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Almost a full moon!

🔀 New paper | Mode Shifting Public service reform isn't stuck because of a lack of good ideas. It's stuck because the state is built to operate in only one mode. Our latest paper argues that government needs to become multimodal - shifting how it delivers according to what best serves citizens.

Mode Shifting: Whitehall reform that liberates public services to shift between transactional and relational delivery modes

Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

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UK evidence week coming up! What question do you want to ask your members of Parliament? senseaboutscience.org/evidence-wee... From @senseaboutsci.bsky.social

Amazon UK entities' pre-tax profits up from £455m to £555m. It pays corporation tax at an effective rate of 7.1%, headline rate is 25%. Profits shifted through intragroup transactions. UK retailers can't compete with hard-wired systematic tax avoidance.

Amazon’s main UK arm handed £7.6m tax credit as profits soar to £355m

Tech company received infrastructure relief as its five biggest UK divisions generate £32bn in revenues

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What an amazing complex system‼️ Spiky trees normally eaten by elephants except when swarms of native ants stop the elephants. More spiky trees gives lions better chance of catching zebras. Invasive ants eat normal ants so elephants eat trees & zebras escape lions‼️ www.nature.com/articles/d44...

Zebras saved from lions by a tiny invader

Years of observation in a Kenyan reserve revealed ant species’ invasion led to lions eating fewer zebras

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Very interesting analysis of recent improvements in LLM performance showing it is pretty dire: it's just brute force computational resource rather than breakthroughs - yet. Great comparison of an incredible exponential graph of transistors per chip vs lacklustre _logarithmic_ AI accuracy increase

DJ@eschaton-avoidance.bsky.social · 3mo ago

While this chart appears to show that, it generally takes exponentially more tokens to get a linear increase in capabilities, that burns out somewhat fast as a solution as Toby Ord notes here www.tobyord.com/writing/infe...

The Telegraph warns this weekend that Labour "may need help from the IMF" — Grade F, Fail. The piece runs entirely on a false scarcity frame, telling us that a sterling-issuing government may need to go to the IMF to obtain that which it creates. #UKEconomy

Current UK wind turbine _farms_ Onshore average 19.3 mega watts, max 443 (Viking) Offshore average 315 mega watts, max 1320 (Hornsea 2) They'll be used as the starting point for players in the new National Energy Explorer serious game: wikisim.org/wiki/1272v30 (work in progress)

Play along with google doc's new bug! Rename a file to `game_logo` and it will convert all the text into a strange e Presumably an AI bug that's got into a nonsense place. Friend said it makes them inclined to fly in planes... hopefully a google doc is not used to fly the plane 😂

Frontier AI model when asked for a simple SVG outline of the UK:

Equanimity in the face of seemingly unending challenges and overwhelming odds. Totally inspiring 💪 Thank you Beth Littlewood www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Terrifying and terrifying useful! I did not know any of that. Very quick read

Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Thank you @vincegomez.com for some much needed insights into economics, what government taxation actually is, what government spending actually is. TLDR: gov spends first by acts of parliament, then collects tax to reduce inflation. vg2000.github.io/money-genera...

Interesting plant based study. 2 weeks from June 2nd, try to eat less animal products and report how you feel each day. Simple. They'll notify you when it's about to start - if you sign up with email or phone at: plantbasedstudy.org?alliance-cod... (I didn't give my real name)

I've started to see products with reviews using an LLM as if that has got any credibility or relevance. _Maybe_ if they showed their prompt:

I loved stumbling over the Easter egg on this page idl.uw.edu (desktop only, not mobile friendly ☹️) Spoiler in comment below

Strong and kind. Well played. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Emmanuel Macron interrupts speaker to ask for silence

The French president stood up during a conference in Kenya to tell the audience to quieten down, saying it was “impossible” for speakers to be heard.

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I didn't know that at current rates of extraction the North sea oil and gas fields will be depleted by 2031... and that's taking all the known reserves of proven, possible and probable and extracting everything. The North sea is spent, so we need a different plan that adds up. wikisim.org/wiki/1284

I'm prototyping a new serious game: UK National Energy Explorer. One play tester showed some serious dedication to sustainable energy supply from wind! 😂 That would have taken a lot of clicking! 💪 🌬️ Current work in progress: wikisim.org/wiki/1272v11

Shout out to UK's NSTA (North Sea Transition Authority) for helping me find the data for these graphs, in the space of a few hours this morning. I'm grateful and impressed.

Pretty incredible map of UK's depleted and active oil and gas fields, wells and pipelines from North Sea Transition Authority experience.arcgis.com/experience/d...

This is an interesting angle. I particularly relate to respect and to providing a shared diagnosis. This raises the questions, why is there a perceived lack of respect? Why is there a lack of shared diagnosis of problems? My take on the second is that we're not using...

Demos@demos-uk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🤝 New Guest Paper: The Respect Story "...the state should be on your side and you should feel it." Author Tom Webb argues that public service reform needs more than structural change; it needs a political narrative -built around respect - that people can believe in.⬇️ demos.co.uk/research/the...

In honour and fond memory of Prof David MacKay. The UK uses ~30 GW of electricity at any one time. I was curious how much we'd need if everyone boiled their kettle at the same time.

I love bird song

Spent the 10th anniversary of Prof David MacKay's death reflecting on his work and how inspiring his book www.withouthotair.com was for what @wikisim.org is aiming to achieve. Thank you David.

Stock markets don't fund business investment. Why, then, do we worship them? youtu.be/g93iq5wTV-g?...

Stock markets don't fund investment. Why, then, do we worship them?

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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We need more of this! Intersections between different domains like electricity and flooding / water. Makes me think about this recent work by @aendra.com @data.ft.com: www.ft.com/content/1536... Looking forward to Wednesday's Geo London event.

The English roads at risk of being underwater

FT analysis reveals large swaths of vital infrastructure are vulnerable to flooding

ft.com

json singh@jsonsingh.com · 4mo ago

For the upcoming 'London "Geo" Meetup #2', we have our 2nd speaker Gabriella Edghill, from Rebalance Earth presenting on "UK Power at Risk: Using open-source to assess power loss risk from flooding" RSVP and more details here: lgm.jsonsingh.com #OSM #OSGeo #Geospatial #Opensource #London #meetup

@kaggle.com FYI I gave up trying to prove I was human after the 4th captcha... all I wanted to do was sign up to upvote a dataset. www.youtube.com/shorts/-BIuf... 🤖

trying to login to your own account (live footage 2025)

YouTube video by Jazz Emu

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Happy to have added the 100th star to this repo for discrete global grids! :D github.com/sahrk/DGGRID Even happier to have just found it implements an equal area hexagonal grid.