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• Post #3032869

  Lewis Goodall, one of my favourite journalists, interviews Karen Hao, author of “Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI”. In it she talks about how AI is threatening democracy and creating a new colonial world. https://youtube.com/watch?v=km22SQUgl20 #openai #democracy #ai

• Post #3032867

  Another lovely morning swim at the Cambridge Lido. ☀️🏊 I can’t believe the water is 10 degrees C warmer than when I started swimming there 4 weeks ago! 🤯 #OutdoorSwimming #Cambridge

• Post #3032866

  Just listened to an interview on Pod Save the UK of Hettie O’Brien about her book: “The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself”. I hadn’t previously fully understood the mechanics of a leveraged buy-out. How can it possibly be in society’s interest to allow that? Especially for things like water companies, care homes, children’s homes, etc? https://youtu.be/neY1MibfkuE?si=D4fSDCKES8oLHiTo https://www.hettie-obrien.com/ #PrivateEquity #LeveragedBuyout #Capitalism

• Post #2104237

  I've written up how I've configured git and GitHub to use organisation-specific SSH keys to authenticate with GitHub and sign my commits. I store my SSH keys in 1Password and I'm using MacOS. https://jamesmead.org/blog/2026-04-19-organisation-specific-git-authentication-and-commit-signing #ssh #git #macos