@kcorrick
Human centred and responsible strategy, data & innovation Loves teaching and transformation Founding partner, Corrick Wales & Partners External lecturer, digital innovation, Grenoble Ecole de Management #opendata #netzero France https://kathryncorrick.fr
In Eurovision news, the UK entry is live.
See also, This Museum Is (Not) Obsolete which Sam runs, if you live near Ramsgate. Open on Saturdays and Sundays.
this-museum-is-not-obsolete.com
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ros Atkins is a treasure
I'm a little bit more vindictive: I report book club solicitations in gmail as phishing attempts (because that's exactly what they turn out to be). But I'm a hard nope for new ones going forward.
because I keep forgetting to mention it: LITERALLY ANYONE can nominate books for this prize! yes! that means you! you have until march 31st!
Are you working on an #opendata and #AI project? Playing with portals, CKAN, MCP servers, LLMs, custom queries to get insights from databases?
The community is eager to learn more!
👉🏾 Open Call for Demos: apply here until 6 March blog.okfn.org/the-future-o...
#OpenDataDay #ODD26
In 2 weeks, France holds 1st round of municipal elections, which will decide which parties lead cities—transport, housing, land use. Most cities will likely go to 2nd round on Mar 22.
In the 2020 elections, left alliances won 24/42 cities with >100k people, including big 3: Paris, Lyon & Marseille.
84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised
User Chris: What was the core difference why you think the DoW accepted OpenAI but not Anthropic Sam Altman: I can't speak for them, but to speculate with the best understanding of the situation. *First, I saw reporting that they were extremely close on a deal, and for much of the time both sides really wanted to reach one. I have seen what happens in tense negotiations when things get stressed and deteriorate super fast, and I could believe that was a large part of what happened here. *We believe in a layered approach to safety--building a safety stack, deploying FDEs and having our safety and alignment researcher involved, deploying via cloud, working directly with the DoW. Anthropic seemed more focused on specific prohibitions in the contract, rather than citing applicable laws, which we felt comfortable with. We feel that it it's very important to build safe system, and although documents are also important, I'd clearly rather rely on technical safeguards if I only had to pick one. *We and the DoW got comfortable with the contractual language, but I can understand other people would have a different opinion here. *I think Anthropic may have wanted more operational control than we did
I saw some folks asking what the difference was between what OpenAI signed with the DoD and what Anthropic said they wanted, and Sam more or less admits here the key point: OpenAI's deal requires them to trust the NSA. Anthropic's contract had real safeguards.
There are some good, user friendly operating systems now for Linux, e.g. Linux Mint. www.linuxmint.com
A reminder of how remarkable and resilient the people and culture of Iran have always been…
Posted late yesterday, so boosting it today too
Reforming rail ticketing in the EU isn’t just “make it easier to book train tickets”
But there is a workable outcome good enough for everyone. If the Commission wants to find it…
Criminally funny, but also I'm crying inside
Norway comes for the #TechBros
www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree
vimeo.com/1168468796?f...
To move from the specific to the general: Let’s make a checklist to help in the discourse on public decision-making. Should one not ask of any public project or loan whether it: (1) promotes justice; (2) restores reciprocity; (3) confers divisible or indivisible benefits; (4) favours people over machines; (5) whether its strategy maximizes gain or minimizes disaster; (6) whether conservation is favoured over waste; and (7), whether the reversible is favoured over the irreversible?
"Should one not ask of any public project … whether it (1) promotes justice; (2) restores reciprocity; … (4) favours people over machines; (5) maximizes gain or minimizes disaster; (6) favours conservation over waste; (7) is reversible or irreversible?
Franklin, The Real World of Technology, 1990
Indeed!
Research journals are facing similar issues, perhaps they have found some solutions?
Regarding your education question Lilian, I think there's a question for teachers on how we assess students, what learning outcomes we seek, how grading operates. For my students I look for critical thinking, reflective learning and subject engagement. This will vary by subject obviously.
I'm not up to speed on how the agents work to know. However, the scenario that @tomski.com outlines is the use of email or messaging by an agent to change an address in the context of central/local government services. A great question, inc. the data protection/rights/liabilities implications.
Ohhhh they've reached Canada!
Refers those in DC and NY to French Tacos (really burritos but with fries not rice) which I think would go down a storm in the US. They originate from Rhône Alpes, home of the cheese, carb and lardon combo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...
Cc @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
For those looking for European podcast hosting and publishing:
Acast (born in Stockhom, offices in a number of countries, based on an open podcasting ecosystem) looks good www.acast.com/en-gb/features
As does Captivate.fm (owned by Global Player, based in London) www.captivate.fm/features
For those wondering what else I've found:
Alitu - all in one service, well regarded, Glasgow based
Cleanfeed - specialised, designed more for broadcasters than remote podcasters, London based used by BBC, Global Player etc.
Does anyone have other European suggestions?
ICYM In a year when the UK economy grew 1.1% the Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Economy grew 12 per cent. And yet somehow it remains received wisdom on much of the right of British politics that clean technologies are bad and must be stopped. www.businessgreen.com/news/4526135...
The Not So Many Party?
The Many minus Your Party.
Does anyone have any recommendations for European based remote podcasting software?
I've found Soundtrap (Sweden) and Wavecast (Switzerland, but only works on the Chrome browser :-/ ), but struggling to find others. Where else should I be looking?
TRAM TRACKS, CYCLISTS & CRASHES:
About two-thirds of Sheffield's tram network is on-road, with a lot of cycle crashes as a result.
In search of information regarding solutions to this that have been or are being trialled or implemented elsewhere.
Grateful for retweets to extend reach.
This is excellent.
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
