Surely the whole point of infrastructure work is so that you never have to do it again 😅

TransformGov Talks: April 2026 · Luma Lisa Trickey and Rebekah Wilson, Local Government Association on the state of digital Local Government and LG2040: The State of Things to Come Jonathan Slater,…

Our next event!

🚨 6PM, WED 29th April 🚨

At the MoJ or online.

Lisa Trickey and Rebekah Wilson, LGA : LG2040: The State of Things to Come

​Jonathan Slater (ex DfE Perm Sec), Visiting Professor at King’s College London and QMUL

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Please share! Thanks 🙏

Institutionalising the Digital State — Events — NationalConversations.org Digital transformation is traditionally seen as something the political class do to the civil service. In fact it requires transformational change to political institutions, parliaments and the struct...

If you happen to be in London Monday evening I will be talking about institutionalising the digital state at NewSpeak House

nationalconversations.org/events/4/

ClawClub AI Agents Hackday 🦞 London 15 Mar 2026 · Luma Attention London agent tinkerers and curious humans 🤖✨ Come join us for ClawClub AI Agents Hackday - a bring-your-laptop afternoon for playing with AI agents,…

#ClawClub is almost sold out! 🦞

If you’re in #London and love #OpenClaw AI agents or just curious about them, come hack with us this Sunday at Newspeak House!

Bring your agents! → luma.com/d04bupgn

Newspeak House Fellowship Programme The London College of Political Technology

Does the world feel a bit upside down right now? Come and spend a year with us in London experimenting with political technology! Applications to join the Newspeak House fellowship programme for 2026-27 are now open: newspeak.house/study-with-us

It’s sad that there are few hobbies that truly survive the transition into adulthood. Cooking is one of the best.

Every feed I run is currently on @graze.social. Graze provides me with phenomenal infrastructure, free of charge; you can also use it, today, to remix my feeds so they're customised for your news reading needs.

If every 📰 News feed user chipped in $1 /mo., it would fund the whole feed ecosystem.

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Newspeak House Fellowship Programme The London College of Political Technology

Our friends at Newspeak House – where we've been hosting this year's CADA speaker series – have opened applications for their Fellowship Programme 🎉

Want to spend a year building and experimenting with political technology? Find out more/apply 👇

newspeak.house/study-with-us

Newspeak House Fellowship Programme The London College of Political Technology

Applications are now open:

newspeak.house/study-with-us

I consider it a great tragedy that the launch event for Good Services at Newspeak House was cancelled because of Covid!! Let me know if you'd be interested in doing an event for the sequel!

Journalism Technology London Meetup · Luma Join us for Journalism Technology London Meetup, a series of events aimed at building a community of journalists, technologists, and technical…

The next Journalism Technology London is happening 21 April!

luma.com/qjj9c8d7?tk=...

We're actively looking for speakers, if you have something relevant to the journalism technology space you'd like to do a talk on, please DM me!

Institutionalising the Digital State — Events — NationalConversations.org Digital transformation is traditionally seen as something the political class do to the civil service. In fact it requires transformational change to political institutions, parliaments and the struct...

As part of National Conversations I am coming down to London to talk at NewSpeak House on Institutionalising the Digital State on Monday 20th April.

nationalconversations.org/events/4/

our course at newspeak house is pretty cool! check it out

Newspeak House Fellowship Programme The London College of Political Technology

Does the world feel a bit upside down right now? Come and spend a year with us in London experimenting with political technology! Applications to join the Newspeak House fellowship programme for 2026-27 are now open: newspeak.house/study-with-us

Institutionalising the Digital State · Luma Digital transformation is traditionally seen as something the political class do to the civil service. If it is to be successful, it requires transformational…

This one should be interesting, 20th April 2026 at Newspeak House:

̶C̶l̶a̶u̶d̶e̶ ̶C̶o̶d̶e̶ Agents Anonymous, London Chapter · Luma Hi - this is an event by Orta Therox and Peter Steinberger. Two well respected technologists who have a strong appreciation for using agents as a tool for…

Me and @steipete.me have figured our dates and are running at the usual event space for the next Agents Anonymous in London, happening on the 23rd of March

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“Amazon’s Choice”

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For better or for worse, I reckon the writing quality will improve over time to become indistinguishable.

My main takeaway was that these problems are pretty fixable, it's just the whole area is under-scrutinised, and suffers from a lack of imagination to some extent.

Looks like we found very similar things!

I spend a lot of my time thinking about how to improve democracy in the UK, and it turns out there's some low hanging fruit!

Proud to finally have this report out, many thanks to @demos-uk.bsky.social for their help.

PSA Outer Wilds is 50% off on Steam till Thursday! This is the biggest discount it's ever gotten; usually sales max at 40%.
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Well, hello world!

State of the Future is a new think tank (from @gavinfreeguard.com) for public servants and others who believe data, digital, openness and innovation can deliver better policy, better services and better outcomes for people.

sotf.org.uk

(Quiet news day to soft launch, eh?)

Director General for Emerging Technology and Artificial Intelligence Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 22nd March 2026 Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Apply at advertiser's site Reference number 450276 Salary £174,000

Significant job this one. A chance to shape tech to work for the public interest.

Director General for Emerging Technology and Artificial Intelligence at the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology. (£174k)
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These goats have just finished reading Web Curios. Look how happy they are - this could be you, with one click! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-20...

We thought in the future that we’d have all our meals in pill form. In fact we have our meals in bar or smoothie form, which is pretty close.