@CommonFutrs

Community Ownership Explorer & Civic Engineer. MBE DU Essex (Hon). Polymath. Technophile. Rugby. Tweets my own/RTs not endorsements.

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Nick Sherrard
@NickSherrardOct 25
Residents who help elderly or disabled neighbours put their rubbish out in this Japanese trial will earn the city's digital local currency (about ¥100 of it) per help. A new model of public service? Or transactionalising neighbourliness? (Link is in Japanese to warn you/ takes a bit of work to translate) mainichi.jp/articles/2026091…

高齢者らのごみ出し手伝えば100円　茨城・常陸太田が導入

　茨城県常陸太田市は10月、高齢者や身体障害者の自宅からごみ出しを支援してくれた人に、地域貢献ポイントとしてデジタル地域通貨「じょうづるさんPay」を付与する制度を始める。県内自治体でこうした支援制度を導入するのは初めてという。

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The Woodhead Pass, Derbyshire. Not the best weather today - I blame the SatNav for the “scenic route” - but still every bit as stunning 🤩
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jack
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there is no moat
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Where the #PHP and #python vulnerability issues end eventually - fully automated cybersecurity (AI-enabled prevention)? Just imagine the approach is applied to new public service design and delivery…
Jason D. Clinton 🔸
@JasonDClintonOct 22
Replying to @RothRottweiler
vulnzero. the scaling laws will have driven cyber mythos-class capabilities into small, cheap models and all software dev everywhere will be using models for fractions of pennies on the dollar to stop shipping security bugs permanently.
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Of course, it could simply result in mass migration from on-prem servers to hyperscalers … with whom large AI companies have increasingly ‘close’ relationships. 🧐
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This is the AI upskilling that’s urgently required @cipd if the aim is a ‘smooth transition’ without permanent scarring akin to the rapid deindustrialisation witnessed during the 1980’s #TAI
Richard Seroter
@rseroterOct 22
"Just 4% of CIOs reported plans in place to revamp roles with a human-agent workforce in mind, according to the report." ciodive.com/news/gartner-sur… < that seems ... not great. A lot of companies are going to find themselves woefully behind the curve.

CIOs unprepared for agentic workforce shift

Just 4% of tech leaders have plans in place to retool roles for an agentic-human workforce, a Gartner survey found.

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Eric Topol
@EricTopolOct 22
Just published @ScienceMagazine Higher medical accuracy at lower cost A 3-agent AI for sequential diagnosis nearly doubled accuracy compared with physicians for >300 @NEJM CPC cases and >300 ER cases AND substantially lowered cost, also exceeded performance of many AI models, physicians plus AI @HarshaNori @erichorvitz @Dominic1King @mustafasuleyman
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Eric Topol
@EricTopolOct 21
Just published @Nature A 3-agent AI personal health agent exceeded performance of a large language model/chatbot and serves as a foundation to build on for integrating sensor data, medical knowledge and coaching nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

The anatomy of a personal health agent

Nature - A multi-agent framework that coordinates data science, medical reasoning and health coaching over longitudinal wearable and clinical data to provide holistic personal health support is...

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Fraser Nelson
@FraserNelsonOct 22
The new crime survey is out - the "Lawless Britain" picture in full - Violence at lowest since records began in 1981 - Corroborated by hospital figures for knife wounds - Robbery: record low - Overall crime 78% below 1995 peak. - Shoplifting up More:- comment.press/lawless

