"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
Gavin's Bindery
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...
For your lunchtime entertainment
How Will We Be Long? - How Can A Piece Of Music Help Us Think About The Next Thousand Years?
https://www.greshamsociety.org/webinar/11680/
NOVA: Addressing the market architecture for a trusted data-enabled economy
Thoughts?
https://ib1.org/nova
today in "we're not ready":
"in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations"
https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/incident-report-unsanctioned-agent-behaviour-during-cyber-testing
I used to work here. It's an amazingly important institution with an astonishing history.
https://www.jodrellbank.net/explore/stories/a-message-of-thanks-from-jodrell-bank-observatory/
Today in "we're not ready":
“any system that integrates an LLM into a trusted workflow today must assume that attacker-controlled content entering the model’s context will result in compromise at some rate”
https://bit.ly/4x7dPiW
That was fun! With thanks to those who persisted in spite of the unexpectedly cold evening.
Huge thanks to Adrian Philpott for the wonderful visuals!
Thanks to Sophie Garrett for selection: the first person I spoke to afterwards said:
"This was the perfect thing to end EMF camp with"(!)
[photo: TJS]
an update on my 2009 version, based on some conversations over the weekend at #emfcamp
Measuring the rate of change of impact rather than planetary proxies https://agentgav.medium.com/are-we-just-drawing-epicycles-9829717421b8
Measuring the rate of change of impact rather than planetary proxies
https://agentgav.medium.com/are-we-just-drawing-epicycles-9829717421b8