This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...

KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS

Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler

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Minister for snake-oil. So either appointed by the type of person who buys snake-oil or sells it. Either way probably not someone you want running a country?

I'm back after a short EDH hiatus, with updates on Terence Eden's FOI and my own NHS England FOI on NHSE's changes to Open Source policy, and why refusing to respond is not transparency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArbJNf8akUI #DigitalHealth #NHS #FOI

EDH Update: I'm Back, Terence Eden FOI, and NHSE FOI

I'm back after a short EDH hiatus, with updates on Terence Eden's FOI and my own NHS England FOI on NHSE's changes to Open Source policy, and why refusing to respond is not transparency.

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@doctorow.pluralistic.net say what needs said: "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance, so invasive and pervasive that it makes the ad-tech industry's commercial surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia" pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/d...

final point of this hits the nail really

Signal@signal.org · 3mo ago

Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...

Tradeoffs are already happening in healthcare but some are not so visible open.substack.com/pub/amcunnin...

We need to talk about opportunity cost

The trade-offs are already happening. The question is whether we can see them.

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New blog post: NHS Goes To War Against Open Source https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/ The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed …

NHS Goes To War Against Open Source

The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so important. That's why I'm beyond disappointed at recent moves from NHS England to backtrack on…

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2026 now officially forecast to be permanent death-birth crossover year Gap will only get wider from now Migration only source of population growth - but a lot less of it than was projected last time

Tom Clark@tom-clark.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Just out -- National Population Projections - deaths outnumbering births over this decade - compared to last time we got similar stats, ONS projecting fewer births, more deaths, less immigration, more immigration - All told, a smaller population www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

When radioactivity was discovered, there was a rush to market for all sorts of radioactive consumer goods. There were water jugs made out of uranium glass, for example. I think about that a lot these days whenever I see AI products being marketed to consumers.

An absolutely essential thread from Mark, who very much knows what he is talking about

Mark O’Neill 🐻@radiobeartime.com · 6mo ago

Ok, I am going to get myself into trouble here with some questions about what seems like a very niche topic, spend controls. I've just seen the new rules on digital and technology spend and they risk costing us, the tax payer, £billions in failed spend and poor or unnecessary systems.

I just want someone, anyone, to write down in plain English (ideally from the perspective of the service user) how this works; what it proves*; how it proves* it; what it will improve, and what some of the likely shortcomings might be. That's all. For some peculiar reason, this never happens.

Matt Eason@matteason.me · 6mo ago

How is this proposed digital ID actually any different to GOV.UK One Login with identity verification (which already exists) and why is that not explained anywhere in this press release? www.gov.uk/government/n...

Okay as the original publisher is long since gone, here is a version of the (award winning at the time!) thing I wrote on the Pristina Airport incident back in the day. Note Putin's role. Also worth it for this bit of sassiness by the Romanian Foreign Minister. authory.com/JohnBull/Pri...

Absolutely continue to be delighted with my ~3y old @frame.work 13 laptop. Managed to break my fingerprint reader (dodgy USB electronics from AliExpress 🤦). Painlessly ordered the replacement part and fitted it now good as new. Haven't owned any other laptop that this would have been possible on.

A group of volunteers have been running @nhshackday.com since 2012. In a crazy world, it is all about coming together with common purpose to solve problems in our health service. Please reshare this post about #30 in Cardiff Mar 21/22. We would love to have you join us. ti.to/nhshackday/3...

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Still wondering. Particularly the "safety and security" section.

Mike@blu3id.bsky.social · last yr.

Yet again wondering when the FCDO will update the travel advice for the USA given the "political situation is volatile, which may include situations involving authoritarian regimes or instability." AKA Fascism

Opinion from Alphaville: Here's a look inside Elon Musk's big tent. ft.trib.al/NM1VE7i

In today's episode of #FixTheForms, I've finished writing up the workshop on #ErrorRates and #DataQuality that I ran #SDinGOV Extra thanks to @pixlz.com for help with prep - sadly, she couldn't make it due to a family emergency www.effortmark.co.uk/garbage-in-g...

Garbage in, garbage out: Workshop at SDinGOV 2025 - Effortmark

Caroline reports back on an interactive workshop in which participants shared their experience of measuring error rates and data quality

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The Framework forums thread got insanely unwieldy, so I wrote up a (somewhat shorter) summary post of the situation crimier.github.io/posts/Framew...

Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?

You might’ve noticed Framework, the laptop manufacturer, embroiled in a controversy as of now. The Discord server is on lockdown because the volunteer moderation team has gone on hiatus, and the Frame...

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aly@aly.codes · 12mo ago

Yeah no looking at Nirav’s responses here I don’t think it’s wise to keep throwing your money at Framework knowing it will go to white nationalists and they just…don’t seem to care? community.frame.work/t/framework-...

A country of racists who don't care about honoring a contract. That's before we get to the small minded ignorance of the impact removing these people would have on provision of services they rely on like healthcare. I am ashamed to be British.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 12mo ago

The majority of Reform UK voters would see indefinite leave to remain removed from all of the groups we asked about, apart from those who have lived in the UK for 20+ years yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

One for the energy (electricity) enthusiasts. Nice real time visualisation of the UK generation sources by _individual site_ 🤓 www.energydashboard.co.uk/map

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

Yet again wondering when the FCDO will update the travel advice for the USA given the "political situation is volatile, which may include situations involving authoritarian regimes or instability." AKA Fascism

There's no other way to put that. If you build something medical related, you can't just go "I'm probably smarter than the professionals, let me have a crack at it! Should be done by lunchtime." Quick and wrong is almost always more dangerous than slow and right.

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Here's a playlist of some of my Must Watch video recommendations - essential for understanding the technical, clinical, and (possibly most importantly) the political background to Digital Health. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Everything Digital Health's Recommended Must-Watch YouTube - YouTube

This playlist brings together some of the best Must-Watch YouTube videos that will help you understand the clinical, technical and political backgrounds to D...

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