Kim Gillick

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

In the very week I decide to try Proton Mail... 🙄 Are there ANY decent companies out there? www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

The price for success 😅

My lazy ass cat basking in the sun in the queen’s chair feeling smarter than all of us.

Well done on week 5! Sending motivational vibes 💪💪🔥 and offering cat sun worshiping photo as reward 😀

Irish Authors Longlisted for 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction Kit de Waal and Wendy Erskine have been longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Kit de Waal's The Best of Everything is a tender and unforgettable story of found family and the long way back from heartbreak. The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine is an astounding novel about intimate histories, class and money - and what being a parent means.

Irish Authors Longlisted for 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction

Kit de Waal and Wendy Erskine have been longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Kit de Waal's The Best of Everything is a tender and unforgettable story of found family and the long way back from heartbreak. The Benefactors by…

Happy 3 years from this subscriber! Cake is mandatory. 🎂

It's the 3-year anniversary of The Python Coding Stack in a month's time…

…should I bake a cake?

Sure, there are publications with tens or hundreds of thousands of readers. But I'm pleased that nearly 7,000 people like my quirky writing and unconventional perspectives

Screenshot of Gurman Bhatia's course

In the Open Visualization Academy:

NEW COURSE: The Craft of Building Stories with Data, by @chartwaali.bsky.social: openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/the-...

Newsletter: Open Source Fuels the Future of Visualization (P.4 4) by Melissa Strong: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/how-open-s...

STOP SENDING STATISTICIANS DATA

this is footage of a REAL statistician looking at REAL data

they have played us for absolute fools

Social media influencers steer millions of Europeans to unlicensed gambling websites High-profile YouTube and Twitch personalities are profiting from promoting dozens of blacklisted betting platforms on their channels.

More good news 🙄🙄

"This so-called “affiliate” system allows streamers to earn money for new player registrations, and also potentially a slice of the revenues gambling operators receive from players."

www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/social...

An event worth attending for #OSS and adjacent folk. These Geneva Dialogue masterclasses aim to establish a shared analytical baseline on how OSS functions, how responsibility is shared across the chain, and how current approaches struggle to scale. @

dig.watch/event/securi...

What is data literacy? | Observable Learn the fundamentals of data literacy, including how to better understand, analyze, and communicate with data.

Observable have a nice primer on #dataliteracy. If you’re stuck in the weeds needing help, this might be a good place to start. Not affiliated, just a nerd 🤓 observablehq.com/learn/what-i...

“you have the least information at the beginning of a project, which is exactly when design docs ask you to make the most decisions[…] Capture intent, hard-to-reverse decisions, and shared context. Leave out the implementation details you'll get wrong anyway” www.lucasfcosta.com/blog/design-...

Insightful and approachable piece in Tech Policy Press on Ireland’s catch-22 as #DSA chief enforcer/tech company beneficiary. And the shared contradiction of both government and electorate (regulate, but careful now…)

#digitalpolicy #techregulation

“Ireland’s tech-driven growth model has long depended on being both host and referee to US multinationals. The DSA is now testing whether that balancing act is sustainable.”

techpolicy.press/why-ireland-...

The Valueless Presidency America is no longer Europe's ally. Stop bleating about NATO. It's already gone.

Thought-provoking piece by @lewisgoodall.com. He argues that the US under Trump is no longer from the UK perspective a
- military ally (Greenland)
- strategic ally (Russia/Ukraine)
- political ally (NSS calling for empowering far-right in Europe)
- economic ally (tariffs)

On updated #gdpr #personaldata definitions, the author believes the change will “make it more difficult for organizations to achieve a good compliance posture, and more likely that they need expert help as part of their compliance programs.” Got to agree here.

desfontain.es/blog/digital...

🇨🇦PM Carney: "...Stop invoking rules-based international order as though it still functions as advertised. Call it what it is: a system of intensifying great power rivalry where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as coercion." (🧵2/6)

Wikipedia at 25: What the data tells us As of December 2025, there are over 66 million articles across all languages on Wikipedia. Around 7 million articles are in English.

Most edited page English-language page? Well of course it’s the list of WWE personnel, with more than 59,000 revisions. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Broke the V60 jug but it’s ok, this is better. This one’s for 70s/80s Irish pub culture fans 🥃

Eight years ago, I launched a consultancy and moved to Greece. Since then, I've been quietly heads-down building something I'm proud of, and I'm long overdue sharing some highlights. I a... Eight years ago, I launched a consultancy and moved to Greece. Since then, I've been quietly heads-down building something I'm proud of, and I'm long overdue sharing some highlights. I also want to ...

A professional update.

www.linkedin.com/posts/kimgil...

If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!

This is a gripping microhistory thread, worth the read (Don't believe Mrs. Grieve!)

Screenshot showing the evolution of menu icon usage from Sequoia to Tahoe MacOS

Waaah can never unsee!

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

Data Science Learning Community | Patreon Tools to learn data science, e.g. weekly TidyTues.day dataset

Happy 2026! 🎆

My resolution: put @dslc.io on a sustainable footing.

I’m soft-launching our Patreon to cover costs (Zoom, hosting, etc). If you love #TidyTuesday, our Slack help, or our book clubs, you can be an early supporter before the official launch Monday!

patreon.com/DSLC

#RStats #DataBS

Emerging Trends in AI Ethics and Governance for 2026 - KDnuggets in 2026, people want accountability frameworks that feel real, enforceable, and grounded in how AI behaves in live environments.

Well indeed! “[…] this emphasis on understandable privacy communication reshapes how teams think about consent and control.” #policycomms #technicalcomms

www.kdnuggets.com/emerging-tre...

It’s been a cat drama kind of year. Rescued, bottle fed & forever-homed a beautiful calico, kept my tuxedo in happy sun times, and outsmarted a cheeky feral balcony kitty.

Do Long Technical Posts Work? Do people actually read them in their entirety? Do they often return? In this post, we'll get insights via an n=1 review of a front page HackerNews post's reader engagement metrics.

~9% of readers end up finishing long form technical post & I'm emphasising the author's disclaimer, but it's worth noting for developer advocacy comms: "these insights are, as with anything n=1, fragile and should be held weakly with anticipation of more (diverse) data." lucalp.dev/do-long-tech...

An AI search result for "podcase apple watch app slow download" which says that the Watch defaults to slower Bluetooth for synching so to speed up and force Wifi downloads, disable Bluetooth on the watch temporarily.

You made me happy today, Gemini. You made me happy.

Happy logical Halloween

If you use #LinkedIn, you may want to access your settings here and opt out of having your data used to train their AI. This opt-in by default is ILLEGAL in the EU, but, you know, potatoes

This is the direct link to opt out

www.linkedin.com/mypreference...