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In 2018 (ish) at Harvard Kennedy School I saw a talk about cyber (my poor filing system means I can’t find the notes) that included the proposition: how you think about cyber depends if you believe vulnerabilities in software are common or sparse.

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I wonder if the people panicking about Mythos + open source...

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Given generative AI is all about predicting next words, when do I get a better spell check!? (I regularly have to Google words because my dyslexia induced misspellings are so bad my computer just shrugs).

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Good thoughts from @edent.tel on closing open-source repos because Mythos:

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https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/does-mythos-mean-you-need-to-shut-down-your-open-source-repos/

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I would strongly recommend reading the UK’s AI Safety Institute’s evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities and the NCSC’s advice. Neither of them recommend closing down Open Source code.

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Keep coming back to this video in the context of AI-based public services: www.youtube.com/watch

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If mentalizing / epistemic trust is the key to learning some things, is it ever OK for machines to fake it, or should machines only be in a supporting role to human relationships.

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The Palintir mini manifesto at least makes it clear that if you buy their software you are buying it to a transnational political, military and economic project. The problem is public procurement officers are not exactly best placed to make that sort of decision. Software is politics!

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This is beginning to feel like an inevitability:

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Davey says war bonds would help to speed up UK defence spending

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Kingsdown, Kent

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Stop searching for AI ‘use-cases’. Design AI into services…

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https://www.rpp.works/ways-of-doing/stop-searching-for-ai-use-cases-design-ai-into-services/

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At the British Academy for a day long policy lab

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Noted on the way in: the dedicated Champaign cork recycling box

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Positioning AI

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https://www.rpp.works/ways-of-doing/positioning-ai/

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Captcha aesthetics are getting weird

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More of this ministers showing prototypes please
\nhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62d1ql5w0vo

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In the search for calm things to play while kids are having breakfast, I stumbled across David Bowie doing Peter and the Wolf: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davi… It’s mostly very Jackanory, but with occasional very Bowie pronunciations of things like “the wolf ^jumped^”

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie_Nar...

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I have literally no idea if I have verified my identity with Companies House or how to check. I thought I had done it early on and felt very smug, but it matched on my GOV.UK One Login email address, which was different. Then I thought I did last month. Still getting emails saying it’s not been done.

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There’s...

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The House of Commons Library on the concept on impeachment*

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Impeachment is considered obsolete, as it has been superseded by other forms of accountability, and the rules underpinning the procedure have not been adapted to modern standards of democracy or procedural fairness

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commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-…

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* in English/UK context

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Help National Conversations fill the bookshelves of newly elected members of the Senedd and Scottish Parliament with books on digital government (including Platformland!):

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www.linkedin.com/posts/tra…

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Getting a grip - designing social objects for AI and humans, and the end of the end-to-end journey

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https://www.rpp.works/ways-of-doing/getting-a-grip/

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This is really welcome from Manish Srivastava on how to do verifiable decisions/appeals in an unbundled state in the age of AI:

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https://digitalstatecraft.substack.com/p/the-minimum-digital-kernel-of-an

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It is the smallest set of shared digital capabilities needed for an unbundled state to behave like a rule-of-law machine: legitimacy is legible, decisions are reproducible, and remedies are enforceable. Everything else, the apps, counters, intermediaries, and fulfilment channels, can remain plural.

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Stereolab on The Word:

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youtu.be/Ttq4RLTsz…

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This track still does odd things to my brain, too many contradictions. When I hear music, I sort of half visualise an $n-dimensional space with the music moving through it. When I listen to French Disko, the space keeps collapsing in on itself (is the best...

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In September, I was asked to give some thoughts about the NHS 10-year plan based on some of the principles in Platformland. Here are the slides and speaker notes:

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rpp.works/ways-of-doing/talk-transforming-health-and-delivering-the-nhs-10-year-plan/

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\"**Digital

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While encouraging that the UK is thinking about sovereign payment systems, this all sounds a bit waterfall-ey

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The Bank, meanwhile, will develop infrastructure blueprints that will be handed over to the group next year

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www.theguardian.com/business/…

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Managed to make it around River Thames Running’s Hampton Court Half Marathon, despite dodgy ankle and 3 degree starting temperature. It’s a lovely course even in the rain: riverthamesrunning.co.uk/hampton-c…

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Useful phrase from this Chatham House blog post about sovereignty (defence, digital and political)

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Not all dependencies are strategically significant. The challenge lies in distinguishing tolerable interdependence from vulnerabilities

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