Julian Darley
@juliandarley
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energy, AI, environment/climate change, film production, politics, music (mostly classical) https://t.co/cxDb79mm05 | https://t.co/Ms82wgGhSK
Near London, UK
Joined September 2008
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: https://t.co/nlhif0wSyT via @38degrees
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For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened...
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From Synthetic Starlets to Synthetic Cinema: Why Hollywood’s Worst Fears Are Only the Beginning https://t.co/FP1by1WLU3
#AI #FilmIndustry #Sora2 #SyntheticCinema #FutureOfWork #Hollywood #GenerativeAI #Deepfakes #Creativity #Technology
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From Synthetic Starlets to Synthetic Cinema: Why Hollywood’s Worst Fears Are Only the Beginning Two headlines from the last 24 hours: Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated “actress”, sparked fury across...
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Why the Price of a Stamp Still Matters https://t.co/r2VuZrIfIw
#Postage #Society #MentalHealth #History #Communication #Letters #Postcards #PennyPost #RoyalMail #SocialConnection #Loneliness #PublicGood #UKHistory #Culture
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Why the Price of a Stamp Still Matters This morning I sent an old friend in France a picture postcard. The card itself cost 50p, but the postage was £3.20. Paying more than six times the item's value...
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AI and the New Age of Material Discovery https://t.co/iiJlf9DFnV
#AI #MaterialsScience #Quantum #ClimateTech #EnergyTransition #Innovation #MIT
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AI and the New Age of Material Discovery Most of the technologies we take for granted, from laptops to wind turbines, started with breakthroughs in materials. The problem is that nature offers...
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Solar Panels: How China Took the Lead and Why the West’s Catch-Up Is in Doubt https://t.co/S3SmL58xL4
#SolarEnergy #China #Geopolitics #Climate #CleanTech #IndustrialPolicy #RenewableEnergy #Trump #US #Europe #Sustainability
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Solar Panels: How China Took the Lead and Why the West’s Catch-Up Is Doubtful Solar power is the great cost-collapse story of the past decade: module prices down ~90% since 2010 and installations...
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The Great Fish Farming Deception https://t.co/bKeJLDDSVe
#Sustainability #ClimateCrisis #FoodSystems #Aquaculture #Oceans
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The Great Fish Farming Deception For decades, aquaculture has been sold as the answer to overfishing: with wild fish stocks collapsing, we could simply farm our way out of the crisis. Today, more...
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The Invisible Hand - or the Visible Wrecking Ball? https://t.co/CjbRT3e2U3
#Economics #ClimateChange #Society #AdamSmith #InvisibleHand #MentalHealth #RenewableEnergy #Philosophy #Neoliberalism
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The Invisible Hand, or the Visible Wrecking Ball? In a south-coast pub tonight, I found myself in conversation with a retired accountant, a man, not surprisingly, of firmly right-wing views. On...
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Britain’s Cyber Vulnerability: From Co-op to JLR, Why the UK is in the Crosshairs - And Why the World Should Take Note https://t.co/zpzGswck1s
#CyberSecurity #Ransomware #Retail #Manufacturing #SupplyChain #UK
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Britain’s Cyber Vulnerability: From Co-op to JLR, Why the UK is in the Crosshairs - And Why the World Should Take Note Over the past few months, Britain has been hit by a series of extraordiary...
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The Production Gap 2025: Why 1.5 °C Is Gone and 2 °C May Be Next https://t.co/gEH200iEym
#ClimateCrisis #ProductionGap #FossilFuels #NetZero #EnergyTransition #Vegan
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The Production Gap 2025: Why 1.5 °C Is Gone and 2 °C May Be Next The new Production Gap Report 2025 (https://lnkd.in/e8abcAE4) is one of the most sobering climate documents in recent times. Its...
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Crowds, Experts, and the Future of Decision-Making https://t.co/1w9Rl4b9TQ
#WisdomOfCrowds #DecisionMaking #Leadership #FutureOfWork #ClimateChange #Experts #CollectiveIntelligence
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Crowds, Experts, and the Future of Decision-Making In 1906, Francis Galton asked visitors at a livestock fair to guess the weight of an ox. No single person got it right, but when all the guesses...
