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  • 1 week ago | unherd.com | Tom Ough

    AnglofuturismBritaindiverseElon MuskSocietyUSAXi Jinping So vast is the Three Gorges Dam, so unfathomably huge a mass of concrete and steel, that it has, according to Nasa’s calculations, added 0.06 microseconds to the length of each day. You can’t move that much matter toward the Equator, you see, without very slightly slowing the turning of the Earth.

  • 3 weeks ago | anglofuturism.substack.com | Calum Drysdale |Tom Ough |Joe Hill

    Joe Hill is Director of Policy at Reform and founder of the Greater London Project, a community initiative focused on London's future. A former Treasury civil servant with experience across government departments, Joe has become a leading critic of what he calls "everythingism"—the dysfunctional tendency to make every policy about every other policy, everywhere, all at once.

  • 1 month ago | capx.co | Tom Ough

    6 May 2025 @tomough Photo: Getty Images Talented hackers spent a weekend developing ways to make government work better Startups are not the only way to improve society via innovation Working on tech beneficial to the national interest is a promising pathway for impact Think, for a moment, on Britain’s state capacity: that is, the ability of the government to get shit done. I doubt you would give it full marks. But there are two ways, really, to look at this situation. Recall the dress that...

  • 1 month ago | anglofuturism.substack.com | Calum Drysdale |Tom Ough

    Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:46:12Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Marc Warner is CEO and co-founder of Faculty, a British AI company that partners with organisations to deploy artificial intelligence in the real world. After beginning his career in quantum physics research at UCL and Harvard, Marc shifted his focus to AI, believing it would be the most important science of the 21st century.

  • Feb 5, 2025 | capx.co | Tom Ough

    5 February 2025 @tomough Photo: Getty Images Britain needs a boost – there are ten ways to make this happen Our national progress is being stymied by vested interests and unimaginative policies We can make our country a superpower of the future A third runway for Heathrow; the construction of several reservoirs; a ‘growth corridor’ between Oxford and Cambridge. These are some of the projects that, as of last week, have the public backing of the Chancellor. Is it thin gruel that Rachel Reeves...

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Tom Ough
Tom Ough @tomough
20 May 25

Loved editing this. Frontiers are very rare in modern life –but subsurface tomography is so shite that we have no idea what's going on beneath us. An underground stream near Symonds Yat led some hobbyists to the greatest British cave discovery in decades... so we sent our man

UnHerd
UnHerd @unherd

Abseiling down the Wicked Pitch of the North. Climbing blind over boulders. Crawling for hours in darkness. Why? To glimpse beauty untouched for millennia. @DavidRoseUK: 👇 https://t.co/FypSUxolog

Tom Ough
Tom Ough @tomough
20 May 25

RT @AaronMandell: Great summary on the state of geothermal @tomough But the main criticism of @utahforge is that is it not deep enough or…

Tom Ough
Tom Ough @tomough
19 May 25

There is a lot to be said for Anglofuturism with Old Ones characteristics. Coherent architectural style that respects tradition; world-leading biotech; space programme; and in general what appears to be a laudable level of state capacity. Probably tough on crime. Seems like their https://t.co/IkZRWOcy0l

Tom Jones
Tom Jones @93vintagejones

@tomough Anglofuturism is a project of the Old Ones