"Lawless Britain" - an update

"Lawless Britain" - an update

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ICEYE
@iceye_globalOct 22
ICEYE and @Nokia announced today a partnership with The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine to develop sovereign satellite communications. ICEYE has supported Ukraine since 2022 and delivers sovereign space capability at speed. This builds on that. Read more: hubs.li/Q04C3bj-0
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One for @PeterSchiff and @GoldTelegraph 🧐
Marathon Fusion
@MarathonFusionOct 21
Replying to @MarathonFusion
In 2025, we published a bold proposal to use fusion reactors for gold production. And now we’ve done it: Mercury transmuted into stable gold, using fusion neutrons, at 10x the record set by CERN in 2025. We’ve reduced alchemy to a series of difficult but tractable engineering problems.
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Financial Times
@FTOct 22
Barclays plans to axe 5,000 jobs this year, with developers bearing the brunt of the cuts as the UK bank adopts AI across its operations. The cuts equate to about 5% of the workforce, the bank said on Thursday, and are part of a broader cost-cutting drive ft.trib.al/Goyxjzw
Image description: The Barclays Plc headquarters in the Canary Wharf business, financial and shopping district in London, UK, on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. Overlaid text reads: Barclays plans 5,000 job cuts as bank steps up AI adoption. Credit: Jason Alden/Bloomberg.

ALT Image description: The Barclays Plc headquarters in the Canary Wharf business, financial and shopping district in London, UK, on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. Overlaid text reads: Barclays plans 5,000 job cuts as bank steps up AI adoption. Credit: Jason Alden/Bloomberg.

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Nuffield Trust@NuffieldTrustOct 21
NEW: This week’s Covid Inquiry report laid bare the fragility of social care going into the pandemic. @NatashaCurry123 says that if a similar crisis hit tomorrow, the fault lines brutally highlighted during Covid would be exposed again. nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-it…

Better prepared perhaps, but no more resilient: how would social care fare today if a new pandemic...

The publication this week of the Covid Inquiry’s sixth module exposed once more the fragility of social care going into the pandemic. While there is renewed hope by now that long-awaited reform could...

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Where have we seen this before? Sub prime mortgages.
James Meadway@meadwajOct 20
Default insurance ("credit default swap") sales on hyperscaler debt are going through the roof. In other words, those holding debt are concerned about the growing risks of the AI companies defaulting on it. (Source: FT, full story below.)
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what type of vacancies? where are they concentrated? Armed with that info, we could better support NEETs (and incentivise mobility). But, would still need to acknowledge there are insufficient vacancies to move the dial on unemployment decisively. Help people start businesses.
City A.M.
@CityAMOct 20
Job vacancies fall below 700,000 for first time in over five years bit.ly/4hWPc45

Job vacancies fall below 700,000 for first time in over five years

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said job vacancy levels decreased in the three months to September by 21,000.

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When the same thing is happening everywhere, all at once - it’s not because one country had excessive planning regs and/or failed to build sufficient homes and/or because it invited too many economic migrants …
Douglas Orr, CFA
@EquitOrrOct 19
Australian House Prices Median Price to Income 9.5X just shy of most expensive in history.... = NB last time Australian House Prices facing high 6s Mortgage Rate P/ I was 7X not 9.5X => that was with negative gearing
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If Musk uses ordinary custodial accounts, each child could receive a real, saleable share, with the parent able to sell it only for the child’s benefit. If he uses Trump Accounts, the outcome would be a 5-year locked, non-selectable economic interest. 1/2
unusual_whales
@unusual_whalesOct 19
Elon Musk says he’ll give every child in the U.S. a share of SpaceX next year. There are about 73 million Americans under 18, which at SpaceX’s current price of around $157 would make the gift worth roughly $11 billion.
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A direct gift to kids would be a $10 billion-plus taxable-gift exercise with little or no personal tax benefit to Musk; routing the shares through a charity into Trump Accounts could let him avoid capital-gains tax and claim a large charitable deduction. 2/2
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Surprise. Not.
*Walter Bloomberg
@DeItaoneOct 19
$SPCX MUSK'S SPACEX SHARES GIFT TO BE DISTRIBUTED VIA TRUMP ACCOUNTS
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Ben Page
@BenpagelondonOct 15
AI can forecast the future. Should we let it? timharford.com/2026/10/ai-ca… via @TimHarford

AI can forecast the future. Should we let it?

In the 1980s, the psychologist Philip Tetlock was struck by the fact that highly respected, highly credentialed geopolitical analysts often disagreed quite fundamentally about how the cold war was …

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