Gordon Guthrie
@foundationsofthedigitalstate.com
Just published The Foundations Of The Digital State - a report for the Scottish Government
http://foundationsofthedigitalstate.com/
and blogs at
digitalpolicy.substack.com
Politician manqué, girl group fan, code monkey
http://foundationsofthedigitalstate.com/
and blogs at
digitalpolicy.substack.com
Politician manqué, girl group fan, code monkey
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We don’t praise MySpace Tom enough. He created his platform, changed the world, made his money and fucked off. He didn’t put Katy Perry in a rocket or destroy the Washington Post. I wish him well.
November 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
We don’t praise MySpace Tom enough. He created his platform, changed the world, made his money and fucked off. He didn’t put Katy Perry in a rocket or destroy the Washington Post. I wish him well.
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This is a really clear and impressive bit of communication. I'm somewhat baffled that it's needed - by the fact that Frontier AI research is so disconnected from real life as to need the concept of "to a man with a hammer, everything looking like a nail" explaining - but Toner does it v well
November 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM
This is a really clear and impressive bit of communication. I'm somewhat baffled that it's needed - by the fact that Frontier AI research is so disconnected from real life as to need the concept of "to a man with a hammer, everything looking like a nail" explaining - but Toner does it v well
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Hitler was bad.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
Perry: The pro-Hitler problem with the American right
"We need to get back to the basics: Hitler was bad. The people who suggest otherwise are also bad," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Hitler was bad.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
brb: pitching Zombie Xmas Tree Boyfs at the scriptwriters meeting at cinema club
oh god oh fuck it's happening again, two Instagram Stories Of Boyfriends Carrying Christmas Trees back to back today, they're coming, THEY'RE COMING
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
brb: pitching Zombie Xmas Tree Boyfs at the scriptwriters meeting at cinema club
livestreamed wolfpack ship hunting
Day 1275 of my 3 day war. Ukraine seems to carrying out its own sanctions on my shadow fleet.
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
livestreamed wolfpack ship hunting
Fresh hell just dropped - website just emailed me, I replied, their AI bot replied now I am in 2 convos, ome with a fucking idiot robot I never want to speak to
November 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Fresh hell just dropped - website just emailed me, I replied, their AI bot replied now I am in 2 convos, ome with a fucking idiot robot I never want to speak to
a side effect of Xmas shopping is buying records for yourself
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
a side effect of Xmas shopping is buying records for yourself
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The town of St Helens is just between Liverpool and Manchester. When I was a small child, in Liverpool, Mount St Helens, in Washington, erupted. Not having a grasp of geography, I spent two weeks in mortal fear of dying in a volcanic eruption before my dad set me straight.
November 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The town of St Helens is just between Liverpool and Manchester. When I was a small child, in Liverpool, Mount St Helens, in Washington, erupted. Not having a grasp of geography, I spent two weeks in mortal fear of dying in a volcanic eruption before my dad set me straight.
Playing the Good Vibes 5th anniversary party next Friday
November 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Playing the Good Vibes 5th anniversary party next Friday
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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This blog post by Helen Toner (well-known by some for a stint on the OpenAI board) is *really really* interesting because it is the first thing I've read by someone in Frontier AI that starts to get to grips with sociotechnical concerns open.substack.com/pub/helenton...
Taking Jaggedness Seriously
Why we should expect AI capabilities to keep being extremely uneven, and why that matters
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:32 AM
This blog post by Helen Toner (well-known by some for a stint on the OpenAI board) is *really really* interesting because it is the first thing I've read by someone in Frontier AI that starts to get to grips with sociotechnical concerns open.substack.com/pub/helenton...
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I think about this every day of my life actually
no one has ever understood the assignment better
no one has ever understood the assignment better
These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I think about this every day of my life actually
no one has ever understood the assignment better
no one has ever understood the assignment better
Preach brother!
That's not to say it's leadership, ideology, and strategy and its actions have been unproblematic. But in the end, the SWP has been crucially undermined by being full of SWP members.
November 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Preach brother!
