Tom

TPM/Software developer. Dabbles in media. Interested in cycling and transport policy. @UniofYork alum.

[Sam Dumitriu @Sam_Dumitriu]

Matt Yglesias on the fundamental problem with nuclear regulation.

[Sam Dumitriu @Sam_Dumitriu]

Britain's productivity "puzzle"

[Tom Calver @TomHCalver]

Looks like there were three big transfers of seats on the night

🔵🔴 179 Con -> Lab
🟡🔴 35 SNP -> Lab
🔵🟠 57 Con -> Lib

(kudos to @narottammedhora for this brilliant sankey chart) @thetimes #ge24 https://t.co/omePQYkvAu

[Tom @TButlerRoberts]

@UKEmpLawyer @williamsmbbch @ClubVass Sorry to hear that! Hope all is okay soon, we’ve just managed to make it out of Gatwick now although things seem pretty chaotic there too.

[Tom @TButlerRoberts]

@UKEmpLawyer @williamsmbbch From Faro, Portugal - still stuck here but sounds like we will be off in next half hour ourselves! Been a long day.

[Flo Crivello @Altimor]

This is a huge deal — for the first time, an AI is able to consistently manipulate humans to act against their own interest, and further the AI’s goals, using only natural language.

And all along, humans don’t even know they’re dealing with an AI.

[Tom @TButlerRoberts]

@helenpidd Derby has one along the Derwent. Although depends how strict you are about being continuous (bit near the centre where you have to cross a road)

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

What happened is scientists discovered chlorofluorocarbons were bad for the ozone, countries believed them, the Montreal Protocol was signed, and CFC use fell by 99.7%, leading to the stabilization of the ozone layer, perhaps the greatest example of global cooperation in history.

[Tom @TButlerRoberts]

@thediyora Fair enough! I vividly recall being sent out to cover a similar thing and feeling wildly out of place in office garb, in hindsight q funny tho

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

The Humber Refinery in NE England.
This place looks and smells like a ghost of fossil fuel history. It's where they turn crude oil into petrol, jet fuel & many other petrochemical products.
It won't seem the obvious place to start a thread abt batteries.
But bear with me
🧵

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Also, an Excel error led to an estimated 1,500 deaths in the UK last year. The UK COVID contact tracing effort saved to an old Excel file format (.XLS) rather than the new one (.XLSX). The smaller row limits resulted in names being dropped & they were never contacted by tracers.

[Matthew Holehouse @mattholehouse]

Raphael Marshall, an FCO fast streamer with three years experience, describes disarray as a skeleton staff of him and other junior staff were tasked with picking out Afghans for evacuation from a flood of 100k+ requests. Whole thing requires reading but esp his criticism of Raab

[John Bull @garius]

"We advise people to turn off their lights" Winston Churchill said. "I'm asking people to take personal responsibility for stopping the Luftwaffe"

He added that he might make the blackout mandatory in certain situations in future, but that it wasn't the right time to do it now.

[Tom @TButlerRoberts]

@MalwareTechBlog Genuine question: given the above is true, why has the problem not been fixed yet? Surely they could've implemented a rollback plan by now? Not familiar with BGP so could be completely misunderstanding

[Tom @TButlerRoberts]

Looks like someone got the admin password at Facebook

[DevOps Borat @DEVOPS_BORAT]

To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops.

[Mike Butcher (BlueSky/Threads: @mikebutcher) @mikebutcher]

Behold, the UK’s new Digital Minister also responsible for cyber security.

[Tom @TButlerRoberts]

@MooseAllain Also true of anyone Ouse claiming they’ve swum in a river in York