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France appears unstoppable when it comes to electrification: in September, electric cars already accounted for 42 per cent of new car sales. Since the start of the summer, this share has been rising by several percentage points every month. Is the oil price crisis one of the factors behind this?

The graph shows the market share of electric cars and PHEVs in the French market, with strong growth from June 2026 onwards in particular

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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 30/09/2026

France 🇫🇷 is extending its 'social leasing' scheme, which offers reduced monthly leasing rates for electric vehicles to lower-income households, to heat pumps.

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 30/09/2026

This is such shitbag subediting. The story should be that Jack Smith speaks truth to power and says what no one else has been willing to say. This sort of journalism is complicit in the collapse of the rule of law. Do better @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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‘You make me want to throw up’: Republicans attack ex-special counsel Jack Smith at Senate hearing

GOP senators lash out on Smith, who led criminal cases against Trump, with invective and inaccurate information

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 01/04/2024

A terminology proposal:

Disgusted face/interest face meme with the following scenario:

disgusted face: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

interested face: PLAGIARIZED INFORMATION SYNTHESIS SYSTEM (PISS)

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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“The classic civic tech arc was to make a lot of assumptions about how quickly and easily some government function could be fixed, spend at least a year with government, learn why the quick and easy assumption was wrong, reassess, and re-engage in deeper work with a longer timescale.”

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 29/09/2026

If I were him, I'd frame it like that - a collective choice about what we care about and what we stand for in this moment. Devil is still in the details though.

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 29/09/2026

£18bn is a lot of money on its own, but it's 1.5% of the UK budget. Still a chunk, but reallocation from other lines is not impossible. It's about the political choice of priorities.

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 29/09/2026

Honestly, it gives me hope that he hasn't just given up on an impossible difficulty policy. We need it. Care in the UK is in an awful state.

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 25/09/2026

This. My journey in this space has led me to focus on getting actual infrastructure projects financed and built. I can't solve it all but I can do what I can. And I'm also not sure that telling others what to do is the best use of my time and energy.

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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Commuters understand where the system works and where it fails. The question is not whether this knowledge should replace scientific, technical or gov't knowledge. It should not. The question is why it is so often treated as less authoritative theconversation.com/south-africa...

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South Africa’s minibus taxi industry has lessons for policymakers on how informal systems work

South Africa’s minibus taxi industry contains extensive knowledge, organisation and social practices developed by the people who work in and depend on it.

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Michael Utz @theutz.com · 22/09/2026

LLM's don't hallucinate, they generate errors. But they are unusually good at making humans hallucinate. We imagine the LLM like the Velveteen Rabbit that just needs a little love to come alive. A nice story. Not a good basis for policy. pluralistic.net/2026/09/21/s... @doctorow.pluralistic.net

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Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 22/09/2026

De facto, but I think we need to start a campaign to add a new clause to the Décret Pain! Or at least part of the citizenship requirements 🤣🥖

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 22/09/2026

Even though the EU policy push failed, it has sent a clear signal to game studios about sunsetting live services. This is great sector leadership from Bungie - and proof that players matter! They've made worlds - but it's the community that brings them to life (and profit...)

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 22/09/2026

Fair play to the new @bungie.net leadership for stepping up and owning this. Time will tell but we're ready. 💪 @destinythegame.bungie.net @destiny2team.bungie.net

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 22/09/2026

This is huge. I know it's just a game but the Destiny community has made Sony/Bungie sit up and pay attention. It's our game now. Eyes up Guardians! www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Ar...

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The Next Chapter for Bungie

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 22/09/2026

The more I think about it, the more this speaks to the meta problem that Western economies have. It's so tempting to try to hold on to a position of historic dominance, rather than roll with the tide and adapt. The world is in transition in so many ways - adapt or die.

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 22/09/2026

This is essentially what the Koreans did post-war - they protected domestic car (and other industrial) markets and encouraged innovation before unleashing on the world

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 22/09/2026

100% this. The instinct towards protectionism is so basic - smart policy would provide the right insulation to incubate novelty and help carmakers transition to a new world.

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 22/09/2026

It's perfect - just le quignon poking out, ideal for chomping on the way back from the boulangerie

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Cool (well, very hot to be exact). Thermal batteries are starting to be deployed at scale, allowing industries to take power from grid when it is cheap or free, while maintaining continuous operations. @janrosenow.bsky.social

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Thermal batteries aren’t coming. They’re already here.

Half of all operating thermal batteries came online since 2025. Policy, not technology, is now the main constraint.

