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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What is business? For most people, it isn't what they think it is. youtu.be/GXfjEmHto8c?... Business is not about profit, companies or capitalism. It is about people organising themselves to meet needs, and that distinction matters.

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What is business? For most people, it isn't what they think it is.

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 19/09/2026

Interesting you've spotted this in your own writing and that it's ~2/3 hours. I haven't experienced this yet; I know I need to do more writing. Closest I get is having a great thought which I write down and reading it back makes me realise it lacks all the context that made it feel great in my head

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 06/09/2026

"A picture may be worth a thousand words, a formula is worth a thousand pictures." - Edsger Dijkstra. Love it. So true. Sometimes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula

One of the most influential figures of computing science's founding generation, Edsger Dijkstra at the blackboard during a conference at ETH Zurich in 1994. In Dijkstra's own words, "A picture may be worth a thousand words, a formula is worth a thousand pictures."

By Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14942745

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 05/09/2026

This behaviour sounds different to bullying? Making justified excuses for an employee is normally compassionate & wholesome, but publicly justifying using privileged information is not. Sounds like a lack of self awareness, and or a power trip / gossip is driving it? m.youtube.com/watch?v=xDPz...

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Investigating Three Indie Superstars Accused of Emotional Abuse

YouTube video by People Make Games

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 05/09/2026

I appreciate Steve Jobs died before the Internet turbo charged health misinformation but I personally know of at least one person who has died prematurely as a result of a lack of critical thinking in validating health advice.

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 05/09/2026

...and easier to correct then they're taking responsibility and that's the thin edge of the wedge they desperately want to avoid so they can make shed loads of money - which also unfortunately pollutes our ability to make sense of the world, poisoning our democracies in a very literal sense.

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 05/09/2026

4. For decades the "platforms" have claimed no responsibility for the content and I'm not a lawyer but I think this one of the reasons why there is such extreme - anything goes - misinformation. Because if the social media company releases a feature for making misinformation less easy to spread...

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 05/09/2026

3. Videos are not easily correctable on most platforms. Youtube's annotations being the only exception though it's not an easy feature to use.

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 05/09/2026

2. No platform, when I return to it, will say "hey here's the three corrections from the last time you visited. Jo's video about XYZ claimed ABC but they've now retracted that and now say GHI - see more here"

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 05/09/2026

1. Posting links in the comments sections on various platforms is not allowed so I can not easily cite my source when talking with others

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 05/09/2026

Absolutely. This is a deeper problem about mediums themselves: The mediums of all social media platforms do almost nothing and sometimes are actively opposed to citing sources, correcting mistakes, having accountability, making sense about how the world actually is 4 examples:

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 03/09/2026

Thank you for skycommons.okfn.org @okfn.bsky.social I didn't realise how many satellites there are, nor the variation in their ownership.

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 22/08/2026

Book available on the amazing @archive.org archive.org/details/beyo... Interesting to see the back cover!

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 22/08/2026

Energy density. Uranium is ~20 grams per cm³. So a 1 tonne cube of uranium would be 37 cm (1×10⁶ grams / 20 g cm⁻³) ** (1/3): a little over 1 cubic foot contains the same energy as 3 million tonnes of oil. That's mind blowing, and energy dense. From "Beyond the energy crisis", J. Maddox 1975

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 10/08/2026

For the first time in a long time my email inbox no longer shows a second page. It's liberating but hasn't been easy to get to this point: to make space by letting go of old things and hopes for things that might have been but aren't. Perhaps in the space, new things will emerge 🌱

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 08/08/2026

A high level version of the simulation will go onto @wikisim.org once I can get funding to support it. Over the last couple of months many different people have encouraged me to make this into a seriously fun serious game to sell to give it some financial footing.

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 08/08/2026

Currently working on a simulation of the UK's national electricity system. Will work on adding grid & storage next ⚡🔋 ajamesphillips.com/blog/nationa...

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National Energy Explorer

National Energy Explorer (v2) - can simulations support democratic sense making?

