Update. @maxinejoselow has pulled together an excellent list of other examples of Trump's principle, "If data points to a problem, stop collecting the data." Sorry I missed this from 9/18/25.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/climate/trump-federal-data-climate-change-health.html

The New York Times · 4dTrump Administration Stopping Efforts to Collect Scientific DataBy Maxine Joselow

#Censorship #Data #DefendResearch

Continued thread

**Nonilex** @Nonilex@masto.ai · 6h

Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai

#Oracle will also invest in the new #US #TikTok, as will the private #equity firm #SilverLake, another senior official said.

It will be “secured” in the US outside the control of TikTok’s Chinese owner, #ByteDance, one of the officials said. The U.S.-run TikTok will work to retrain the copy on #users’ #data in the US, & #China will not have access to the data, the officials added.

**Nonilex** @Nonilex@masto.ai · 6h

Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai

The software giant #Oracle will oversee the #security of #US #data & monitor changes & updates to #TikTok’s powerful recommendation #technology under a new deal to avert a ban of the service, acc/to a senior #Trump White House official.

A copy of the #algorithm, the recommendation engine that powers the app’s #addictive feed of short videos, will be licensed from China to a US *investor group* [#billionaires] that will oversee the app in the US, the official said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/us/politics/tiktok-deal-algorithm-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The TikTok office in Culver City, Calif.

The New York Times · 10hAmerican Investors Will License and Oversee TikTok’s U.S. Version, White House SaysBy Emmett Lindner

**Europe Says** @europesays@pubeurope.com · 6h

Europe Says @europesays@pubeurope.com

https://www.europesays.com/2433142/ The Great Indoors – Annual Number of “Indoor Weather Days” [OC] #Data #DataIsBeautiful #DataIsBeautiful

**Bytes Europe** @byteseu@pubeurope.com · 6h

Bytes Europe @byteseu@pubeurope.com

The Great Indoors – Annual Number of “Indoor Weather Days” [OC] https://www.byteseu.com/1403210/ #Data #DataIsBeautiful #DataIsBeautiful

**Dean Burnett (that brains guy)** @Garwboy@ohai.social · 6h

Dean Burnett (that brains guy) @Garwboy@ohai.social

Is mental health 'awareness' backfiring?

https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/is-mental-health-awareness-backfiring

Some analysis of the data which suggests that mental health awareness campaigns aren't having uniformly positive outcomes for those they're meant to be helping.

The Neuroscience of Everyday Life · May 16Is mental health 'awareness' backfiring?By Dean Burnett

#MentalHealth #Awareness #Data

**Europe Says** @europesays@pubeurope.com · 7h

Europe Says @europesays@pubeurope.com

https://www.europesays.com/2433038/ Fundspire Axivon: Why Fundspire Axivon AI-Powered Platform Is Reshaping Online Trading With Data-Backed Security and ROI #AIPowered #And #Axivon: #Data #DataBacked #Fundspire #IS #online #platform #Reshaping #ROI #security #trading #why #with

**Mark Wyner Won’t Comply** @markwyner@mas.to · 8h

Mark Wyner Won’t Comply @markwyner@mas.to

So…MIT has an AI incident tracker. It tracks and classifies the damage AI has done and harm it has caused. The classification is defined by seven key categories:

Discrimination/toxicity
Privacy/security
Misinformation
Malicious actors
HCI
Socioeconomic/environmental
System safety/failures/limitations

https://airisk.mit.edu/ai-incident-tracker

airisk.mit.eduMIT AI Incident TrackerThe MIT AI Incident Tracker project classifies real-world, reported incidents by risk domain, causal factors, and harm caused.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Harm