Kir Nuthi
@kirtinuthi.bsky.social
A London-based policy wonk who loves to chat about AI + encryption. Currently technology trade association-ing. Bookbinder and yogi often found in wild near dogs, yoga mats, and/or art supplies. Smartphone-free.
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Kir Nuthi
@kirtinuthi.bsky.social
· Nov 27
Hi, hi! 👋👋👋
Calling all wonks in my little Bluesky ecosystem. I'm trying to get a starter pack for UK tech policy going.
Please send me recommendations, tell me if you want to be added, and/or holler if I've missed anyone.
Looking for all the help I can get! Thanks in advance
go.bsky.app/SSXjTf
Calling all wonks in my little Bluesky ecosystem. I'm trying to get a starter pack for UK tech policy going.
Please send me recommendations, tell me if you want to be added, and/or holler if I've missed anyone.
Looking for all the help I can get! Thanks in advance
go.bsky.app/SSXjTf
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I do think we sometimes forget:
1. We need high-skilled migrants to keep the NHS working, and to grow the economy
2. High-skilled migrants have a *lot* of choices over where to go
And
3. We’ve been getting less attractive as a destination for years anyway (wages here famously suck)
1. We need high-skilled migrants to keep the NHS working, and to grow the economy
2. High-skilled migrants have a *lot* of choices over where to go
And
3. We’ve been getting less attractive as a destination for years anyway (wages here famously suck)
imagine being a consultant doctor here and having to go out litter picking to be given your citizenship lol
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shabana Mahmood to demand migrants earn right to settled status
New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I do think we sometimes forget:
1. We need high-skilled migrants to keep the NHS working, and to grow the economy
2. High-skilled migrants have a *lot* of choices over where to go
And
3. We’ve been getting less attractive as a destination for years anyway (wages here famously suck)
1. We need high-skilled migrants to keep the NHS working, and to grow the economy
2. High-skilled migrants have a *lot* of choices over where to go
And
3. We’ve been getting less attractive as a destination for years anyway (wages here famously suck)
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Civility matters, but the elite desire to raise it to the highest virtue is sublimated classism and status quo bias.
September 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Civility matters, but the elite desire to raise it to the highest virtue is sublimated classism and status quo bias.
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Governing AI starts with user control
To keep AI open, competitive, & user-centred, we need real data portability — no more platform lock-in, writes @mchrisriley.com, Data Transfer Initiative, in a new blog:
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/governi...
To keep AI open, competitive, & user-centred, we need real data portability — no more platform lock-in, writes @mchrisriley.com, Data Transfer Initiative, in a new blog:
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/governi...
September 15, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Governing AI starts with user control
To keep AI open, competitive, & user-centred, we need real data portability — no more platform lock-in, writes @mchrisriley.com, Data Transfer Initiative, in a new blog:
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/governi...
To keep AI open, competitive, & user-centred, we need real data portability — no more platform lock-in, writes @mchrisriley.com, Data Transfer Initiative, in a new blog:
www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/governi...
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Glorifying violence or harm violates Bluesky’s Community Guidelines. We review reports and take action on content that celebrates harm against anyone. Violence has no place in healthy public discourse, and we’re committed to fostering healthy, open conversations
September 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Glorifying violence or harm violates Bluesky’s Community Guidelines. We review reports and take action on content that celebrates harm against anyone. Violence has no place in healthy public discourse, and we’re committed to fostering healthy, open conversations
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The Government has talked the talk on regulatory reform, now it's time to walk the walk. With a new Business Secretary, I'm in City AM today arguing that Peter Kyle should boost growth by taking a fresh look at the Government's plans to cut red tape.
www.cityam.com/new-business...
www.cityam.com/new-business...
New business secretary should put deregulation top of his agenda
Peter Kyle becomes the tenth business secretary in as many years - he should go where his predecessors didn't and genuinely cut red tape
www.cityam.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The Government has talked the talk on regulatory reform, now it's time to walk the walk. With a new Business Secretary, I'm in City AM today arguing that Peter Kyle should boost growth by taking a fresh look at the Government's plans to cut red tape.
www.cityam.com/new-business...
www.cityam.com/new-business...
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Bluesky adds bookmarks so users can privately save posts they want to reference later.
Bluesky adds private bookmarks | TechCrunch
Bluesky adds bookmarks so users can privately save posts they want to reference later.
techcrunch.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Bluesky adds bookmarks so users can privately save posts they want to reference later.
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Again, I know this will upset some AI haters, but I worry that in our efforts to stop all AI, we're going to end up shutting down the open internet in ways we won't easily get back.
