#bc that planetary approach was something else

[youremyheaven]

Frequently Asked Questions:

I get some version of these pretty much every day so I thought I'd make an FAQ:

What is my dominant planet/How do I find it?

If you knew enough about astrology and your birth chart, you would know which planet influenced you the most. Most people acutely feel a combination of at least 2-3 planetary influences most strongly. In reality, every single planet and nakshatra in our chart influences us but we probably aren't self-aware enough/knowledgeable about astrology enough to see how it impacts us. Each planet correlates to a different area of your life. Since Sun represents the soul/outer self and Moon represents the mind/emotions, its safe to say these 2 placements impact every area of life but when it comes to relationships/creativity/beauty, you channel your Venus whether you're aware of it or not and same goes for all other planets. Whenever you do something of a creative bent, you tap into your Ketu, your education is affected by your Mercury and Jupiter, so on and so forth.

If you're very new to vedic astrology or if you haven't been able to figure out your dominant planets, just let it be!! This is not a puzzle to be solved, there is no way for you or somebody else to mechanically calculate your "dominant" planet. I don't know you, I don't know what you look like, what your personality is like, so there is absolutely no way for me to tell what influence comes through most acutely.

Also, the concept of "dominance" itself is pretty much a made up one (thanks Claire Nakti) so literally, just chill out!!! Read about your placements, and learn more about astrology instead of trying to claim planets. You're influenced by your whole chart, its that simple. That's it.

2. Which website should I use?

You can use astro seek.com or the Cosmic Insights app or the Jagannatha Hora app. On astro seek, you have to adjust to "whole sign" instead of Placidus though. On the others, that's the default setting, I think.

3. Which ayanamsa should I use?

I stick to Lahiri

4. I have xyz nak/planet/house, am I doomed/ugly/forever alone/unlucky?

NO

Astrology helps us understand our strengths and weaknesses, there is no placement that comes as a death sentence of some sort. I feel like most people don't understand that your birth chart is supposed to make you self-aware of your natural inclinations, tendencies, patterns etc so that you can work with them/make necessary changes etc. Your chart is NOT set in stone. Human behaviour is far too complex to be narrowed down to a birth chart. It shows your INCLINATIONS, which means that if you're self aware, you can make necessary adjustments to work on unhealthy habits/tendencies.

Astrology is not "this is who you are, you suck",, it's a tool for self-growth.

If you have difficult placements, you need to pay more attention to them and work on those areas. Why on earth would you just accept that everything is fcked and its game over for you bc of what the stars said??? Sorry to be rude but that's dumb af?? You were not put on this earth to be miserable until the day you die, EVERYBODY has difficult placements, if you remain ignorant of it/avoid it, you will continue to live in ignorance and suffer from the same things you always have and not know why.

Astrology makes it possible for you to understand yourself and evolve.

5. I'm not Hindu, can I still worship Gods/Goddesses/chant mantras?

Every single religion is made up. God never said only brown people from the Indian subcontinent can worship me. But that said, do your research and actually be invested in it. I feel like some people approach this in a Buzzfeed-y "Which Disney Princess Am I?😍" type of way which is 🤦🏻‍♀️but religion isn't something to be sampled, if ykwim?

You don't have to attain Guru levels of religious insight/expertise either. Most practicing Hindus probably know very little about their religion and truth be told, Hinduism is soooo vast, expansive, varied and eclectic that people practice it in thousands of different ways across the country with their own unique rituals/customs, so everybody who practices the religion makes it their own, in some ways?

Build an altar if you can, dedicate a certain time of the day and space of your room/house to just prayer. By making something sacred, we feel its divinity permeate our lives. Rituals are a major part of every religion because acting with intention helps us feel like our lives have meaning.

Always chant after you've showered, sit facing east, look at a picture of your deity or visualise them and chant quietly. Most people use prayer beads but you can also just count them on your fingers. Its often said that when you chant, others should not be able to hear you. If you use prayer beads, keep them covered in a box after use. You've energetically charged them with your chanting and its not good to leave them exposed because they'll pick up on other vibrations from the surroundings. Do not chant after you've just eaten!!

