Anne Marie Cunningham

Ah! bsky.app/profile/smas...

During WW2 both the UK and France asked a leading thinker to prepare a plan for post-war reconstruction. The British got The Beveridge Report, the French Simone Weil’s The Need For Roots.

How big??!!

Hannah Spencer MP of @greenparty.org.uk sworn in parliamentlive.tv/event/index/... House of Commons just now.

It tells you something about the disorientating rate of change underway that nobody is particularly shocked that a head of state has been assassinated by other states, something which has *never happened* in the modern era. Which is illegal under US law. Shed no tears for Khamanei, but still.

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Screenshot of a ChatGPT Plus subscription cancellation page. The page confirms the subscription will end on March 15, 2026. It lists benefits that will be lost: access to GPT-5 with advanced reasoning, more messaging and uploads, extra image creation, and access to agent mode. A dropdown menu shows "Other" selected as the cancellation reason, with a text field below containing the user's typed reason: "doing questionable deals with US gov." Buttons at the bottom offer "Keep subscription" and "Cancel subscription."

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Fascinating! Very different to rural Ireland. By aunt who died in 1998 aged 103 lived on potatoes, wheaten bread and buttermilk. Meat was indeed a rarity.

The man who started this fire was from 10 miles away from me www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-nort...

The shifting overton window. It's appalling.

One thing the Claude Code/Codex moment will probably lead to is that orgs who haven't traditionally had the resources for a developer will want to hire one to help trial experiments that'd never previously have seen the light of day.

Great to see you Bart! We have been having this very discussion in a WhatsApp group about AI and NHS.

An old monochrome picture postcard of a brick built gothic-ish building. The image occupies 5/8 of the card; printed top right is Manchester, and below New Technical School. The image has cut outs for the windows and the crescent moon, and a sheet of lighter paper is sandwiched behind.

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the Technical School, Manchester - once UMIST, now part of @manchester.ac.uk

If you hold the card up to the light, all the windows and the moon look lit up

If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Here are a few pics which will give you idea :-) I'm too lazy to add alt text to ask if them. For some reason the share works for just me but not public

Via @amcunningham.bsky.social My late grandfather learnt how to sew during WWII - part of basic training in the army at the time. No sewing machines when posted to hostile terrain with no electricity. There’s a story of social/cultural change in the decades that followed.

Claude is being flaky this evening but let me see if this works. I'll DM you

Are you a man who would like to sew?

Do you know a man who would like to sew?

I'm trying something - classes for men. A client commented that they found classes of women a bit intimidating so I figured I'd see if classes for men would be of interest.

What do you think?

I started on the phone.... And then just continued....the thing I went to my laptop to do was organise images in the Substack post!

That makes complete sense to me.

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This guy gets it.

Screenshot of a terminal-style deployment log (timestamps, ‘Downloading cache…’, ‘Uploading build…’, ‘Build successful’, then ‘Failed to start: Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND …supabase.co’). Overlaid in large white text: ‘I built a full stack web app in a weekend. I’m a GP, not a developer. And it’s not about health, before you worry too much.’ ‘AMCUNNINGHAM72.SUBSTACK.COM’ appears at the bottom.

And for anyone interested in the techy aspects of this... Here's a post on how I did it last weekend without writing a line of code on my phone #speirgorm open.substack.com/pub/amcunnin...

I built a web app this weekend for Scór Quiz prep scorquiz3.onrender.com
Please share with anyone who is interested in Irish (particulary GAA!) oriented quizzes!
#speirgorm

Look after yourself :-)

Oh dear! The AI throws up some great questions like this 🤣

Were the questions that bad??!!

@radiobeartime.com you might like this scorquiz3.onrender.com - I've written about it here open.substack.com/pub/amcunnin...

There is a pattern open.substack.com/pub/amcunnin...

"Unhelpful": The Professional Body That Scrutinised the NHS's Biggest Data Contract — and Didn't Survive In April 2023, the Faculty of Clinical Informatics published a position paper on NHS England’s planned Federated Data Platform.

I think the NHS situation is very analogous open.substack.com/pub/amcunnin...