Ian Weinfass
Freelance journalist specialising in buildings and police (+where the two meet).
British Journalism Awards finalist 2016 & 2023.
Read some of my best pieces here: clippings.me/ianweinfass
Contact: ianweinfass[at]hotmail.com, or send a DM
- Reposted by Ian WeinfassThis is effectively a government backed advertising campaign for Big Tech for a product that doesn't work properly.
- Reposted by Ian WeinfassPlease spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Police AI: what's behind the new national centre for artificial intelligence
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- Reposted by Ian WeinfassIf a website appeared overnight that gave hundreds of millions of users the opportunity to create CSAM you'd expect governments to shut it down quickly, so the question is why X gets a pass when it's done just that? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Interesting piece on AI mistakes in US police reports
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- See p41 for my piece on ways in which police chiefs are looking to raise cash
- FOIs, driving enforcement and asking more from businesses have all been looked at, following firearms fees hikes and sports team contributions
- Police/HSE investigating why four men died in the 2016 Didcot Power Station collapse say their investigation will (finally) conclude next year - www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-...
- Charges may follow... by the end of the year... (i.e. almost 11 years after a possible crime that killed four people took place) www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-...
- Reposted by Ian Weinfass“No less an authority than the United Kingdom’s former Prime Minister, Liz Truss” That’s a real sentence that someone wrote, which made it into Trump’s legal filing.
- Reposted by Ian WeinfassThe film-maker, who has died aged 78, spoke to Ed Potton about bringing back Spinal Tap, the demands of directing and his idea for one more comedy
- Reposted by Ian WeinfassLeigh Day partner Jill Paterson warns many households may still be using potentially dangerous heat pump tumble dryers built by Haier after a regulator issued an urgent recall. www.leighday.co.uk/news/news/20...
- Reposted by Ian WeinfassEvolving police responses to domestic abuse: Innovations and challenges in tackling domestic and family violence policinginsight.com/news/evolvin...
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- Reposted by Ian WeinfassThis mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
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- Reposted by Ian WeinfassWow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9
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- The scale and cost of the RAAC crisis at UK police forces revealed
- The PFI building dispute that could cost Kent Police £39m
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- This reads like the Met and CPS this week taught the Cabinet Office what contempt of court is www.gov.uk/government/n...
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- Higgins Homes and four workers appear in court over death of mother walking past Bow construction site in 2018
- Reposted by Ian WeinfassIn other news, Saudi Arabia, which has done as much as anyone to ensure the financial success of Club World Cup for FIFA, has executed a journalist, who was tried in secret, and sentenced to death over what activists say were tweets critical of the regime.
- Higgins Homes and four men charged in connection with the death of Kayla Boor, 28, in Bethnal Green in March 2018. She was struck by a pallet containing more than two tonnes of bricks as she walked on a public road, having just dropped her young son off at nursery.
- Silicosis kills 500 construction workers in the UK every year. They're not often discussed, but the risks of contracting the disease are increasing
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- Reposted by Ian WeinfassIt’s already hard to judge whether products you buy online will be the right size or not, but what if the product doesn’t even exist? @koltai.bsky.social helps you to distinguish between real and AI-generated products online. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
- Reposted by Ian Weinfassgive Nathan Newby a knighthood, what an absolute hero
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- Construction firm McLaren has won an £8m legal dispute with Ron Martin, ex-chairman of Southend United
- Reposted by Ian WeinfassOne of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/
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- After nine years, the investigation into the deaths of four men in the Didcot Power Station collapse is now said to be entering its 'latter stages'. Daughters of two of the victims told me about their hopes that they will finally get answers about why their fathers were killed.
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- Reposted by Ian Weinfass✍️Despite being the world's biggest oil producer, America is v reliant on Canadian oil. And getting MORE reliant, not less. So what happens when tariffs get imposed on Canada? The answers are quite unsettling, for the American people... and for everyone else edconway.substack.com/p/america-st...
- Investigators are not taking any action over the collapse of a four-storey former office building in Glasgow last week. The structure, being prepared for demolition, crashed down in the middle of the afternoon in front of shocked onlookers
- ISG collapse to cost prison service more than £300m
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- Someone needs to invent a universal blocker for all AI writing suggestions across all apps, asap.
- Fifty years after the Health and Safety Executive was created, is it still fit for purpose?
- Great time at Slipknot tonight, but feel a bit short changed by how narrow the set list was
- Unbelievable behaviour by the council
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- The trial that followed a SIX YEAR investigation into the deaths of three men in a crane collapse was stopped and a jury told to return not guilty verdicts... due to a lack of sufficient evidence.
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- Reposted by Ian WeinfassNPCC’s review of staff networks could spark a legal challenge [SUBSCRIBER ARTICLE] policinginsight.com/feature/anal...
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- The Building Safety Regulator, set up to help stop the failings of the construction industry post-Grenfell, tells me it is "committed to transparency" while point blank refusing to say how it has awarded contracts to a private firm or even confirm exactly what the contract is for
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