“Sweden’s largest private pension fund has divested $8.8 billion in US Treasuries, the most significant withdrawal yet from American government bonds since Trump’s Greenland crisis erupted, citing “increased risk and unpredictability in US politics,” thedeepdive.ca/swedens-larg...

The Inquiry uploaded a *lot* of new documents over the past few months. I’ve finally gone through and added all 11,757 of them to postofficeinquiry.dracos.co.uk for all your searching needs

Hell of an argument for banning social media for under 16s from Kemi this. Get kids off it so we can be free to carry on destroying our democracy and tearing apart our society without them.

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the increasingly alarming scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.

“Twenty minutes later, the boy’s brother, who is in middle school, came home to a missing dad, a missing little brother and a terrified mother, she said.”

I’m looking for my right-hand person to come help me run the @aial.ie - Job Title: Lab Coordinator, AI Accountability Lab (0.8 FTE) - Pay Scale: (€58,999 - €69,325 per annum pro-rata) - Closing Date: 11-Feb-2026 12:00 Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui... Main Responsibilities👇🏾

My post on ICE, a marauding lawless private police force.

Caught up on Carney's Davos speech. Powerful - cites Havel filtered through Kundera anti kitsch sensibility "When rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself. But let's be clear-eyed where it leads. A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile, less sustainable"

This guy doesn’t realise how much of a symptom of the problem he is. A back-combed, permatanned avatar of smugness handing out lectures to people whose responsibilities he can’t even begin to encompass.

Fun fact, ~200l water is used for a cubic meter of business as usual concrete. And there is a lot of that around and still planned for a no future-future.

’Osborne is just about two weeks into his new full-time job with OpenAI, and he’s got one of his most important gigs of the year very early into his tenure. His new role comes with the job title of managing director, but in practice he is […] head of its “OpenAI for Governments” initiative.’

*DANISH PENSION FUND AKADEMIKERPENSION TO EXIT US TREASURIES

This article provides much needed context to the otherwise baffling approach TBI is taking. www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

This was in the donations pile this week and at first glance I thought ‘here we go’ but after leafing through it for a bit, I’ll admit I’m wrong. This looks brilliantly insightful and painfully true.

Your reminder of european-alternatives.eu . Used it the other week to find an alternative newsletter service and was delighted to discover France's www.brevo.com - which seems to have a great price, service (for what we wanted) *and* compliance (e.g. anonymised tracking).

I’ve been reading Trump’s "Board of Peace Charter," and despite the name, this isn’t a multilateral institution, it’s a centralised structure built entirely around the authority of one person (Trump). www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...

UK Gov procurement process: - We have a framework. It'll last for a few years - You have to apply by X date. No applications after that - We'll let you know your result in 6-7 months 6-7 months later - You have been successful! Please read our assessment - You have EIGHT DAYS to sign the framework

"One possible advantage that European AI labs hold over the large American firms—closed shops that share very little about their training data or the intricacies of their model design—is a willingness to develop out in the open." #openinnovation

Europe is America's biggest customer for fossil gas exports, by a pretty decent margin. One hell of a time to be directly antagonising and alienating the key customer for the already-shaky LNG boom in the US www.netzeroinvestor.net/news-and-vie...

Maybe we can, oh I dunno, start to have a conversation with voters about this? The problem is not going to go away.

Emergency meeting of EU Member States representatives 5pm today, to discuss relations with the US

A massive "Hands off Greenland" protest is happening right now in Copenhagen to demonstrate against Trump's threats. "The aim is to send a clear and unified message of respect for Greenland's democracy," organisers said. “Respect for Greenland, respect for Greenlanders, respect for Denmark.”

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

The link below will take you to Duck Duck Go's live public vote for whether to incorporate AI or not and I just voted and, lmao

An irregular reminder that 'consent' in public services is ~mostly~ at group-level - think 'policing by consent' - rather than at individual-level - think 'I consent to receive marketing emails' - & that creates need for stronger system-level guardrails & 'participatory'/'democratic' activity

I’m obviously biased as I built the digital Apprenticeship Service but these are corking opportunities in a growth area.

