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On waiting, digital and where the state chooses to operate - an extended version of the preface to Platformland: richardpope.org

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On waiting, digital and where the state chooses to operate - an extended version of the preface to Platformland: richardpope.org

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Platformlanding with DEFRA and e-synergy today

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As someone who failed GCSE English (and got a full grant) this is mildly triggering:

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https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jun/17/students-pass-gcse-english-university-loans-proposals

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Published today with @kinship.works NHS Operating Patterns - Ways to do good work together, in a decentralised system

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What have drawings of peas got to do with prototyping digital services? www.platformland.xyz/ways-of-d…

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Why it’s important to thinking of public sector super apps from the viewpoint of ‘the system’, not just ‘the citizen’

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https://www.platformland.xyz/ways-of-doing/public-sector-super-apps-are-system-facing-products-not-just-citizen-facing-ones/

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Lobster pots, complexity and starting small in the right way

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Or the case against use-cases

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https://www.platformland.xyz/ways-of-doing/lobster-pots-complexity-and-starting-small-in-the-right-way/

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I can’t tell isn’t was just a late 80s early 90s blip (or age induced nostalgia), but it seemed when I was younger questions of ‘confidence’ played out in the House of Commons, at least initially. Now they play out passively within internal party systems and are worse for it? All a bit ‘use your words’

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Why...

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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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