Various things have taken me to considering the EU stack, these include the issues raised in this article On cloud operating systems and security of supply and the Bastani/Hao interview. The EU is considering these issues, in defining an EU stack, which does include networks, storage, and systems (and thus presumably CPUs and ASICS).
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I have written a lot about the European Union and its democracy and its easy to get lost so I have made this page which is meant to be a start page/index.
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As the World Wide Web changes, but maintaining the currency of links within this blog becomes more difficult I had a plug in which worked quite nicely but the growing prevalence of captchas, paywalls and proxies is making it much more difficult. So sorry for those who thought they found something useful and then didn’t.
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As part of my reading as a result of the Bastani/Hao interview, I was pointed at and found a couple of books and articles on the UK’s dependence on the USA, primarily quoting the work of Angus Hanton. These are primarily economic, although the choices made by the Starmer Government, are increasing our dependence on…
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My interest in naval wargaming was rejuvenated when I considered how to recreate the Battle of Actium which I document on my page, Playing the Battle of Actium. My researches have pointed me at several other games and rule sets. Here are my notes and links.
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Inspired by paintings of the Riviera, I am considering visiting Marseilles. Here are my notes and links …
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I visited the the Clarendon Gallery in Greenwich again and they had a picture by Michael F Rumsby which spoke to me. I checked out his web site and made the slide show below. The web site illustrates a series of collections. The picture I saw was quite big and so even if I could…
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I walked into the Clarendon Gallery in Greenwich and they had three of Fabian Perez‘s pictures on the wall. They were all listed at a price well outside my price range but I enjoyed them and wonder what else he does/has done. …
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My compression packing cubes are broken and I need some more, or at least one more. It needs a sturdier zip. Here’s what I found …
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Not been at the top of my list, but since, I have limited Scandinavian plans for 2026, let’s have a think.
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In the EU Parliamentary year, 2024/25, there was an experimental citizen’s assembly incubated by the EUI. I attended their Florence assembly 22/2 & 23/2, and made some notes. These stayed in my notebook for too long but I have decided to make this page, which collects some reviews and views and may even have some…
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I have been playing with AI image generators. See my notes …
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The European Space Agency celebrated its most recent launch of a Copernicus Sentinel Satellite, which made me wonder how Brexit had impacted the UK’s participation in the EU’s space programmes. This post looks at what I found.
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Here is my #lab 25 page. Conference is to be in Liverpool again.
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I recently read Ingham’s “Capitalism Divided?” which has, I believe, some important insights into the nature of the British economy. The last two days I reviewed my notes I looked for further comments and reviews. He will have written a number of books but at the moment this page looks at, “Capitalism” and “Capitalism Divided”….
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