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

If you are the 101th person to wishlist golem gourmet, I will converse with spiders near to you and instruct them to not crawl in your mouth when you are sleeping store.steampowered.com/app/4209800/...

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Golem Gourmet on Steam

A gastronomical adventure sizzling with culinary chaos! Build a bizarre bistro from an ever-shifting array of rooms, amass heaps of treasure, and earn enough critical acclaim to became the ultimate Go...

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 24/07/2026

All of that resonates with me except the dream part. I would be grateful to know what that word means to you Alan? I find it risks disassociation and unrealness, exactly the opposite of your first messages. I see dream used elsewhere and I would prefer it wasn't: m.youtube.com/watch?v=8vME...

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You Are Life Itself — Guided Meditation with Mooji

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 19/07/2026

Intriguing. Any time you have two people trying to navigate some aspect of reality together then you run the risk of having this personality type in the mix?

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Demos @demos-uk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

🔀 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.

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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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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 23/06/2026

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

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 12/06/2026

Sorry "book" not book review... now I have actually clicked the link: illomens.itch.io/no-one-is-go...

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NO-ONE IS GOING TO BUY YOUR GAME by ill omens

A Manifesto For Making Games

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

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.

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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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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 09/06/2026

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...

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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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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 09/06/2026

Thanks for all of these graphs and graphics. As I understand it, SCOP is ~2.5 to 3 for most installations & usage, does that match your understanding?

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 08/06/2026

Thanks for sliding into this chat @oldtrotter.bsky.social! Interesting additional points. It's complex. Do either of you think these change the original points made or does this just add further colour / depth?

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 08/06/2026

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

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 08/06/2026

Thanks for this @vincegomez.com I think the analysis needs clarifying as I don't yet understand how floating fiat rules out another IMF because UK's 1976 IMF intervention occurs after 1971 when the UK starts operating a fully floating fiat currency?

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 08/06/2026

Or they finally listen to actually bond traders like @vincegomez.com who understand actual economics. Here Vince highlights another news article which yet again fails to understand the UK controls its own currency and so can issue its own - it doesn't need the IMF here bsky.app/profile/vinc...

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Vince Gomez @vincegomez.com · 08/06/2026

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

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 08/06/2026

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)

A map of the UK and its exclusive economic zone with the current wind farms plotted on it.

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 06/06/2026

Sending you positive thoughts and wishes for a speedy recovery. Bodies, eh! head-in-a-jar could work for a bit though does remind me of the large jars of pickles in the local chippy.

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 03/06/2026

If you try really hard you can get about 10 pigeons lestavol.itch.io/pigeon-pigeon ... or hack the code and get WAY too many birds everywhere 😛

PigeonPigeon game hacked to show loads of pigeons everywhere

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 02/06/2026

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 😂

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 01/06/2026

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

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 01/06/2026

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

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 31/05/2026

Well thank you for sharing with such clarity, softness and strength. It's been an unexpected joy 🙏

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 30/05/2026

Yeah I see that working for those scenarios. Sorry to hear you've experienced those things. Thanks for sharing.

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 30/05/2026

And for those that listened what approaches did work 🙂🙏

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 30/05/2026

Great, thank you. No expectation but I'd be grateful if you can you share what you tried so that we know what approaches didn't work and if you had any reflections of what their motivations were / what was at stake for them. Much appreciated 🙏

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 29/05/2026

... E.g. instead of killing them why don't you sell dolphin watching and wild encounters

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 29/05/2026

Thank you for your message. I agree regarding love being necessary but insufficient. That's where the strong part of soft and strong comes in 🙏 Regarding starving of attention and resources, this is expensive to maintain. Replacing a bad idea with a better idea is self sustaining. ...

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 29/05/2026

I don't know yet. Have you tried? 😊🙏

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 29/05/2026

Yes I agree, some humans. But we three, four humans here think it's wrong. So that's encouraging 🙂

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 28/05/2026

... someone else is hurt. -- sorry if this came across as preachy and more annoying and hate inducing than the dolphin killers. But through my own experience, I've only ever been transformed through others soft but strong love, patience and wisdom. Wishing you well.

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