People at the table in museum of homelessness making zines
MoH exhibitions crew assembled yesterday to continue with the making of our next exhibition Criminal: an untold history of homelessness, resistance and survival.
Workshop by Surfing Sofas and the Raft Up Crew
Opens 21st May
Stick it in ur diaries now
New study finds the "canary in the coal mine" for the #AMOC: a consistent decline of the western overturning circulation, down from 20 to 15 Sv during 2004-2023 at 26° N. 🌊
AMOC "could be at or near a critical tipping point, potentially leading to its collapse".
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I made a whole BBC TV series (2020) about the remarkable resilience of the people of Iran and their culture over centuries of threat and callous rule. You can watch it right here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
‘Amazing’: how to grow a meadow in the sea - www.theguardian.com/environment/... "Vibrant seagrass meadows once flourished around the UK but most have been destroyed. Now, communities and scientists are working to restore them" hopeful stuff
Humanity needs photographs like these.
Maybe at least someone here, looking at them, will be reminded once more of how petty our conflicts are on this tiny blue marble in the abyss -- and how criminal are those who launch rockets not into space, but into apartment buildings full of people.
Ukraine marks four years since its forces expelled Russian troops from Kyiv region on April 2, 2022, after weeks of intense fighting. The liberation of Bucha, Irpin and Hostomel exposed evidence of atrocities and war crimes. Hundreds of civilians and POWs were mass murdered. #Ukraine
✍️ Digital ID, payments, and data exchange should be treated as public infrastructure, not siloed IT projects.
@eaves.ca, @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social, and Beatriz Vasconcellos argue governments must build shared digital foundations to avoid fragmentation.
🔗 Read their new article: buff.ly/bo9FpiL
So good! A wonderful metaphor for what's going on in AI coding today. www.dbreunig.com/2026/03/26/w...
Hope you get well cared for Matt and on the mend soon.
The Cornucopia of Gamified Threat Modeling
At the OWASP Cornucopia project, we are done with updating the cards and help pages for the Website App Edition v3.0!
dev.to/owasp/the-co...
#appsec #cybersecurity #gamedev #security
Very cool Huw!
As someone who has lived in London for 20 years and continues to spend a lot of time here, the change in air quality since the introduction of ULEZ is very noticeable. A great improvement for millions of people www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As a proposed oil & gas project looks set to drill directly through a chalk aquifer beneath the Yorkshire Wolds supplying drinking water to 900,000 people, @sonofedd.bsky.social asks:
Who is protecting our water sources?
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/who-i...
DSIT Women in Tech taskforce call for evidence on "the impact of emerging technologies on women’s participation, progression and leadership in tech" - www.gov.uk/government/c...
This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?
New paper from team @aial.ie! aial.ie/research/gpa...
EU's AI Act Article 53(1)(d) is an obligation for GPAI model providers to publicly provide a 'summary' on their model’s training data. The team assessed published summaries along 6 dimensions & found that all big providers failed on all 6.
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4000 users on Eurosky
💥 It took 37 hours to register the fourth thousand accounts on @eurosky.social 🎉
The first thousand (a slow, cautious launch) took a couple of weeks, the second 72 hours, the third 31.
Eurosky — EU-hosted AT Protocol infrastructure run by the Modal Foundation, a Dutch public interest non-profit. Independent moderation, relays, PDS hosting, governed in the public interest rather than by VCs. Read more
openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky-d...
The eu haul migration tool destination selection screen. It lists blacksky and Bluesky as defaults
BTW: EU-Haul is not restricted to migrating your account to @eurosky.social - you can use it to migrate FROM any hoster TO any hoster. E.g. to @blackskyweb.xyz or even back to @bsky.app
Teams can feel busy but still slow. Team Topologies, 2nd Edition helps rethink flow: cut hand-offs, clarify responsibilities, let support teams help, and use small feedback loops. Explore how flow could change the way your teams work ➡️ https://www.teamtopologies.com/book
Teams can feel busy but still slow. Team Topologies, 2nd Edition helps rethink flow: cut hand-offs, clarify responsibilities, let support teams help, and use small feedback loops. Explore how flow could change the way your teams work ➡️ https://www.teamtopologies.com/book
Not sure that’s the right link?
Some bot account complaining about pronouns in bio shit. I asked the bot to write a poem about pangolins and it did
It happened again
Opaque shell companies in British Overseas Territories used for $8bn trade to bust sanctions against Russia.
BVI, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar are key nodes, as in illicit financial flows.
Banks, accountants, lawyers involved.
UK govts pretend not to know.
Good discussion here on Relational Practice and Place-Based working, including budgeting, which does seem to be developing deep roots.
I was interested to hear about the relational approach being applied within council operations, not just with citizens. (Perhaps obvious in retrospect though!)
AGREED! I discovered this several years ago when wanting to cite the Finch Report in a paper. I put a call out - someone located it on the Wayback machine for me. The Finch Report can be accessed in the APO repository apo.org.au/node/29938
I use this now as an example of the value of repositories.
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?)
There’s one other standardisation opportunity. Platforms like Pay
consume upstream services, acting as an abstraction layer over the market. If there were a standard interface for payment providers there could (in theory) be a competitive market for suppliers meeting the api (and quality bar)
🆕 Governments need to build the capacity to become digital market shapers
In his recent @techpolicypress.bsky.social article, IIPP Co-Deputy Director @eaves.ca outlines how governments can shape the digital cloud market, drawing on historical examples.
🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/HRCM8Yt
Do you make drag-and-drop interfaces? Or do you wish you did, but they're just too hard?
We're working on a new way to drag & drop! Wanna try it out? Join our study – we'll ask you about your drag-and-drop experiences, and get your hands on the prototype.
Join here: forms.gle/J82tFtu6DqS8.... 🙏!
