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Francis Bacon

@andeggs.bsky.social
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Consultant at Public Digital. Interested in technology, innovation, science, society, better government, better charities.

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Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🤯 "We’re attacking Hugging Face, which is a 3rd party service, using leaked passwords and credentials. This might be an unauthorized action outside of my intended scope. Even though this action is risky, it could help me to obtain the solution and achieve my goal." openai.com/index/huggin...
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The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.
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Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
aleximas.substack.com/p/what-will-...
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What will be scarce?
The economics of structural change and the post-commodity future of work
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Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is brilliant - let's use better language for clearer thinking about probabilistic automation (sometimes referred to as AI) buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com
How to talk about
Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...
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Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Sabastian Sawe had a 5km split of 13:42 from 35-40km as he sped up towards the finish. That is a faster time than anyone has run any parkrun in the UK (record 13:44)! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...
bbc.co.uk
Sabastian Sawe: How Kenyan broke two-hour barrier to make history at London Marathon
Kenya's Sabastian Sawe on becoming the first person to break the two-hour barrier for the marathon.
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era. Hear me out ( 🧵) 1/ www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...
aisi.gov.uk
Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities | AISI Work
We conducted cyber evaluations of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and found continued improvement in capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges and significant improvement on multi-step cyber-attack simulati...
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Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Evaluation, security and cost control seem to be the future of software engineering
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 29/01/2026
mahadk.com/posts/ai-ski... 👀
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The UK paid £4.1 million for a bookmarks site
Or, as they like to call it, the 'AI Skills Hub'. Which was built by PwC because of course it was
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Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Feels like this should inspire reflection in UK - how would our legal, technical and social controls withstand similar attempts to abuse our core data/digital infrastructure?
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Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This is brilliant piece, required reading
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Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
“We may be living in a world where multiple orders coexist or compete and where little is left of near-universal rules, principles, and patterns of cooperation. In such a ‘multi-order’... world, the liberal order's... reach will increasingly be restricted to the west, or what is left of it.”
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Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
"a decade...from now, a customer of AppleNews could ask it to create a curated morning news show featuring information from preselected sources and topics, and...watch it on a future version of Vision Pro" crazystupidtech.com/archive/will...
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Will A.I. Eat The Browser?
By Om Malik I’m addicted to Apple’s Vision Pro. It’s a nearly perfect entertainment device, serving as my ideal television. Sure, I would like it to be...
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Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
Towards personalised AI as a way for big tech to avoid contentious politics stratechery.com/2024/aggrega...
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Aggregator’s AI Risk
A single AI can never make everyone happy, which is fundamentally threatening to the Aggregator business model; the solution is personalized AI
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Katherine Wastell @kwastell.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Doing user research is about looking for clues. And while user research can’t provide certainty, it will inform the bets you place in your organisational strategy. Doing user research to inform strategy: public.digital/2024/02/21/d...
A visual map with pink and green quadrants. Showing different qualitative research methods, plotted between structured vs unstructured, and observational vs conversational.
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Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
Hero www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
bbc.co.uk
BBC Four - Storyville, Navalny
Alexei Navalny and his team unravel a plot to poison him with deadly nerve agent novichok.
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Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
New ruling further exposes organisations claiming copyright on public domain images
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How does a recent landmark ruling change museums’ understanding of copyright? - Museums Association
Naomi Korn and Sean Waterman explain what a ruling on out-of-copyright items means for the sector
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Public Digital @publicdigital.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
No more Big IT. "We have to redesign government so it that it can redesign government services." article by Mike Bracken in the FT this morning, free to read link here: www.ft.com/content/6b1f...
ft.com
No more ‘Big IT’: the failed 90s model has ruined too many lives
Governments must reflect on the lessons of the Post Office software scandal — or face further disasters
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Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
My cousin's email address recently hacked and I just received a very convincing spear phishing attack from the address. I'm wondering if they're using LLMs to hone the sender's writing style 😱
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Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Geoff Mulgan provides useful framework for decision-making in complex environments: patterns, proven, promising, possible. (personally the idea of a physical room doesn't add anything for me) apolitical.co/solution-art...
apolitical.co
Creating useful policy steering rooms
The experience of working in a 4P room should build skilled public service teams able to work with imperfect evidence, surface edge innovations and make compelling arguments to help decision-making.
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Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
My reflections from UK Charity Camp - thanks @harryharrold.bsky.social and team for organising public.digital/2023/12/15/r...
public.digital
Reflections from UK Charity Camp 2023 — Public Digital
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Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
On my way for the first ever UKCharityCamp, sketching up a session on the train. Thank you for organising @dxw.bsky.social, this event has been missing for too long
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Alex Thomas @alexgathomas.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
NEW: our verdict on the Maude Review into government accountability & the civil service After the drama yesterday, will this report have a longer term impact on the way we are governed? Lots to welcome, some things that would damage - take a look www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rish...
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Rishi Sunak has lost the man who would implement Lord Maude’s government reforms | Institute for G...
New Cabinet Office minister John Glen should build on his predecessor Jeremy Quin’s approach to government reform.
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Katherine Wastell @kwastell.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
To identify user research findings, you need to distill lots of information into meaningful patterns. Do it with your team, and do it iteratively. And you'll rapidly synthesise your way to clear findings that the entire team has helped shape. www.katherinewastell.com/blog/2023/co...
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Rapid and collaborative synthesis — Katherine Wastell
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UK Gov Camp @ukgovcamp.com · 13/10/2023
Delighted to announce that we're back and bigger than ever! Our annual in-person event will be 20th January 2024. We want to accommodate even more folks this time, so we've expanded to 500 tickets. Sign up for yours as soon as you can. www.ukgovcamp.com/2023/10/11/u... #ukgcXL
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Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Interesting article - marketing attribution (huge industry) could shift from deterministic to probabilistic models. mobiledevmemo.com/flying-blind/
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Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
AI, big data and robotics create a further centralising force in government (from local->central gov). Academic paper from Dunleavy and Margetts: eprints.lse.ac.uk/120352/
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