peterkwells
@peterkwells.com
BlackpoolFC, books, tech, people, policy & delivery, realist. Hopes to make stuff work for everyone.
https://peterkwells.com
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"systems of generalized commodification of data, despite their coherence from the point of view of economic theory, could not be imposed on all individuals without generating a decrease in collective well-being"
www.cnil.fr/fr/monetisat...
www.cnil.fr/fr/monetisat...
Monétisation des données personnelles : combien valent nos données ?
Ces dernières années, des initiatives ont émergé autour de la « monétisation » des données personnelles, c’est-à-dire l’activité de « vendre » ses données comme une marchandise. Certaines proviennent ...
www.cnil.fr
November 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM
"systems of generalized commodification of data, despite their coherence from the point of view of economic theory, could not be imposed on all individuals without generating a decrease in collective well-being"
www.cnil.fr/fr/monetisat...
www.cnil.fr/fr/monetisat...
“when it comes to launching projects, it’s always the same few things: artificial intelligence, computing power, new energy vehicles. Should every province in the country really be developing in these directions?”
jamestown.org/prc-elites-v...
jamestown.org/prc-elites-v...
PRC Elites Voice AI-Skepticism - Jamestown
Executive Summary: Rapid advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) has become a point of national pride in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), driven in part by a cohort of accelerationist advisor...
jamestown.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
“when it comes to launching projects, it’s always the same few things: artificial intelligence, computing power, new energy vehicles. Should every province in the country really be developing in these directions?”
jamestown.org/prc-elites-v...
jamestown.org/prc-elites-v...
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Standing offer: if you maintain the LLPG at a UK council and think the address records are Authority Owned Data rather than Supplied Data (iykyk), email me at [email protected]. I will try to unlock the address data legally using FOI + RPSI regs, and forget your name.
#opendata #openaddresses
#opendata #openaddresses
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Standing offer: if you maintain the LLPG at a UK council and think the address records are Authority Owned Data rather than Supplied Data (iykyk), email me at [email protected]. I will try to unlock the address data legally using FOI + RPSI regs, and forget your name.
#opendata #openaddresses
#opendata #openaddresses
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Hearing Rachel Reeves explain why it is so important to lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty is a reminder of what a Labour government can do. It is also a reminder of how little of this sort of thing they have done and how much more needs to be done.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Hearing Rachel Reeves explain why it is so important to lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty is a reminder of what a Labour government can do. It is also a reminder of how little of this sort of thing they have done and how much more needs to be done.
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Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
November 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
Solidarity with and empathy for junior people on the frontline who press the right buttons in the wrong order
Yrs from someone who has been that junior person, done that pressing, looked in horror at what they'd done, & got picked up by senior ppl who looked for where the problem really was...
Yrs from someone who has been that junior person, done that pressing, looked in horror at what they'd done, & got picked up by senior ppl who looked for where the problem really was...
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Solidarity with and empathy for junior people on the frontline who press the right buttons in the wrong order
Yrs from someone who has been that junior person, done that pressing, looked in horror at what they'd done, & got picked up by senior ppl who looked for where the problem really was...
Yrs from someone who has been that junior person, done that pressing, looked in horror at what they'd done, & got picked up by senior ppl who looked for where the problem really was...
If you're seeing bananas appearing in yr google workspace docs....
workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/11/work...
workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/11/work...
Google Workspace Updates: Introducing Nano Banana Pro in Slides, Vids, Gemini app, and NotebookLM
workspaceupdates.googleblog.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
If you're seeing bananas appearing in yr google workspace docs....
workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/11/work...
workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/11/work...
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UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
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This is *amazing*. This goes straight to Deceptive Design Hall of Shame.
They made a "take a break" nudge that has no obvious "ok, I'll take a break" affordance. Its three affordances are:
1) Keep chatting (default, highlighted)
2) x out — keeps chatting
3) "This was helpful" — what is this?
🧵
They made a "take a break" nudge that has no obvious "ok, I'll take a break" affordance. Its three affordances are:
1) Keep chatting (default, highlighted)
2) x out — keeps chatting
3) "This was helpful" — what is this?
🧵
One of the changes that OpenAI has made to make ChatGPT safer is a "take a break" nudge. There's something quite interesting about the design here. Which thing does it make you want to click?
