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Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · 8h

The dotcom bubble left us fibre that still powers the internet.

The AI boom might leave us a pile of short-lived silicon and silent cathedrals of compute – monuments to a forgotten era.

The web was open. AI isn’t. That may prove the real difference.

After the AI boom: what might we be left with? | Rob Bowley

blog.robbowley.net

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Anthony Green @anthonycgreen.bsky.social · 1d

More insightful that anything one will read anywhere else…

Paul Evans @pauliewaulie.bsky.social · 1d

Pessimism incoming! 👇👇👇

The centre & left seem to have lost political ambition. It needs a wholesale shift in perspective to stop something that is beginning to look inevitable now. 🧵

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Kevlin Henney @kevlin.bsky.social · 2d

Architecture with Agility, London, 11-13 November

I'll be running this popular workshop of mine over 3 days at the SDD Deep Dive @sddconf.bsky.social

sddconf.com/workshop/oWx...

Software Design & Development Deep Dive

sddconf.com

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Dave Farley @davefarley77.bsky.social · 2d

Does Extreme Programming Still Work in Modern Software Development? Does Extreme Programming Still Work in Modern Software Development?

AVAILABLE NOW 📽️

Watch HERE ➡️ youtu.be/-lvJhDt8DEc

Does Extreme Programming Still Work in Modern Software Development?

YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering

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Anthony Green @anthonycgreen.bsky.social · 2d

Wealth taxes: high risk, unworkable and anti-growth
taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/07/22/u...

UK wealth tax: high risk and anti-growth

Claims of £24bn from a UK wealth tax ignore delays, capital flight (£200–£500bn) risks to growth and employment. Data, country evidence & better reforms.

taxpolicy.org.uk

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 2d

Aggregate Result of the 122 Council By-Elections (for 125 Seats) since the 2025 Local Elections:

RFM: 47 (+40)
LDM: 32 (+10)
CON: 13 (-15)
LAB: 12 (-30)
GRN: 11 (+3)
Ind: 5 (-4)
Local: 3 (-3)
SNP: 1 (-1)
PLC: 1 (=)

Explore: electionmaps.uk/byelections-...

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Anthony Green @anthonycgreen.bsky.social · 2d

Reform taking votes left and right in Lisa Nandy's constituency.
Worrying time for progressives.

Britain Elects @britainelects.com · 3d

❗ Reform GAIN from Labour

Last week's Wigan Central (Wigan) council by-election result:

REF: 47.2% (+47.2)
LAB: 32.9% (-20.4)
IND: 6.7% (+6.7)
CON: 5.1% (-20.8)
GRN: 4.4% (+4.4)
LDEM: 3.7% (-17.1)

+/- 2023

Estimated turnout: ~32% (-3)

andrewteale.me.uk/previews

Andrew’s Previews | Andrew Teale | Substack

"All the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order". Click to read Andrew’s Previews, by Andrew Teale, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

andrewteale.me.uk

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Anthony Green @anthonycgreen.bsky.social · 2d

…and get the worse possible outcome - a party elected that holds none of ones views and is a disaster for the country.

Compromise is at the heart of our electoral system, social media bubbles have convinced us otherwise, but meet your neighbours you realise the challenge of delivering change

THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 3d

‘It feels good – and quite strange – to think I could vote for what I believe in…’

@natashawalter.bsky.social reports on why young women are flocking to @greenparty.org.uk, won over by @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s stance on topics such as Palestine, refugee rights and economic injustice 🌱

Photo of Zack Polanski. Text: Natasha Walter: why young women are flocking to the Greens

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Anthony Green @anthonycgreen.bsky.social · 3d

Why Culture Change Can Blow up in Your Face
www.infoq.com/presentation...

Why Culture Change Can Blow up in Your Face, and How to Prevent It

Katherine Kirk exposes ‘invisible forces’ which can cause our attempt at changing culture to blow up in our face.

www.infoq.com

Anthony Green @anthonycgreen.bsky.social · 4d

@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and @rory-stewart.bsky.social discuss the decline of the Conservative's fortunes in the latest episode of @therestpolitics.bsky.social
youtu.be/NZv-nEyYvss?...

