Justin Cormack
@justincormack.bsky.social
Tech and pictures of nature. Suffolk, UK
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Fluffy toys spouting CCP talking points in response to questions is decisive evidence in favor of my "Philip K. Dick as greatest prophet of our era" shtick. www.bostonreview.net/articles/hen...
December 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Fluffy toys spouting CCP talking points in response to questions is decisive evidence in favor of my "Philip K. Dick as greatest prophet of our era" shtick. www.bostonreview.net/articles/hen...
"The black line merely exposes the darkness inside the toy" ok wikipedia thats a bit much en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch_A_...
Etch A Sketch - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"The black line merely exposes the darkness inside the toy" ok wikipedia thats a bit much en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch_A_...
Had not seen this painting by Constable before, Rainstorm over the Sea. (in the Tate exhibition, must go)
November 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Had not seen this painting by Constable before, Rainstorm over the Sea. (in the Tate exhibition, must go)
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Welcoming our new Board members, @chira001.bsky.social, Ashley Ward, Clare Schramm, @justincormack.bsky.social, Margherita Di Cerbo, Maria Lema, @mathewlodge.com, and @mikemcquaid.com, to strengthen our existing OpenUK Board. openuk.uk/newboardmemb...
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Welcoming our new Board members, @chira001.bsky.social, Ashley Ward, Clare Schramm, @justincormack.bsky.social, Margherita Di Cerbo, Maria Lema, @mathewlodge.com, and @mikemcquaid.com, to strengthen our existing OpenUK Board. openuk.uk/newboardmemb...
"Even after applying weights to ensure the reported demographics of respondents match up to the target population, 12 per cent of young adults in the sample declared they had a licence to operate a nuclear submarine." www.ft.com/content/1298... by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
The AI Shift: Is AI about to break polling?
Online surveys are susceptible to bogus respondents and synthetic samples warrant scepticism
www.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"Even after applying weights to ensure the reported demographics of respondents match up to the target population, 12 per cent of young adults in the sample declared they had a licence to operate a nuclear submarine." www.ft.com/content/1298... by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Morning walk by the vineyards
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Morning walk by the vineyards
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🔥✨🤩🫣⬇️ Want to get more involved in OpenUK and become a part of the team? openuk.uk/ambassadors/
#opensource #opendata #openhardware #opensourcesoftware #openuk #ambassador
#opensource #opendata #openhardware #opensourcesoftware #openuk #ambassador
November 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🔥✨🤩🫣⬇️ Want to get more involved in OpenUK and become a part of the team? openuk.uk/ambassadors/
#opensource #opendata #openhardware #opensourcesoftware #openuk #ambassador
#opensource #opendata #openhardware #opensourcesoftware #openuk #ambassador
"China added 240GW of solar capacity in the first nine months of this year, and 61GW of wind"
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"China added 240GW of solar capacity in the first nine months of this year, and 61GW of wind"
For #wildflowerhour some wild snapdragons from Spain where I was earlier this week. Back home its more shaggy inkcap weather and slime mold bsky.app/profile/just...
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
For #wildflowerhour some wild snapdragons from Spain where I was earlier this week. Back home its more shaggy inkcap weather and slime mold bsky.app/profile/just...
I was re-perusing @komorama.bsky.social organizations are like slime molds piece komoroske.com/slime-mold/ and then ran into a whole lot of the tastefully named "dog's vomit slime mold" up the road - slime molds are weird!
November 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I was re-perusing @komorama.bsky.social organizations are like slime molds piece komoroske.com/slime-mold/ and then ran into a whole lot of the tastefully named "dog's vomit slime mold" up the road - slime molds are weird!
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The Tour de France slows rise of far right
The Tour de France slows rise of far right: "It looked like our town was actually important" | BikeRadar
Voting in towns and villages on the route of the Tour found to shift less to the right than nearby areas, according to new research
www.bikeradar.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The Tour de France slows rise of far right
"This is a more extreme policy position than, say, the BNP’s 2005 manifesto."
