Common Futures
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Community Ownership Explorer & Civic Engineer. MBE DU Essex (Hon). Polymath. Technophile. Rugby. Tweets my own/RTs not endorsements.
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Pension funds are being directed to invest a greater % of the money they control in the U.K. economy, following changes initiated by Jeremy Hunt, which might stimulate growth at the saver’s expense. The state also plans to take more of that money to fund public spending near-term
A £2k salary sacrifice limit will discourage people from making necessary provisions for their pension. But pension funds don’t sit idle; they’re invested to create jobs and growth. Less money in pensions = less investment and less growth. The gov. is economically illiterate.
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France, Elabe poll: Scenario: Hollande (PS-S&D), Philippe (HOR-RE), Bertrand (LR-EPP), Bardella (RN-PfE), and Zemmour (REC-ESN) run Presidential election Bardella (RN-PfE): 35% (+3.5) Philippe (HOR-RE): 19% (-4) Mélenchon (LFI-LEFT): 12% (+2) Hollande (PS-S&D): 6.5% (+0.5)…
Singapore just solved robotics' $50B compatibility crisis. Two national standards now force cross-brand robots to communicate. Toyota arms coordinate with ABB grippers in real time. No more vendor lock-in strangling factory floors.
Announced almost a year ago - but very good news and long overdue for those living with the consequences of a terrible deal struck, originally, by Michael Portillo: bbc.com/news/articles/…
Labour buys back 36,000 defence houses which the Conservatives privatised and will invest £9 billion to upgrade them Labour to also fast track housebuilding on defence land, building houses for defence, veterans, and the public Laura Kuenssberg asks how much land the MoD will…
Thought-provoking - on every level 🤔
the thing that keeps sitting with me about sam's post is how casually it mentions $1.4 trillion like it's a reasonable infrastructure bet. and maybe it is. but we've normalized talking about spending more than most countries' gdp on a technology that might produce automated…
But, we should invest more of our pension funds in this rigged ‘market’ 🤨
This is wild: ALL net wealth in the US stock market since 1926 has been generated by just 3.44% of companies. To put this differently, ~97% of all stocks have barely contributed to long-term shareholder wealth creation. The top 1.88% of companies reflect 90% of total gains.…
It's important to note that the US, UK, and France have essentially the same 10th percentile income levels, despite the UK and France having more than double the US national minimum wage
This is how U.S. minimum wages compare to other countries in US dollars. Note Massachusetts is $15/hour, which is about in the middle of states that have set rates higher than the Federal government.
We traded blogs for feeds and forums for “for you.” Now we wonder where the people went.
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This is one of the most important points about the decline in fertility, and one of the less well-known. Fewer young people, means less fluid intelligence, less disruptive innovation (the sort that completely changes the direction of future research).
“Regulatory requirements provide an additional shield for incumbent software in fields such as finance and healthcare.” 🧐🧐🧐
Which software companies will AI bring down? JPMorgan: You can see it at a glance in this chart JPMorgan’s latest research report shows that AI is reshaping the competitive landscape of the software industry, and that many traditional software giants face the risk of being…
Its “style” = its people (trained by other people “like” them and the ‘rules’ to which they’ve given rise over time). What could modern, collective rights designed to protect the “style” of a corporate body (training an AI to mimic it) look like? Simulacra.
💼 Goldman Sachs is rolling out an internal AI assistant to 10,000 staff for drafting, summarizing, and code translation, with plans to scale across the firm. Leaders say the end goal is an agentic coworker that behaves like a GS employee rather than a simple chatbot. The first…
Three things are striking: 1) In every such case, comments ask “who will be able to pay for the goods discounted by $0.30”? 2) Comments never ask “what value - the health benefits of this shift”? 3) Given an ageing demographic and workforce shortages, what will this enable?
AMAZON PLANS TO REPLACE 600,000 US WORKERS WITH ROBOTS Amazon aims to replace over 600,000 U.S. jobs by 2033 through automation, even as it expects to double product sales. Its robotics team targets 75% of operations, potentially eliminating 160,000 roles by 2027. The shift…
Singapore, a country with an aging population, has been actively introducing humanoid robots as companions for its residents in their later years. For example, Hanson Robotics' Grace. AJJ Medtech, listed on the Catalist board, has signed a legally binding memorandum of…
Booster Robotics’ T1 robot is tackling household chores like tidying and laundry. The robot handles autonomous planning, uses its dual arms to open the fridge and put away milk, and can pause its current task to perform urgent requests, such as fetching water or finding keys for…
The 2025 RoBoLeague Robot Soccer League finals wrapped up! Tsinghua University's Vulcan Team took the championship (5:3), with China Agricultural University's ShanHai Team as runner-up. Tsinghua Power AI & BIT Blaze tied for third. Congrats to all! 🤖 #RobotSoccer #AI #Robotics
A social housing scheme for older people has won this year's top architecture prize for trying to tackle loneliness and foster social connection. The Appleby Blue Almshouse in south London, which provides affordable housing for people aged over 65, was praised by the Stirling…
Google just cut off 90% of the internet from AI and no one is talking about it. Last month (Sept 2025) Google quietly removed the num=100 search parameter, the trick that let you see 100 results on one page instead of the default 10. It sounds small, but it is not. You can no…
Recently +$40 billion valuation, and now a new robot! 🤖 I bet some people will need to catch up on sleep after the recent intense period at Figure. @Figure_robot has unveiled the new Figure 03. The redesign focuses on hardware that enables its AI system “Helix.” The vision…
Now, imagine people with particular skills are needed in a place to boost economic growth and authorities use a council tax discount or rebate over five years to incentivise the movement of skilled households around the country. @FraserNelson
“The stamp duty grab has hit young professionals particularly hard. Long gone are the days when you could afford to move regularly, gradually moving up the ladder as and when you had extra income.” thetimes.com/article/b3ed07…
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