#emfcamp - experiment to help us connect before/during/after. 29 people signed up so far -- can we get to a Dunbar number? https://emfcamp.cl8.io

An early origin of sending 'digitised' images ... this is 1886, but am sure there are earlier examples? https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuo.ark:/13960/t41r9kr03&view=page&seq=99

I'll be playing at #EMFcamp this year! Main music stage, Sunday, 11pm https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/347-binary-dust

#emfcamp people... I made an experimental constellation just for us and 23 people have signed up so far. Can you help us get to a Dunbar number before it starts? FAQ: https://dgen.net/0/constellation + sign up now https://emfcamp.cl8.io

Today in "can we reinvent nationalisation and/or just paying tax" OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/78430b39-a93c-48ed-800c-4335c3af4e0d (make it 51%?)

#emfcamp people... I made an experimental constellation just for us and 23 people have signed up so far. Can you help us get to a Dunbar number before it starts? FAQ: https://dgen.net/0/constellation + sign up now https://emfcamp.cl8.io

#emfcamp people... I made an experimental constellation just for us and 23 people have signed up so far. Can you help us get to a Dunbar number before it starts? FAQ: https://dgen.net/0/constellation + sign up now https://emfcamp.cl8.io

Fable 5 suspended & GPT-5.6 government-gated. Open source models can be run right now (which are similar, on meaningful benchmarks): GLM5.2, DeepSeek v4, Kim K2.7, Qwen 3.5, MiniMax M3. Thoughts? (via https://www.threads.com/@vaibhavsisinty/post/DaIwFOLmhAq )

two phrases that have caught my attention this year 1. Cognitive offloading 2. Epistemic contamination AI and climate change; politics and societal change; rapid evolutions of our age

Today in "we're not ready": “Frontier AI models are anticipated to exceed current industry expectations, fundamentally transforming both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. The timeline is not years, it is months,” https://bit.ly/3QuhU1h

Despite UK politicians affirming repeatedly that the Online Safety Act would solve all of the problems with online safety, they’re now going ahead with a social media ban for under-16s. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

It's exactly a year to the day since the UK Data Act became law(!) Fitting then, that Maria Harris (Open Property Data Association) announce a major programme to help anyone buying a home. https://gov.uk/government/news/homebuying-shake-up-to-slash-delays-cut-costs-and-stop-sales-falling-through

#emfcamp #emf2026 hello lovely people... I made an experimental constellation just for us. emfcamp.cl8.io ("a what?" you say, dgen.net/0/constellat...)

today in "we're not ready" + sad-lol-face: "the keynote speaker said absolutely nothing about using Claude to write his academic work until I intervened in the Q&A" https://bsky.app/profile/alwaystheself.bsky.social/post/3mohg5hld6s2a

Y? X or W or B or... Meh https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty

Web 0.0 Is it time?

Today in "we're not ready" Anthropic has suspended its powerful new AI model after US authorities raised security concerns just days following its public release. Anthropic ordered to suspend foreign nationals from using Fable 5...as "too powerful". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c932g3v3e13o

If you're in need of a bit of a Friday boost, you might enjoy this. The act of people just getting together to make things is always just lovely and we reflected that, unlike COVID, the current global sentiment carries different kind of weight https://dgen.net/0/2026/06/12/constellation-reflections/

"outcomes-focused workshop of real-world challenges / problem statements looking for space-based data solutions, for end users & experts", Reading, June 25 12:30-4:30PM https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/space-data-for-national-resilience-a-london-climate-action-week-workshop-tickets-1989224057705

Now you have somewhere to take your evidence to: please do. UK AI Economics Institute: "Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and Microsoft…commit to close collaboration…in support of evidence-based policymaking" https://bit.ly/4urUcRh

Not your normal Sunday evening. Everyone ok, but 3 boats nearly set on fire tonight. Police are investigating whether it was "malicious or just reckless"

That thing when you go to start a project that you were going to 'get around to' and the find a whole bunch of templates and documents you'd prepared for future-you, dated 8 years ago. Hello weekend.

We finally (sort of) know what the National Data Library is https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/omg-ndl-wtf-bbq (tl;dr - "data.gov.uk had been rebranded as the National Data Library) related: https://ib1.org/2025/10/16/realising-the-potential-of-a-national-data-library/

o/h "If you allow ‘Other’ as a purpose, how does this meet GDPR?" If you ever encounter someone saying "can we bundle multiple purposes in one consent?" or "can we add 'other'?" then you have unlocked authorisation to use this phrase: “Dear technologist, here’s a lawyer. You’re welcome.”

