The quality of cycling on display in central London this morning is absolutely awful!

Can you offer feedback in this sneak preview of my populism decoded newsletter www.linkedin.com/posts/jonath...?

How can the UK strengthen the role of people and communities in “Sovereign AI”? sycamore-collective.org/how-can-the-...

5 reasons why Morgan McSweeney using AI to focus group made up voters is really stupid…any you would add? www.linkedin.com/posts/jonath...

Are you ready for the future of communication? rootcause.global/are-you-ready/

I feel like this sums up a fair bit of why the UK isn’t quite firing on all cylinders.

Surely, surely, this should be called Vic-Tok? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Fast track passport control can do one!

Can someone who follows the migration conversation fact check this? My assumption is ‘crossed’ includes ferries etc or some other dodgy framing so this is wildly misleading… would like to know…

I’ve just eaten a Twiglet out of nostalgia and I urge you not to do the same. Ever.

Some people have kept asking 'bout these questions about AI use in UK government so they've been put on a website to make them easier to find & share sycamore-collective.org

Very painful encounter with midjourneys autotagging today.

I wish Keir Starmer would put a punitive tariff on the import of techno-authoritarian politics from the US.

Coffee is very expensive.

Just reading about the awful Luton school shooting plan. Went to close the tab and look what Google was promoting me to search…🤢😡

This is a very sensible set of questions that any sensible person should be asking before signing away our taxes to AI companies…

This is superb and a fact-based elucidation of a real problem when it comes to building greater consensus around U.K’s future to nullify extremism.

I get a lot of AI marketing/lead Gen spam. Was quite impressed by one today that had clearly read the Rootcause website and then tailored 3 ideas for me that they wanted to discuss. Shows people getting their heads around potential, even if I didn’t and won’t reply!

My 4 y/o just told me that earlier he ‘found a chicken’s bone to make a wish with’ & made a wish but then told me he ‘can’t tell anyone what it was otherwise it won’t come true’ and now I want to know what it was more than I’ve ever wanted to know anything, because maybe I can make it come true.

Asking for a friend but erm, who’s the leader of the free world these days?

Banning teenagers from social media is an exceptionally stupid idea. Maybe let’s try holding social media companies to higher safety standards!!?? www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

Really useful examples of 10 stories that were stopped because of Meta’s factchecking: edmo.eu/publications...

Video#3 - Misinformation & Disinformation: Red Herrings? www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-...

Counting down the hours until I see something about US Govt data now being used to train Grok.

Here's thing about Bluesky...Video #2 in my series on the Future of the Information Environment: www.linkedin.com/posts/jonath...

In 2016 I wrote a piece for Devex about how US institutions would be tested under Trump. They passed that test. They don’t look like passing it again. The piece seems to have been deleted…

Can someone create an LLM process that rewrites every article on the US administration as if what was being written about an African country please? Might help crystallise the picture a little.

Past the point of parody.

Labour should do this re: the lobby

Would feel better about Heathrow 3rd runway if the recently ‘completed’ infrastructure project to get people TOO Heathrow actually worked reliably. Location just isn’t great.

Deadline you say?

Listen to @jennifernadel.bsky.social on Harry Cole's 'Never Mind The Ballot' proposing the urgent and practical reforms, we believe, are essential to safeguard UK democracy in light of Trump's election: 💰 Cap political donations to end foreign interference. 📝 Regulate social media as publishers.

Some thoughts from the #politicaltechsummit in this video: www.linkedin.com/posts/jonath...

To anybody wondering if Linked In Premium is worth it, ask yourself this: Would you pay £60 a month discover the person you thought viewed your profile from Prince William’s Private Office actually works at The Prince Of Wales pub in Cornwall…

So, there’s a summit handbook here but the formatting looks oddly familiar to me. Use of AI technology hiding in plain sight?

Live & direct.

It’s a micro point but the idea you can create mass commercial AI products ‘free of ideology/bias’ is quite bizarre. They rely on huge amounts of data that have certain bias baked in, because society is, biased. Usually towards people like Trump…

I don’t know if Elon did a fascist salute and nor do you. Unless one of us has mind-reading powers that is the only fact we can establish. What I do know is that subsequent discourse is a great example of why so many proposed solutions to information disorder are doomed to fail. It’s politics.

Not totally convinced that reducing the number of public consultations at a time of distrust in democracy is quite the AI windfall it's being hyped up as today: www.linkedin.com/posts/jonath...

Exhibit A: www.instagram.com/reel/DFBVv_r... Exhibit B: www.instagram.com/reel/DFD6-_i...

Btw the triple lock is an abomination if you want to address the long-term dynamics of the U.K. economy and Badenoch is right to question it.

Unexpectedly discovered that UNDP did publish some research I did for them last year on the future of the the public sphere. Nice to see it all dolled up! www.undp.org/policy-centr...

I hate to break it you but Elon Musk is right… www.linkedin.com/posts/jonath...

Didn’t think I’d ever be quote sharing Quentin Letts but this made me laugh given all the tech/politics crossover this week.

*Head in hands*

AI Plan summary: Things that cause nodding: Investment in compute Attracting skills & talent Improved use of data Commitment to AI Safety Things that raise eyebrows: Role of US tech companies? Regulators being used to drive delivery? Public data sold off on the cheap? Citizen benefits?

Some thoughts on the UK AI opportunities plan. articles.rootcause.global/p/uk-ai-plan...

@jamestplunkett.bsky.social not usually one for firing my essays at people I don’t know but ref your X/democracy piece you may enjoy these two pieces. 1. rootcause.global/wp-content/u... and 2. rootcause.global/wp-content/u...

WTF, Zuck? Some thoughts on this from me: articles.rootcause.global/p/wtf-zuck

Feels like a good day to reshare my piece on ‘Winning the Fight for the Future of Information’ rootcause.global/wp-content/u...