A write up from a talk I gave on Responsible AI with links to resources.

I started not with AI, but with Food Citizenship.

Is the harness more important that the model? A ramble through climbing history and the AI present and future. Random alright

Silly cartoons, random exlorations of a less open sector via the medium of the physical laws of the universe, a trip to cornwall, work on Bearings, sharing Glade a tool for governance, and a bumper list of interestng things.

An occasional round up all the posts and weeknotes and things I've been up to that some of you said you might like!

A bumper couple of months - TechFreedom went live, a residential happened, The Pastry Index ™ , several new tools, a viral piece on grantmaking infrastructure and what actually counts as a "skill". Here's the lot, newest first.

Main posts

There be goblins — 16 May 2026 A…

In April, OpenAI published a blog post called Where the goblins came from.

Starting with GPT-5.1, their models had developed an unprompted habit of mentioning goblins, gremlins, trolls, and ogres in metaphors. Use of "goblin" in ChatGPT went up 175%. The cause: during training of the Nerdy personality, they had accidentally given high reward signals for "metaphors with creatures." The goblins…