MoH exhibitions crew assembled yesterday to continue with the making of our next exhibition Criminal: an untold history of homelessness, resistance and survival. Workshop by Surfing Sofas and the Raft Up Crew Opens 21st May Stick it in ur diaries now

New study finds the "canary in the coal mine" for the #AMOC: a consistent decline of the western overturning circulation, down from 20 to 15 Sv during 2004-2023 at 26° N. 🌊 AMOC "could be at or near a critical tipping point, potentially leading to its collapse". www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I made a whole BBC TV series (2020) about the remarkable resilience of the people of Iran and their culture over centuries of threat and callous rule. You can watch it right here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

‘Amazing’: how to grow a meadow in the sea - www.theguardian.com/environment/... "Vibrant seagrass meadows once flourished around the UK but most have been destroyed. Now, communities and scientists are working to restore them" hopeful stuff

Humanity needs photographs like these. Maybe at least someone here, looking at them, will be reminded once more of how petty our conflicts are on this tiny blue marble in the abyss -- and how criminal are those who launch rockets not into space, but into apartment buildings full of people.

Ukraine marks four years since its forces expelled Russian troops from Kyiv region on April 2, 2022, after weeks of intense fighting. The liberation of Bucha, Irpin and Hostomel exposed evidence of atrocities and war crimes. Hundreds of civilians and POWs were mass murdered. #Ukraine

✍️ Digital ID, payments, and data exchange should be treated as public infrastructure, not siloed IT projects. @eaves.ca, @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social, and Beatriz Vasconcellos argue governments must build shared digital foundations to avoid fragmentation. 🔗 Read their new article: buff.ly/bo9FpiL

So good! A wonderful metaphor for what's going on in AI coding today. www.dbreunig.com/2026/03/26/w...

The Cornucopia of Gamified Threat Modeling At the OWASP Cornucopia project, we are done with updating the cards and help pages for the Website App Edition v3.0! dev.to/owasp/the-co... #appsec #cybersecurity #gamedev #security

As someone who has lived in London for 20 years and continues to spend a lot of time here, the change in air quality since the introduction of ULEZ is very noticeable. A great improvement for millions of people www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As a proposed oil & gas project looks set to drill directly through a chalk aquifer beneath the Yorkshire Wolds supplying drinking water to 900,000 people, @sonofedd.bsky.social asks: Who is protecting our water sources? yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/who-i...

DSIT Women in Tech taskforce call for evidence on "the impact of emerging technologies on women’s participation, progression and leadership in tech" - www.gov.uk/government/c...

This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?

New paper from team @aial.ie! aial.ie/research/gpa... EU's AI Act Article 53(1)(d) is an obligation for GPAI model providers to publicly provide a 'summary' on their model’s training data. The team assessed published summaries along 6 dimensions & found that all big providers failed on all 6. 1/

💥 It took 37 hours to register the fourth thousand accounts on @eurosky.social 🎉 The first thousand (a slow, cautious launch) took a couple of weeks, the second 72 hours, the third 31.

Eurosky — EU-hosted AT Protocol infrastructure run by the Modal Foundation, a Dutch public interest non-profit. Independent moderation, relays, PDS hosting, governed in the public interest rather than by VCs. Read more openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky-d...

BTW: EU-Haul is not restricted to migrating your account to @eurosky.social - you can use it to migrate FROM any hoster TO any hoster. E.g. to @blackskyweb.xyz or even back to @bsky.app

Teams can feel busy but still slow. Team Topologies, 2nd Edition helps rethink flow: cut hand-offs, clarify responsibilities, let support teams help, and use small feedback loops. Explore how flow could change the way your teams work ➡️ https://www.teamtopologies.com/book

It happened again

Opaque shell companies in British Overseas Territories used for $8bn trade to bust sanctions against Russia. BVI, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar are key nodes, as in illicit financial flows. Banks, accountants, lawyers involved. UK govts pretend not to know.

Good discussion here on Relational Practice and Place-Based working, including budgeting, which does seem to be developing deep roots. I was interested to hear about the relational approach being applied within council operations, not just with citizens. (Perhaps obvious in retrospect though!)

AGREED! I discovered this several years ago when wanting to cite the Finch Report in a paper. I put a call out - someone located it on the Wayback machine for me. The Finch Report can be accessed in the APO repository apo.org.au/node/29938 I use this now as an example of the value of repositories.

