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Paul Connell
@paulcconnell.bsky.social
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Founder @OpenInnovates non-profit, mission-led, innovation with data. Co-founder @TheDataCity mapping the world's economy with data. Also #MDANT Life is for living - let's get on with it.
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 12h
You won’t believe what this thread says !
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1d
People are saying this is the best headline ever written - find out why!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d
You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 18h
“Fearless”
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 18h
Shambles
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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 18h
ODI's core funding from the UK Government has run out, Google is the daddy now
"2.3 Going concern" Section of accounts report describing ODI's funding during 2024 and 2025. Highlighted: "In April 2022, the ODI received a $3 million funding grant from the Department of Innovation, Science and Technology, spanning over three years, and has been actively delivering on this programme throughout 2024." "On 23 July 2025, funding of £3,000,000 has been received from Google.org to support the stewardship of Solid has been received from Google.org."
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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 18h
It will all be fine, I'm sure www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Extract from recent New Yorker profile of Tim Berners-Lee, on Solid: Today, Solid looks stalled. Eleni Sharp, who led the BBC pilot, told me the Box never made it out of testing. "People say they want to be more in control of their data," she said. “But do they then want to be more hands-on? Not really!" In Flanders, with nearly seven million residents, only about a thousand actively use Solid; one feature lets graduates send digital diplomas to employers. A Flemish official insisted that more projects were under way, but I couldn't find any residents aware of them. On the r/Vlaanderen subreddit, one replied to my query, "I had no idea we were using some exotic tech by Tim Berders. Did you make that up?" "I never really used Solid for anything serious," Kjetil Kjernsmo, a Norwegian informatics expert who co-authored the standard, told me. He was Inrupt's first employee, and had expected to work on tools for the hundreds of developers interested in the protocol; instead, the company focussed on selling servers to corporate clients. Berners-Lee mentioned a developer who has built several Solid apps, including a recipe manager and a viewership tracker that aggregates data from multiple streaming services. But that developer's own blog wearily concedes that the protocol "doesn’t seem to be going mainstream anytime soon."
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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 18h
ODI's core funding from the UK Government has run out, Google is the daddy now
"2.3 Going concern" Section of accounts report describing ODI's funding during 2024 and 2025. Highlighted: "In April 2022, the ODI received a $3 million funding grant from the Department of Innovation, Science and Technology, spanning over three years, and has been actively delivering on this programme throughout 2024." "On 23 July 2025, funding of £3,000,000 has been received from Google.org to support the stewardship of Solid has been received from Google.org."
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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 18h
The UK's Open Data Institute (ODI) has published its annual accounts to the end of 2024 find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0803...

£555,174 loss for the year after taxation. Nobody panic though it's just a real estate thing, London is hella expensive

#opendata #datapolicy
"Results and dividends "The loss for the year, after taxation, amounted to £555,174 (2023 - loss £105,049)." Two paragraphs describing the ODI's arrangments for leasing properties.
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 2d
AI in the UK - Data.

Great work here form the @thedatacity.bsky.social & @paulswinney.bsky.social

thedatacity.com/blog/3-key-f...
3 key facts - what the data says about the UK AI sector - The Data City
But how big is the UK AI sector? Who owns the companies? And where in the UK are these companies based? The Data City’s data has the answers.
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 3d
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 3d
Does Scottish Bluesky @bsky.app exist in the same way Scottish Twitter used to exist ?
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 5d
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 5d
America is now one big bet on AI - Ruchir Sharma column here. "The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year" www.ft.com/content/6cc8...
America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
www.ft.com
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 5d
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 5d
I mean, who isn't on tenterhooks waiting to see if September, 2025, gives a new record low for total Arctic sea-ice volume, beating 2012's record low? I know I am!

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De La Soul @wearedelasoul.com · 6d
A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays” live at Rock Werchter Festival, Werchter, Belgium, (June 29, 2003)
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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 6d
Cole Palmer always looks like his mum is late picking him up from school
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 6d
Saturday it’s a Saturday 👊🏼
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De La Soul @wearedelasoul.com · 6d
A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays” live at Rock Werchter Festival, Werchter, Belgium, (June 29, 2003)
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The Dispatch @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social · 7d
Ryan Bridge has become a familiar face in Stirchley lately. He's one of two "company directors" of raisetheflags.org, where he collects donations from £10-£500 for flags.
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The Dispatch @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social · 7d
“Well, that’s nothing to do with what y–you either want to talk about flags or that, I mean this is mental," he told us when we asked him about it.

Read the full story on The Dispatch.
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/red-flags-th...
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Dror Poleg @drorpoleg.com · 7d
"OnlyFans employs just 46 people in a co-working space in London. It generated $7.2bn [in revenue] from last year....

Blair claims that the company gives more tax to the UK government than the entire British fishing industry."

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OnlyFans chief Keily Blair: ‘People can be quite uncomfortable talking about sex’
The boss of one of Britain’s biggest tech start-ups on the ethics of porn, the future of the content creator economy — and why the platform banned Bonnie Blue
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 8d
Yep …. We know a thing or two about hex
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The Data City @thedatacity.bsky.social · 8d
Working in Industrial Strategy? Need better data on the IS-8 sectors? This is the report you've been waiting for.

Download for free today to get a clearer, more up-to-date view of the priority sectors outlined in the UK's Industrial Strategy.

thedatacity.com/reports/open...
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 8d
What does pre-exit start up value mean……?
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 9d
Sheesh
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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 9d
In 1994 the Pentium FDIV bug resulted in a $475 million (1995 dollars) recall for Intel for a bug that Byte magazine estimated would affect 1 in 9 billion floating point divides.

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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 11d
Nick Cohen ( I know..) did a good job of predicting this in 2007 in “ What’s Left ).
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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 11d
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JESUS AND MARY CHAIN JUST LIKE HONEY
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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 11d
Happy 40th birthday to Just Like Honey by The Jesus and Mary Chain - released as a single on this day in 1985
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 12d
Sheesh
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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 12d
When you’re marking your man but hear the canteen are doing apple crumble
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