AJP (James Phillips)

So true. Getting angry, fearful, sad, egoistic, etc isn't needed to fix problems, and it'll likely make it worse.

What is business? For most people, it isn't what they think it is. youtu.be/GXfjEmHto8c?... Business is not about profit, companies or capitalism. It is about people organising themselves to meet needs, and that distinction matters.

"A picture may be worth a thousand words, a formula is worth a thousand pictures." - Edsger Dijkstra. Love it. So true. Sometimes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula

Thank you for skycommons.okfn.org @okfn.bsky.social I didn't realise how many satellites there are, nor the variation in their ownership.

For the first time in a long time my email inbox no longer shows a second page. It's liberating but hasn't been easy to get to this point: to make space by letting go of old things and hopes for things that might have been but aren't. Perhaps in the space, new things will emerge 🌱

Almost a full moon!

🔀 New paper | Mode Shifting Public service reform isn't stuck because of a lack of good ideas. It's stuck because the state is built to operate in only one mode. Our latest paper argues that government needs to become multimodal - shifting how it delivers according to what best serves citizens.

UK evidence week coming up! What question do you want to ask your members of Parliament? senseaboutscience.org/evidence-wee... From @senseaboutsci.bsky.social

Amazon UK entities' pre-tax profits up from £455m to £555m. It pays corporation tax at an effective rate of 7.1%, headline rate is 25%. Profits shifted through intragroup transactions. UK retailers can't compete with hard-wired systematic tax avoidance.

What an amazing complex system‼️ Spiky trees normally eaten by elephants except when swarms of native ants stop the elephants. More spiky trees gives lions better chance of catching zebras. Invasive ants eat normal ants so elephants eat trees & zebras escape lions‼️ www.nature.com/articles/d44...

Very interesting analysis of recent improvements in LLM performance showing it is pretty dire: it's just brute force computational resource rather than breakthroughs - yet. Great comparison of an incredible exponential graph of transistors per chip vs lacklustre _logarithmic_ AI accuracy increase

The Telegraph warns this weekend that Labour "may need help from the IMF" — Grade F, Fail. The piece runs entirely on a false scarcity frame, telling us that a sterling-issuing government may need to go to the IMF to obtain that which it creates. #UKEconomy

Current UK wind turbine _farms_ Onshore average 19.3 mega watts, max 443 (Viking) Offshore average 315 mega watts, max 1320 (Hornsea 2) They'll be used as the starting point for players in the new National Energy Explorer serious game: wikisim.org/wiki/1272v30 (work in progress)

Frontier AI model when asked for a simple SVG outline of the UK:

Equanimity in the face of seemingly unending challenges and overwhelming odds. Totally inspiring 💪 Thank you Beth Littlewood www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Terrifying and terrifying useful! I did not know any of that. Very quick read

Thank you @vincegomez.com for some much needed insights into economics, what government taxation actually is, what government spending actually is. TLDR: gov spends first by acts of parliament, then collects tax to reduce inflation. vg2000.github.io/money-genera...

Interesting plant based study. 2 weeks from June 2nd, try to eat less animal products and report how you feel each day. Simple. They'll notify you when it's about to start - if you sign up with email or phone at: plantbasedstudy.org?alliance-cod... (I didn't give my real name)

I've started to see products with reviews using an LLM as if that has got any credibility or relevance. _Maybe_ if they showed their prompt:

Strong and kind. Well played. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

I didn't know that at current rates of extraction the North sea oil and gas fields will be depleted by 2031... and that's taking all the known reserves of proven, possible and probable and extracting everything. The North sea is spent, so we need a different plan that adds up. wikisim.org/wiki/1284

I'm prototyping a new serious game: UK National Energy Explorer. One play tester showed some serious dedication to sustainable energy supply from wind! 😂 That would have taken a lot of clicking! 💪 🌬️ Current work in progress: wikisim.org/wiki/1272v11

Pretty incredible map of UK's depleted and active oil and gas fields, wells and pipelines from North Sea Transition Authority experience.arcgis.com/experience/d...

I love bird song

Spent the 10th anniversary of Prof David MacKay's death reflecting on his work and how inspiring his book www.withouthotair.com was for what @wikisim.org is aiming to achieve. Thank you David.

Stock markets don't fund business investment. Why, then, do we worship them? youtu.be/g93iq5wTV-g?...

We need more of this! Intersections between different domains like electricity and flooding / water. Makes me think about this recent work by @aendra.com @data.ft.com: www.ft.com/content/1536... Looking forward to Wednesday's Geo London event.

@kaggle.com FYI I gave up trying to prove I was human after the 4th captcha... all I wanted to do was sign up to upvote a dataset. www.youtube.com/shorts/-BIuf... 🤖

Happy to have added the 100th star to this repo for discrete global grids! :D github.com/sahrk/DGGRID Even happier to have just found it implements an equal area hexagonal grid.

Ian called in and essentially said the reason we focus on migrants and not the uber rich exploiting us is because… “You’ll never stop the rich” WRONG There is a way and our millionaire/billionaire class are TERRIFIED of it.