Picking a deity is all about intuition. If you don't feel called to anybody, just chill out and keep studying their mythology. You can always chant 'Om'.

I used to chant Buddhist mantras like 'Om mani padme hum' and 'nam myoho renge kyo' and they're not directed to any deity so if you're worried about that, you can always chant non-deity mantras as well.

The purpose of chanting mantras is to keep your mind calm and still. Even if you repeat a certain affirmation in English several hundred times, it has the same effect.

[omghallucinations]

Hey do you do like personal birth chart readings (paid or otherwise)? Your posts analyzing Ateez's placements are so fun to read, I keep wondering what it would be like if you saw mine lmao

hey!! yeah i've done personal chart readings before, and i'd be open to doing it again if people are interested! i did do it paid, bc it takes so much time--i can't ever do something at 75% lol even if i say, oh i'll take 2 hours to do this write up i always end up getting hyperfocused and suddenly it's 6 hours later.

it's easier for me to time limit a little bit if there's an angle or direction to approach the chart so like...

"oh that's interesting!!" -- when i look at your chart is there stuff that jumps out to me as interesting/important/unique, so like, for an example looking at (g)idle soyeon, i'd go for: neptune at the anoretic degree and conjunct her ascendant, her north node is conjunct fixed star regulus (one of the 4 royal stars) and there are a couple fixed star-personal planet conjunctions that are notable, saturn's north node is conjunct her descendant, neptune's north node is conjunct her venus and neptune's south node is conjunct her uranus, and there's a lot of saturn and leo energy. this would cover more ground, in general

or

one planet in-depth (like the ateez moon series but more comprehensive) -- going into the planet, its house, its sign, its aspects, is it conjunct to any fixed stars or asteroids, is it at an important degree and what does that mean, how could this show up in your life

chart patterns -- any important chart patterns you have and what they mean, whether you have an unaspected planet, whether you have a grand trine or a t-square or a yod or whatever, whether your planets are all clustered in one place or if they're scattered around and what it all means with the sign, house, planets and interactions

aspects -- going through your most prominent planetary aspects, similar to chart patterns but it'd be a rundown of whichever your most exact aspects between any planets are and how they could show up by sign, planet and house --

big boss readings -- which planets are your heavy hitters, why and how does that show up-- including your "final dispositor" or chart big boss, which i swear i'll explain for real, any planet at a critical degree or an important chart position and how that shows up, a planet in rulership/exalted/in its fall, a planet that aspects most of your other planets or conjuncts your ascendant, descendent, MC or IC. most people have at least 3 heavy hitters, more likely to have around 4-5

past life/karma stuff -- my personal interest right now, i'm really obsessed with the lunar nodes and planetary nodes and how they reveal issues/themes/preoccupations from past lives and the direction your soul wants to grow. learning about this for myself has genuinely changed my life i can't lie. this would also include pluto, aspects to pluto, aspects to the nodes, any planets in important aspect to a node and what that would mean about your past lives, that sort of thing

obv you could combine whatever if you're interested in more than one thing, or if you have a specific question you could ask that. you can use ko-fi and message me your info (there or on tumblr) if you or anyone else wants to commission something! prices are on ko-fi as well.

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another handful of gifs of pretty planets bc this is all i’m capable of these days

[gg-astrology]

Hey I’ve been following your tumblr for a while now and I just wanted to thank you for creating such fascinating content. I really like the way you interpret astrology. Also just wanted to ask you a question: What’s your perception of Venus-Neptune Natal aspects? For instance, Capricorn Venus Conjunct Capricorn Neptune? I watched a video on YouTube about this natal aspect and the guy said it meant the Venus would behave more like a Pisces Venus. What’s your take?

