Significant job this one. A chance to shape tech to work for the public interest. Director General for Emerging Technology and Artificial Intelligence at the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology. (£174k) www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

BOSS: you said this would be done two sprints ago ME:

1) what? Cohere is here?!!!! 2) this is crazy

Indeed. It's also bleakly funny seeing people go 'this is harmful for teenagers' (a sentiment with a fairly limited evidence base) who have obviously cooked their brains online to the point that they cannot grasp the really simple 'we should probably ban the problematic parts of this for everyone'.

This is such a fascinating piece about a deeply surreal bit of history: the competition the FT ran *in 1914* inviting readers to speculate about what the map of Europe would look like after the First World War was over:

New AT Protocol website coming! It looks fancy! Highlights building apps, bots/agents, and feeds. Highlights developer features: json, strongly typed, hyperlinked, and more! Has a live firehose! Then there's lots of documentation and tutorials. "We can just build things"

NYC bus ad: Every member of my polycule has this new app! DC bus ad: The Lockheed Martin Mk 9 Childkiller Missile uses AI to keep America safe

I never understood the obsession with buying a Mac Mini to run OpenClaw, but running it on a Steam Deck feels GOATed.

We built Jikipedia, a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal. It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated.

i’m gonna put this in the background of my podcast videos and claim it as a write off

You should definitely consider picking up a Weekend FT today, because it's the magazine MAPS special. Radical cartography, maps that changed the world, an FT reader competition that almost started a war, they don't love you like i love you, MAPS! www.ft.com/content/efab...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

public datasets hosted on ATproto

Oooh check out the buzzing Octosphere research feed! octosphere.social/feed #science #atscience #metascience

this is my 9/11

In a competitive field, “hiring Chris Wormald and then being surprised that he is a civil service mandarin of the old school” is the most embarrassing thing Keir Starmer has done.

Over the past year, @vegh.ca and I have been working on something very exciting! We thought we'd give you a little teaser now and you can sign up to hear more very soon.

Nobody understands vetting, but its broken. We can do better. Enough opaque with dark arts: set up transparent explainable system. Offer X many vetting slots per month, and let departments AND companies bid for them with discounts for delays. Surplus goes to more capacity and bonuses for the staff.

ugh why does it keep crying

🚨📰New WP 🚨📰 How does social housing design affect neighborhoods decades later? We study London gangs to show that postwar urban planning—specifically high-rise public housing construction—had lasting effects on gang formation @cep-lse.bsky.social

"One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset" www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

So, not to toot my own trumpet, but I made the front page of Hacker News so I'm officially kind of a big deal now news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4687...

🧵 Went to an ATProto meetup, got inspired, built a thing! octosphere.social is an experimental bridge between www.octopus.ac and that ATProto network, turning your Octopus research into distributed records that others can react to, respond to and build on.

This is a great *paid* opportunity for larp designers from @makeascenemn.bsky.social! Submit a short pitch and if selected get $300 to write the scenario. First-time designers and BIPOC are especially encouraged to pitch – and you can be from anywhere!

Bloody hell, I've only gone and written an actual effing book. Uncorrected proofs go out tomorrow for the purposes of securing swanky endorsements. If you'd like to get your copy when it launches later this year, you can buy Power Play here: linktr.ee/Power_play_b...

Despite being banned, Chinese users (likely via VPNs) are HuggingFace's top user group. They definitely have the most people *building* open models.

Today I'm excited to announce @sequoia.pub: a CLI for self-hosted blogs to publish @standard.site lexicons to the ATmosphere sequoia.pub/blog/introdu...

Wamellow now let's you like posts within #discord by reacting with a light blue heart 🩵-emoji to any message containing a #bluesky link!! Doing that for the first time will send you an authorization link via DMs. 📖 Bluesky -> Discord: wamellow.com/docs/notifications 👉 Invite: wamellow.com/invite

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

recorded a Windows 95 full disk defrag to soothe your timeline.

I'm at @aendra.com's atproto meetup tomorrow at Newspeak House, hopefully showing off bibliome.club... anybody else around? #atproto #london

The fact that Harold Shipman has his own category is so wild

Hell is watching Tucker Carlson, Piers Morgan and Richard Branson doing keynotes at a Saudi real estate conference.

This is an amazing fact. Also, the bear from Annihilation is so effed up that Google is reluctant to show it to you

Gemini in Gmail is going really well🤦‍♂️

So it looks like the government is announcing a National Police Service. Again. It's one of those ideas that seems perfect from the outside, but yet we never seem to be able to get right. It got my brain whirring, so I wrote up some reflections. andreasthinks.me/posts/reflec... #Policing #uk

To all Python people who feel bored with the content online, and are craving deeper dives, we're here to help. Starting today I'm going to help moderate a little part of the internet where you are free, nay encouraged!, to share interesting notebooks. Please join and share!

👇 Agree with this. There’s a somewhat pernicious “we haven’t presented the British public with this trade-off in plain language but we are going to act as if we have and they have Decided To Be Irresolute”.

In case there are any ThunderCats and/or rpg fans in my sphere, this is a new fun cool games project I got to do a little work on last year and there’s roughly 24 hours left to get in on some ~exclusive~ editions www.kickstarter.com/projects/toy...

quick vibe check: what models are people using for coding nowadays? It seems everyone used to just pay $200 for Claude max and hit up opus all the time, but figure you can probably do something similar with opus plan / some cheaper models in act mode....? #vibecoding #llm #AI

I'm so glad someone else is saying this because I will always have a soft spot for Indoctrination Theory

This is an important point, because the Rules Of The Universe mean that it's simply impossible for a G7 government to post in two or three different places. It can't be done! There are no apps! YOU'RE IMAGINING IT!

NEW ‘Scandal’. A word to be used sparingly - but this is it. Ministry of Justice is spending over £100 million on a prison that can’t hold prisoners - Dartmoor. Key decisions taken in March 2022. Justice Secretary was Dominic Raab & Permanent Secretary Antonia Romeo, now at the Home Office…

Bumping this again. We'd really value the feedback of anyone who has read Performance Tracker. If you haven't yet, you can read it below....and then fill in the survey www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...

Glorious, scathing, righteous article today by @stephenkb.bsky.social. I continue to be confused why Keir Starmer, an *actual human rights lawyer*, can't make this argument.

Director of the CIA is in the room but you have OSINTdefender's twitter page up on the screen

I am once again disappointed our Prime Minister, an *actual human rights lawyer*, can't stand up and proudly say that idea of stripping someone of their citizenship without due process because of stuff they put on twitter is profoundly wrong.

Having had a day to think through everything about El-Fattah, here's where I stand. Yes, it's possible to believe all of these things at once! In fact, it really shouldn't be that hard.

Very good. I would add on “8)” - people going “it was a long time ago” are contributing to the same problem of “citizenship is conditional” that they are trying to oppose. He could have sent those tweets today and he would still be a British citizen.