Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World
@fantasticlife.bsky.social
I make ontologies for the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. An odd job and not one I would have chosen for myself
Pinned
Procedure modelling weeknotes
Work in progress to design data models for UK Parliament
ukparliament.github.io
It’s been pointed out that now I’ve renounced my Pants, Manchester title, my pinned post no longer makes sense. Here’s weeknotes instead. They occupy the liminal zone between parliamentary procedure & the semantic web. But are better than that makes them sound
ukparliament.github.io/ontologies/m...
ukparliament.github.io/ontologies/m...
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Crawlers, floods and fleets: a year of keeping our digital collections open 📜📚
stacks.wellcomecollection.org/crawlers-flo...
stacks.wellcomecollection.org/crawlers-flo...
Crawlers, floods and fleets: a year of keeping our digital collections open
Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library, and our collections are even easier to reach online. Wherever you are, you can search the…
stacks.wellcomecollection.org
October 30, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Crawlers, floods and fleets: a year of keeping our digital collections open 📜📚
stacks.wellcomecollection.org/crawlers-flo...
stacks.wellcomecollection.org/crawlers-flo...
Oh, piss off you gap toothed middle class wankers
And your kids
And your kids
October 31, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Oh, piss off you gap toothed middle class wankers
And your kids
And your kids
Can you tell the panel about a time when you managed the expectations of a difficult stakeholder
October 31, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Can you tell the panel about a time when you managed the expectations of a difficult stakeholder
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I have purchased
the RAM
that was in
the supply chain
and which
you were probably
saving
for inference
Forgive me
it was gratuitous
so idle
and so scarce
the RAM
that was in
the supply chain
and which
you were probably
saving
for inference
Forgive me
it was gratuitous
so idle
and so scarce
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says having RAM in personal computers is a ‘terrible’ use of limited resources and that it would be better utilized in data centers
"From a global perspective it’s quite terrible to have everyone have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their computer"
"From a global perspective it’s quite terrible to have everyone have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their computer"
October 31, 2026 at 8:13 AM
I have purchased
the RAM
that was in
the supply chain
and which
you were probably
saving
for inference
Forgive me
it was gratuitous
so idle
and so scarce
the RAM
that was in
the supply chain
and which
you were probably
saving
for inference
Forgive me
it was gratuitous
so idle
and so scarce
A thousand middle managers cry out in terror and are suddenly silenced as they glance up from their latest AI corporate adoption deck and catch sight of their stock ticker
October 30, 2026 at 10:01 PM
A thousand middle managers cry out in terror and are suddenly silenced as they glance up from their latest AI corporate adoption deck and catch sight of their stock ticker
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I do enjoy that people are having their fun with them though: crawlerzoo.com
The Crawler Zoo — a live menagerie of web crawlers
A live zoo of the bots visiting this site: 5,346 so far today. See what GPTBot, ClaudeBot and Googlebot are, and how to block them.
crawlerzoo.com
October 30, 2026 at 9:32 PM
I do enjoy that people are having their fun with them though: crawlerzoo.com
Your website is your API #playTheHits
October 30, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Your website is your API #playTheHits
How on earth do we respond to the incoming AI tsunami?
Not really sure. We could just do what we always do?
Talk to people and understand the types of entities we’re dealing with and the relationships between them
Recognise that that will vary across interest groups
Understand contexts
Not really sure. We could just do what we always do?
Talk to people and understand the types of entities we’re dealing with and the relationships between them
Recognise that that will vary across interest groups
Understand contexts
October 29, 2026 at 11:51 PM
How on earth do we respond to the incoming AI tsunami?
Not really sure. We could just do what we always do?
Talk to people and understand the types of entities we’re dealing with and the relationships between them
Recognise that that will vary across interest groups
Understand contexts
Not really sure. We could just do what we always do?
Talk to people and understand the types of entities we’re dealing with and the relationships between them
Recognise that that will vary across interest groups
Understand contexts
MY APES
October 29, 2026 at 10:27 PM
MY APES
Tears in the rain. #Leeds #Supertram
October 29, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Tears in the rain. #Leeds #Supertram
Double thumbs upping this one. What is an application but some data structures and some instructions for manipulating data structures. Separating data from application development makes as much sense as the old backend / front end split
One of the biggest mistakes the IT industry made was drawing "data" and "application" as two separate boxes on an architecture diagram. There is no application without the data, and the data is nothing without the application. They are one and the same thing. The result is organisational dysfunction
One of the biggest mistakes the IT industry made was when it drew "data" and "applications" as two separate boxes on the architecture diagram. There is no application without the data, and the data… ...
One of the biggest mistakes the IT industry made was when it drew "data" and "applications" as two separate boxes on the architecture diagram. There is no application without the data, and the data i...
lnkd.in
October 29, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Double thumbs upping this one. What is an application but some data structures and some instructions for manipulating data structures. Separating data from application development makes as much sense as the old backend / front end split
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One of the biggest mistakes the IT industry made was drawing "data" and "application" as two separate boxes on an architecture diagram. There is no application without the data, and the data is nothing without the application. They are one and the same thing. The result is organisational dysfunction
One of the biggest mistakes the IT industry made was when it drew "data" and "applications" as two separate boxes on the architecture diagram. There is no application without the data, and the data… ...
