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Community Ownership Explorer & Civic Engineer. MBE DU Essex (Hon). Polymath. Technophile. Rugby. Posts my own/not endorsements.

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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“I sent the Aegis destroyers “toward” the Taiwan Straits - is that the same as them being there?” Geopolitical high dice underway …
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well, that’s us up to date with Australian MasterChef - the Wattleseed, Lemon 🍋 Myrtle and Damson Ooray powder arrived this morning, so we’re all set to “go native” this week. 👩‍🍳
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We decided to eschew more news of p:doom and took a walk down music memory lane to kick off the weekend in style: Geoffrey Oryema, Cheb Mami, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sheila Chandra, Papa Wemba, Salif Keira. Amazing 🤩
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A counterpoint to the mixed views of retail investors and tech bros in the other place - who appear more concerned with the potential for the hype to inflate/deflate tech stocks to save bonds/cover for the carry trade unwind ahead of the mid-terms or kibosh open source/the West/the ‘upside’👇🤖
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Friends marked safe in the terrible tragedy which continues to unfold in Nepal and Tibet ~ please donate what you can to assist with the much needed relief effort: www.globalgiving.org/projects/nep... 🙏
globalgiving.org
Nepal Flood Relief Fund
Catastrophic flash floods have swept through Nepal and communities along the Bhote Koshi river system, taking lives, destroying homes and critical infrastructure, and leaving hundreds of people unaccounted for. Floodwaters and debris have devastated remote communities across the Himalayan region as search-and-rescue efforts continue. Your donation to the Nepal Flood Relief Fund will provide urgent relief and long-term recovery support to communities impacted by this devastating disaster.
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It’s the night when the Perseid meteor ☄️ shower is due to peak, and we ritually head outside in the small hours together for a few moments … but have yet to catch sight of one such that it has become a standing household joke (unless the one I swore I spotted that first year was the real deal). ❤️
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Light and shade. The birds v disconcerted.
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Wonderful. 🤩
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It’s almost the end of term for one of us and my birthday eve here in Liverpool - cards with kind words and generous gifts from students and colleagues. Heartwarming on a stunning Summer’s Eve. ❤️
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Plus ca change … we are all for Spain 🇪🇸 and beating the French 🇫🇷 now.
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Clacton-on-Sea and its environs are in the news again - whilst pundits make the most of the circus 🤡 they neglect to highlight that nearby Jaywick is the most deprived neighbourhood in England on the government’s Indices of Multiple Deprivation and has topped that ranking repeatedly since 2010.
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Alfie Hewitt and Gordon Reid - you did it again - Wimbledon 🎾 gentleman’s wheelchair doubles champions 🥳 A terrific start to this sporting summer’s day …
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
It’s July: warm weather, Wimbledon, strawberries 🍓😎
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I’m “enjoying” the renewed impetus to debate policy and forward plans in the U.K. which makes plain: - which parties don’t have any - which parties (and supporters) only have policies which are grounded in yesterday’s problems / solutions - which politicians imagine “inequality” is evenly spread
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
SMS holding up well at the near 20 mile mark: keep going Gemma! Running for @mind.org.uk in today’s London Marathon 🏃‍♀️💨🎽
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hungary 🇭🇺 👏
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... Why is it taking so long to find a cure for Parkinson’s? I’ve found three things we need to improve to give us a chance.
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Parkinson's - what's holding up a cure?
Three problems needing a solution
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The tech bros in the other place have been waxing about a post from Andrej Karpathy - gist.github.com/karpathy/442... in which, he appears to conclude that librarians shall inherit the digital revolution. I’m fine with that. 😉
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llm-wiki
llm-wiki. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
It’s taken 35 years to persuade my Father to get hearing aids (my heartfelt thanks to the wonderful audiologist @specsaversuk.bsky.social in Liverpool whose kindness proved transformative at Xmas). If we can all, comfortably, watch TV in the same room at one and the same time this afternoon - wow 🤩
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
In the latest threat to Middle Earth…
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Nature @nature.com · 21/03/2026
The brain–computer interface is the first in the world to be available for wider use outside of clinical trials go.nature.com/47WQVAG
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China approves brain chip to treat paralysis — a world first
Nature - Chip allows people with paralysis to control a soft robotic hand.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry
Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
RIP Ann Plumtree - reunited with Graham on Mother’s Day ❤️
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ALT: a candle is lit up in the dark and the flame is visible
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This year’s Six Nations delivered some cracking rugby 🏉 - from France, Scotland, Italy and, tonight, England. The tournament won by the better team overall but, on the last night and in the eightieth minute, seems unfitting that a penalty determined the outcome - but that’s on us 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Super Saturday 🚀🏉 After half an hour, it looks like the Six Nations will go to France 🇫🇷 or Ireland 🇮🇪 - the Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 team on display at Murrayfield last weekend not in evidence over in Dublin.