Hey there!! ❤️💕 Ahh thank you so much ;; really, it means a lot to me hearing this? Your kind thoughtful words really touches me, I’m always so grateful to see heartfelt words from people 🙇🏻‍♀️❤️💕 

As for Venus/Neptune conjunct -- it?? wouldn’t be?? like Pisces Venus because it’s not actually Venus in Pisces?? ;; There’s no mutual reception between the two either (i.e. Pisces Venus - Libra Neptune/Taurus Neptune) the main difference is that Pisces Venus live and breath the signs expressions. 

If we go by the same logic of Capricorn Venus/Neptune would entail the Capricorn Venus (??) being similar to Pisces Venus. 

That’s like saying Cancer Venus/Neptune would have the Cancer Venus behave like a Pisces Venus?? (I really don’t get?? this?? ;; since Venus doesn’t rule Pisces? So even in the decans, it wouldn’t be connected to Venus/Pisces?)  -- Or an Aquarius Venus/Neptune conjunction would be like a Pisces Venus or share similar traits to it?? Bc of?? What?? Neptune’s influence on Venus?? When Neptune is in Aquarius?? 

Which doesn’t really? Make sense?

Or is it like. We’re immediately going Neptune = Pisces. And thus we think Neptune (Pisces) + Venus = Pisces Venus? When?? Neptune isn’t in Pisces?? Neptune is in Capricorn so it should’ve been Neptune (Capricorn) + Venus (Capricorn) = Capricorn Neptune/Venus?? Where did Pisces come from unless we’re talking about something else??

Capricorn Venus/Neptune Conjunction + Further Explanation of Capricorn Venus/Neptune =/= Pisces Venus by Nature ⬇️

It’s kinda like picking and choosing what should turn out in our favour if that’s the case? Like say you’re a poc who’s darker skinned than most (sorry if this part is a little harsh)-- when you see others of a lighter skin in the community who doesn’t have to live day in day out with people making micro-aggressive comments about the tone of your skin. You and your lighter-skinned friends can be a part of the same community -- but there’s a difference there, what you face is a different experience from each other. 

Sorry didn’t want to relate it to this but ;; hm do u kinda get it? its kinda like. It is what it is, be proud of what you have. Talk about it (capricorn venus) instead of relying on something that could metaphorically represent an ‘ideal’ of what your capricorn venus could be (when it’s not?). A Capricorn Venus isn’t a Pisces Venus?? There’s no mutual reception, the aspect is conjunction in Capricorn?? I don’t?

Ok nevermind hsjndjnd I just. I’m just trying to figure it out. I kinda get where this might be coming from? Like, if they’re just trying to give us an example we might be more familiar with like ‘oh! pisces venus!’ but it really isn’t productive nor accurate because alot of people have to unlearn that it isn’t interchangeable like that/has no logic to it besides the metaphorical sense?

But hm. Anyways. I mentioned the difference with Pisces Venus at the beginning because it’s important to acknowledge Pisces Venus’s experiences as well. Pisces Venusian-- I’m so sorry you got dragged into this. I don’t? get it. But Capricorn Venus/Neptune conjunction can often point to a tendency to manifest what they have/idealize about inside their mind/heart into reality for others (or themselves). Particularly when it comes to giving to someone else. 

Capricorns are actually pretty protective of others, particularly of others ego/feelings-- we talk alot about how they’re protective of their own feelings/egos --but rather than just 1) their own hardship in communicating it forward/openly sometimes, it’s more because they’re also observant of others and can often hold themselves down/quiet themselves to be there for others (putting themselves second, giving to others first sometimes as well). That they tend to have strong sentiments towards others, but doesn’t always know how to express it outwards all the time (which is very different than a mutable venus, Pisces Venus in particular)

Because they themselves (Capricorn Venusians) do care a lot about others and tend to act/prove that by putting others first. There’s a misconception here that they are self-sacrificial like a Pisces is. The difference here is that the Capricorn is a cardinal -- they use actions to get themselves where they need to go, where they need to be. They like comfort as much as others, and like to feel like the connection is deeper in a way that they can understand/go somewhere with it.