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This is *amazing*. This goes straight to Deceptive Design Hall of Shame.
They made a "take a break" nudge that has no obvious "ok, I'll take a break" affordance. Its three affordances are:
1) Keep chatting (default, highlighted)
2) x out — keeps chatting
3) "This was helpful" — what is this?
🧵
They made a "take a break" nudge that has no obvious "ok, I'll take a break" affordance. Its three affordances are:
1) Keep chatting (default, highlighted)
2) x out — keeps chatting
3) "This was helpful" — what is this?
🧵
"Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts"
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
"Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts"
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
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This is the most amazing thing! 😆
November 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This is the most amazing thing! 😆
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In Germany, you can use your physical ID with its NFC chip & a passcode to verify your identity online.
It’s still a little bumpy, but it generally works.
3 years ago—while building a new identity app for @bmi.bund.de—we redesigned the letter that gets sent 8 million times per year, because…
1/X
It’s still a little bumpy, but it generally works.
3 years ago—while building a new identity app for @bmi.bund.de—we redesigned the letter that gets sent 8 million times per year, because…
1/X
November 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
In Germany, you can use your physical ID with its NFC chip & a passcode to verify your identity online.
It’s still a little bumpy, but it generally works.
3 years ago—while building a new identity app for @bmi.bund.de—we redesigned the letter that gets sent 8 million times per year, because…
1/X
It’s still a little bumpy, but it generally works.
3 years ago—while building a new identity app for @bmi.bund.de—we redesigned the letter that gets sent 8 million times per year, because…
1/X
"...a question that will be posed..." <- so researching well-being post launch, at scale? Not in a smaller, safely designed experiment first?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
November 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"...a question that will be posed..." <- so researching well-being post launch, at scale? Not in a smaller, safely designed experiment first?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
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For the last few months, we've been talking to current and former employees of OpenAI to understand what went wrong with ChatGPT this year and how the company is fixing it. Here's the story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
For the last few months, we've been talking to current and former employees of OpenAI to understand what went wrong with ChatGPT this year and how the company is fixing it. Here's the story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Old man theory: the root cause of the UKs productivity crisis is complicated coffee shop menus and customers needjng to combine their own coffees/waters/milks/syrups/powders to taste
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Do mushroom and protein 'functional' coffees have health benefits?
Mushroom and ashwagandha coffees are spreading from health stores to UK high streets.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Old man theory: the root cause of the UKs productivity crisis is complicated coffee shop menus and customers needjng to combine their own coffees/waters/milks/syrups/powders to taste
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
DSIT/GDS policy, strategy & delivery peeps really could do with a short set of types of "sovereignty", including _within_ the UK by things like devolved nations & localgov, to inform some more intentional design decisions about when to do what
committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...
committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...
November 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
DSIT/GDS policy, strategy & delivery peeps really could do with a short set of types of "sovereignty", including _within_ the UK by things like devolved nations & localgov, to inform some more intentional design decisions about when to do what
committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...
committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...
"What’s left of the Department of Government Efficiency looks nothing like what Musk envisioned, but he may have cleared the way for a more successful assault on the federal bureaucracy still underway"
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind
What really happened when he logged out of Washington.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
"What’s left of the Department of Government Efficiency looks nothing like what Musk envisioned, but he may have cleared the way for a more successful assault on the federal bureaucracy still underway"
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Rollerball (1875)
Tonight I'm looking through my grandfather's high school yearbook from Comanche, Oklahoma.
I'm blown away by this photo of the football team lined up on the dirt of main street, 101 years ago.
I'm blown away by this photo of the football team lined up on the dirt of main street, 101 years ago.
November 23, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Rollerball (1875)
Our family is now up to three people with dementia (two elderly, one early onset) and both those people - and effects this is sometimes having on family members involved in caring - is *really* bringing home that sometimes forgotten truism that anyone can become "vulnerable" at points in our lives
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Our family is now up to three people with dementia (two elderly, one early onset) and both those people - and effects this is sometimes having on family members involved in caring - is *really* bringing home that sometimes forgotten truism that anyone can become "vulnerable" at points in our lives
An irregular reminder that the Collison's/Stripe also fund some bits of UK/UK-adjacent think tank world
I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
elajucd.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
An irregular reminder that the Collison's/Stripe also fund some bits of UK/UK-adjacent think tank world