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
We are mostly listening to the Rolling Stones this evening … soothing.
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Incredible game of rugby at Murrayfield this afternoon - the Flowers of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 properly crushing the French 🇫🇷 to (potentially) take the lead in the Six Nations table. Not something most would have predicted … 🏉
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
🤔
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
It isn’t about “left” and “right” - or, even, the “centre” ground - irrespective of MSM claims to the contrary. Future election results will flow from the policies geared towards / choices made by younger voters. Because, the multiparty politics of the last 10 years grew out of our ageing society.
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Replace “sectors” with “pensions” - where is the regulatory and/or policy response from western governments?
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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Can governments sense change? Coordinate across systems? Experiment and learn? Reconfigure strategies when needed? Public value emerges when structural capacity, organisational routines and dynamic capabilities reinforce one another. Read the paper ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
ucl.ac.uk
Market-Shaping States: A new theory of public sector capacities and capabilities
Authored by Mariana Mazzucato and Rainer Kattel
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This Apple paper reiterates that LLMs are merely ‘stochastic parrots’ 🦜 Has anyone built a Derridean LLM? Will AGI escape the search for time-bound origins and teleogical endpoints - or, will it reflect its all too human underpinnings in language? ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
England’s rugby union players have allowed Ireland to lead by 22 points after 30 minutes. Still, it could be worse - Ireland missed a penalty and conversion. #sixnations🌹
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 17/02/2026
Over 100 researchers from Johns Hopkins, Oxford, and more call for guardrails on some infectious disease datasets that could enable AI to design deadly viruses (Megan Morrone/Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
When is government going to begin counting A.I. Agent investment/creation/use and present the figures alongside traditional employment data? Surely, it should - if they’re key to ‘solving the productivity puzzle’. 🧩 Its economic development programmes should be appraised in the same way. Discuss.
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Somehow - in a super-soaker ‘fight’ high in the Bolivian Andes 10 years ago - in the midst of an annual “battle of the (brass) bands” between neighbouring villages. Never seen or heard so many euphoniums played with such enthusiasm in one place …
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Come’on the men in red 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ~ time to defy the critics and take on France 🇫🇷 with a proper dose of Welsh pride 🌼
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
In bocca al lupo @francescocarollo.bsky.social - your boys in fine form signing the anthem 🏉
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Loved catching up with the dual moguls, half pipe and snowboard cross finals 🏂 at the #WinterOlympics earlier. Worth it for the terminology alone - I knew about wipeouts but new to me were the “goofy” stance and the complexities of the “Stalefish” grip or grab!
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
💔💔💔
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
A Middle Eastern proxy war fuelled by Biden’s withdrawal and recent cuts in the USAID budget - it feels like humanity has died in Sudan. www.thetimes.com/article/ca84...
thetimes.com
It feels like humanity has died in Sudan
Millions of people have fled slaughter and rape. In camps dominated by women and girls in Chad, their nightmare continues
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Time for England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 in the #SixNations 🏉
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
At a time when technological developments are being announced at breakneck speed, I miss Paul Virilio. First, biology. Then, chemistry. And, physics is expected to soon follow. Ilya Prigogine wrote about the confluence of ideas across disciplines - how long before our political-economy catches up?
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
First, there was ClawdBot - which begat MoltBot. Then, there was MoltBook - a social media platform designed/populated by and for the MoltBots. Today, you can “hire a human” to operate IRL if you’re a bot rentahuman.ai And, there’s a new Bot inspired religion - Crustafarianism: molt.church 🦞
rentahuman.ai
RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks
The marketplace where AI agents rent humans. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can't do.
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Google announces nationwide RCT to study AI deployment in real world care settings. research.google/blog/collabo...
research.google
Collaborating on a nationwide randomized study of AI in real-world virtual care
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
"The United States is responsible for about 95 percent of the money owed to the United Nations, about $2.2 billion...." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/w...
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U.N. Says It’s in Danger of Financial Collapse Because of Unpaid Dues
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Curious. Mosaic - www.mosaic.org.il/model Is anyone tracking / evaluating such proposals as they emerge? 🙏 @jenitennison.com @hetanshah.bsky.social
mosaic.org.il
Model | MOSAIC
The Mosaic Model offers a concrete solution to adopting AI while making sure everyone benefits. Starting with the Israeli case study, while classic unemployment shrinks the economy. AI-driven unemploy...
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Latency arbitrage (aided and abetted by AI assistants). Legal?
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Commonfutrs @commonfutrs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🦞🦞🦞
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 28/01/2026
The UK CMA proposes measures to let publishers opt out of content scraping for Google's AI Overviews and AI training without losing visibility in search results (Robert Booth/The Guardian) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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