Do we need new protocols too? The features most of us enjoy from certain email and calendar providers are not native to the protocols, which creates a switching cost for anyone adopting a sovereign tech stack.

Fellow train travellers, in case you missed this last night…

Most of you follow for my art, but I live in Minneapolis right now & I have to tell you how bad things are here now. I'm not sure if what you're seeing on the news really does it justice. It's basically a battle ground on the streets.

WE'RE LIVE NOW! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmWh...

"Machine Learning" and "Artificial Neural Networks," not LLM or GPT type "generative AI"

I just received an email @interraileu.bsky.social (who have yet to post here) regarding this data breach. However, this post is dated two days ago. Data that may have been breached includes: - Identity information (of course) - Contact information (naturally) And… - Passport information (what?!)

Wondering what parallel media ecosystems are springing up in this time of consolidation & its manufactured consent/passive complicity. Indepymedia centers are one historical example; today is much more online. I think of Sandra Jepson's book Transformative Media: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Liz Kendall speaking in the House of Commons now: "it is not just an affront to decent society; it is illegal ... this is child sexual abuse" "It is insulting to victims to say: you can still have this service if you are willing to pay. It is monetising abuse"

Join us as we launch our latest report, on where crucial data on election donations gets lost in the system. A free, online event - reserve your spot here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mysociety-...

So... I've created a starter pack of UK government organisations currently on Bluesky: go.bsky.app/JHsY1Wz (Currently includes all those listed under ministerial and non-ministerial departments here www.gov.uk/government/o... - let me know any I've missed, or got wrong)

'Khan said addressing the causes of serious violent crime, such as the effects of poverty and lack of opportunities, had been key, as had the work of the Violence Reduction Unit covering London that was set up in 2019, which took a longer term approach.'

Amazing. Headline also made me smile, as I don’t seem to remember the mountains around Port Talbot being volcanic.

Some interesting ideas here.

Fascinating story about how genome-based theories of disease clouded our understanding of exposome-based explanations of disease and how those errors are now slowly being corrected. “Your exposome is the sum of your own personal environmental exposures, from the womb to the casket.”

Want a job? Provide your new employer with what you did for your previous employers that they paid you to do, so that your new employer can work to make you unemployable. Your contract ends or isn't renewed. You move on, puzzled to find potential new employers won't trust you.

The Society for Hopeful Technologists listened to our community. We know many folks feel tech has gone in the wrong direction and don't know what to do about it. We're going to start by building a solidarity network that makes it easier for Hopeful Technologists to act hopeful.technology

I initially thought this was a bit of AI. But no, this is Evergreen's Ever Ace. Built in 2021. Length / Beam: 400 / 62 m. One of a series of 13 similar cargo vessels, Ever Ace holds the record for the most containers loaded on a single ship: 21,710 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergre...

Job – Head of Product for www.data.gov.uk at DSIT's new GDS www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi... The job is "replacing data​.gov​.uk with a world-class digital platform" – presumably the so-called National Data Library – and #opendata isn't mentioned once #govtech #techpolicy

🚨 Exclusive: Tony Blair isn’t just a big fan of AI — he's now trying to build and sell AI tools to governments Tony Blair Institute staff have described the plan as 'insane' and compared it to Palantir New by D4S and @lighthousereports.com 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/blair-bids...

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

In case you're wondering how water gets billed in other countries: Today my bill came, to my amusement, via my personal French tax account. It used to come from the commune (circa 800 people), so they've handed over billing to the local tax office which serves a much bigger population.

The dictionary definition of ‘wholesome content’.

The most telling thing about the grok business is that the government refuse to take any meaningful action. VAWG and CSAM are less important than whatever reason they have for not acting be it fear, greed, stupidity or corruption. This is a truly bizarre situation. I can recall nothing like it.