Chris von Simson

Chris von Simson

@chrisvonsimson.bsky.social

Data, Analytics, Performance Management, but first the People, second the Process, then the Technology. Family. Wonder. Joy. Ecology. Community. Gardening (7b). Born at 323 ppm CO2, 1326ppb CH4 I use Lists here for my interests. Photo is dawn in Montana.

175 Followers 17 Following 597 Posts Joined May 2024
19 hours ago

How refreshingly antiseptic to see the Hazlitt quote in this.

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1 day ago

AOC came out swinging against age verification legislation and somehow the entire tech press seems to not have noticed?

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2 days ago

Think of the accent as something that evolves. In another year he might think you're from... (checks Map) Amiens.

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2 days ago

No. Today is the first time I have read the word Cynefin.

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3 days ago
Ieshia Evans and riot police during a protest against police brutality at the Baton Rouge police department in Louisiana on 9 July 2016. Photograph: Jonathan Bachman Woman sits in front of riot police blocking the road to protect protesters during an anti-government march on 24 April 2015 in Seoul, South Korea. Photograph: Chung Sung-Jun Young girl faces down a riot policeman during a protest marking the country’s 1973 military coup in Santiago, Chile on 11 September 2016. Photograph: Carlos Vera Saffiyah Khan calmly staring down an EDL demonstrator in Birmingham. Unsure of photo credit

#InternationalWomensDay

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2 days ago

Oh wow. Pete, thanks a lot. I was thinking of you when I reposted that Chilcot piece a few minutes back.

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2 days ago

It is very important to keep the big picture in mind. Yes there are setbacks, and the ride is always, always bumpy and expensive. The destination can be better than today.

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Analysis: UK emissions fall 2.4% in 2025 as coal hits 400-year low - Carbon Brief The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 2.4% in 2025 to their lowest level in...

The UK used less coal in 2025 than in 1600 when Shakespeare was writing Hamlet, according to CarbonBrief. Meanwhile Trump is taking the US in the opposite direction.

UK emissions fell by 2.4% in 2025.

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2 days ago

An excellent short thread on assessing a complex position in a framework. What a superb asset this short PDF is.
A pleasant thoughtful post from a British Member of Parliament. Bravo @kevinmckenna.co.uk

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2 days ago

Could this have been the genesis of the Anthropic crisis?

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3 days ago

Agree in many ways. In addition, cricket has logistics issues. It's a very dedicated and delicate pitch that requires expert attention even at local club level.
Plus the kit is extensive, bulky, and specialized.

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4 days ago
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Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command.
It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards.
Automated snapshots were gone too.
In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again.
If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read.

Back in my day you needed a senior engineer for this sort of thing

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4 days ago

With large cheap sodium solid state at home and in the car, this will be transformative

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5 days ago
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Incredibly illuminating to compare income and hours worked across countries and states for ***the bottom 95% of earners only***. The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less

via sethackerman.substack.com

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The economic question we forget to ask about AI [FREE TO READ] Forget the singularity and robot takeovers; what matters is who captures the value added

An economic question we don't ask enough about AI. as.ft.com/r/ec467fc3-b...

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6 days ago

I wonder if this is in part related to lifespan.

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1 week ago
A diagram showing how a 2 minute delay to an active travel trip reduces the accessible area from a 15-minute trip by 25%

As I was made to wait 2.5 minutes to cross a road this morning, let's again do the maths simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...

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Wild stat: the "home" county often isn't the one breathing it.

Authors estimate that within ~6 hours, ~99% of coal emissions leave the source county.

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1 week ago
Screenshot of the "Does that use a lot of energy?" online app

Hannah Ritchie has built a fun little tool where you can compare energy usage of various products and activities.

This is super helpful imho, because it's so hard to develop intuitions even just about the scales involved here.

hannahritchie.substack.com/p/does-that-...

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1 week ago
02104-25 Fraser v Telegraph.co.uk - IPSO Ian Fraser complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation that Telegraph.co.uk breached Clause 1 (Accuracy) of the Editors’ Code of Practice in an article headlined “We earn £345k, but soa...

This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something

Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used

www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

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1 week ago

Similarly but different in multiple ways: The Big Short.

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IVIG (Intravenous Immunoglobulin) saved my son's life & kept this man's cancer in remission for 20yrs. For those unfamiliar, treatment involves transfusion of part of the blood donations of strangers--the part with the antibodies created by their immune systems--to reset recipients' immune response.

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1 week ago

"until people see it for themselves, many will not believe"

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1 week ago

“Are you the dinner?”

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1 week ago

Added to my list. Thanks.

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1 week ago

I had the same experience with gradual loss of effect from Loratadine. The switch to Fexofenadine HCL helped a lot.
Also it might be time to log when you feel "much more sensitised" by your allergens, and what they might be.

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1 week ago

Bluesky needs polls

repost if you agree, like if you disagree

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1 week ago
Homepage | National Building Museum

nbm.org

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1 week ago
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The Great Society Subway A History of the Washington Metro

press.jhu.edu/books/title/... can sometimes be found at the National Building Museum, another DC gem

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1 week ago

What a sky too!

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