Attended a great and uplifting pro-democracy event in TheConduit tonight which I will post about shortly. This is a re-share of my request for anyone interested in supporting our democracy and improving our collective and individual abilities to make sense of our complex world to get in touch.

Suella Braverman says Reform would scrap the Equality Act 2010. Law prevents discrimination on the basis of age, disability, gender, marital status, race, religion and sexual orientation. Reform taking us back to Victorian era, removing hope. Our predecessors fought hard for social rights.

Hey, if you know anyone working on pro-democratic innovation please share this with them, or if you don't, please share anyway! Thank you 🙂 I'd love to connect with others to support our politicians in keeping their promises and help ourselves and each other...🧵 ajamesphillips.com/blog/motivat...

I can't get enough of this writing, so good. Thank you @pollymackenzie.bsky.social howtorunacountry.substack.com/p/this-is-mid

Every little helps for one last push for Dr Day to defend all NHS doctors as whistleblowers www.crowdjustice.com/case/what-wi...

There are so many amazing UK institutions and organisations to help us. I learnt about www.locksmiths.co.uk/find-a-locks... today and I knew we had the ONS but on Tuesday I learnt we also have osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/what-we-do/ and uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/about-the-au... ...

This sounds like a wholesome event to attend: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/havering-c... cc @haveringstreets.bsky.social #peace through listening, understanding, discernment and wisdom.

Great finding from @ipsa.org by NewCitizenProject.com like: > Citizens want more participation. Every single participant said they would take part again. As one member put it: “this is what democracy should look like”. theipsa.org.uk/whats-democr... www.newcitizenproject.com/projects/ips...

ICYMI, we joined @oxfamgb.bsky.social and @mills4humanity.bsky.social in signing a letter urging leaders at Davos to tax millionaires more. Read this week’s Closer Look to see how taxing the super rich can help win back our democracies. patrioticmillionaires.org/perspectives...

We've got the internet, but it still seems safer, easier and more reliable to copy data rather than rely on flaky URLs to connect to it. Some data design philosophy for @wikisim.org. Thanks Stefan Magdalinski and Icebreaker One for prompting this post.

I agree though when we look at this through the lens of #5whys / dependent origination then the aspects of our societies, economies, legal systems that originated clickbait are still in place. Without changing those dependencies then clickbait (& worse like AI nonsense titles) will keep originating

I finally have a reason to go to the gym again: Claims: > one of the best ways to help democracy and reintegration of our societal fabric is to be in person with others > "45% of people spend more time alone than they did 10 years ago." youtu.be/qogvYkSGp-s?... (3 mins or youtu.be/qogvYkSGp-s?...)

@rob.pickering.org this article was fascinating www.forestcity.uk/blog/buildin...! Would be interested to hear how it's progressing, and if there are any existing crowd source platforms you're thinking of leveraging. I'd also like to offer to help start a DigitalTwin of the city if interested?

Billionaire wealth jumps to highest ever at $18.3 trillion, up 16% in 2025, up 81% since 2020 Half the world lives in poverty. Billionaires are 4,000 times more likely to hold political office than normal people. Richest 56 Britons hold more wealth than 27m. Concentration of wealth is a danger.

“I’ll do a war because I didn’t get a Peace Prize” is such open abuser logic

It still surprises me you can get good performance with even tiny models on top of TESSERA embeddings. Here's how to find solar farms in the UK with a small ~42k CNN: toao.com/blog/earth-o...

> Krapivin was not held back by the conventional wisdom for the simple reason that he was unaware of it. “I did this without knowing about Yao’s conjecture” This is my excuse for not reading much heheh! www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduat... via @joshtuddenham.dev joshtuddenham.dev/blog/hashmaps/

I’m excited to start a new #ConversationUpgrades series. The first was rewarding and fun to write. If you’ve seen conversations, online or otherwise, bogged down by partial truths, name-calling, or misinformation, share them here. I’d love to uncover the insights hiding beneath.

Ever wonder how our economy actually works and why it feels stacked against working people? Our Founder & President Erica Payne breaks it down on Let’s Address This with @qasimrashid.com on how the tax code functions and what it would actually take to fix it. www.qasimrashid.com/p/episode-20...

Inspiring. True strength. (And finishes with a classic British understatement): > I didn't want to be consumed with grief and this is my way forward... Other people in his gang have changed their life around because of it, so surely some good's coming out of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

😂😂 > I don’t remember why we ran this study. I definitely remember seeing the results and going “yes!! We nailed it!! It all makes sense!” but now I can’t remember why. I asked Ethan about it and he was like, “bro I do not even remember RUNNING this one,” www.experimental-history.com/i/84559197/s...

@leaflet.pub , I just lost some drafted work when I refreshed a draft that I was editing. Anything I can do to maybe recover it? Are there versions stored anywhere local or remote? Thanks for your help!

Related to @wikisim.org's mission: "We've got this problem at the moment where there's no agreement over what facts are or what the truth is. So you can hardly even have a debate about some of these issues let alone come to any conclusion." - former head of MI6’s Russia desk youtu.be/7YOQ64iEB78?...

Most of the billionaires who own superyachts are converging on the small island of St. Barts for NYE, and Maduro has the chance to put on the funniest fireworks display ever.