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Meritocracy Was Meant as a Warning, Not a Goal https://t.co/fzGY2v1NiF
#Meritocracy #MichaelYoung #Politics #Inequality #Populism #SocialMobility #Leadership #FutureOfSociety #EliteEducation #CompetitiveSociety
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Meritocracy Was Meant as a Warning, Not a Goal When Michael Young popularised the term meritocracy in his 1958 satire The Rise of the Meritocracy, he did not mean it as a blueprint, but as a dystop...
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Chain-of-Thought and the Evolution of AI Reasoning https://t.co/7SKCePU5fz
#AI #LLM #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AIHistory #ChainOfThought
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Chain-of-Thought and the Evolution of AI Reasoning In a bit more than two and a half years, the field of AI has moved a long way from one of its most elegant breakthroughs. In late 2022, at NeurIPS,...
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America’s British Future? Lessons from 'Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future' https://t.co/E3fn3jpdNT
#DanWang #China #US #Engineering #Law #Pluralism #Infrastructure #Climate #Geopolitics
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America’s British Future? Insights from 'Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future' Dan Wang’s new book Breakneck frames the rivalry between the U.S. and China not as capitalism vs socialism,...
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Why Ideology Makes Bad Forecasts: Lessons from Tetlock in an Age of Right-Wing Dominance https://t.co/ePzunl7Qko
#Forecasting #Superforecasting #Tetlock #Politics #Populism #Fascism #RightWing #Ideology #DecisionMaking #ClimateRisk #AI
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We live in a paradoxical world: endless pundits who seem incredibly confident, yet their forecasting is a chronic failure. Markets crash…
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When the Waiter Never Comes: Labour Shortages and the Rise of Robots https://t.co/BtLKleAEvL
#Hospitality #Robotics #FutureOfWork #Champagne #AI
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When the Waiter Never Comes: Labour Shortages and the Rise of Robots Yesterday, someone who worked in Épernay, the heart of Champagne, told me that restaurants were closing not for lack of customer...
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The Paradox of Choice in the Anthropocene https://t.co/lxrMIeIsTk
#ParadoxOfChoice #BarrySchwartz #Anthropocene #Climate #Wellbeing #Consumerism #Sustainability #Happiness #Psychology #Choices
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The Paradox of Choice in the Anthropocene Barry Schwartz’s The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (2004) remains one of the most insightful books about consumer society. Schwartz showed how abunda...
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The Great Privatisation Rip-Off — and Why We Must Reverse It https://t.co/DdUGgN3uDG
#Privatisation #ClimateCrisis #PublicOwnership #Ecology #Sustainability #Ecocide #SixthExtinction
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The Great Privatisation Rip-Off — and Why We Must Reverse It Every day we live with the consequences of privatisation and its higher bills and failing services. We have appauling water companies...
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Britain at an energy crossroads — and still without a plan https://t.co/8oe1bgr7bw
#UKEnergy #Britain #Nuclear #SMR #AMR #HALEU #SizewellC #HinkleyPointC #Renewables #Wind #Solar #EnergyStorage #Grid #Interconnectors #DemandFlexibility #NetZero #Decarbonisation #EnergySecurity
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Britain at an energy crossroads — and still without a plan On 16 Sept 2025, Trump arrives for a state visit and signing a UK–US pact heralded as a “Golden Age of Nuclear.” On paper: SMRs, AMRs,...
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Paper In Focus: From Static Models to Learning Agents https://t.co/iXszf8BrJW
#LLM #DynamicLearning #ContinualLearning #AIAgents #AIResearch #MachineLearning #MLOps #Evaluation #Safety
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Paper In Focus: From Static Models to Learning Agents Most transformer-based large language models are still just frozen boxes: once trained, they don’t adapt to new users, tasks, or environments....
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Between Trump and Musk: Who Controls Climate Data? https://t.co/oIBC8oTXLB
#ClimateData #SpacePolicy #EarthObservation #USPolitics #Europe #Copernicus #Satellites #Trust #StrategicAutonomy #AIAndClimate
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Between Trump and Musk: Who Controls Climate Data? Recent headlines have warned that the Trump administration is preparing to shut down or deorbit NASA satellites that measure carbon dioxide, while...
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