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Bertrand Duperrin @duperrin.com · 1h

Generative AI is reshaping consulting by automating junior tasks, not replacing the profession. Value shifts to senior expertise, strategic insight, and human judgment, skills AI can’t replicate. Consulting evolves with tech, but remains centered on trusted guidance and decision support.

AI won't kill consulting, but it will force it to grow

We've heard this story a thousand times before. The internet was supposed to make consulting firms obsolete by giving everyone direct access to all the world's

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 1h

I came across the term ‘cognitive debt’ just yesterday.

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Spot-on quote here:

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Michael Ayres @random-coder-1.bsky.social · 3h

Insurers should omit it from corporate coverage as a first step.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 3h

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 3h

It’s a material reality that right now the AI tech bubble is holding up the empire. It increasingly powers all commerce, and is central to the most invasive surveillance apparatus the world has ever seen. Predictive analytics trained on our data have allowed billionaires to track us like wildlife.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 3h

Imagine for a moment a world so dependent on data centers that every aspect of municipal infrastructure must be reshaped. Not around human need, but maintaining GPU farms that use exponentially more power and water with each build. Models are only growing, and our resources are only diminishing.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 10h

You must know this @pauliewaulie.bsky.social

Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 18h

spotted on eBay.

Anybody know what NCW&W stood for? www.ebay.co.uk/itm/25696584...

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 10h

Me too.

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JP Spencer @jpspencer.bsky.social · 1d

The map below shows how far behind France and Germany we are in mass transit. In France, every place with over 150,000 people has some form of tram or metro.

But if mayoral areas can 'become builders' as @tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social puts it in the foreword, we can turn this around.

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The UK has very few mass transit systems compared to peers

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 22h

Hollow laughter

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Paul Evans @pauliewaulie.bsky.social · Jan 1

Because we have stopped paying directly for news, we have made it possible for dark money to disenfranchise us.
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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 18h

spotted on eBay.

Anybody know what NCW&W stood for? www.ebay.co.uk/itm/25696584...

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 18h

What, this Richard Tice? Surely not. bsky.app/profile/flip...

Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 7d

This outburst by Tice should have more publicity. He made up a quote from Starmer’s speech, saying the PM had called on people to ‘take up arms’ against Reform.

4 minutes in.

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Reform UK accuses Keir Starmer of inciting violence against Nigel Farage

YouTube video by Sky News

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18h

I'm sure financial journalists can correct me if I'm wrong, but it also seems reminiscent of how very large risky assets were concentrated in the balance sheet of a handful of too-big-to-fail institutions.

Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 19h

Peter Atwater
“With each passing day, the AI space looks more and more like the USA’s home mortgage securitization at the peak of the 2007-8 housing bubble with its overlapping series of capital conveyor belts.”

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 21h

I find it strangely comforting that the Tories are still turning out young fogeys.

Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 22h

Bakerloo line, Victoria line, Metropolitan line, Northern line

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David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 1d

I have often wondered if there were deficiencies in the course, but my guess was just that the skill set it developed was particularly useful to ambitious amoral climbers.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 2d

Lime’s UK revenue from renting out e-bikes and scooters hit £111m last year. www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-is-ea...

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 1d

That surprised me!

She certainly gave a good impression of somebody who knew sod all about economics.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 1d

I thought we already had ‘24 hour drinking’ if the pubs wanted to open late.
Many pubs don’t even open for all the hours they are allowed. If they can’t get the customers, they shut early.

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely outstanding news, even if this news story can apparently only report on it by cramming it full of every objection imaginable. People should be able to drink as late as they please. And by 'people' I mean me.
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Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help ailing hospitality sector but health experts criticise plans

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 1d

At least you’ll have some interesting conversations on the wing.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

“Now it seems a seminal report by the joint intelligence committee on the threats to UK security of the collapse of critically important ecosystems is being swept under the carpet by a government embarrassed by its failure to provide....leadership"

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National security threatened by climate crisis, UK defence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 1d

If you're going to come up with garbage, at least make it fresh garbage.

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Welfare delusions

A report by the IFS earlier this week found that the government’s social security cuts had saved nowhere near the amount it expected. The £19bn it had hoped to save turned out to be only £2.5…

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 1d

Using welfare cuts to reduce the deficit.

Now where have we heard that before?

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Badenoch unveils ‘golden rule’ to use half of spending cuts to reduce deficit

Conservative leader aims to rebuild party’s economic credibility after it was torched by her predecessors

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of them are being built on this side of London. I’m told it’s due to proximity to cabling coming in from the US. In this wireless world it seems that wires are still important!

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 2d

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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