Anthony Green @anthonycgreen.bsky.social · 4d

The decline in party membership since 1948

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Seb Rose @sebrose.bsky.social · 4d

Gáspár Nagy and I are very happy to announce that our new book, Effective Behavior-Driven Development, is now available from Manning: hubs.la/Q03L7kXM0

This book includes updated content previously self-published in The BDD Books Series along with an all new section, BDD Automation Patterns.

MEAP cover for Effective Behavior-Driven Development from Manning

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Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · 4d

Some reflections on @duncanjbrown.com's recent article "Team dynamics after AI", which is one of the best/most important pieces of writing I've read on AI in a long time

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Anthony Green @anthonycgreen.bsky.social · 4d

A biological 0-day?
Threat-screening tools may miss AI-designed toxins.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...

A biological 0-day? Threat-screening tools may miss AI-designed proteins.

Ordering DNA for AI-designed toxins doesn’t always raise red flags.

arstechnica.com

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 4d

🚨 New workshop alert!

I'm excited to be hosting a roundtable session on bringing clarity and coherence to AI adoption later this month.

Register here: https://matthewskelton.com/all-events/workshop-bring-clarity-and-coherence-to-ai-adoption-via-team-topologies-and-active-knowledge-diffusion

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Anthony Green @anthonycgreen.bsky.social · 4d

"When someone mentally unwell is diagnosed with a physical illness, mental healthcare should be expanded; instead, vulnerable people just grow more vulnerable."

💯 seen this first hand caring for an elderly family member

Steve Hayes @sxh.bsky.social · 4d

If I ever need cancer treatment this is the doctor I want

I was feeling a little smug at how much I had helped a cancer patient. Then came a devastating text | Ranjana Srivastava

Misfortunes shouldn’t have to compete to be meaningful but a combination that fills me with dread is cancer and mental illness

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d

Good piece. As ever the problem with trying to spot bubbles is markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. (Keynes)

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 4d

I'm not saying it makes a huge amount of sense, but I am saying a market melt-up is a distinct possibility. The bad stuff just isn't sticking - on.ft.com/48PHt3p

Brace for a market melt-up

[FREE TO READ] Some say this is a ‘good’ bubble, but investors should remember that all bubbles burst in the end

on.ft.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 5d

New post just out:

"Staying alive vs taking control"

Labour's big choice at the budget is whether they just want to try and survive it or whether they're willing to take some bigger risks that would have future payoffs.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...

Staying alive vs taking control

Labour's budget choices

open.substack.com

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Anthony Green @anthonycgreen.bsky.social · 4d

"I bought a house in Clacton what more do you want me to do?"

Being a "Constituency MP" and the goodwill that generates has long been a bulwark against being voted out.
Farage thinks he is immune from such judgement because of the sheer magnitude of discontent and his ability to manipulate it.

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 4d

Nigel Farage, no one’s forgot your lie about buying a house in Clacton.

When will you buy a property there as MP? Or is it just not important to you?

#AnywhereButClacton

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Anthony Green @anthonycgreen.bsky.social · 4d

At some point ideology eclipsed electoral math as the determinate of where they positioned themselves.
Did it begin with Heath's '74 defeat and the country proclaiming the government did not run the country — an event that ushering in the end of the post-war consensus and beginning of Thatcherism?

Anthony Green @anthonycgreen.bsky.social · 4d

The Conservative Party was once considered the most successful electoral machine in history.
Now many are questioning whether it can ever win power again.
How did it go from one state of affairs to the other?
As is common with tipping points - first very slowly then all at once.

Anthony Green @anthonycgreen.bsky.social · 4d

The Conservative Party was once considered the most successful electoral machine in history.
Now many are questioning whether it can ever win power again.
How did it go from one state of affairs to the other?
As is common with tipping points - first very slowly then all at once.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 5d

Just what is drawing young men to this space? Just how do these ideas intersect with extreme politics, conspiracy theories, and Christian Nationalism? And if young boys are in crisis, just how can we support them?
humanists.uk/2025/10/07/i...

‘It’s important not to belittle young men’: Red pills, ‘god pills’, and the manosphere | Interview with James Bloodworth

With more young men than ever drawn to Internet subcultures that preach misogyny, racism, and extreme politics, we spoke to the journalist and author of Lost Boys, James Bloodworth about the…

humanists.uk

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