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Aurora, in London, from my front door - above the glare of Tower Bridge. (worth coming back to the bird for)

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quick reminder here for anyone wondering where I've gone

In what may be one of my last messages here (given the sheer idiocy of the guy who owns it) I reflect that the vast majority of my messages have been about our climate emergency. And, today, this. The time for theory is over.

Back in 2003, Andy Marshall at the Pentagon asked us at Global Business Network to develop some scenarios around "Abrupt climate change." (This was when the Bush administration was suppressing climate research.) We focused on what happens when the Gulf Stream shuts down.

“Too good to be true” — a comment that has been made to me many times. Here are some reflections on how policy, commercial and open interests interact and the imperative to act now...

Essential reading

Today in 'blast from the past' ... what's the Carbon Footprint of burning a cow in Minecraft? https://t.co/5A4jhJ7zdb (excellent work from @Floppy back in 2011 that demonstrates the power of APIs, automatic carbon calculation and fun)

Everyone should read the celebrated mathematician Terence Tao's blog on LLM. He predicts that AI will be a trustworthy co-author in mathematical research by 2026, when combined with search and symbolic math tools. I believe math will be the first scientific discipline to see

overheard... (and something I see almost *every day*) “I get the impression that the work is being built up from the data rather than down from the user needs.” Data-driven development will fail. Data-enabled users is the target.

"The time for collaboration is now" ... "we need all the data" [to unlock capital] Climate Innovation Forum, Keynote Address Rt Hons Nicholas Lyons City of London Corporation https://t.co/8fAJfm1hYf

full house on the Terrace Pavillion at the House of Commons with cross-party support, industry and a broad range of stakeholders all committing to do one thing well, and to go far together ... Perseus is Go:

People are using Ai to analyse the PDF files for ESG reports, which include data based on models that are built on a stack of uncertainties and estimates that are themselves based on high error-bar input data. This is the definition of madness: sort out access to primary data.

@OpenInnovates will be Ten! in Autumn 2023. I have written up a blog on the 1st ten years and what the next ten will look like. https://t.co/5DE7QLqYfP highlights below in a thread

My assessment, over the last few months, is that @IcebreakerOne is (finally) in the Overton Window for its mission. ( https://t.co/A6Klk7ZiG3)

I've noticed an uptick in 'direct email'—coming via email list companies who have 'guessed' emails in the format firstname.surname@domain.com, then sold those lists to companies as being 'GDPR compliant'. What's the view from the room here? cc @kcorrick