James Butler

Dad, Partner @ FSP, runner, wannabe climber and mountaineer. He/him. Views here are my own.

[Gary Lineker @GaryLineker]

This ⬇️

[Ed Hawkins @ed_hawkins]

Since the 1860s the science community has understood that adding more carbon dioxide & other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere would warm the climate. In 1938, @GuyCallendar first linked the burning of fossil fuels to the observed rise in CO₂ levels & global temperatures.

[Simon Wardley @swardley]

How you lose Government by parliamentary democracy and replace it with Government by ministerial decree (aka diktat). @PeterStefanovi2 is right to be concerned, we all should be. Labour needs to support @GreenJennyJones fatal motion and force a new bill ->

[Arram @arram]

I’m scared of AGI. It's confusing how people can be so dismissive of the risks.

I’m an investor in two AGI companies and friends with dozens of researchers working at DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Brain. Almost all of them are worried.

🧵

[Antonia @flaminhaystacks]

Wow. This video really spoke to my heart.

As someone who'd always been told I'm too much or not enough, this hit me hard

It's a long video but well worth it

If you feel like you're too much, you're not in the right place

[Simon Wardley @swardley]

Half of all UK households are in such poverty that they need state help. This is where we have allowed inequality, the super wealthy and neoliberalism to take us under the gleeful cheerleading of such gutter rags as the Daily Mail and their Tory poodles ->

[James Butler @JamesGMButler]

@swardley As well as supermarkets, most cafes and restaurants are also sticking to the same standards as before albeit with softer wording on the notices. Seems to be working where I am. Hopefully this is a rare example where common sense turns out to be both common and sensible :).

[James Butler @JamesGMButler]

@lou89 Yup as well as for any of us ... Changing jobs soon

[Eduardo da Silva @emgsilva]

@manupaisable @johncutlefish Many of this is about the "culture" that supports scaling. @swardley shares excellent insights on this on his "how companies are changing" (https://t.co/UUnu5h2RfY). Also Netflix culture principle "Highly Aligned, Loosely Coupled" => clear north star / direction, trust people.

[James Butler @JamesGMButler]

@hacks4pancakes @CvilleCyber I'm 40, have had the same issue throughout my career, and I'm still waiting for the cutover point where looking young is a benefit. I expect I will flip straight into looking 'past it' in about ten years :)

[Andy Kinnear 🇪🇺 @Andy_Kinnear]

Virtual desktop really starting to fly folks, latest update from @CiaronHoye mind-blowing progress. Huge week ahead. Calling all @HealthCION @DHCCIO to express interest via my Discourse post if could help you. Great support from @NHSX & vendors too 🙂

[AT Today @ATToday_Mag]

#ICYMI @PatientSrc has announced that it will be offering an adapted version of its Electronic Patient Record software to healthcare organisations across the globe, free of charge with minimal cloud hosting costs, to help combat the Coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/XtoYo2BG00

[James Butler @JamesGMButler]

The current climate definitely exposes the lie of gig work as empowering. Huge social gaps around how we build a human future that includes gig economy.

[Katie🌻Moussouris (she/her/she-ra/she-hulk) 🪷 @k8em0]

““gig workers have been living on the brink of poverty at the whim of large data-driven companies that have the power to arbitrarily lower wages, kick workers off their platforms, & tune their algorithms in ways that optimize for revenue growth at the expense of worker wellbeing”

[James Butler @JamesGMButler]

Just in case anyone doesn't realise this!! Slightly amazed that some people haven't noticed the complete pivot by Microsoft towards open source...

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

Yes! .NET! It’s been free and open source for over five years. Runs on any Linux, the cloud, your Mac, your watch, your phone, and your Samsung TV. No subscription and it’s all FREEEEEEEEEEEE

[James Butler @JamesGMButler]

Sounds like a great example of why the more we automate, the more we need algorithms to be transparent and their outputs justifiable and reviewable. Not too different to ability to audit the quality of human decisions surely?

[Sharon Richardson @joiningdots]

:-/...

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

Visiting the UX Lab in Developer Division! Here’s their recommended book list!

[James Butler @JamesGMButler]

@cimares @Trustmarque Principal not principle :)... Good to see you back up and running...

[James Butler @JamesGMButler]

NHS England exploring sharing data with private sector to improve patient outcomes & efficiency not unwelcome, https://t.co/kyyH9xoEV6, but should be cautious and need ethics at centre of strategy, decisions & delivery. Read and sign https://t.co/cMFYOVCdbc. #digitalethics #NHS

[Lisa Page @NatSecLisa]

I’m done being quiet.
https://t.co/9YSvhsgAyb