Well, hello world! State of the Future is a new think tank (from @gavinfreeguard.com) for public servants and others who believe data, digital, openness and innovation can deliver better policy, better services and better outcomes for people. sotf.org.uk (Quiet news day to soft launch, eh?)

🆕 Governments need to build the capacity to become digital market shapers In his recent @techpolicypress.bsky.social article, IIPP Co-Deputy Director @eaves.ca outlines how governments can shape the digital cloud market, drawing on historical examples. 🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/HRCM8Yt

Do you make drag-and-drop interfaces? Or do you wish you did, but they're just too hard? We're working on a new way to drag & drop! Wanna try it out? Join our study – we'll ask you about your drag-and-drop experiences, and get your hands on the prototype. Join here: forms.gle/J82tFtu6DqS8.... 🙏!

Great to see the posters of Government Design Principles printed and included in @designcouncil.bsky.social’s ‘Eight Decades of British Design’ book, and the GOV.UK featured as a highlight of the 2010s in a spotlight on ‘Design in the public sector’.

Wow.

"You don't need to understand the code you're shipping to production, you can have guardrails" is my new favourite mechanistic, linear way folks are trying to reduce complex reality to something it's not.

A UK student in the US went to a protest for five minutes. ICE subpoenaed Google for his private details. Google complied. theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...

I’m running a survey to ask researchers what they want the UK Government Web Archive to offer in the future to enable wider use of the collection. If you’re a web archive user, or you would like to be, please take ten minutes to complete this survey: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/UKGWA-Rese...

🧪 It's been 10 years since Dorothy Bishop and I published a commentary in Nature about the risks of transparency. doi.org/10.1038/529459a 1/10

A quick reminder of what #BigFebruary is about… Thanks to the magic of the cosmos, we start gaining daylight much faster in Feb than in Jan. Over 20 mins a week - setting us up for Spring. This chart is by @neilrkaye.bsky.social and is one of my all time favourites.

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Directed by Thom Zimny Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

This is absolutely shocking. Something has to be done about this appalling situation in which so many now find themselves. The government needs to act

Microsoft dropped -10% today despite a revenue beat ($81.27B vs. $80.27B expected) because 1. Data center spending growing faster than revenue because they have a growing customer backlog. 2. 45% of that customer backlog is OpenAI who everyone is skeptical of their ability to pay in the long run.

Every time someone tells me that interoperable protocols are too complicated for the average person, I point out that they use email and the web. The goal needs to be to get atproto to the point that it is just "how the internet works" and the details fade into the background like https & smtp.

Here's the first in a series of instalments from my book ‘Fracture' in which I'm going to explore: — why decades of digital initiatives have failed to deliver the desired modernisation of government — what a modern, adaptive democracy could look like — what changes are needed to get us there

Populist, conspiratorial, & authoritarian stacks perform very well in the new information environment. They deliver speed, certainty, & identity coherence where traditional democratic institutions deliver delay, complexity, & opacity, assuming they're performing in a substantial way to being with.

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CNN airs a compilation of ICE aggression against peaceful protesters in Minnesota

I've signed up for this. Work worth doing: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/23/got-ideas-for-growing-the-open-social-web-bring-them/

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Tomorrow's premium newsletter - The AI Bubble Is A Time Bomb, with every hyperscaler facing $10bn-$20bn a quarter in depreciation in the next two years and AI startups draining all that's left of venture capital. Here's $10 off annual. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

With that much support it's only fair #BBCNews should invite the bots onto #BBCquestiontime. - #TimDavie #Impartiality

🚨 Come to our Power and participation in public tech conference in Manchester on 6th March! 🚨 There'll be inspiration and lessons from practitioners, reformers and activists, as well as time to connect and discuss the topics you care about with peers. Sign up at connectedbydata.org/events/2026-...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

18 and two halves out of 20 after just one year

The official GovCamp pub is announced! #ukgc26 @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social

If you’re travelling from london to GovCamp this seems like the best option. Marylebone route has rail replacement bus. #ukgc26 #ukgovcamp #govcamp Next departures: 08:35 – 10:38 09:02 – 11:15

Not sure if I will make it to #ukgc26 today. Trains to Birmingham from london all cancelled this morning. Disruption expected until 9am. www.nationalrail.co.uk/service-disr... “Emergency services at Leighton buzzard”