Dystopian story where AI wins by inducing humans to starve each other, fail to use medicines and kill themselves. No direct violence by the technology.

Baldy would have been worse typo for Picard

Welcomes matter

Online card protection working on mum’s bank account. Multiple attempts all automatically blocked. Assume scammer will give up.

Labour grabbing Danish immigration rules…Guardian says UK civil servants were sent there last month. That hardly looks like thoughtful policy research and implementation, just panic and shoddy racism

#MVP of #AI

I don’t get #AI. How does this input become this output?

Got new @naomialderman.bsky.social book at Stroud Book Festival event today. Don’t burn anyone at the stake today (think it’s published on Thursday)

At Stroud Book Festival talk on disinformation and anti-BBC leaflets are being handed out. Wondering if they will attempt to protest inside the room too. Destabilising public meetings has occurred before here.

Sensory mapping as alignment and boundary setting process for places and projects came up three times this week - a post acuity.design/sensory-maps... about why they matter.

It’s like gilt scabies

USA is bit like Star Trek ‘Taste of Armageddon’ as it inflicts war-like suffering and inconvenience on its own population without any external enemy action. The starvation of poor, the loss of reliable air travel, etc.

Indian print plates for sale remind me of tactile diagram 3mm rule. You need that separation to feel meaningful difference between elements Left hand plate has such difference. The right hand one does not. The latter is an interesting texture but specific meaning cannot be delivered

USA becomes Belgium or Haiti. A nation without national government.

Rob Macfarlane talking in Stroud about Is The River Alive? and his current thinking about futures. Hope as a practice: deliberately maintained over time, thru good and bad

Rob Macfarlane mentioning how shouting I am an ardent Republican at start of book tour event in Los Angeles on same day as #NoKings did not go done well. Later he realised being British anti-monarchist might need more explanation.

Rob Macfarlane talking at Stroud Book Festival 2025. He spoke of how in Is A River Alive? He hasn’t quite got an idea of how to think of futures. #HopeIsAPractice

Travel Martini kit refreshed with Bombay gin and Noilly Prat spray. Thermos of ice and lemon slice

Research I read lately www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... mentions Active Bystanderd

Vaguely looking at poster to go near Union Jacks - actions that help communities. 1/2

Pluribus TV series not helping with chemtrail conspiracy

Walking past flags and wondering bc what I’m supposed to do with the information. I know I’m England. I’m aware of England. What is the action? The lack of definite purpose is sadly the gap that the Right fill with a role, a friend group and an action

Useful marketing tool meeting on AI tools that scrape contacts details, less useful on AI tools that write blog posts for you. Getting systems to do grunt work of searching and sorting is fine. Getting them to be me and mimic creativity not so fine.

Daughter setting up improv event called ‘Do the damn thing’

Like a cat staying near the snacks, he stays near the gold

15 mins in DIY shop trying to buy bulbs based on new watts and old watts.

It Really Really Really Really Really Cannot

4 days of trial over a sandwich

#AskingMatters as basic reciprocation in community To have needs met, respectfully To meet needs, thru a role using capacities

I’m trapped between the over-realism of Lego nowadays (given the build-once nature of the models) and childhood memories of clunky models made real by playful imagination

A voice that still carries: Aimee Mann’s greatest songs – ranked!

Dig out out oil to dig a hole in the ground #JustStopOil were right; unless you break the pattern of extraction, oil states will keep flailing around trying to spend petrodollars on plastics, on sport, on festivals and on architecture

This is what is happening. It is cynical. It is strategic. It is organised. It is well funded. And we need to pay attention. The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7

Several museum conversations this week about being Showing the Welcome #Accessibility and Agency come from knowing whether a place offers capabilities that support personal capacities A huge problem is people who never leave because they cannot judge if the journey is worth it

Latest newsletter from @willsh.bsky.social buttondown.com/artefacts? and reminded of Rutger Bregman’s Moral Ambition that people seek to be asked to act. How Mamdani asked for help and people gave their time and effort. 1/2

There ain’t no simple or easy

Pay by mile tax for cars is good but fixing the deeply low cost of airline tickets needs to happen too. Jet fuel is untaxed globally and that creates the weird travel market of cheap flights.

TfL will no longer install Colourful Crossings: their research tfl.gov.uk/corporate/pu... as published Had unprofessional moment at meeting at TfL HQ when such a crossing mock-up photo was being passed round table. It got to me & I was so surprised I blurted out: "You've got to be fucking kidding"

It is 2025 - we really shouldn't need a petition for this! Require schools to let children use the toilet at all times in the school day. Do not lock toilets so that they aren’t accessible during certain times of the day. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Ask, Ask, Show cards Be helpful, be vulnerable, be explicit #ABCD #Accessibility #PaperPrototyping

Designing for Everyone buff.ly/jWUyth5

Lot of stories for Leader of the House Johnson not to have heard of today

I didn’t tell the pub that their hopes for the #Titanic coming soon may be unrealistic…

‘Prompt Engineering’ in cultural site interpretation project. Using human perspectives and stories to provide prompts to remember and tell more stories. The embodied and emotional meanings we all have (but #AI never can)

On the history of French editions of @2000ad.bsky.social downthetubes.net/2000ads-firs.... I have three of them still - the Judge Dredd ones near end of publication run.

Had home criticised as untidy because it had too many books 🤷🏼‍♂️ It is untidy but it’s not the books

Hell Drivers on TPTV - 1957 movie with most extraordinary cast of actors who were just about to be huge (and a complete meta-mess of 60’s genre TV/movie heroes)

I’m on the lookout for a new contract (preferably inside). I’ve got over a decade of experience working in the public sector, mostly in agile delivery management. Two weeks notice. Not got DMs here but Signal is zuz.1337, or LinkedIn is good. Thx :)

Explain Less as core content design strategy for museum site Life is already full of explanations and information Prompt people's memories and stories Give them the space and time to share together

Heroic story to tell your grandkids…