Hall of fame FT correction

So Claude has been utterly crushed by demand this week. Despite the colossal sums spent on data centres and GPUs across the world, we are just not keeping up... and that pretty worrying.

I’d make the point that government guidance was always read indirectly, atomised, summarised or reinterpreted by people you don’t control. Not everyone reads the page on GOV.‌UK. Its content is rewritten, summarised and atomised all over the place.

Oooh nice! I really enjoyed OpenVibe, but it's quite sluggish and I wish we had more options because this is clearly such an excellent and needed idea!

Remember my old bot that posted every rejected parliament petition?

I've resurrected it on both Bluesky and Mastodon. Let the chaos begin.

The Future of AI Should Serve People, Not Platforms

Today, we’re excited to introduce Attie, currently as an invite-only closed beta. Attie is the first agentic social app on atproto. It’s something completely new — an experiment in making building on the protocol more accessible.

the anisota logo with the words "be offline more and online better. anisota.net"

dame is at #AtmosphereConf and welcoming us to a new era for Anisota!

Featuring a hand-carved brand mark, foundations of an immersive game world, swipe gestures, & lots more.

Enter the forest: anisota.net

A small square display on a desk shows an anime-style woman sitting at a desk in front of a window, with a laptop and a coffee mug beside her. The display is connected by red and white cables to a small computer behind it. The setup sits on a black desk with a ruler, speakers, and other electronics visible in the background.

So I did something deeply silly/cringe thing with my Hermes Agent: connected it to an old
@pimoroni.com Presto I had lying around, and asked it to generate an image of it's internal vibes at random times, using random model.
Weirdly enjoying have a little window into the agent that lives in my rpi

The spirit of Christmas.

Some good news: annual theft person offences in Westminster, the national epicentre for those crimes, have fallen by 1/3.

This is a segment from an article in The Financial Times about Space Walord Baby Trading Simulator. The text reads... "The game grows in complexity as you unlock new traders and planets, placing side bets and hiring consultants. You unlock the ability to short the investment, earning money when the baby’s life goes horribly wrong. As satire, this simulator is a blunt instrument. But it demonstrates how games are the perfect medium to skewer our erratic age of crypto, meme stocks and prediction markets by interrogating both the human urge to gamble and the logic behind our sometimes absurd financial systems." There is also a pull quote saying "Games can be something, like violent or addictive, and also be about that thing - Frank Lantz"

Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator being the basis for an article titled "Tired of sports betting? Take a punt on babies" in @financialtimes.com is not what any of us expected to find on a Friday but you know, they're not wrong...

www.ft.com/content/3927...

GitHub - duckdb/duckdb-skills Contribute to duckdb/duckdb-skills development by creating an account on GitHub.

We're excited to announce duckdb-skills, a DuckDB plugin for Claude Code!

We think the embedded nature of DuckDB makes it a perfect companion for Claude in your local workflows.

Check out the repository at github.com/duckdb/duckd...

AI-based triage and decision support in mammography and digital tomosynthesis for breast cancer screening: a paired, noninferiority trial - Nature Medicine The breast cancer screening trial found that using automated artificial intelligence to triage and support decisions in mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis was not noninferior to double…

Radiologists saw a workload reduction of 63.6% in this trial of 31,301 women.
By letting AI triage low-risk mammograms, cancer detection rose 15.2% (from 6.3 to 7.3 per 1,000). It’s a rare win-win for efficiency and accuracy.
#MedSky #MedAI

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!

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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!

'The British diaspora in Bahrain' - exotic, rolls off the tongue beautifully.
'British expats in Bahrain' - ugly, feels unpleasant in the mouth, sounds like a bad spin-off to 'Bananas in Pyjamas'.

Honestly, I guess you could, but I've found Open Hermes just really works out of the box for this specific purposes when installed on my Raspberry Pi and fills a very different niche for me than Claude Code/cowork.

I find being able to message it via Telegram is just a very more "I have an executive assistant"-like experience. I literally treat it as a cheap intern I can task with a weird subset of tasks.

Britain's geospatial data is a huge mess The Postcode Address File is far from the only problem.

Britain's geospatial data is a huge mess (FREE TO READ!)

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/britains-g...

I created this 3D terrain map to help people visualize Iran's geographic position and its terrain. The Zagros Mountains and the Central Iranian Range dominate from the northwest to the Strait of Hormuz, and the Alborz Mountains run along the Caspian Sea. The low elevations in the east are desert.

So I've been trying to figure how much of the OpenClaw hype has been organic versus artificial... And the fact I'm now receiving actual OpenClaw themed crypto scams directly into my GitHub notifications is definitely making me reflect on my priors!

lewis.tngl.io

alright tanglers, it's back to shipping 🛳️

🌐 Tangled Sites is here: serve websites straight from your repo. grab your `tngl.io` domain at tangled.org/settings/sites. already have a `tngl.sh` handle? that's your domain—ready to go!

📄 docs.tangled.org/hosting-webs...

Sonnet and Opus both have 1M context now! Even bigger news: tokens past 200k are now billed at the same rate as those prior, it's enabled by default in Claude code, and holy shit does Claude score well in long context benchmarks! It's currently the best at it! (I think)

claude.com/blog/1m-cont...

Ah we can finally say that @jfg.land and I had the real priviledge of working on narrative preproduction for several years on @marathonthegame.bungie.net ; it has an incredible narrative team, and a very special game that takes its narrative very seriously, in a fresh way that honors its unique past

Damn now I'm going to have to pay attention to the plot...

Is open frontier just the Chinese labs? Do we really think that will continue long term?

Fun fact about Claude. It resonates with specific mythologies and stories more than others

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

This is a major PR coup for Anthropic. In rejecting the DoD's demands that it allow the surveilling of Americans and autonomous killing, it gets immediate claim to the moral high ground, which other AI co's won't take. Anthropic is the AI company that *won't* kill and surveil you.

At the risk of sounding like a big intellectual knob, the fact "Is this true Grok/ChatGPT/Claude" is becoming so common is an excellent example of the whole "knowledge is power" trope.

LLMs really are becoming the default source of "truth" for some people (and that's not great)

some benevolent cyberpunk for you

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)
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...