Hadn’t, in truth, really absorbed the scale of what the Conservatives are proposing on ILR and immigration more broadly until this week’s Sunday Times interviews. Some thoughts on that in today’s note:
Tory deportation plan would upend Britain
Proposing such a radical bill with little public support is a gift to Nigel Farage
www.ft.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"This is a more extreme policy position than, say, the BNP’s 2005 manifesto."
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I can't understate how good of a job the @inkandswitch.com folks did at this Automerge website. Wow, holy shit automerge.org
And the fact that you can *interact* with the visual demo at the top?
This is the new high bar for a technical website. Holy moly.
And the fact that you can *interact* with the visual demo at the top?
This is the new high bar for a technical website. Holy moly.
Automerge
Automerge is a library for building collaborative, local-first applications.
automerge.org
October 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I can't understate how good of a job the @inkandswitch.com folks did at this Automerge website. Wow, holy shit automerge.org
And the fact that you can *interact* with the visual demo at the top?
This is the new high bar for a technical website. Holy moly.
And the fact that you can *interact* with the visual demo at the top?
This is the new high bar for a technical website. Holy moly.
"Storing beautiful things in your head is really worth doing"
I’ve a piece in the Financial Times magazine about the stuff I’ve learned from singing sessions www.ft.com/content/3954...
What I learnt from Irish folk singing sessions
Fame means nothing; sing for the room you’re in; slow down and listen. Patrick Freyne’s lyrical lessons for life
www.ft.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"Storing beautiful things in your head is really worth doing"
First thing that comes to mind when I hear the Louvre has been robbed "Inside the air was filled with gorilla smoke. I was looking for a man who might specialise in piano robberies from the Louvre." goonshow.org/goonshow/nap...
Napoleon’s Piano
The GSPS keeps a full set of transcriptions of the various versions of all the shows which were broadcast. These aren’t the original scripts, though we have many copies of those too. TheyR…
goonshow.org
October 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
First thing that comes to mind when I hear the Louvre has been robbed "Inside the air was filled with gorilla smoke. I was looking for a man who might specialise in piano robberies from the Louvre." goonshow.org/goonshow/nap...
The EU wants to “help AI start-ups grow through increased demand for European-made open source AI solutions”
on.ft.com/48hiEgC "It warns of “external dependencies of the AI stack” — the infrastructure and software needed to build, train and manage AI applications — which it says “can be weaponised” by both “state and non-state actors”, posing a risk to supply chains."
EU pushes new AI strategy to reduce tech reliance on US and China
Brussels to unveil plan targeting digital sovereignty as it warns technology can be ‘weaponised’ by geopolitical rivals
on.ft.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The EU wants to “help AI start-ups grow through increased demand for European-made open source AI solutions”
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This autumn the UK Office for Rail and Road will decide on capacity at Temple Mills depot in east London
What that is going to mean for Eurostar's rivals - and the many questions I still have! - I've written up in a new blog post
jonworth.eu/constraints-...
What that is going to mean for Eurostar's rivals - and the many questions I still have! - I've written up in a new blog post
jonworth.eu/constraints-...
Constraints on future Channel Tunnel operators - Jon Worth
Sometime this autumn the UK’s Office of Rail and Road (ORR) will adjudicate on capacity allocation at Temple Mills depot in east London. Responses to ORR from Eurostar and the four other companies tha...
jonworth.eu
October 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
This autumn the UK Office for Rail and Road will decide on capacity at Temple Mills depot in east London
What that is going to mean for Eurostar's rivals - and the many questions I still have! - I've written up in a new blog post
jonworth.eu/constraints-...
What that is going to mean for Eurostar's rivals - and the many questions I still have! - I've written up in a new blog post
jonworth.eu/constraints-...
after the roses
October 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
after the roses
"The field changes arising from train leakage currents have to be added to the variations due to temperature changes, terrestrial tides and seasonal deformations of the LEP ring from the water level of the lake of Geneva and the amount of rainfall in the vicinity of CERN" cds.cern.ch/record/33409...
cds.cern.ch
October 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"The field changes arising from train leakage currents have to be added to the variations due to temperature changes, terrestrial tides and seasonal deformations of the LEP ring from the water level of the lake of Geneva and the amount of rainfall in the vicinity of CERN" cds.cern.ch/record/33409...