Pisces Venus play this game like an art, but the Capricorn Venus/Neptune may often be a lot denser and slower when they’re deceived by their own disillusion because they strongly believe in the path that theyre on. They didn’t come into this empty handed or full of uncertainty, they walked into this realizing that they want to make something out of it, realize and manifest something from it that’s precious/valuable to them (both partners or more sometimes).

The main difference here between Pisces Venus and Capricorn Venus/Neptune is the nature of Capricorn that’s influencing the planet. It isn’t like Pisces who’s exalted in Venus. The nature of Venus/Neptune can be sentimentalism, idealistic. It can be romantic and very ‘look at the stars and let me help imagine what you have in mind with you’. The Capricorn (and all signs, to be fair) has the capacity to be deeply romantic in it’s own ways already. They may not always show it, or express it openly to others all the time (or at all sometimes). But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have the capacity for that.

There’s potential for it to foster in this Capricorn in particular, because of the aspect that’s being made in the native’s own chart. But the native isn’t a Pisces Venus-- the way the native Capricorn Venus/Neptune would translate this would be to imagine the future together. The happiness right now, what could be built from it. What could add to nurture what they already have. A Capricorn is an earth sign-- and although they share the same polarity -- the nature of earth is different from those of water.

People with Capricorn Venus/Neptune may possibly be a touch gentler on others sometimes-- or maybe slightly more sensitive than other Capricorn placement, aspect, natives. But it doesn’t take away that they’re a Capricorn and that Capricorns are capable of being sensitive/achieving that. That nature isn’t grounded in water like Pisces, but rather a grounded, deeply rooted Capricorn approach to observing and making room/space for others in their life.

They behave differently, than a Pisces Venus native. Not only that, but Capricorn Venus/Neptune native may often feel like they a little ‘looser’ in love (in terms of controlling their sentiments) which may feel ‘destabilizing’ somewhat to the Capricorn if they’re still a little under-developed. But that’s just a matter of developing your Capricorn placements -- which wouldn’t develop if we think of it as Pisces instead of Capricorn -- in order to feel both the highs of love but not feel like you’re dis-alluding yourself at the same time (consistency can sometimes be the key to feeling ‘locked/grounded’ in a Capricorn/Taurus to be fair)

So. To wrap it up. Capricorns do have the predisposition to be everything Venus/Neptune entails. The romantic nature, the ideals. The imaginative nature isn’t all ‘dried up’ in Capricorn, but the way they behave and express it is why the sign that’s in question (and learning about it) is so important. 

It’s just like saying ‘Capricorn Venus aren’t romantic’ because the wills/wants of Venus is imposed with restriction from the Capricorn’s strict saturnian nature. Or that ‘Capricorn Neptune aren’t imaginative’ when a whole generations of artists, designers, architects exists. It’s about learning the nature and expressions of the signs, and appreciating the things that may not be conventionally expected all the time. 

The things that could come out of it-- and expecting the ‘shock’ factor that comes with planetary bodies meeting and activating/lifting up things that we haven’t seen from the signs before (making/receiving aspects from each other, an augmentation of the signs/planets figuring themselves out) - it’s not something that’s popped out of nothing, but rather a dormant thing that was already there-- waiting to be explored in the signs expression/development.

So. Anyways. I hope this answers your question? ❤️💕  I know I focused a lot on conjunctions, but different aspects would also talk about different things. Kinda like picking a wall colour -- and you have like, 6 shades of whatever colour you picked shown to you. From light to dark, if you’ve already picked the tone that is. But phew, yeah anyways! ❤️💕

I think a lot of digestible information are put in a way that’s like ‘___ is like ___’ to help people learn. Which is like!!! good sentiment!! well-intended!! love that! 

BUT it would be nice to also be? accurate? because it’s not the same thing. And beating the bush around the topic without explaining it as is tends to just make people go around in circles. There are so many cool things to learn like mutual receptions and how/when to use it, house derivation techniques, debilities/dignitaries. There’s so many cool things to learn that can actually help people further their studies/techniques and make them self-dependent, so sometimes these types of comparative/nothing is structured/everything is interchangeable and blended type of concepts (in certain context) can be hindering the progress to learn/study even more so?? 

