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Paul Connell
@paulcconnell.bsky.social
Founder @OpenInnovates non-profit, mission-led, innovation with data. Co-founder @TheDataCity mapping the world's economy with data.

Also #MDANT

Life is for living - let's get on with it.
My fave emergency question is what’s your favourite Beatle?

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November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Eat pie and watch telly,

Just feel good about it.
November 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The Cricket!!
November 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Same
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Everyone shouting Amateurs! Amateurs! For weeks afterwards
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Agreed.

Amateurs !

IFYKYK
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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New study finds that rephrasing AI prompts as "adversarial poetry" is a highly successful way to bypass safety features from all the biggest large language models

arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
November 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Way off the mark
November 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Hopefully you can take all the @open-innovations.org work and build with it
November 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Excuse typos I’m five pints in in Edinburgh
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
👊🏼 I’m reckon your open stuff is better than most.

I’ve described it before like aThe Fall version of open data
November 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Is this your team @fantasticlife.bsky.social ?
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
He came from Rome!
To Man United
Juan Sebastian Veron,
He’s a genius from Argentina
Juan Sebastian Veron
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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One of my favourite ever Manchester United goals. In a preseason friendly vs Juventus in 2003. The finish is deadly but the pass from Veron - oof 🤌🏽🤌🏽
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I guess I was lucky,

Had some very hard taskmasters in 1st job
November 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Took me ages to be passable at creating written communication effectively
November 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
We expect too much of students and younger people in work…..

IMHO their essays and written work is supposed to be rubbish, they are supposed to get feedback and learn quickly….

The levelling down of outputs that we are seeing is going to get worse until maybe it gets better 🤞🏼
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Very reasonable opinion
Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
November 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM