Roland Karthaus
@rolandk.bsky.social
Bicycle rider, plant eater, open water swimmer, homebrewer
Recovering Architect
Consultant @ Inner Circle
Plastic Dutchman
Recovering Architect
Consultant @ Inner Circle
Plastic Dutchman
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I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
Queen Elizabeth park looking good this evening #lovelondon
November 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Queen Elizabeth park looking good this evening #lovelondon
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The Department for Transport is asking for your views on its next 5 year strategy for walking, wheeling and cycling. Use this simple form to tell the DfT to have ambitious Active Travel goals. It only takes a minute - the proposals could shape progress:
actionnetwork.org/letters/help...
actionnetwork.org/letters/help...
Help make cycling and walking the fun and easy options!
In June, Transport Action Network won a historic victory in the Court of Appeal, the most significant case for active travel in English legal history. Following this, the government is consulting on a...
actionnetwork.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The Department for Transport is asking for your views on its next 5 year strategy for walking, wheeling and cycling. Use this simple form to tell the DfT to have ambitious Active Travel goals. It only takes a minute - the proposals could shape progress:
actionnetwork.org/letters/help...
actionnetwork.org/letters/help...
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For people who leave their nerdy public sector reform long-reads to the weeekend… 👇👀
Are legacy mentalities from comms, political strategy and trad policy dragging government down?
Are legacy mentalities from comms, political strategy and trad policy dragging government down?
Are a small number of legacy disciplines dragging the whole of government down? A provocation:
medium.com/@jamestplunk...
Government seems increasingly unable to cope with the pace and complexity of today's world. Why? 1/n
medium.com/@jamestplunk...
Government seems increasingly unable to cope with the pace and complexity of today's world. Why? 1/n
The disciplines theory of government
Are legacy disciplines dragging the whole operation down?
medium.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
For people who leave their nerdy public sector reform long-reads to the weeekend… 👇👀
Are legacy mentalities from comms, political strategy and trad policy dragging government down?
Are legacy mentalities from comms, political strategy and trad policy dragging government down?
First #openwaterswim below 10 of the year
November 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
First #openwaterswim below 10 of the year
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Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government.
Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Shabana Mahmood is wrong
Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government
www.newstatesman.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government.
Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Lovely
Quelques Feuilles / Some Leaves
New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.
New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.
November 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Lovely
Evidently someone's a fan of Those Who Remain, but as I'm currently partway through a #SystemicDesign for #Complexity course, I enjoyed the everyday example of a rebalancing causal loop diagram.
#systemthinking #design
#systemthinking #design
November 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Evidently someone's a fan of Those Who Remain, but as I'm currently partway through a #SystemicDesign for #Complexity course, I enjoyed the everyday example of a rebalancing causal loop diagram.
#systemthinking #design
#systemthinking #design
Superb book by @samfr.bsky.social - lots of familiar stories marshalled together in a compelling narrative that explains our current predicament.
Hard recommend
Hard recommend
October 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Superb book by @samfr.bsky.social - lots of familiar stories marshalled together in a compelling narrative that explains our current predicament.
Hard recommend
Hard recommend
October 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Carl Benz has an idea
![[Scene is a 19th century drawing room with a sign outside saying TRANSPORT INVENTORS CLUB. Inside, the German Engineer KARL BENZ is addressing a meeting of gentlemen about his new transport idea]
1
KARL BENZ:
OK guys - you’re gonna love this
2
KARL BENZ:
So it’s like, a box made of metal that goes at up to 120 miles an hour, yeah?
[Karl shows them a diagram of a car]
3
KARL BENZ:
And your drive it down one side of the road, and the boxes going the other way go on the opposite side, so we don’t need to build two roads!
4
OTHER GUY:
What’s down the middle?
KARL BENZ:
A white line.
5
OTHER GUY:
So like, a white barrier…
KARL BENZ:
No a white line. Drawn on the floor.
6
OTHER GUY:
And who’s piloting these machines?
KARL BENZ:
I was thinking: random members of the public.
7
[Pause, the other guys all look with concern at Karl]
8
OTHER GUY:
Karl are you OK
KARL BENZ:
No listen it’s fine
9
OTHER GUY:
You know we’re worried about you, don’t you?
KARL BENZ:
No really it’ll work -
10
KARL BENZ:
Once hundreds of millions of people have died and the world’s started ending because of the fumes it’ll all be normal.
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OTHER GUY:
Is that normal like the ‘commuter travel device’ you brought in last week which was just…
12
OTHER GUY:
…an iron maiden fired from a catapult?
[The other guy displays a diagram of an iron maiden being fired from a catapult]
KARL BENZ:
THAT WOULD’VE WORKED!
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September 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Carl Benz has an idea
If you live in, or are interested in #walthamstow join us for an evening of rapid 'chit chat' talks about architecture on 1st October from 8pm
Bit.ly/chitchat6
Bit.ly/chitchat6
September 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
If you live in, or are interested in #walthamstow join us for an evening of rapid 'chit chat' talks about architecture on 1st October from 8pm
Bit.ly/chitchat6
Bit.ly/chitchat6
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I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again.
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
September 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again.
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
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Fascinating piece on Giroscope in Hull's inventive approach to developing property for social purpose. As shared by a current PhD student I'm supervising who is studying self help models for homelessness
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Why not work the system’? How punks inspired by Thatcher built a Hull housing cooperative
Set up in the 1980s, Giroscope has morphed into a social agency running neighbourhood services and creating jobs
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Fascinating piece on Giroscope in Hull's inventive approach to developing property for social purpose. As shared by a current PhD student I'm supervising who is studying self help models for homelessness
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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My piece on racism for @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
August 25, 2025 at 6:25 AM
My piece on racism for @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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Day in, day out, I speak to ordinary people who are organising to welcome the asylum seekers accommodated in their towns.
They befriend, support them, reach out to them as fellow human beings.
That's the Britain I know, the one I see around me & we never get told about on TV.
They befriend, support them, reach out to them as fellow human beings.
That's the Britain I know, the one I see around me & we never get told about on TV.
August 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Day in, day out, I speak to ordinary people who are organising to welcome the asylum seekers accommodated in their towns.
They befriend, support them, reach out to them as fellow human beings.
That's the Britain I know, the one I see around me & we never get told about on TV.
They befriend, support them, reach out to them as fellow human beings.
That's the Britain I know, the one I see around me & we never get told about on TV.
Reposted by Roland Karthaus
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
August 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
Incredible to finally experience the new @sohotheatre.bsky.social in Walthamstow!
August 7, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Incredible to finally experience the new @sohotheatre.bsky.social in Walthamstow!