It’s kinda like pictionary in a way -- you draw a lion but instead of saying lion we’re calling it a big cat? Which is like. Nice! ❤️💕 Very cute! ❤️💕 But also not the right answer and can sometimes be like.

A lion’s environment and interactions with human isnt the same as a house cat. So we dont know how to care for it properly? If we apply the same logic of a house cat to a lion? It’s? Kinda?? Huh.

But anyways i’m ;; I hope its?? ok?? I hope i didn’t scare you off ksjdnskjn I know I was pretty confused at the beginning trying to work it out and maybe I was a bit nit-picky but. I hope the answer was satisfactory, and that it did make sense/come in handy at some point ;; ❤️💕❤️💕 Thank u for liking the blog and writings, even tho im probably ksjnkffjnkernjksndkn

Anyways thank you ❤️💕❤️💕 thank u so much for the kind words at the beginning as well ;; I hope I didn’t sound like I was attacking you because I definitely was not!!! ❤️💕❤️💕 hkjsdnksnk you did nothing wrong, and you definitely shouldn’t take this on you ❤️💕❤️💕 please!! ❤️💕❤️💕

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6 August 2021

The sun is shinin', come on get mappy

Ever found yourself floating aimlessly around the alphabet soup of UK government departments doing data, wondering who's responsible for what? Or lost track of all the interesting initiatives that you might be able to get involved with or learn from?

I'm delighted to be running a new project with the ODI that tries to help with that. We're mapping data responsibility and initiatives across the UK government here, so please do tell us what we've missed and comment on what we've already got. It'll be open for comments until Friday 10 September, so you have all summer to contribute.

There's a launch page explaining everything here, and we're also going to be publishing a blogpost a week focusing on a particular area of the ODI manifesto. This week is infrastructure week. Keep an eye on the ODI blog for future ones.

In other news:

A date for your diary - the 22nd Data Bites will be taking place on Wednesday 8 September at 6pm, thanks to ADR UK and the ESRC. Details will appear here in due course - which is also where you can catch up on the previous 21 events.

I'm also chairing an event for IfG at this year's Labour Party conference - more here.

I'm really sad to see this news about Understanding Patient Data (full disclosure - I'm doing some work for them at the moment). Natalie has done a terrific job, and I really hope their work is able to find a home elsewhere - it's more important than ever, given recent events.

Nick Timmins' new report on how the Department for Education handled the pandemic is well worth a read. Warning: contains mutant algorithms. Diginomica pull out some lessons on those here; my piece from last summer on that is here; and there are more links below.

If you enjoyed this account of what allegedly happened to that Spectator piece on Marcus Rashford (h/t Alice), pour yourself a cup of tea and enjoy this story of something similar from my time at the Media Standards Trust.  

I did it - my first half marathon since 2019. There's still time to sponsor me and donate to the excellent Tommy's, here.

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Graphic content

Tokyo shift

Olympic records are being broken at a record pace* (The Economist)

How the Olympics became bigger and more diverse* (The Economist)

What the Tokyo medal table tells us halfway through the Games (BBC Sport)

Russia and Kenya take the podium in the athletics doping contest* (The Economist)

Tokyo Olympics: Will Team GB beat its record-breaking performance in Rio? (Sky News)

20 Chinese gold medal contenders at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics (South China Morning Post)

Olympians are probably older — and younger — than you think* (Washington Post)

The Fastest Men In The World Are Still Chasing Usain Bolt (FiveThirtyEight)

Here's how Sydney McLaughlin of the U.S. won the 400-meter hurdles at #Tokyo2020, breaking her own world record (New York Times - more here)

Katie Ledecky's historic week, day by day* (Washington Post)

The Climber: Adam Ondra | The Hurdler: Dalilah Muhammad | The Gymnast: Sunisa Lee | The Swimmer: Simone Manuel (New York Times)

