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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 2h

The most important person in Britain you’ve never heard of www.politico.eu/article/most...

The most important person in Britain you’ve never heard of

Only the king has more power than this gas executive in a Russian emergency.

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 4h

Voices | Peter Erdi Ph.D. | Cybernetics – Feedback – Choice – October 21 2025, 3pm UK time, online stream.syscoi.com/2025/10/08/v...

Voices | Peter Erdi Ph.D. | Cybernetics – Feedback – Choice – October 21 2025, 3pm UK time, online

Event by Prometheus Project Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Event link Charming and substantial, Peter Erdi is our Voices guest to explore the oddly termed topic of “cyberneti…

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 6h

International Systems Sciences Society – Mini Symposia 2025-2026 stream.syscoi.com/2025/10/08/i...

International Systems Sciences Society – Mini Symposia 2025-2026

The speaker schedule is posted below so please check back regularly. We always send out email reminders to current and past ISSS members with an alert for the upcoming sessions. Sessions, unt…

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 9h

UK wealth tax: high risk and anti-growth taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/07/22/u...

UK wealth tax: high risk and anti-growth

Claims of £24bn from a UK wealth tax ignore delays, capital flight (£200–£500bn) risks to growth and employment. Data, country evidence & better reforms.

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 16h

Citizens' Forum report | IPSA theipsa.org.uk/citizens-for...

Citizens' Forum report | IPSA

IPSA regulates and administers MPs business expenses and staffing costs. We also decide the pay and pensions the UK's elected MPs and their staff.

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 17h

LONG READ: What every public sector comms person needs to know about alarming new Facebook group research danslee.co.uk/2025/10/06/l...

LONG READ: What every public sector comms person needs to know about alarming new Facebook group research

Alarming research on how local Facebook groups are being used to spread hate has been published which public sector communicators need to know about. A small number of interlinked groups have becom…

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 1d

Independent living in the era of austerity – a problem or a solution? makingrightsmakesense.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/i...

Independent living in the era of austerity – a problem or a solution?

Introduction – independent living in a time of austerity We start with an apparent dichotomy – the demand to advance disabled people’s right to independent living yet having to do so in the context…

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 1d

Step into the space of ‘top, middle, frontline’ and predictable behaviours appear. www.linkedin.com/posts/antler... How would your culture change if every layer made one explicit move against its most predictable habit – and what evidence would convince you to keep going?

Step into the space of ‘top, middle, frontline’ and predictable behaviours appear. Oshry called them spaces for a reason – they are like the tides. Tops feel responsible and hoard decisions; middles… | Benjamin P. Taylor

Step into the space of ‘top, middle, frontline’ and predictable behaviours appear. Oshry called them spaces for a reason – they are like the tides. Tops feel responsible and hoard decisions; middles...

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 1d

A whole bunch of training available from me, and presentations etc over the years, on the SCiO website www.systemspractice.org/search/node?...

Search | SCiO - Systems and Complexity in Organisation

Language

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 1d

yes, quite likely I guess - I've also just lucked into / worked hard on a network of people who can at least put up with this sort of thing, including SCiO as a learning organisation - and of course set up my own consultancy :-D

Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 1d

Could whoever writes government responses to Parliamentary petitions PLEASE Go On A Course?
✔️clarity
✔️ref relevant policies
❌big fat 'eff off' every time
❌crowbarring in voter ID (Labour opposed)
...do they realise the damage these responses do?
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Petition: Use Proportional Representation at the next General Election

Change the voting system to Proportional Representation instead of First Past the Post. We think this would eradicate disillusionment and encourage voter participation as people could start to…

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 1d

Join the PSTA for our free webinar tomorrow with Randy S'ad.
Breakthrough Transformation: Appealing to Municipal Sector Leaders and Enabling Deeper Change. Randy Sa’d, will share about the Enterprise Evolution Program. Oct 8, 2025 03:00 PM
Register now: bit.ly/42tF2Qg

Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 1d

Since the burning of a mosque with worshippers in it not far from my seaside home, and continuing rampant islamophobia, please spread the word about and support TellMAMA: tellmamauk.org
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CST – Protecting Our Jewish Community | Benjamin P. Taylor

My dad is in a Jewish care home in Manchester (he's not Jewish or religious at all but given he was willing to put his beloved Ipswich Town second to his carer's beloved Man City, I suppose it's all in...

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 1d

Complexity isn’t a condition of the world; it’s an experience. Many patterns are ‘true,’ only a few are useful now. www.linkedin.com/posts/antler... What pattern are you treating as reality that is really only a convenient story from last year? Hear more in my chat on the Cyb3rsyn Labs podcast

Complexity isn’t a condition of the world; it’s an experience. Bongard games* are a nice example: many patterns are ‘true,’ only a few are useful now. Complexity isn’t a condition of the world;… | Benjamin P. Taylor

Complexity isn’t a condition of the world; it’s an experience. Bongard games* are a nice example: many patterns are ‘true,’ only a few are useful now. Complexity isn’t a condition of the world;...