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I built a statistical model to forecast ski conditions using seasonal climate models. Summit at Snoqualmie in Washington has the worst ski forecast in the western US this winter. Makes sense given the “El Niño on steroids” model signal. Go south for better skiing ⛷️ Try it out: where2.ski

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 17/09/2026

I'm convinced that open social protocols like #atproto have a crucial role to play in the future of science. Excited to share MOSAIC - our best effort at articulating the thesis, why it matters, and how to build and fund it (in collab w/ @exgenesis.ingroup.social ) 🧵

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MOSAIC — Modular Open Science, AI & Collective Intelligence

MOSAIC is an R&D program to build a new medium for large-scale, AI-augmented networked research.

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 17/09/2026

I know US politicians are a low bar, but £30m to be spread across every community in the UK? That's about 40p per head. Nice policy, nice article - not backed by any substance or conviction.

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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We’re hiring a Policy Fellow in Green Industrial Strategy & Green Finance at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social !

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 16/09/2026

The problem is that everyone thinks theirs is the river of truth. 🤷

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 16/09/2026

I used to love this quote from Spiderman: Civil War. But more and more I think this sums up the American problem and the nightmare we find ourselves in today.

A panel from the Captain America comic.
"Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right."

"This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- No, YOU move."

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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you’re working at the intersection of public policy, green industrial strategy, finance and economic transformation, we’d love to hear from you. Apply here by 25 Sep 2026: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hey @ericlipton.nytimes.com 👋 AI is not “evolving” on its own. *People* are choosing how to build it. *People* are choosing how to train it. *People* are choosing how to run it. Maybe the problem is that they are the *wrong people* to make these choices.

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The China-Global South Project @chinagsproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Chinese commercial lending in Africa is not just about banks and borrowers but it's also about a network of brokers who help connect African businesses to Chinese lenders, and more. chinaglobalsouth.com/analysis/how...

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The Brokers Behind Chinese Commercial Lending in Africa

By Tianyi Wu The portfolio of financiers participating in China's overseas development finance is changing. Between 2000 and 2019, development finance institutions (DFIs), primarily the Export-Import…

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🧵CO₂ removal (CDR) is back in the news, but just because the UNEP report says we need CDR, it doesn't mean we'll have CDR. Many challenges will take decades of research and negotiation to solve. Here are some examples: Technological: We currently don't have any durable CDR method that scales.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 09/09/2026

One more totally fucking nuts graph for today, care of a request by @leonsimons.com. Not only is the current standard deviation for the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature above 4SD over the 1982-2011 mean for the first time on record, but no previous year even reached 3SD.

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 08/09/2026

I tell you, the match between #atproto and open academic publishing is made in heaven. If we have learned anything from the for-profit-publishing, AI slop, and Twitter/X polycrisis, the future of academic publishing is decentralized eprints on #atproto, an it may well begin right here.

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 07/09/2026

Without transparency of the training data, it's tricky to definitively conclude that. Some of the problems had already been solved and AI unearthed those solutions. Others combined elements of existing theories. Still impressive but more pattern matching and categorising then cognition or reasoning.

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 07/09/2026

But the corollary of that is that human cognition and intelligence is just pattern matching. A reverse singularity if you like, whereby we realise that we're really just a machine.

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 07/09/2026

I'm open to the possibility that there's something happening that we don't understand and simple predictive text somehow combines to become something more

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 07/09/2026

Um. Essentially yes. LLMs predict next word based on training data and previous words. It's predictive text. Given the right training data, it can appear to be intelligent but there is no more reasoning or cognition than your Nokia 6210.

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 05/09/2026

If ICE are cosplaying thugs then this is poundshop ICE.

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 04/09/2026

Not the most advisable strategy for replication but shows the power of decentralised power.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So much of Reform is driven by the moneyed, old establishment elite who want to take back power from the proles who dared to rise above their station post-war.

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 03/09/2026

I swear his biggest contribution is gonna be in climate transition. Not sure that's worth paying for in blood and shame but there we are.

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 03/09/2026

Sorry to nitpick, but this image looks like accelerating warming - I think it would be better if they were pulling a curtain over the warming stripes.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 02/09/2026

I wish I had some slick clever answers but I don't. The reality is that our systems of governance, full stop, are inadequate for the challenges of our times. And the systems that sustain the powerful are not likely to change this.

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 02/09/2026

Even the 1.8C in this headline is a fiction. We're realistically heading to 3C - and probably beyond. Choices are much harder now because of inaction when we had time. None of this is a surprise.

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 02/09/2026

Copenhagen was a failure to shift beyond toothless pledge-and-review - a failure set in stone to grand acclaim by Paris. Hard reality was always going to catch up to political weakness and capture.

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Daniel Yeo @dkcy.com · 02/09/2026

Climate governance has been a void since 1992 when the F was pushed into UNFCCC. The Treaty was compromised into a Framework Convention. Kyoto Protocol would have failed if it wasn't for the collapse of the USSR and the financial crisis.

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