence agencies failed to notice the rise of the Isis menace until it was upon us? Were they so busy hoovering metadata and tapping submarine cables and “mastering the internet” (as the code name of one of their projects puts it) that they didn’t have time to see what every impressionable Muslim 14-year-old in the world with an internet connection could see? ]]> gchq guardian encryption nsa isis technology social-media snooping surveillance https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:27fe5cfc0208/ Theresa May warns Yahoo that its move to Dublin is a security worry 2014-03-21T10:05:51+00:00 http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/20/theresa-may-yahoo-dublin-security-worry jm"There are concerns in the Home Office about how Ripa will apply to Yahoo once it has moved its headquarters to Dublin," said a Whitehall source. "The home secretary asked to see officials from Yahoo because in Dublin they don't have equivalent laws to Ripa. This could particularly affect investigations led by Scotland Yard and the national crime agency. They regard this as a very serious issue." There's priorities for you!]]> ripa gchq guardian uk privacy data-protection ireland dublin london spying surveillance yahoo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fcf8a64ffa35/ UK porn filter blocks game update that contained 'sex' in URL 2014-01-22T10:35:13+00:00 http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/21/uk-porn-filter-blocks-game-update-that-contained-sex?CMP=twt_gu jmThe update to online strategy game League of Legends was disrupted by the internet filter because the software attempted to access files that accidentally include the word “sex” in the middle of their file names. The block resulted in the update failing with “file not found” errors, which are usually created by missing files or broken updates on the part of the developers. ]]> uk porn filtering guardian regular-expressions false-positives scunthorpe http web league-of-legends sex https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f94e6eca9c08/ The Snowden files: why the British public should be worried about GCHQ 2013-10-03T21:12:06+00:00 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/03/edward-snowden-files-john-lanchester jmWhen the Guardian offered John Lanchester access to the GCHQ files, the journalist and novelist was initially unconvinced. But what the papers told him was alarming: that Britain is sliding towards an entirely new kind of surveillance society ]]> john-lanchester gchq guardian surveillance snooping police-state nsa privacy government https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f6bdda50f454/ Schneier on Security: The NSA Is Breaking Most Encryption on the Internet 2013-09-05T22:15:21+00:00 http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/the_nsa_is_brea.html jmThe new Snowden revelations are explosive. Basically, the NSA is able to decrypt most of the Internet. They're doing it primarily by cheating, not by mathematics. It's joint reporting between the Guardian, the New York Times, and ProPublica. I have been working with Glenn Greenwald on the Snowden documents, and I have seen a lot of them. These are my two essays on today's revelations. Remember this: The math is good, but math has no agency. Code has agency, and the code has been subverted. ]]> encryption communication government nsa security bruce-schneier crypto politics snooping gchq guardian journalism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2617942fe6b5/ David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face | Alan Rusbridger | Comment is free | The Guardian 2013-08-19T22:29:24+00:00 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/19/david-miranda-schedule7-danger-reporters jmThe man was unmoved. And so one of the more bizarre moments in the Guardian's long history occurred – with two GCHQ security experts overseeing the destruction of hard drives in the Guardian's basement just to make sure there was nothing in the mangled bits of metal which could possibly be of any interest to passing Chinese agents. "We can call off the black helicopters," joked one as we swept up the remains of a MacBook Pro. Whitehall was satisfied, but it felt like a peculiarly pointless piece of symbolism that understood nothing about the digital age. We will continue to do patient, painstaking reporting on the Snowden documents, we just won't do it in London. The seizure of Miranda's laptop, phones, hard drives and camera will similarly have no effect on Greenwald's work. The state that is building such a formidable apparatus of surveillance will do its best to prevent journalists from reporting on it. Most journalists can see that. But I wonder how many have truly understood the absolute threat to journalism implicit in the idea of total surveillance, when or if it comes – and, increasingly, it looks like "when". We are not there yet, but it may not be long before it will be impossible for journalists to have confidential sources. Most reporting – indeed, most human life in 2013 – leaves too much of a digital fingerprint. Those colleagues who denigrate Snowden or say reporters should trust the state to know best (many of them in the UK, oddly, on the right) may one day have a cruel awakening. One day it will be their reporting, their cause, under attack. But at least reporters now know to stay away from Heathrow transit lounges. ]]> nsa gchq surveillance spying snooping guardian reporters journalism uk david-miranda glenn-greenwald edward-snowden https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:51a61b027f2b/ Bayes' theorem ruled inadmissible in UK law courts 2011-10-03T10:48:12+00:00 http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/oct/02/formula-justice-bayes-theorem-miscarriage jm uk law guardian via:fanf bayes maths statistics legal https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0f4736885ab1/ Charanjit Singh on how he invented acid house ... by mistake 2011-05-13T19:05:28+00:00 http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/may/10/charanjit-singh-acid-house-ten-ragas jm acid-house music via:xxjfg guardian interviews history india bollywood ragas https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7d417ab131b5/ InfoQ: Guardian.co.uk Switching from Java to Scala 2011-04-04T20:27:30+00:00 http://www.infoq.com/articles/guardian_scala jm scala java guardian coding https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f803a7cf3087/ Today's Guardian 2010-06-10T09:31:07+00:00 http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2010/06/09/todays-guardian.php jm phil-gyford news newspapers gu guardian design usability reading readability webdesign https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ca6a59889064/ Make your own sourdough | Life and style | The Guardian 2010-04-30T16:34:22+00:00 http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/apr/14/make-your-own-sourdough jm sourdough bread recipes food guardian https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:24330faef11d/ Thomasina Miers' simple Mexican recipes | Life and style | The Observer 2010-04-30T16:32:29+00:00 http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/14/thomasina-miers-mexican-recipes jm mexican food guardian recipes tortas tlayudas ceviche tacos burritos https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:80e13baf56b8/ Irish music blogs under attack over royalties | Music | guardian.co.uk 2010-04-29T13:31:20+00:00 http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/apr/29/irish-music-blogs-under-attack jm imro ireland guardian news blogs music mp3 shakedown https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b331705dc589/