Josh Smith

Senior data scientist @WhichUK

[Which? @WhichUK]

‘Safety is a top priority.’

We’ve heard it 50+ times from online marketplaces in six years.

But we’ve just found nearly 800 ‘serious’ and ‘high risk’ products for sale online that matched items flagged by the regulator as unsafe.

[Josh Smith @Jphsmith]

@WhelanHealth @kashhill @matthewherper You might be able to fix that by switching to monkey nuts

[Matt Cagle @Matt_Cagle]

Face recognition easily automates the exclusion of people from public services, venues, and any location that decides to run a secretive "ban list" against people without their knowledge or consent.

[Josh Smith @Jphsmith]

... and you'd get to work with Areeq!

[Josh Smith @Jphsmith]

@emp_signs @guardian We did look at mid-and large stores too, across the country - which stock more. As you say though not everyone is able to get to them!

[Carl Miller @carljackmiller]

I'm grateful to the @washingtonpost for covering our research that has tracked a doubling of antisemitism on Twitter since Musk took over.

Twitter's press email, when contacted for comment by the Post, auto-replied with a poop emoji.

https://t.co/yS8zHNgkMc

[LGBT HERO @lgbthero]

1)🚨🚨🚨Important #VoterID information for #trans and gender nonconforming people...🧵

We've studied the law and written specific advice about how your gender expression, legal name and photo ID details can affect your ability to vote.

#lgbtqVotesMatter
#NoVoteNoVoice

[Josh Smith @Jphsmith]

Turns out reading screenshots demonstrating that #ChatGPT will tell you exactly how to hotwire a car is a great way to learn how to hotwire a car

[Josh Smith @Jphsmith]

Last year the Onion submitted a petition to the supreme court defending parody, and it's a masterpiece: https://t.co/URkza3LICM

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Chinese social media users report Huawei phones automatically deleting* videos of the protests that took place in China, without notifying the owners.

*Not sure if it’s from the cloud or device level

Our sci-fi movies have not even imagined this level of dystopia…

[Josh Smith @Jphsmith]

Extremely happy to be spending a week with the world's greatest instrument

[Josh Smith @Jphsmith]

Sigh. Thanks, John - not clalculator. https://t.co/yPH0uhLGv1

[Josh Smith @Jphsmith]

So last week was my last week @Demos; after 7 years it's been strange not to be in over the last few days. But has given me some time to reflect on the breadth of work you get to do at a #thinktank 1/

[Josh Smith @Jphsmith]

While I was at CASM, we • Built the - still working! - https://t.co/LNKKFRr8lD, gamifying the route to net zero by 2030 (anything with sliders is a game, right?)
• Built systems models of the open source ecosystem to help target support. 2/

https://t.co/TxCRiXs0IE

[Josh Smith @Jphsmith]

In the meantime, I'll be joining @katie_alpin's brilliant Policy and Research team at @WhichUK, applying data science to all kinds of problems. If you want to talk about using ML to fight scams online, or what the best kettle is, @ me 8/8

[Josh Smith @Jphsmith]

The future is bright for Demos - with Chief Exec @pollycurtis and @ellenejudson leading CASM, the best work is surely yet to come; especially given this uniquely interesting political period / absolute mess 7/