We’re Walling Off The Open Internet To Stop AI—And It May End Up Breaking Everything Else
A longtime open internet activist recently asked me whether I'd reversed my position on internet openness and copyright because of AI. The question caught me off guard—until I realized what he was seeing.…
A longtime open internet activist recently asked me whether I'd reversed my position on internet openness and copyright because of AI. The question caught me off guard—until I realized what he was seeing.…
We’re Walling Off The Open Internet To Stop AI—And It May End Up Breaking Everything Else
A longtime open internet activist recently asked me whether I'd reversed my position on internet openness and copyright because of AI. The question caught me off guard—until I realized what he was seeing. Across the tech policy world, people who spent decades fighting for an open, accessible internet are now cheering as that same internet gets locked down, walled off, and restricted.
www.techdirt.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Again, I know this will upset some AI haters, but I worry that in our efforts to stop all AI, we're going to end up shutting down the open internet in ways we won't easily get back.
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📢2026 Fellowship applications are OPEN!📢
If you are someone looking to inform technology policy through rigorous original reporting or policy analyses, we want to hear from you!
Apply here: airtable.com/appIrc1F9M5d...
If you are someone looking to inform technology policy through rigorous original reporting or policy analyses, we want to hear from you!
Apply here: airtable.com/appIrc1F9M5d...
September 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
📢2026 Fellowship applications are OPEN!📢
If you are someone looking to inform technology policy through rigorous original reporting or policy analyses, we want to hear from you!
Apply here: airtable.com/appIrc1F9M5d...
If you are someone looking to inform technology policy through rigorous original reporting or policy analyses, we want to hear from you!
Apply here: airtable.com/appIrc1F9M5d...
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I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
August 15, 2025 at 6:14 AM
I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
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How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
bookriot.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
Some absolutely f***ing disgraceful behaviour from this administration...
"This is Donald Trump's attempt to create his own de facto Praetorian Guard," @pgeddington.com, senior fellow at the @cato.org Institute, tells Reason. "These acts by the Trump regime have nothing to do with crime and everything to do with armed, coercive political intimidation and repression."
Pentagon draws up plans to send troops to American cities
The Trump administration is considering plans for a 'Reaction Force' of National Guard troops to deploy to American cities with signs of civil unrest.
reason.com
August 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Some absolutely f***ing disgraceful behaviour from this administration...
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I threw the sandwich
But I didn't throw the condiments
I say, I threw the sandwich
And they say it is a Capital offense
But I didn't throw the condiments
I say, I threw the sandwich
And they say it is a Capital offense
The DC sandwich guy has been charged with assault for shouting at a CBP officer, throwing a sub into his chest, and then running off.
"I did it. I threw the sandwich," he said while he was being processed.
"I did it. I threw the sandwich," he said while he was being processed.
August 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I threw the sandwich
But I didn't throw the condiments
I say, I threw the sandwich
And they say it is a Capital offense
But I didn't throw the condiments
I say, I threw the sandwich
And they say it is a Capital offense
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Interesting work from Turing, adding to the growing evidence that significant performance gains — and possibly real-world utility — can still be gleaned from smaller and previous-generation foundation models
www.turing.ac.uk/blog/why-we-...
www.turing.ac.uk/blog/why-we-...
Why we still need small language models – even in the age of frontier AI
Lean, locally run models can unlock huge benefits for public sector and compute-constrained environments
www.turing.ac.uk
August 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Interesting work from Turing, adding to the growing evidence that significant performance gains — and possibly real-world utility — can still be gleaned from smaller and previous-generation foundation models
www.turing.ac.uk/blog/why-we-...
www.turing.ac.uk/blog/why-we-...
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It’s time to pedestrianise Soho.
New post from me for the Greater London Project, and in @cityam.bsky.social this morning. The Mayor should reconsider bringing Soho in scope of the Oxford Street pedestrianisation.
www.greaterlondon.co/p/how-to-pav...
New post from me for the Greater London Project, and in @cityam.bsky.social this morning. The Mayor should reconsider bringing Soho in scope of the Oxford Street pedestrianisation.
www.greaterlondon.co/p/how-to-pav...
How to pave the streets with gold
On pedestrianising Soho
www.greaterlondon.co
August 13, 2025 at 8:04 AM
It’s time to pedestrianise Soho.
New post from me for the Greater London Project, and in @cityam.bsky.social this morning. The Mayor should reconsider bringing Soho in scope of the Oxford Street pedestrianisation.
www.greaterlondon.co/p/how-to-pav...
New post from me for the Greater London Project, and in @cityam.bsky.social this morning. The Mayor should reconsider bringing Soho in scope of the Oxford Street pedestrianisation.
www.greaterlondon.co/p/how-to-pav...
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When Proton AI? Right meow. 🐾
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Try @asklumo.proton.me for free, no sign-up required: lumo.proton.me
✅ Zero-access encryption
✅ No-logs policy
✅ Open-source and auditable
Try @asklumo.proton.me for free, no sign-up required: lumo.proton.me
July 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
When Proton AI? Right meow. 🐾
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arresting a sandwich thrower in Washington, DC, 380 miles from the nearest international border crossing. Excellent use of resources.