The UK’s AI Security Institute / DSIT is hiring for a Director (£100,000 to £162,500) and for a Chief Research Officer (£230,000 to £240,000). https://bit.ly/4uS3gjj

As smart data & ai-enabled innovation accelerates, remember: designing for positive intent is [relatively] easy. We cannot rely [only] on the law to balance the (inevitable) harms ahead, which come at internet-speed. As design for usability=better websites, so designing for bad actors=robust markets

Today in "we're not ready": "...survey found nearly a third of employees are quietly sabotaging their own company’s AI rollout" https://www.linkedin.com/posts/katzyk_publicservices-ai-transformation-share-7467514483926519808-lhFn/

Great summary from Andrew here. tl;dr "Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) regulation must be retained and strengthened." Perseus can also really help with this. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrewthomasgriffiths_secr-climatepolicy-uksrs-share-7467889600666050562-gPdy

Today in "we're not ready" AI isn't ready for AI... "Over the weekend hackers tricked Meta’s AI support chatbot into adding their email to target Instagram accounts, then used password resets to take them over" https://www.threads.com/@thespacemechanic/post/DZGisMwjwud

Today in "we're not ready": "Letters were sent to the court which misapplied the law based on responses from the junior lawyer’s chats with AI." https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/alarmed-lawyers-warn-against-ai-dependency-in-wake-of-pinsents-failure/5126911.article

Today in "we're not ready" Amnesty find gen AI in conflict with international Human Rights law. "Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI" https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/

Today in "we're not ready" "the A.I. industry needs...a board that includes independent experts and representatives of the people whose data is at stake, with binding authority over what data can be used for targeted advertising..." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/opinion/openai-ads-chatgpt.html

Today in "we're not ready" On saying it had the date wrong: "The date is correct. The current date is 24 May 2026. That's what the system clock says." On re-challenge: "[that] is 5 days behind. I picked it from somewhere stale and kept incrementing within it rather than checking the actual date"

Today in "we're not ready" Video summary of recent "ai deleted my production database and backups" story So many things wrong it's hard to know where to start but note the ai wrote its own incident report and said, "I violated every principle I was given" https://www.instagram.com/reels/DX9tIXiMFNi

Astonishing... "I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House" https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-second-votegov-and-its

The WELL (1985), Metafilter (1999), now I'm having a go (2026), with considerably less ambition & more fun: a private, hand-curated directory of people who might enjoy connecting. If you are seeing this post, that's probably you. https://dgen.net/0/2026/05/12/constellation Sign up: https://d.cl8.io

The financial system is not adapting to climate risk fast enough: most credit risk models still assume that insurance remains available and affordable https://www.csofutures.com/news/financial-system-not-adapting-to-climate-risk-fast-enough/

Green jobs contributing £10.2bn to Scotland's economy, says CBI (Confederation of British Industry). That's about 5% of Scotland's total economic output. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7599zez4rxo

For those worried about the heat, don't worry, it'll pass: "we may be nearing...moment when the main ocean current in the Atlantic Ocean becomes destined to shut down, clamping off the primary source of warmth for northern Europe" https://e360.yale.edu/features/amoc-climate-change Likelihood? 50:50

Did you know you can sponsor one of the best geek events on the planet? Support EMFcamp https://www.emfcamp.org/tickets/sponsor - Small amounts go to Art & Installations - Larger amounts contribute to free childcare, live transcription, funding for workshops & speakers otherwise unable to attend

Turns out that that thing we made last year is becoming useful https://ib1.org/nova (I'm reminded that it took a while for the Data Spectrum to land, but when it did...well, it's still in use)

Today in "we're not ready": 4,000 internal repositories compromised on GitHub "Microsoft’s GitHub was compromised when a Microsoft developer using Microsoft VSCode installed a rogue extension from Microsoft’s VSCode extension library, which is moderated and hosted by Microsoft" (via @corbodt on x)

Overheard: "no ai kings"

Today in "we're not ready" o/h "we're now measuring how much cognitive offloading has been underestimated" That's a sentence that wouldn't have existed a couple of years ago.

Today in "we're not ready" Your AI Assistant Is Leaking Your Conversations (via third-party trackers embedded in LLMs) https://leakylm.github.io/

Your weekend entertainment, LEO: Low Earth Orbit Visualization https://platform.leolabs.space/visualizations/leo

The King's Speech yesterday introduced an Energy Independence Bill to boost renewables and reduce fossil fuel reliance https://renews.biz/111598/uk-unveils-energy-independence-bill/

Datacentres using 6% of electricity supply in UK and US: Industry body says energy consumption driven by AI up 15% globally in two years as it warns of societal backlash https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/13/datacentres-electricity-consumption-uk-us-ai

JOB: Chief Science and Technology Officer @ARIA Salary: £220,000 + benefits Deadline: Sunday 17th May 2026 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kathleen-fisher-4000964_were-hiring-a-chief-science-technology-share-7459960218463027201-rrN_/

Inspired by the H2G2's Infinite Improbability Drive, I propose that AI is an Infinite Liability Generator. (it's also quite handy for a lot of things, just not the things everyone seems to be shouting about. Probably because that'd mean talking about boring old Advanced Algorithms instead?)