Gavin's Bindery

Today in "this may resonate with some of you" Over the past NaN decades, I've heard people saying they don't want to re-invent the wheel, often while I can see them holding a piece of wood that they are whittling it into a wheel. Any tips from the frontline?

today in "we're not ready": "you only proved how far silicon valley will go to prostitute scientific integrity for capitalist spectacle" (apologies,X link) story: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-navier-stokes-math-discovery-academics rant: https://x.com/BetterCallMedhi/status/2097472336257863722

Today in 'we're not ready' "we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models" https://www.wired.com/story/openai-navier-stokes-math-discovery-academics/

Less reporting, same demand for SME data. Here's what the UK's corporate reporting overhaul means for Perseus https://ib1.org/2026/09/08/uk-corporate-reporting-overhaul/

today in 'the data gap is leadership': "Thirty years of digital identity programs, sorted by how they actually failed, and why the half of the system that decides adoption is the half nobody funds" https://rmhrisk.github.io/verifier-never-showed-up/

today in "we're not ready": "New research published by the Loss of Control Observatory shows that AI loss of control incidents are worsening significantly." https://www.longtermresilience.org/reports/ai-loss-of-control-incidents-are-worsening-shows-cltr-analysis/

today in "we're not ready": taking enshittification to entirely new dimensions There are so many things in this article, I'm not even sure where to begin https://bayareacurrent.com/theres-a-lot-of-cleaning-up-poop-a-depot-worker-on-the-human-labor-behind-waymos-autonomous-vehicles

ideas remain in superposition until they are spoken #BinaryDust

Today in 'we're not ready': "How AI is breaking the British state: Equipped with models and agents, citizens could bring government to a halt" [likely slow, slow, fast here as with most exponential change] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/08/06/how-ai-is-breaking-the-british-state

"enormous section ⁠of a glacier in the Himalayas...crashed on to the valley floor...because of warming due to human-caused climate change" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/nepal-tibet-flash-flood-visual-guide-why-how-flooding-happened-floods-cause-reason-explained

More soon, but colour me impressed that one of our Perseus accounting providers went from sandbox Directory access to Perseus-ready *in an afternoon* yesterday using only the docs and a coding agent. Hats off to them (proper case study coming soon) and to the Icebreaker One Trust Services team for delivering something that is so quick to implement against! https://ib1.org/perseus

JOB: Become an ARIA Programme Director https://aria.org.uk/become-a-programme-director

Today in we're not ready: Is this *really* a good reason to triple datacentre capacity in Europe? https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2026/07/is-this-really-a-good-reason-to-triple-datacentre-capacity-in-europe/

Today in ecosystem change: This article highlights a shift in global trade without a single mention of climate change. "China’s Arctic Silk Road is now a reality" https://www.bruegel.org/first-glance/chinas-arctic-silk-road-now-reality

Today in "we're not ready": In which one may ask questions as to who is out of touch with which reality? “$1 trillion is the new unicorn right now,” Sharka told Semafor. “If you don’t talk about $1 trillion, you are out of touch.” https://thenextweb.com/news/domyn-raises-1bn-debt-colosseum-italy

Today in you're not ready: https://kuber.studio/cookie (try it if you'd like to understand what's already happening)

"fossil fuel industry is trying to weaken methane reporting requirements while...preserv[ing] the federal emissions database it relies on for credibility, according to [EPA]" https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project/2026-08-18/inside-struggle-dismantle-americas

When you're building data infrastructure, are you designing for the market or with the market? To go far, we go together. https://ib1.org/nova

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Today in "we're not ready": "Autenrieth is not the first expert caught using AI during a trial, though most known cases have been international" https://www.404media.co/show-how-3m-is-0-at-fault-expert-witness-used-chatgpt-to-write-report-defending-company-in-deadly-explosion-lawsuit/

today in we're not ready: U.S. Govt is "creating a new framework for private companies to participate in offensive cyberattacks" What could possibly go wrong? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lesliemsheridan_yes-this-is-real-but-there-is-important-share-7495125209209831424-rpeP/

Today in "we're not ready": The elapsed time between a cybersecurity vulnerability being reported and it being exploited is approaching zero (already sub-day, moving to sub-minute). AI both accelerates this and makes exploitation more scalable. https://zerodayclock.com

(actual single photo with me holding a filter over half my lens!)

Eclipse, from my front door...

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