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 1d

Well I first got exposed to Peter Block's Flawless Consulting at PwC, and I've seen people and orgs with this kind culture. Including my own!
We try to consult on this way and it works. In some ways it might limit us too.
But as long as there are currents of this stuff there's the potential.

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 1d

Most consultants pride themselves on having answers – I think that’s a problem. www.linkedin.com/posts/antler... How would you react if a consultant showed upwith questions? What would consulting look like if we measured success by what clients can achieve without the consultant?

#systemicconsulting | Benjamin P. Taylor

Most consultants pride themselves on having answers – I think that’s a problem. In the public sector especially, we’ve all seen the 'expert' parachute in with a ready solution. And how often it...

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 2d

What Rowley hasn't yet got right at the Met www.dannyshaw.net/post/what-ro...

What Rowley hasn't yet got right at the Met

Charing Cross again. For the second time in three years the police station in the heart of London’s West End is at the centre of a misconduct scandal which raises searching questions about…

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 2d

The extinction of British liberalism unherd.com/2025/10/the-...

The extinction of British liberalism

Badenoch’s laissez-faire attitude to leadership may be her downfall. Photo: Peter Nicholls/Getty.

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 2d

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 2d

The human handbrake: Why good ideas so often ‘hit the wall’ in Whitehall www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...

The human handbrake: Why good ideas so often ‘hit the wall’ in Whitehall

Whitehall rewards “policy heroes” over those who can deliver

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Aug 4

so I am one of the 12 people (including the “god-fathers of AI”) that will be at the Vatican this September for a two full-day working group on the Future of AI

here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group

AI and Fraternity, Abeba Birhane, AI Accountability Lab

I envision a future where human dignity, justice, peace, kindness, care, respect, accountability, and rights and freedoms serve as the north stars that guide AI development and use. Realising these ideals can’t happen without intentional tireless work, dialogues, and confrontations of ugly realities – even if they are uncomfortable to deal with. This starts with deciphering hype from reality. Pervasive narratives portray AI as a magical, fully autonomous entity approaching a God-like omnipotence and omniscience. In reality, audits of AI systems reveal a consistent failure to deliver on grandiose promises and suffer from all kinds of shortcomings, issues often swept under the rug. AI in general, and GenAI in particular, encodes and exacerbates historical stereotypes, entrenches harmful societal norms, and amplifies injustice. A robust body of evidence demonstrates that — from hiring, welfare allocation, medical care allocation to anything in between — deployment of AI is widening inequity, disproportionately impacting people at the margins of society and concentrating power and influence in the hands of few. Major actors—including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI—have willingly aligned with authoritarian regimes and proactively abandoned their pledges to fact-check, prevent misinformation, respect diversity and equity, refrain from using AI for weapons development, while retaliating against critique. The aforementioned vision can’t and won’t happen without confrontation of these uncomfortable facts. This is precisely why we need active resistance and refusal of unreliable and harmful AI systems; clearly laid out regulation and enforcement; and shepherding of the AI industry towards transparency and accountability of responsible bodies. "Machine agency" must be in service of human agency and empowerment, a coexistence that isn't a continuation of modern tech corporations’ inequality-widening,

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 2d

well yes, a good question to ask. But I buy that 'big data' itself was not 'intended', originally...

(BTW can't believe I'm only just following you on here)

Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 2d

Bias Across Cultures: An Interactive Deep Dive www.eventbrite.nl/e/bias-acros...

Bias Across Cultures: An Interactive Deep Dive

Join us for an engaging webinar with Dr. Poornima Luthra that explores how bias shows up across cultures.

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 2d

Mechanistic or Relational Worldview for Talent Identification Research in Sport Science? Both-But With a Preference! Charbonnet and Conzelmann (2023) stream.syscoi.com/2025/10/05/m...

Mechanistic or Relational Worldview for Talent Identification Research in Sport Science? Both-But With a Preference! Charbonnet and Conzelmann (2023)

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.bsky.social · 2d

I really dislike the manipulation of algorithms. We've seen on Twitter how people so utterly adapted to the algorithm rather than the community. They have so much power over how we interact. It's why I like BlueSky, we decide how it evolves.

Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 3d

Ah. Put a fork in LinkedIn and turn it over, it's done :-(
bit.ly/479qOGN

👏👏 This is hands down the best explanation I've seen of how the LinkedIn algorithm changed earlier this year - and how we all need to adapt to remain visible. "The Unofficial LinkedIn Algorithm… | Tony Restell | 88 comments

👏👏 This is hands down the best explanation I've seen of how the LinkedIn algorithm changed earlier this year - and how we all need to adapt to remain visible. "The Unofficial LinkedIn Algorithm...

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