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Day 356 of non-stop #GeorgiaProtests! 🇬🇪🇪🇺🇺🇸

love this for you ICC www.euractiv.com/news/interna...

I get frustrated by the press release culture around time savings from AI tools. I couldn't resist responding to a recent one about Microsoft Copilot in the NHS. There's still a missing step of being able to reimagine the future of work with technology benholliday.com/2025/10/23/4...

The most common things engineering leaders think will make dev teams go faster actually have the opposite effect. codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/t...

Bad news from Georgia where Georgian Dream is banning the opposition and charging its main leaders with plotting a coup.

Incredible thread from Steve. Please read.

I'll tell you something. I have a private theory that this kind of division (which is clear as day to ppl in tech and like, baffling to ppl outside of it) is a version of the "I will help you survive but not thrive" phenomenon but worked out re: tech belonging journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Blind (and much of mainstream media!): the AWS outage is the result of “mass layoffs, outsourced talent.” Me: talks to the AWS engineers handling the incident. Turns out the creators of the systems impacted were in the call (not laid off!), no outsourcing etc Will share more

Oldest victim of Post Office scandal, 92, receives final compensation payout. At last. But ruined lives can't be restored. £1.2bn paid to 9,100 victims from public purse. Not a penny from PO execs, Fujitsu, lawyers, accountants, advisers who benefited from persecution of the victims.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

I keep being amused by some devs claiming that multi-region support for a service should be easy to add. Then turns out they're unaware of what active-active arch is. Multi-region support is not all that complex from afar, but it gets complicated with the details.

I was deadly nerdsniped: Nick Kimber on LinkedIn: “Hello. Can anybody point me to a decent accessible history of relational practice/thinking/ leadership (ideally short form)?” stream.syscoi.com/2025/10/24/n...

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

Come and join an open house meeting to further shape these and work out what to do next. We need a collective hopeful tech vision if we have any chance of putting out the current ridiculous bin fire fuelled by hype, power & billionaire egos. Booking links in this post buttondown.com/society-of-h...

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

Are there any live proposals to get DSIT (and/or CLG?) to create a Civic Tech Fund? An initiative to support the UK’s civic tech movement (pro-social platforms like Library of Things, Olio, Park Run, etc) and shared infrastructure for community organising. 1/n

Some people are saying the potential overbuild because of AI might not be a bad thing because, like the dotcom era, it could leave behind infrastructure we’ll benefit from for a long time. 1/6

Refactoring is a key skill for good software design and it's also something you can get better at through practice. Check out my newly-published video training course which has lots of examples and exercises you can try courses.cd.training/courses/refa...

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

On Monday Oct 6:

“[With WhatsApp] gold is in the ingredients, but Signal is the gold standard. Privacy is our sole focus. We do one thing and we do it very, very well, which is provide the world’s largest actually private communications platform” Join Signal and persuade just one of your friends to do the same

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

this is very good www.gov.uk/service-manu...

Lots to love if this holds for CA crops: -utility-scale solar that doesn't require wrecking desert habitat -less water use, probably less dust -more options for siting close to existing transmission -on-site generation for switching diesel pumps to electric and cleaning up the air

Names for the three-in-a-row game, around the world… *Tic-tac-toe (US) *Noughts and crosses (UK) *Crosses and buns (Denmark) *Butter, cheese and eggs (Netherlands) *Sausages (Latvia) *Cat (Mexico) *Game of the old lady (Brazil) *Tripp-trapp-tresko (Norway) *Pubic louse (France) *Hobo chess (Sweden)

Delivering value incrementally— infrastructure edition

Friday's premium newsletter: An 8k word analysis of how everybody is losing money on gen AI, with some startups spending 100%+ of their revenue on compute. Even GPU providers are struggling. Here's a 24 hour $10 discount off annual. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Aug 26, 1965 - “Climatic Change appears to be underway” – the commencement speech that should have rocked the world Carl Borgmann at University of Tennessee; "CO2... traps heat from the sun, and climatic change results – not overnight, but slowly and surely” allouryesterdays.info/2025/08/25/c...

At a time of pressure on higher education here is one bright spot. Our @britishacademy.bsky.social Early Career Researcher Network now has national coverage and provides a free support network to humanities & social science researchers across the UK! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/early-c...

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

News flash - AI stock prices might be based on hype and speculation rather than actual profitability

Anyone know of any good books on public sector management based on relationships and place, as an alternative or complement to New Public Management? (I have Radical Help by @hilarycottam.bsky.social ) Paging @andrewlaird.bsky.social @profdonnahall.bsky.social @tobylowe.bsky.social

Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.

What are you doing this autumn? Fancy spending time in Spain, or Berlin, or Paris, or Amsterdam, or best of all, lovely lovely MANCHESTER? Come join me!

Please note the event is free and open to those who work in pubs, and those who campaign for them, or anyone who is passionate about supporting our #pubs. Event will be in person in Nottingham, and also online. Please get in touch if you’re interested in attending

260th day of the #GeorgiaProtests For the request of the detained Nino Datashvili, a protest made on Freedom Square in support with journalist Mzia Amaghlobeli, co-founder and director of Batumelebi and Netgazeti, who got sentenced to a two years jail time on August 6.

Tuesday 19 August is the next breakfast and co-working day at the Government Digital Service in #Manchester run by the One Team Gov North crew. Free tickets via www.eventbrite.com/e/oneteamgov...

T.I.L that gov.uk runs their CMS (which is huge) on Kubernetes: docs.publishing.service.gov.uk/kubernetes/#... Better still, the docs are MIT and anyone can make a PR / contribute: github.com/alphagov/gov...

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif. He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza. Speechless.

Appetite for public service reform isn’t new. But something has shifted. Buried in the last Spending Review were three quiet commitments: 👥 Integrate services around people’s lives 🛑 Shift from crisis to prevention 🌍 Devolve power and design with communities They point to a bigger change. 🧵1/8

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Advocates, journalists and humanitarians have consistently warned about famine as Israel has blocked food from entering Gaza for the past 4 months. We are on the brink of thousands of Palestinians starving to death in a 21st century holocaust — and most of the world does nothing.

Said it before - procurement teams across government are being treated like unreproachable Gods and it's absolutely ruining multiple policy areas because they'd don't know what they're doing.

Investigate your dependencies with Deptective #SuggestedRead #devopsish blog.trailofbits.com...