A humorous and arresting sentence! > Wikimedia editors' current power structure is an ad-hocracy, a mix of anarchic, despotic, democratic, republican, meritocratic, plutocratic, technocratic, ochlocratic, and bureaucratic elements. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimed... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhocracy

Finally written up anot8.org after 5 years, better late than never! Would be great to see sub-citations start to appear in more places like academia, news and social media. They're so much more joyful and efficient to work with and definitely aid #SenseMaking sense-making.leaflet.pub/3mbapo32hx22w

We just have to be patient! At some point, politeness, decency and education will be cool again!

That was a great curve ball! Makes sense but was not expecting that: > The people who are fighting only for themselves are very pessimistic, the people who are working for themselves And others are optimistic Beautiful. Sympathetic joy, true love at work. youtu.be/E4D5doaKulk?...

Hey thank you for this @nonzerosumjames.bsky.social. I have contemplated this a lot and was struggling with it but I think I've found some easier ways of thinking about it. I wrote some reflections here, I'd be grateful to hear your thoughts on them: sense-making.leaflet.pub/3mahfu6sepk22

Happiness and love. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... I'm not in power. I'm only in power of myself. I want to plant a seed of true happiness in myself not anger and I want everyone else to be truly happy. Not the superficial happiness, but the deep #happiness of knowing life in this infinite universe.

In U.S. healthcare, as in higher education, you get all the outrageous costs and inequalities of the private sector PLUS all the political subordination of a public system, because these organizations can’t function without government subsidies. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...

A mostly vibe coded attempt at automatic conversion from sound back into a music score. Sound analysis was fine, as you'd expect. Couldn't get the vibe coding to work for creating or recording the correct music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7He0...

Thank YOU @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social! This was such a captivating discussion. We're so grateful you were willing to share your time and knowledge with us!

@mhragovuk.bsky.social doesn't look official or monitored but any advice on how my neighbour can submit a yellow card 🟨 for the ImmForm live attenuated nasal vaccine as it's not in the list? yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk Maybe coincidence but neighbour said their kid had... 🧵

Do you run a podcast you would like me on (or know of one)? Looking to take some bookings in early 2026. Want to talk game design and games ed and not Business Bollocks™️.

TL; DR: to counter scientific / knowledge slop what can @atproto.com do that @orcid.org can't? Do we need to worry about it at all?... science is a "strong link" problem. RE algorithmic engagement factories like Meta selling 16 billion $ per year of scam adverts... yes we should use BlueSky.

Apparently we still don't know why and when hot liquids sometimes freezer faster than cold liquids? Mpemba is inspirational for curiosity and his poor teachers are a reminder that humility is vital iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... via www.quantamagazine.org/does-hot-wat...

I'm very grateful we have food standards agencies and they have set limits but this is putting me off eating processed food in the US 🤢 > 1 or more rodent hairs per 10 grams 🐀 > 5% or more berries by weight are moldy ⚫ > 1 mg or more mammalian excreta per pound 💩 www.fda.gov/food/current...

Thanks @karlisk.bsky.social for pointing me towards @mastroianni.bsky.social's site. www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-a... is a gem. The top comment of "specialist classes make informational gatekeeping processes into safeguards for their own status" was eye opening...

"The moderate increases in taxation that were being talked about, they don't make any difference whatsoever to wealthy people." -Julia Davies, Member of Patriotic Millionaires UK #TaxWealthNotWork #TaxTheSuperRich

What a repository of Opportunity (Problem) Statements for Collective Flourishing is. Why it could help teams working in this space to clarify the opportunities, and foster collaboration. And most importantly: raise the public profile and attract broader attention to this important field.

Fascinating insights into the very human nature of intelligence work; the same human problems showing up: not understanding each others perspectives, different definitions & language, not understanding risk, all sorts of biases from ego, over confidence, etc. www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-be-...

New data on @wikisim.org sourced from @ourworldindata.org. I did not realise the rise in global electricity demand over the last 25 years had doubled and was basically driven entirely by Asia (China and India). wikisim.org/wiki/1134

Amazing complexity that we didn't know about. I'd always thought Killer Whales would have eaten Dolphins instantly so to hear that they cooperate is incredible www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Private equity didn’t just kill Toys “R” Us—it’s draining hospitals, nursing homes, daycare centers, and even local newsrooms. This week’s Closer Look exposes how an industry that claims to “save” companies is actually hollowing out America. patrioticmillionaires.org/perspectives...

This is a great website for understanding more about how our democracy and parliament actually works: www.publicwhip.org.uk their FAQ is fantastic! www.publicwhip.org.uk/faq.php#whatis #democracy

PMUK's Julia Davies reviewed the papers on Sky News this morning discussing everything from charity shops, to chocolate and of course, taxing the super-rich.

The world is now home to 2,919 billionaires, and they are richer than ever before. And of those billionaires, the wealth of just six US tech billionaires grew by $171 billion. We would love to know how much the wealth of their employees grew by, too! www.businessinsider.com/how-many-bil...

This is a brilliant article from @geoffmulgan.bsky.social geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/in-praise-... It is a clear articulation of a significant part of the motivation for what I'm hoping @wikisim.org will become: A Wikipedia for planning futures that actually add up using data, calculations, & models

Some of the experiences and thoughts that have been swirling around my head for a while now on how we help ourselves and each other to better understand our complex world and all the diverse array of opinions and viewpoints in it. I welcome your comments & feedback!