Viral content

Why are Covid cases falling in the UK?* (FT)

Excess deaths in your neighbourhood during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic (ONS)

COVID-19: Sewage surveillance reveals 'widespread increase' of coronavirus in England last month (Sky News)

Covid travel: which countries are on the green, amber and red lists? (The Guardian)

Tim Spector: the data explorer who uncovered vital clues to Covid* (FT)

Which Americans are against the jab?* (The Economist)

Chart: Less than 0.1% of vaccinated Americans tested positive for COVID-19 (Axios)

America is plummeting down the global vaccination league table* (The Economist)

Florida’s hospitals set a bleak pandemic record* (FT)

How Europe, After a Fumbling Start, Overtook the U.S. in Vaccination* (New York Times)

Side effects

Why the pandemic is not making your rent cheaper* (New Statesman)

New York City Homebuyers Are Back, and They’re Looking for Deals* (Bloomberg)

Net worth

How Google quietly funds Europe’s leading tech policy institutes* (New Statesman)

Explore different settlements on the balance of power and what they mean for the future of the Internet (Demos)

Ransomware attacks rise despite US call for clampdown on cybercriminals* (FT)

Environment

Planetary ‘vital signs’ show extent of climate stress — and some hope* (FT)

How heat dome has sparked worst wildfires in a decade across parts of Southern Europe (Sky News)

Beyond human endurance: How climate change is making parts of the world too hot and humid to survive* (Washington Post)

Race

The 'ethnic data gap' on voters - and why it matters to parties and pollsters (Sky News)

Hollywood reaps the rewards of becoming more diverse* (The Economist)

UK

The first ever machine generated map of the @UKParliament treaty procedure (UK Parliament)

Favourability towards Boris Johnson falls to lowest level since October (Ipsos MORI)

Productivity: firing on all cylinders (IfG)

Mathematician Hannah Fry: ‘I’m sure there’s lots of tutting — but not to my face* (FT)

Everywhere else

‘It’s Huge, It’s Historic, It’s Unheard-of’: Drug Overdose Deaths Spike* (The Upshot)

Elon Musk’s Outrageous Moonshot Award Catches on Across America* (Bloomberg)

Police shootings continue daily, despite a pandemic, protests and pushes for reform* (Washington Post)

People in the West are least worried about hurtful speech* (The Economist)

An Inca highway still benefits people living nearby* (The Economist)

German election 2021: The New Statesman’s poll tracker* (New Statesman)

Meta data

Information health

Statistics informing quarantine requirements for arrivals to England (Office for Statistics Regulation)

Review of NHS Test and Trace (England) and NHS COVID-19 app statistics (Office for Statistics Regulation)

What we mean by trustworthy use of patient data (Understanding Patient Data)

The future of Understanding Patient Data (Understanding Patient Data)

Lord Bethell’s new phone (Good Law Project)

UK government defends deleting all trace of job vacancies after appointing Matt Hancock's lover to health department board (Business Insider)

Education, education, education

Schools and coronavirus: The government’s handling of education during the pandemic (IfG)

The UK A-Level ‘COVID-19 algorithm fiasco’ and lessons for the enterprise (diginomica)

Four things government must learn from the A-level algorithm fiasco (me from last year for IfG)

More from last summer (W:GC)

Even more from last summer (W:GC)

Ensuring statistical models command public confidence: Learning lessons from the approach to developing models for awarding grades in the UK in 2020 (Office for Statistics Regulation, from March 2021)

AI got 'rithm

Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped.* (MIT Technology Review)

I’m sorry Dave I’m afraid I invented that: Australian court finds AI systems can be recognised under patent law (The Guardian)

Bias in Artificial Intelligence (Harvard Magazine)

The ethics of recommendation systems in public-service media (Ada Lovelace Institute)

Britain can set 'gold standard' in ethical artificial intelligence - industry report (BCS)

ICO baby

The Information Commissioner's Office is letting us down*  (Telegraph)