One of the biggest mistakes the IT industry made was when it drew "data" and "applications" as two separate boxes on the architecture diagram. There is no application without the data, and the data i...
lnkd.in
October 29, 2026 at 7:51 AM
One of the biggest mistakes the IT industry made was drawing "data" and "application" as two separate boxes on an architecture diagram. There is no application without the data, and the data is nothing without the application. They are one and the same thing. The result is organisational dysfunction
It is very hard to do journalism or think tank pieces about non-linear machines
October 28, 2026 at 6:34 PM
It is very hard to do journalism or think tank pieces about non-linear machines
The people of the Palatine County of Lancashire should know - their beloved Emperor will never be found cowering under a blanket on a chartered flight to Florida, no matter the bouquets or brickbats flung at him (me). E.P.
October 28, 2026 at 6:27 PM
The people of the Palatine County of Lancashire should know - their beloved Emperor will never be found cowering under a blanket on a chartered flight to Florida, no matter the bouquets or brickbats flung at him (me). E.P.
Paintwork already dented
Opening night at the Hacienda club, Manchester, 1982, photo by Ben Kelly.
October 28, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Paintwork already dented
Those Raleigh Creda tops are absolutely mint
Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emotional reunions as photographer recreates shots 46 years on
Sam Hill spent months tracking down the "special generation" he photographed as teenagers in 1980.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 27, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Those Raleigh Creda tops are absolutely mint
They do not call John the “single point of success for UK public sector ‘digital’” for nothing
We’re planning to publish the data we’ve made, so there will be.
October 25, 2026 at 6:36 PM
They do not call John the “single point of success for UK public sector ‘digital’” for nothing
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We’ve long marked up enabling powers in primary legislation, as part of the editorial process revising the legislation on legislation.gov.uk. We’ve also old powers data from the old ToGO. In recent times (the last year) , we’ve compiled and aim to maintain data about duties and powers generally.
Legislation.gov.uk
The official home of UK legislation, revised and as enacted 1267-present. This website is managed by The National Archives on behalf of HM Government. Publishing all UK legislation is a core part of the remit of His Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO), part of The National Archives, and the Office of the King's Printer for Scotland.
legislation.gov.uk
October 25, 2026 at 4:27 PM
We’ve long marked up enabling powers in primary legislation, as part of the editorial process revising the legislation on legislation.gov.uk. We’ve also old powers data from the old ToGO. In recent times (the last year) , we’ve compiled and aim to maintain data about duties and powers generally.
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My stuff is about the fall of the American empire . . . I was brought up in an area dominated by Americans, by American cars, by American styles and consumer goods . . .What I've been writing about in a way, is the end of technology, the end of America.
October 25, 2026 at 12:55 AM
My stuff is about the fall of the American empire . . . I was brought up in an area dominated by Americans, by American cars, by American styles and consumer goods . . .What I've been writing about in a way, is the end of technology, the end of America.
I feel I should probably know this, being a secondary legislation kinda guy, but there is no actual register of powers delegated by Acts of Parliament to ministers? Is that true?
Geoff Mulgan knows where the levers are and is understandably annoyed that politicians don't - looks like a massive failure of training.
geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/power-fail...
geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/power-fail...
Power failure and the paradox of the British state
Why do many people with great power not know how to use it?
geoffmulgan.substack.com
October 24, 2026 at 8:49 PM
I feel I should probably know this, being a secondary legislation kinda guy, but there is no actual register of powers delegated by Acts of Parliament to ministers? Is that true?
Full self-driving C5s for the nation’s health
“Distinctively British approach to AI”
October 24, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Full self-driving C5s for the nation’s health
www.dailymail.com/news/article...
The Daily Mail’s ability to recount a short story via the medium of URL keyword stuffing would shame Hemingway
The Daily Mail’s ability to recount a short story via the medium of URL keyword stuffing would shame Hemingway
Driver dies after crashing his car while masturbating to porn
Clifford Ray Jones, 58, lost control of his 1996 Toyota as he approached Interstate 75 in Detroit and rolled the car. Jones, who was naked from his waist down had been partially ejected through the su...
www.dailymail.com
October 23, 2026 at 5:50 PM
www.dailymail.com/news/article...
The Daily Mail’s ability to recount a short story via the medium of URL keyword stuffing would shame Hemingway
The Daily Mail’s ability to recount a short story via the medium of URL keyword stuffing would shame Hemingway
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I seem to remember when having a static site to fall back to was 101 resilience.
October 23, 2026 at 9:20 AM
I seem to remember when having a static site to fall back to was 101 resilience.
Minimum viable web server, text editor, static HTML, static CSS, no JavaScript, no database, no APIs, no code. It’s the perfect time to be an old man on the interwebz
October 23, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Minimum viable web server, text editor, static HTML, static CSS, no JavaScript, no database, no APIs, no code. It’s the perfect time to be an old man on the interwebz