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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 11d

Hi Dorian! Easy to do. Two nice tracks! Hope all is well

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12d

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 11d

Nice track but isn’t that a George Michael sample?

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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · Sep 4

Quote of the day:

"Litter picking is the gateway drug to tackling the climate crisis."

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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · Aug 28

Haunting! I presume you know the ‘fäther’ is pronounced ‘further’ which adds to the poetry.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 24

The 2025 Happy City Index is in, and @momentummag.bsky.social is pointing out that many of the world’s happiest cities are also some of the best places to ride a bike. Vancouver is #11, the highest ranked city in North America (cue the usual debates).

The Happiest Cities in the World are Also the Most Bicycle Friendly

The 2025 Happy City Index is in and the world's happiest cities are also some of the best places to ride a bike.

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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · Aug 7

Timing is

everything.

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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · Jul 11

Enjoy! Saw it a few weeks ago - also from shaded seats but invested in a fan during the intermission as it was still very warm!

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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · Jul 2

A former colleague found a loaded gun in one once!

Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · Jun 30

Is the prioritisation and juxtaposition deliberate?

Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · Jun 19

Did you respond with poetic indignation to the first question and an ambiguous haiku to the second?

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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · Jun 17

Genuinely great news but please can you quantify 'as quickly as possible' please Will as I need to buy a new pair of jeans? Kthxbai

Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · Jun 14

London and Paris aren't just rivals - they are the spine of Europe's #NewPaloAlto. From #AI to #ClimateTech, this week showed why their proximity and partnership matters more than ever. 🌍 🇬🇧 🇫🇷👇

www.linkedin.com/pulse/superc...

#Paris #London #ProjectHafnia #NetZeroLiving #GTC2025 #LTW2025 #VivaTech

The Supercluster Spine

Last week I attended five major conferences in London and Paris - London Tech Week, London Design Biennale , Viva Technology, NVIDIA’s GTC and the Smart Data Forum - which gave me a chance to compare ...

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · Jun 11

Wise words
#RIPBrianWilson

'Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you'll suck forever?'
Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys

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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · Jun 9

“This is an extraordinary moment. AI is a great equalizer. The new programming language is ‘human’ - just ask nicely!” Jensen Huang

“Britain is defiantly and unashamedly open for business and investment." Keir Starmer

#LondonTechWeek #LTW2025 #AI #EthicalAI #Tech #Innovation #UK #ProjectHafnia

Keir Starmer (UK Prime Minister), Jensen Huang (NVIDIA CEO) and Poppy Gustafsson (Minister for Investment) in conversation at London Tech Week this morning

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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · Jun 5

Meanderthals!

Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Jun 5

“Desire paths” are unofficial trails, usually bypassing a planned path, that reveal the most convenient route to get somewhere. The people (AKA meanderthals) that tramp along these routes often wear away grass, creating the secondary path

Walk this way for more on desire paths (a thread / tread)...

A path worn away in grass that goes in a straight line towards the other side of the park, bypassing the winding paved path

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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · May 19

It's absolutely peak Britain that the crown jewel of a new EU agreement is us getting access to better queues.

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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · May 18

Pssst Keir and Ursula! 👋

Whilst you are putting the finishing touches to the UK-EU reset you might want to take a look at the Climate Tech SuperCluster; designed to accelerate climate impact at speed and scale. 👇 🌍 🚀

www.climatetechsupercluster.com

#ClimateTech #NetZero #EUUKSummit #NewPaloAlto

A picture of Keir Starmer and Ursula Von Der Leyen looking wistfully over a balcony, about to negotiate a reset to the UK-EU relationship.

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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · May 9

On Trees, Tragedy, Transition, and Collective Ambition 🌳🌲

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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · May 2

An ascent of Cliff Swallows

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · Apr 29

Mark Carney has a mandate to rename the Great Lakes as Eau Canada.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · Apr 18

This is amazing www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First

These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.

www.nytimes.com

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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · Apr 9

Can we live in a world that gives, rather than takes? Can we build a system that works for us, not one we work for? These questions underpin a new book called Stellar by James Arbib and Tony Seba, who answer both resoundingly in the affirmative. My review. 👇🦋

www.linkedin.com/pulse/world-...

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David Pfau @davidpfau.com · Apr 3

Interesting thoughts from the former head of AI safety at DeepMind: adaptiveagents.org/robustness

Beyond Alignment: Robustness in AI Safety

Beyond Alignment: Robustness in AI Safety " Advanced AI is highly adaptable yet inherently unpredictable, making it nearly impossible to embed a fixed set of human values from the start. Traditional...

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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · Mar 22

Channelling my inner Dean Martin… On the Street Where You Live 🎶

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