New Dead Kennedy's LP record just dropped
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
New Dead Kennedy's LP record just dropped
Hasbara fury chimps: that's Hamas
Israeli government: that's Hamas
Me: yes actually that is Hamas - its the logo of my old company made with Hamas *
* The popular children's craft activity where you laid out little plastic rings and then fused them with a domestic iron
Israeli government: that's Hamas
Me: yes actually that is Hamas - its the logo of my old company made with Hamas *
* The popular children's craft activity where you laid out little plastic rings and then fused them with a domestic iron
November 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Hasbara fury chimps: that's Hamas
Israeli government: that's Hamas
Me: yes actually that is Hamas - its the logo of my old company made with Hamas *
* The popular children's craft activity where you laid out little plastic rings and then fused them with a domestic iron
Israeli government: that's Hamas
Me: yes actually that is Hamas - its the logo of my old company made with Hamas *
* The popular children's craft activity where you laid out little plastic rings and then fused them with a domestic iron
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He was 15 when he used racist language to describe classmates, sang Hitler youth songs, joined the NF. Many say we should forgive his youthful waywardness.
She was 15 when she was groomed by ISIS & state intelligence experts, ran away from home,was trafficked and raped...
#farage
#shamimabegum
She was 15 when she was groomed by ISIS & state intelligence experts, ran away from home,was trafficked and raped...
#farage
#shamimabegum
November 28, 2025 at 7:02 AM
He was 15 when he used racist language to describe classmates, sang Hitler youth songs, joined the NF. Many say we should forgive his youthful waywardness.
She was 15 when she was groomed by ISIS & state intelligence experts, ran away from home,was trafficked and raped...
#farage
#shamimabegum
She was 15 when she was groomed by ISIS & state intelligence experts, ran away from home,was trafficked and raped...
#farage
#shamimabegum
the Sean Clerkin requested Emergency Homeless Summit there
Hmmm, wonder why Susan chucked that the rubber ear? michty me!
Hmmm, wonder why Susan chucked that the rubber ear? michty me!
EXC: Glasgow council leader rejects 'emergency' homeless summit as city faces crisis.
Glasgow council leader rejects 'emergency' homeless summit as city faces crisis - Daily Record
EXCLUSIVE: The SNP's Susan Aitken turned down the plea by the Scottish Tenants Organisation.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
the Sean Clerkin requested Emergency Homeless Summit there
Hmmm, wonder why Susan chucked that the rubber ear? michty me!
Hmmm, wonder why Susan chucked that the rubber ear? michty me!
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Me: it would be good if government budget and spending review processes were done more openly and transparently
Also me: NOT LIKE THIS
Also me: NOT LIKE THIS
November 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Me: it would be good if government budget and spending review processes were done more openly and transparently
Also me: NOT LIKE THIS
Also me: NOT LIKE THIS
Personally I think they chose the wrong end of Amerigo Vespucci and yon Vespuccians can suck it up
Like it’s one thing for a group of people to say “I prefer to be called this” it’s another to TELL another whole country of diverse ethnicities and heritage that you will now be calling them something else.
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Personally I think they chose the wrong end of Amerigo Vespucci and yon Vespuccians can suck it up
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So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
'Mon the Bezzle
⚠️ REVEALED: A bombshell move at the SEC could wipe out 98% of shareholder proposals — the mechanism investors use to push companies on pay, governance and climate risks. Legal experts say this interpretation of Delaware law would silence millions of shareholders.
www.levernews.com/wall-streets...
www.levernews.com/wall-streets...
Wall Street’s Top Cop Wants To Silence Shareholders
Securities and Exchange Commissioner Paul Atkins wants to eliminate the vast majority of shareholder proposals from corporate governance.
www.levernews.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
'Mon the Bezzle
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this is SO good, not least for the unexpected reference to the Yorkshire Rider bus company
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
this is SO good, not least for the unexpected reference to the Yorkshire Rider bus company
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In essence: juries are important for what decisions they prevent others from making.
Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In essence: juries are important for what decisions they prevent others from making.