August 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arresting a sandwich thrower in Washington, DC, 380 miles from the nearest international border crossing. Excellent use of resources.
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Can LLMs reason by analogy like humans? We investigate this question in a new paper published in the Journal of Memory and Language (link below). This was a long-running but very rewarding project. Here are a few thoughts on our methodology and main findings. 1/9
August 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Can LLMs reason by analogy like humans? We investigate this question in a new paper published in the Journal of Memory and Language (link below). This was a long-running but very rewarding project. Here are a few thoughts on our methodology and main findings. 1/9
Is it bad that I read this as Reddit data to now solely feed into Reddit Answers and not other AI models
August 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Is it bad that I read this as Reddit data to now solely feed into Reddit Answers and not other AI models
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So yeah, I wrote a book about the incentives that turn influencers into reflexive contrarians and Gurus….wellness is particularly prone to this.
Anything that a government PSA has ever advised you to do is now something to actively reject. Mammograms are bad, too.
Anything that a government PSA has ever advised you to do is now something to actively reject. Mammograms are bad, too.
August 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
So yeah, I wrote a book about the incentives that turn influencers into reflexive contrarians and Gurus….wellness is particularly prone to this.
Anything that a government PSA has ever advised you to do is now something to actively reject. Mammograms are bad, too.
Anything that a government PSA has ever advised you to do is now something to actively reject. Mammograms are bad, too.
Startup Coalition is thrilled to have spent the morning hosting a roundtable of founders, policy folks, and DSIT to talk through the UK National Data Library. It was chock full of lively discussion around issues around data sharing, opportunities around democratising data, and so much more.
February 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Startup Coalition is thrilled to have spent the morning hosting a roundtable of founders, policy folks, and DSIT to talk through the UK National Data Library. It was chock full of lively discussion around issues around data sharing, opportunities around democratising data, and so much more.
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The future of online porn — and online anonymity and privacy more broadly, really — depends on a case that's before the U.S. Supreme Court today reason.com/2025/01/15/t...
The future of online porn is at stake today
A Texas law requiring people to provide proof of age before viewing online porn comes before the U.S. Supreme Court today. With similar laws already at
reason.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The future of online porn — and online anonymity and privacy more broadly, really — depends on a case that's before the U.S. Supreme Court today reason.com/2025/01/15/t...
My TL;DR on the UK AI Action Plan:
I'm super glad the plan is finally here, but all eyes should now be on how Gov't delivers upon the plan!
Its three sections — laying AI foundations, public sector services, and homegrown AI — split up a chunky 50 recs.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
I'm super glad the plan is finally here, but all eyes should now be on how Gov't delivers upon the plan!
Its three sections — laying AI foundations, public sector services, and homegrown AI — split up a chunky 50 recs.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
AI Opportunities Action Plan
www.gov.uk
January 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
My TL;DR on the UK AI Action Plan:
I'm super glad the plan is finally here, but all eyes should now be on how Gov't delivers upon the plan!
Its three sections — laying AI foundations, public sector services, and homegrown AI — split up a chunky 50 recs.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
I'm super glad the plan is finally here, but all eyes should now be on how Gov't delivers upon the plan!
Its three sections — laying AI foundations, public sector services, and homegrown AI — split up a chunky 50 recs.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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AI is the defining opportunity of our generation & our ability to harness it will define the country’s path to national renewal.
The Govt’s AI plan, launching today, sets out how AI will improve public services, boost growth & spread opportunity across Britain 🇬🇧 🚀 https://buff.ly/40tD2qm
The Govt’s AI plan, launching today, sets out how AI will improve public services, boost growth & spread opportunity across Britain 🇬🇧 🚀 https://buff.ly/40tD2qm
Britain doesn’t need to walk a US or EU path on AI
Going our own way will unleash national renewal
buff.ly
January 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
AI is the defining opportunity of our generation & our ability to harness it will define the country’s path to national renewal.
The Govt’s AI plan, launching today, sets out how AI will improve public services, boost growth & spread opportunity across Britain 🇬🇧 🚀 https://buff.ly/40tD2qm
The Govt’s AI plan, launching today, sets out how AI will improve public services, boost growth & spread opportunity across Britain 🇬🇧 🚀 https://buff.ly/40tD2qm
“AI is the defining opportunity of our generation... Our ambition is to be the best state partner for you anywhere in the world.” — Prime Minister Keir Starmer in today's @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/4d44...
www.ft.com/content/4d44...
www.ft.com
January 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
“AI is the defining opportunity of our generation... Our ambition is to be the best state partner for you anywhere in the world.” — Prime Minister Keir Starmer in today's @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/4d44...
www.ft.com/content/4d44...