Response: ICO’s priorities and impact of our work (ICO)

New guidance on direct marketing and the public sector (ICO)

Thread (Tim Turner)

Information Rights Strategic Plan: Trust and Confidence - annual tracker (ICO)

UK government

Introduction to Data Quality course launched (Government Data Quality Hub)

A new model for modelling (Actuaries in government)

Six reasons why digital transformation is still a problem for government (NAO)

govcookiecutter: A template for data science projects (Data in government)

Radar – more than just wave detection (Defra digital)

Driving technology convergence and reuse in our Future Borders and Immigration System (Home Office Digital, Data and Technology)

The longlist (Civil Service Data Challenge)

Cabinet Office eyes ‘geographical capability map’ for civil servants (Civil Service World)

Next step in plans to govern use of digital identities revealed (DCMS)

Building a single sign-on for government: What we’ve learnt so far (Services in government)

ESRC launches opportunity to inform data infrastructure strategy (UKRI)

Keeping old computers going costs government £2.3bn a year, says report (BBC News - CSW had this last week)

2021 Deane-Stone Lecture: Ambitious, Radical, Inclusive and Sustainable: How a National Statistical Institute evolved through Covid-19 (Sir Ian Diamond for NIESR)

Taking the wiki

Left-leaning Wikipedia is no match for my shelf of dictionaries* (Telegraph)

There are 11,656 athletes at the Olympics. Guy Fraser wanted them all on Wikipedia (The Guardian)

A sense of place

‘X’ Marks the Spot: Officials Map a Route Out of the Pandemic* (New York Times)

What 3 Words is a Mess

Dis and that

Disinformation: It’s History (CIGI)

Why Generation Z falls for online misinformation (MIT Technology Review)

It's a jungle out there

Why Amazon’s £636m GDPR fine really matters* (Wired)

The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream* (Wired)

Open for the best

Natalia Carfi to carry the torch of openness (Open Data Charter)

Tech spec experts seek allies to tear down ISO standards paywall (The Register)

The promise of open-source intelligence* (The Economist)

Private parts

Estonia says a hacker downloaded 286,000 ID photos from government database (The Record)

Here’s how police can get your data — even if you aren’t suspected of a crime (Recode)

Everything else

The social value of data (Bennett Institute)

BIG TECH’S DUTY OF CARE (New Economics Foundation)

Inequality just went stratospheric. Can we bring it down to earth?* (Prospect)

A New Tech ‘Cold War?’ Not for Europe. (AI Now Institute)

THE TIME TAX: Why is so much American bureaucracy left to average citizens?* (The Atlantic)

Can data cooperatives sustain themselves? (LSE Business Review)

medConfidential note on the PRUK green paper and DARE project (medConfidential)

Measuring internet poverty (Brookings)

Data don’t lie, but they can lead scientists to opposite conclusions* (The Economist)

Opportunities

JOB: Head of Digital Data & Digital Democracy (London Borough of Newham, via Martin)

JOB: Executive Director (Digital Freedom Fund)

JOB: Senior Data Analyst (Common Wealth)

JOB: Visuals Project Editor - Visuals (The Guardian)

JOBS: Data for Science & Health team (Wellcome Trust)

JOB: Data Journalist (Tech Monitor, New Statesman Media Group)

JOBS: Data and Digitalisation programme (Ofgem, via Owen Boswarva)

JOB: Head of Strategic Communications and Engagement, Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (DCMS)

JOBS: Economic Advisers - The Digital and Tech Analysis team (DCMS)

JOBS: Modelling Hub Analyst Roles, Data & Analytical Services Directorate (MoJ)

JOB: Director of Analysis (MoD)

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP: Data, Visualisation and Storytelling (The National Archives)

JOB: Product Manager - Data (BBC, via Jukesie)

And finally...

Vennerable

In celebration of John Venn's 187th birthday today, here's a poem in the form of a Venn diagram. (Brian Bilston)

*whispers* that's not actually how they work, but fine, it's funny (@StandingHannah, via David)